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One day you're 21 with a brand new degree thinking you're about to take on the world. Then you blink and you're 26, in a role you fell into because it was "available," earning enough to survive but not enough to leave. Five years of "just for now" and it became your entire career.
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University is a 3-year holiday that costs £50k and teaches you how to write essays about things that won't make you money. The most successful people I know either dropped out or never went. The rest spent their early twenties learning to drink and came out the other side with a certificate that HR glances at for 3 seconds before asking about experience.
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$2,150 in March from content creation and social media management. Three payments, steady clients. He's not flexing a Lamborghini. He's just quietly building something that pays him every month.
If you want to learn content creation and social media management, check my bio.
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The personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021.
In the same time your wages went up 18% to keep pace with inflation.
Which means you're now paying tax on more of your income than ever while your actual spending power is lower than it was 5 years ago.
This is called 'fiscal drag' and it's the reason you're working harder for less and feeling insane.
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Nearly 1 in 3 UK adults aged 20-34 still live with their parents.
Not because they want to. Because the average rent in any city worth living in eats over half of a graduate salary, and they need every pound they're saving just to have a chance at a deposit before they're 40.
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Nothing like an egg sandwich in the morning
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Just got a new mac what should I install?
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Your savings account pays 4% interest. Inflation is running at 5.5%. Your money is losing purchasing power every single month while sitting in the bank.
Your £10,000 in savings will buy you £9,850 worth of stuff next year. The year after that, less. Every year you "save responsibly" you're getting quietly poorer.
And your bank sends you an email celebrating your £33 monthly interest like it's a win.
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You walked through your old high street last week.
Wilko's gone. WHSmith is gone. There's a row of vape shops on one street. A few more are Turkish barbers. There's a kebab shop where the Argos used to be. Half the units have 'TO LET' in the window.
The town centre your parents grew up in doesn't exist anymore.
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@rawespresso Yep, but our parents grew up not having internet and access to online shopping either. I'm as guilty as the next person, but online shopping has destroyed the high street.
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You can't get an NHS dentist in most of the UK anymore.
The government pays dentists £23 per 'unit of treatment' while it costs them around £80 to deliver. So thousands of practices went private.
You pay your taxes every month that are supposed to cover your healthcare. Then you wait 18 months for a slot or pay £80 just to be seen.
It's broken.
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This lying charalatan can't provide one example where BBC presenters were "caught lying about basic facts"
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£169.50 a year to watch the BBC. You can't legally own a TV in this country without paying it, even if you only watch Netflix. The BBC pays its top presenters over £1M a year and they've been caught lying about basic facts for the last decade. Try not paying the licence fee and you'll end up in court. The presenters never face the same consequence for getting it wrong.
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You say you'd do anything to leave your 9-5. But the price is spending your evenings learning instead of watching Netflix, failing publicly while your mates watch, and putting in 6 months of work before seeing a single £1. Most people want the result. Very few actually want the process.
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£169.50 a year to watch the BBC.
You can't legally own a TV in this country without paying it, even if you only watch Netflix.
The BBC pays its top presenters over £1M a year and they've been caught lying about basic facts for the last decade.
Try not paying the licence fee and you'll end up in court. The presenters never face the same consequence for getting it wrong.
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You'll work for roughly 45 years. The state pension is £11,500 a year. After 45 years of paying into the system, they'll give you £958 a month.
Rent on a one-bed flat: £750. Energy: £190. Council tax: £165. Food for one: £250. Phone: £30.
That's £1,385 in basic costs. Your pension covers £958.
You're £427 short. Every single month. After 45 years of work. That's the retirement they promised you.
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