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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He is the embodiment of cringe.
In every thread like this I have to show up and just say: I have four part-jobs and work every day of the week and I can't afford a house. It's so frustrating to literally be working all the time, have no shot at the American dream anyway, and see privileged fucks like this guy claim I'm not working at all.
Has finance guru Dave Ramsey looked at the cost of housing compared to what working people earn? It's very different now than it was when the boomers were able to buy houses on the income of a single entry-level wage earner per household.
One wonders whether 'finance gurus' aren't just out-of-touch boomers any more
Interest rates just shot way the fuck up too. And while they were really good around 2021 a lot of folks were still struggling from being out of work
Set him up with a whiteboard and feed him actual, real figures and watch him fail to explain how it would be possible to do what he’s claiming.
No financial gifts or inheritances from parents to use as a deposit, no magical income that comes from starting a business, no magical windfalls from putting house deposit savings into the stock market, just regular old income and student debt.
If he can’t do this, he should be ignored by the financial media.
Here’s a little graph I whipped up. Dave Ramsay was born in Nashville, in 1960. So he would have been a little too young to buy in 1975, but you get the general idea.
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I’ve worked with a number of financial people, and if they talk for free, generally that’s what they’re worth to pay them.
Dude thinks you can pull 8% a year from your retirement and be fine. Everything he says should be disregarded.
https://earlyretirementnow.com/2023/11/12/dave-ramsey-8-percent-withdrawal-rate/
"... seven jobs." Is the completion of that quote.
Wait until this man has a stroke and his children refuse to move in and help him.
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Cut him some slack, the silver spoon up his ass he was born with is surely causing some pretty incredible irritation after all these years - can't expect him to think clearly all the time.
And this is why he gives garbage financial advice. I've known several people who used their time living at home to build up a nest egg for a down payment.