you literally can't make sense of people's life decisions without knowing how much money they have and how much money their parents have. wack
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the only people i see talking about this are people outing journalists as having parents who are oil barons or whatever and honestly they're doing god's work, i need to know this sort of thing desperately to make any sense of what anyone else is doing
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in case anyone is wondering yes i have a lot of money and my parents do too. will maybe write about this later. not looking forward to it
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six months ago i was like "hmm money and career stuff seems pretty big and important i should take a look at that" and then i proceeded to refuse to take a look at it and uh. i know why now. more than i did six months ago anyway
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but yeah it's tough. at the extremes, which you are exposed to, people also have very different standards for what amount of money is enough to live on forever
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yeah at LEAST whenever someone mentions an amount of money they spent/got/invested, they should parenthetically mention what percentage of their assets it is. 1% marginal utility might be worth 1% of YOUR money but it ain't worth 50% of mine
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Happens in reverse too. I have multiple friends who would be much better off if they didn't need to support their parents' bad luck and/or choices.
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