If Biden is the nominee, Trump wins. It’s literally that simple. I’m personally fine with that because I think Joe Biden deserves to be remembered and hated as the selfish narcissist and right-wing enabler he always has been.

OK now do Facebook

Yeah probably face, if it wasn’t controversial it’d be public

They sound like they have a lot of trust in the state and the media.

There’s no reason to avoid hoarding!

What do you mean by forced?

So you can have retirement accounts, but moving money in those accounts to a better fund is immoral?

Thanks for explaining. I won’t be joining you in the boycott of retirement accounts, but I understand your issue of profiting from other’s work.

Seems a rather harsh comparison for a state-owned index fund that’s operated for the benefit of society!

Index funds are surprisingly close to market socialism and can be flipped to the benefit of society with little change.

You’re welcome to dunk, I don’t mind.

Assuming you engage in wage labor (despite it being antithetical to all of our beliefs) and your employer offers you a greater portion of the fruits of your labor via a matched savings account, is it wrong to accept it? I think it’s not wrong at all, and workers should accept and make the most of their 401k.

Bruenig’s video is a framework for understanding personal finance from a leftist perspective, or the “personal welfare state” as he calls it. These are things the state should handle, but instead has created a mess of rules we have to decipher.

Matt Bruenig has a great and short tutorial on personal finance and investing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efr2UORgO2w

the graphic at 17:30 summarizes the hierarchy of savings (1. Emergency fund 2. employer-matched retirement 3. high-interest debt 4. other tax-advantage accounts 5. low-interest debt 6. taxable brokerage account) - he notes that he and most others will never make it to 6.

The graphic at 31:00 summarizes common pitfalls to avoid, unless you have a deep passion. 1. individual stocks 2. crypto 3. house flipping/renting (don’t be landlord … for financial reasons!) 4. expensive homes 5. private k-12 education

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They’ve been behind some of the most radical change over the last half century, at least in the US.

Why are these weird boomer-pleasers so common on reddit / new fediverse, compared to tiktok, tumblr, twitter pre-elon?

sorry to interrupt your poorly researched meme content

Yup, available but nobody used until it was required by law.

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I figured :)

Do you like how .world defederates left wing instances