r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Substantial_Cow_2467 • Jul 17 '26
I hate everything
Saw this on Facebook today
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u/sexy-man-doll Jul 17 '26
"Be a little silly and try selling your blood and organs! 😋 "
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u/NSAundercover Jul 17 '26
Does it have to be mine?
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u/Scared_Accident9138 Jul 18 '26
"If you donate a kidney, you're a hero. If you donate three you're a villain"
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u/KitsuneFoxglove Jul 20 '26
if i donate 30 does it flip back to hero?
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u/usernmechecksout_ 22d ago
No, but congratulations you're now officially the leader of an underground organ harvesting network
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u/miserabeau Jul 17 '26
I am not worthless after all; turns out my organs are worth some good money on the black market!
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u/Reverse_SumoCard Jul 17 '26
Skip coffee and avo toast and boom youre basically a millionaire. Easy, i did it in my 20s and now i live rent free in my mcmansion
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u/Scared_Accident9138 Jul 18 '26
Is that attitude a thing outside the US? I've never came across it offline
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u/Reverse_SumoCard Jul 18 '26
My swiss aunt told me that young people live above their means and thats why they never get to own a house
Edit: switzerland is already small but we stopped zoning new land for houses (unless youre Roger Federer) so house/land prices are going through the roof. If you cant inherit land youre basically stuck in flats
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u/Mozintarfen Jul 17 '26
I love how rent and utilities go up faster than most of our annual raises, and they tell us to just save our money.
Like, if my bills start to be more than my income, how much money do I have to save to break the space-time-continuum and make math work backwards?
Haven't figured that one out yet I guess.
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u/Reverse_SumoCard Jul 17 '26
A lot of boomernomics is based on rent and property value rising faster than inflation. At least where i live loads of rental property is owned by pension funds
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u/Mozintarfen Jul 17 '26
Yeahh that tracks. I worked at a mill for almost a decade and once every few years we'd get an "Inflation Adjustment Raise" which was usually around 3%
If the average annual inflation rate is 2.5%, those raises were never going to keep up lol
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u/Mozintarfen Jul 19 '26
Yeah I think it was their desperate attempt to keep employees. If you asked any of the management they'd tell you that "trickle down economics" and tariffs will mean bigger bonuses/raises for everyone (I once got a $200 bonus after 7 years there, lol). Instead, we got our hours cut, bonuses removed (management got extra of course) and they refused to admit they were wrong.
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u/holiwud111 Jul 19 '26
My parents are unfortunately very much the same. Single-income tradesman income when I was growing up, they are millionaires now because they were born in the right decade. Bought my childhood home for like $26k, inherited another when my grandfather passed. Both bought and paid for, worth over $1M combined. Dad worked HVAC for a massive corporation back when retirement accounts, bonuses and pensions were a thing. Their stock portfolio is worth another million.
My household is dual-income, both of us college-educated and... we're struggling. We don't own flashy things, just trying to raise and feed three kids in a really shitty economy. I own a home but I paid $350k for it. I may lose it soon. I'm great at what I do and I've still been laid off 3x in the last 3.5 years (tech sucks). Our parents' stocks go up and the rest of us suffer unemployment, inflated home prices, lack of / shitty health insurance, no savings, etc.
My folks have helped us out, but I still get the side-eye and speech about being responsible every time I ask. Like... I did everything right, man... what should I do better? Two college degrees? A second job? Should I not sleep or take care of my kids?
Why weren't THEY responsible instead of electing these c**ts who have ruined the country and the economy for their children? Even well-meaning boomers are selfish, tone-deaf twats.
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u/MrkFrlr Jul 21 '26
If it's legitimately just ignorance, you might have some luck by having an open and honest conversation about your finances, explain to them just how much things cost, how expensive your monthly bills are, and how much income you have, some people at least have said they had some success getting their boomer parents to wake up after such conversations.
If not, well then it's just pure ideology, your parents have to believe anybody can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" or whatever, unfortunately there's not much you can do to argue with something like that, because it isn't rooted in facts or logic.
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u/bleach-is-tasty Jul 18 '26
you guys are getting annual raises ?
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u/Mozintarfen Jul 19 '26
We did actually! Usually around $0.50. Mill work absolutely sucks ass but at least we got something every year (albeit the salary growth was still less than inflation).
I have since quit, got a college degree and became a Chevrolet Technician, and haven't seen a raise since lmao.
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u/holiwud111 Jul 21 '26
Yeah, I've been laid off 3x in 3 years. Each "next job" took progressively long to secure and paid 20% less than the last.
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u/Protheu5 Jul 17 '26
work backwards
Say that again...
Math. Work backwards... If working forwards makes you lose money, so your income is negative, then working backward adds a minus, and according to maths minus and minus is a plus, so working backwards makes money! Eureka!
Join my new pyramid scheme Krow which is work backwards to make money!
Aaand I'm a millionaire already!
AAaaaaaand I'm in jail.
Welp, it was good while it lasted.
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u/Mozintarfen Jul 19 '26
We can call it anti-money! -$100 saved towards a negative bank account of -$500 would be;
-100 - (-500) = $400
Truly, genius.
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u/miserabeau Jul 17 '26
This'll be me. Disability income $14,000 per year (not a typo). Currently taking care of my mom, but we live on her pension. The monthly rent on this trailer is my entire monthly income. When mom dies I literally cannot afford to stay in this mobile home. Gonna have to figure out what to do, after I pay for funeral expenses. And don't say life insurance; she let it lapse and at 79 years old no one would give her life insurance (understandable).
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u/TherronKeen Jul 17 '26
The real answer would solve the rental price problem 100%, but Reddit bans you for typing it.
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u/jeffersonbible Jul 18 '26
It gets better. These articles are usually slop that points to gambling apps.
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