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[–] [email protected] 208 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

We really need to start eating the parasites that talk like this. This fucking shit stain has never worked a day in it's pathetic little life.

Ramsey was born in Antioch, Tennessee, to real estate developers.[2] He attended Antioch High School where he played ice hockey. At age 18, Ramsey took the real estate exam[2] and began selling property, working through college at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville,[2] where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate.[3]

Daddy gave him all he's got and yet it's my fault my dad was a poor artist and died young?

eat my whole asshole Ramsey

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 78 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that bio screams, "I've taken the easiest path available at every step in my life."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's always people born to wealth who feel the most entitlement.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dave Ramsey sounds like someone who has forgotten what happened last time.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

They haven't forgotten. They bought the cops. Now what do we do?

ACAB.

Pitchforks to dinner forks.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This guy was born into a wealthy family and acts like he earned it all

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

They always do. Its frustrating and disgusting.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dave Ramsey can fuck himself. This is the same idiot that says you should give 10% of your money as tithe so that an invisible sky daddy doesn't send you to hell to burn for eternity.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (5 children)

While sitting on a golden throne he made from daddies money telling other's how to live.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I've been sick of him from the first moment I met an adherent. I mentioned how I like to avoid debt and pay it down early and the person said "Oh, so you listen to Dave Ramsey?" I confessed to having no idea who they were talking about, and they swore that I was being obtuse because I couldn't have come up with "interest sucks" on my own.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (29 children)

We should teach the millionaires to fear again

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not that they don't work, it's that their employers (boomers own the companies) don't want to pay them

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He knows this. I used to listen to his show. And in all my time listening to him, he never took on a caller who was making nine bucks an hour and struggling to make ends meet. His most frequent type of caller is a straight late twenties couple who make $140k a year, who owe maybe $25k in credit cards, and whose obvious answer to fixing the problem is to sell the thousand dollar car payment for something more basic and eat out less often. Because he knows if minimum wage workers get past the screeners, there's nothing he can do to help. That's a systemic problem and he knows he's part of it. What's he gonna tell them? Go get a better job? Cool. If everyone does that, there won't be any of those jobs for 90% of them, one, and two, there won't be anyone working those important low wage jobs. Someone's gotta flip the burgers. Someone's gotta stock the shelves. The problem is systemic. And the answer is fuck the rich.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I lost all respect for Ramsey when I came across a video of him saying he wouldn't take a 0% interest million dollar loan. His opinions on finance are outrageous and dumb.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (15 children)

His whole thing is being anti-debt which is probably good for some people, but some people already have no debt

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yea. I have managed to never carried debt. Without that, what’s this guy got to offer me? In fact, the only thing the guy has to offer is the simplest financial advice there is: spend less than you earn.

But then a poor person comes along and says they can’t and his only advice is ‘earn more money’. Because it’s that easy, obv.

The guy is an out of touch chode who had some privileged upper middle class kid think he was the financial messiah once for saying ‘use a budget’ and let that go to his head.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What is so bad about living with your parents? That's still the norm in many parts of the world. For some reason western countries, and especially America, have exaggerated the benefits of being financially independent, as if shared resources were some kind of failure.

I beg to differ. The only people who lose when we share resources are the capitalists.

I've got a few friends in their thirties who live with their parents and the whole family is very happy. And although my kids are only six and three, I can't imagine any reason why I wouldn't want them to continue living in my house for as long as they needed support.

We all need support. It's not a shame. It's an asset more valuable than property, imho.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm a gen x, and I don't want to work. I mean really, who does? Who would rather work than spend time with their family and/or see the world? I work because I have to to survive.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People want to work if:

  • it is meaningful to them
  • their work is a mean to do something meaningful to them.

If you work to survive, there is no prospect to advance or do something fun/meaningful, then why the fuck should people want to work?

And Ramsey is kidding himself, is work is not that hard. So it's fucking rich coming from someone that peddle his shit to make money.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago

Dave "I fire people that have sex out of wedlock" Ramsey? Who cares what that religious nut have to say?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You aren't working your way into home ownership in many cases unless you also work your way into a different locality as well.

I bought my small 2x2 condo for around 500k in 2020, it's now worth ~800k. Housing inflation is out of fucking control.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"fiance guru" isn't a real job. Fight me.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Boomer myself (born in 1964) and this maybe the first legitimate occasion I've had to say "Okay, Boomer."

Out of touch.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

God this guy is so out of touch

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

I work 60 hours a week and had to move an hour outside the city to find a townhouse I could afford. And I'm one of the lucky ones.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dave Ramsey is a joke. Anyone who knows the basics of personal finance knows he has no idea what he's talking about and gives advice that is downright statistically incorrect (e.g. his 8% rule nonsense).

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Broadly, I wonder if these folks have no memory for how they were regarded.

The silent generation was broadly characterized as all being lazy beatniks.

The boomers were all characterized as being lazy hippies.

Of course gen xers, millennials, and z have all had their turn.

Every generation broadly bemoans the laziness of the young generation. I recall reading someone who sampled media going back to 19th century, repeatedly finding the "young folks are lazy" rhetoric that is always present.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Yeah bruh, a 1500sf house in my hood costs $1.4M. You can get a tear down for like maybe $900K.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Go fuck yourself dave

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I hereby encourage anyone encountering him to slam him as well.

Literally though. If possible, off the top of a cage and through a table, but at least a decent scoop slam.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dave Ramsey is a shitheel. His attitude toward money is obsessive and not compatible with healthy relationships or families. I would not be surprised if he were to die completely alone and unloved.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

What he actually means:

They need to start taking out loans so I can continue to make easy money.

It's people like this that have rotted our societies. They want all our wealth to be stretched out in easy to target debt.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Dave Ramsey hates poor people. It’s my opinion that they remind him that his math doesn’t make sense.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I'm at my parents house for various reasons, and I was actually thinking of moving out this year to be closer to my friends.

And then I had a seizure. And my parents and my sister were instrumental in calling 911 and making sure I didn't end falling to the ground painfully. They stuck with me in the hospital, and have been incredibly supportive. State law doesn't even let me drive for 6 months, so they've helped immensely with all that. I don't think I would've even known I had a seizure if not for them, and I couldn't have taken the right corrective measures for my health.

So, from the very bottom of my heart -- fuck you Dave Ramsey. Go fuck yourself and shove a rusty cactus up your ass. I'd call him a cunt (which I do not do lightly), but he lacks the warmth and the depth to be one.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

The man is an egomaniac

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

10-hour days working my ass off in a technical "skilled" job to come home to a rented 1B1BR and entitled freaks like this still want to ignore their privileged life and throw shade. Fuck Dave Ramsey and fuck the greedy companies making record profits while also not paying their workers enough.

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