Financial Dystopia

In today’s economy, good parenting might mean forcibly taking part of your kids’ income, investing it, and giving it back when they’re ready to buy a home

This guest is clearly building a case for a refund so they can stay there without paying for the trip

At least he passed on the genetics

This person learned the hard way that gas stations commonly trigger large temporary authorization holds when you pay at the pump. With a debit card, that can leave your actual bank balance unavailable for days, even if you only buy $28 of gas...

He built one of the most unique off-grid homes you’ll ever see and says it was a ton of work to build/maintain

This is the economic logic of a sixth grader

After 11 years in business, this entrepreneur realized that clients with the smallest budgets are often the most demanding and explains why

The only problem is you age 2x as fast

Their company mandated 3 days back in the office so they asked their employer if they would pay for their commute...

Quite an interesting career path. You can make over $1K/day teaching piano in NYC if you know how to sell to wealthy families.

Today I learned you can rack up $40K in debt in the U.S., move back to your home country, and there’s a decent chance collectors won’t chase you because the legal fees cost more than the debt.

Unironically, this is how real innovation happens. It looks stupid because 99.9% of the ideas on the wall are useless and will never be spoken of again. But that one idea that actually works can have 100x ROI.

Not all young people are having trouble finding a career

Spending more time with your coworkers than your spouse or kids is such a strange modern phenomenon. A commonly repeated stat is that around 85% of affairs begin in the workplace

Guy runs a junk removal business and says like half his clients are dudes going through divorces.

In Seattle, the minimum wage is $21.30/hr, and tipped workers still have to be paid that before tips. Some waiters and waitresses at high-end or high-volume restaurants can make insane money. There are servers clearing six figures, and in the right restaurant, $200K is possible. Customers are still being socially pressured to tip 20–25% like the server is making $2.13/hr, even when the base wage alone is higher than what a lot of entry-level office jobs pay.

Boomers can’t figure out self-checkout and they still have full control of the country.

Every company has one random woman in finance whose Excel file is holding the entire business together and if she dies, so does the business

WFH has its perks, but you will slowly lose your mind if you never leave your house and go days without interacting with strangers.

Property rental nightmares could genuinely be an entire TV show. Tenant can’t pay rent, you walk in and it’s urine, diapers, cat litter, trash everywhere, front yard littered with garbage...