this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
885 points (98.7% liked)
Funny
10323 readers
1115 users here now
General rules:
- Be kind.
- All posts must make an attempt to be funny.
- Obey the general sh.itjust.works instance rules.
- No politics or political figures. There are plenty of other politics communities to choose from.
- Don't post anything grotesque or potentially illegal. Examples include pornography, gore, animal cruelty, inappropriate jokes involving kids, etc.
Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
In my 40s:
- Bought a home last year, still not paid off.
- home isn't far from the beach but, due to the previous tsunamis, there's not much to do there near where I live.
- make more than 6 figures (but not in USD and not 6 figures in USD after conversion).
- I am the chef. And the gardener.
- Fuck tesla (I have a kei car (going somewhere with wife or buying farm supplies), motorcycle, and pedal-assist ebikes)
In my 30s:
- a broken e-bike
- debt
- almost 2€ on my bank account
- a burnout
Almost through my 40's and I've:
- Had three decent careers that each abruptly laid me off without warning.
- Had a home and lost it.
- Had a car and lost it.
- Had parents and siblings and lost them
- Had health and lost it.
- Had good credit and lost it.
- Had tens of thousands in savings and spent it on family members with cancer. (They died anyway.)
- Had a drinking problem and lost it, so hey score one!
Yeah, I got laid off multiple times, lived out of my car, and have a bunch of health problems. The drinking problems also came because of the former (and mental healthcare in the US) and caused/worsened some of the former. Hang in there!
As the saying goes "I was once young and poor but after decades of hard work and perseverance I am no longer young"
I lived, I laughed, I ate avocado toast.
Nobody, not even me, want's my wildest dreams to become true. Moderate dreams - Now we're talking!
I'd take the smaller dreams at this point.
What about nightmares?
Seems like that's where we are headed
Headed? I'm already there.
I'm not gonna lie I read this as I was heading to bed and it kind of ruined my mood not because of anyones fault but because it's true. what the fuck do we work for ?
To further enrich the ones who are already rich. I'm sure it will trickle down any minute now.
Remember when we could afford eggs.
Exactly, we push the money ball up hill so rich people can dam it off and let some trickle down.
In my 30s:
- can get a 50k mortgage with my salary but ok I rent a decent place
- dad's old car works fine for me
- beaches are crowded shit holes but garden is lively and nice and wild.
- make just below average income at one of our countries best universities.
- 4 cats that are awesome, hobbies that are awesome, friends that are awesome, and I can smoke weed whenever I want nowadays.
Yeah the machine should still burn but at leasty I can be moderately happy without paying.
A 50k mortgage won't buy a condemned house that has to be torn down these days.
My parents, who are in their sixties have...one of those? Which is actually pretty good. Dream small, friends!
I know it’s just a joke but lady works for Apple, I have a hard time believing she has none of this things
Product Owner is like a project manager.
I’d put her in the 100-200k range.
Working for Apple, potentially near Apple HQ.
You could live paycheck to paycheck on that. No shit.
Or you could live within your means in a low cost of living area. I know a software PM in rural Appalachia.
edit: I guess the caveat is that I dont know Apple's remote-work stance. It is certainly feasible at other aoftware companies
I’m saying I could live comfortably in most places with my salary BUT having a family does dictate that some of my decisions place me grasping above my income bracket.
I’m “poor” in my area on 6figures because I chose to be close to good schools.
I chose to be taxed more for better stuffs.
Why are you assuming everyone who works for Apple is making bank?
Besides, the only realistic way to achieve any of those things, beside the Tesla, is to have a rich family. Even on a six figure salary.
Besides the Tesla, none of these are easily achievable by a non-executive working at Apple at age 33.
Do you think everyone who works at Apple is wealthy?
load more comments
(12 replies)
Check out moneybags over here, being able to secure a mortgage.
Why would anyone believe any of this attainable for the average person in the best economy? A personal chef? Common, this has to be some right wing satire.
This looks like it's on LinkedIn, and a lot of people there lie/brag about having it all.
But she seems to have a 5 figure passive income.
Move to another country and all but the Tesla is possible.
Teslas aren't that expensive, so they could probably have that as well.
Worth less than scrap now
Now you're talking affordable!
Nope, better have kids and irrationally foist those unrealistic ideals and hopes onto my child and fail to live vicariously through them instead.
Which sounds like it should be oddly specific, but might be one of the most common things humans ever do.
I mean, all she has to do is birth one of Musk’s “Legion” babies and she could tick all of those boxes!
Whew. As a GenX, I didn't have any of those either. In fact I'm quite sure my Silent Gen parents didn't either. I don't know anyone who managed to pay off their mortgage before age 40 or 45 and the passive income only came as retirement funds after age 65.
okay bye!
Street pharmacist could give you those things