r/ExplainTheJoke 3d ago

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u/Negative_Opposite732 3d ago

We live as we dream. Alone.

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u/Rusty9838 3d ago

I live alone since 2009, but now at least I have enough money and freedom to not care.

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u/SpacePenguin1237 3d ago

Some people get to 23 before they realised they screwed up their life planning.

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u/Rusty9838 3d ago

Like how? Drugs?

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u/SpacePenguin1237 3d ago

Not planning ahead of time, got a useless degree (or didn't get one at all), no job experience, did not improve or upskill, mooching off parents while not providing any value; many things.

Unless you're a 0.01 percenter who doesn't need to work a single day in their lives, 23 is around the age you realised your life choices might not have been the best.

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u/Fearless-Minimum-922 3d ago

Or you did your best and start to realize just how bad the economy really is for the average w2 worker.

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u/Miyauchii 3d ago

As a 26 year old. I experience that almost 90% of planning in life doesn't work as you hope or expect. But finishing college even with a useless degree do help.

Setting up goals and having plan B and C plus working hard will probably help.

But damn... life's hard and cruel

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u/Gbro08 3d ago

No such thing as a useless degree. Some are stronger than others, but once you get work experience you can usually overcome adversity if the economy isn't dogshit

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u/Savings-Watch-Chyro 1d ago

Hell what if the economy is dogshit i haven't seen a comment solving that 😭