I’m confused now, are you saying that the current trend is to move out of cities or to the cities?

Agreed. Emergency services stations are all within minutes from my place in the outskirts of a small town, so is the hospital. The community is awesome.

Isn’t that reason return to office policies though, and the majority of people would happily leave the city life behind if they were not forced to go back?

Appreciate you are answering a question and each one of us has their own preference but not sure you can say most people agree with yours.

Sorry links to this reddit.com site don’t seem to work here

ITT a breath of fresh air. I am not alone in having an interest in personal finance, and understanding the basics of it.

Most of my interactions on lemmy so far have been making me feel guilty (and downvoted) for saving some money like I was a dirty billionaire, and to invest in index funds, using capital to further oppress the masses.

We both know that stuff will never be used again!

I think the answer is in your first sentence, personal finance literacy. At least in my case reading about it, learning the basics (six months expenses emergency fund, pay credit cards in full every month, invest in ETFs…) and understand other people’s strategies is all it took. Hate to say it but I owe reddit one for all that knowledge.

Ah the person that complains they had to tap into their investments because you need to periodically get a new bed and redo your deck and can’t save money. Yes I got downvoted for providing basic personal finance recommendations there!

I think the problem is a combination of the things you mention, and the fact that society is just normalising stupid spending, waste of resources and spending everything you earn, if not more.

When on reddit, I was active on personal finance subs. The amount of people asking for suggestions on how to improve their budget that didn’t see anything wrong with 10-12 subscriptions for shows and music, on top of astronomic phone bills, eating out etc was crazy. At least they took the first step, wrote down their expenses, and were asking for help. The bed/deck guy was just pure madness.

Indeed, and once she deletes the bnpl app, she’ll use credit cards to buy useless shit like she prolly did before.

I think me and you have been successfully clickbaited though, the journalist looked for such an extreme example to cause outrage, have the article linked on various aggregations, and be discussed.

Italy too, pretty much everyone that is know wears shoes indoors.

Australia, it’s a bit more normal to ask if shoes should come off when visiting someone, as that might be their thing.

Not just america

I do take my shoes off now, but did not growing up

You are right, but you are going against the narrative of to this post, hence all the downvotes from the angry mob.

Not a fan of artificial meat but I believe bm had a potential market that wanted their products, in a new industry that has plenty of potential.

Besides pure speculation/gambling, what does reddit have to offer to genuine investors in 2024? They never made a profit, they don’t have a plan to make profit, they are alienating their users and their mods, they are low in the list of social media sites by usage with no credible plans to climb up the ladder. Really what’s in there to invest in?

If I put money in a single stock ipo I want to believe that they are going public to raise funds that will be used to enact a credible businessplan. I might still be wrong and be left to hold someone else bag, but at least I believed in an idea.

For the past few weeks teddit was trying to sell stock to their users and their employees families. That’s MLM marketing for you

If you asked me who a prime time news anchor on 1980 would vote for, I would have no idea.

We are probably from different countries but I agree and interesting point.

Can’t say I disagree with your proposed treatment of Nazis. That said I wonder if you mistakenly replied to me instead of someone else? My point is that joining a cult for sense of belonging is not necessary, there are other ways to fulfill that need.

Before the Nazis Christianity was hijacked by the Spanish inquisition, and after the Nazis by pedo rings. I don’t see other organised religions performing much better either.

Sure, and yout point is?

I’m not convinced, sounds very much like when they say if you don’t follow religious morality, how can you have any morality at all.

There can be, and in many places there is, community, social life, sense of belonging and all that stuff outside of groups of lunatic happy clappers.

Find some volunteering group, you’ll get tradition, community and being part of something bigger, prolly not the music though. Where I am we are big into Emergency services, they are mostly run by volunteers but really you can find whatever works for you from animal shelters to helping people with personal finance if that’s your niche. , No need to waste time idolatring an imaginary friend that doesn’t reciprocate, you can do some actual good and feel good!

Thanks but no thanks

Do you have the recipe for that canned tomato soup that you made?

Do you have conveyor belts going straight to your fridge now?