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My parents weren’t really able to help me with financial literacy — neither of them even have super accounts. But they always heavily encouraged me to save. I’m good at saving, but I hate the idea of budgeting and worrying about money. My parents always told me that money comes and goes, and it’ll always come back — any time I am stressing about money, that’s what they’ll say.
I don’t think being chained to a desk 9-5 helps anyone. My uni debt scares me, but there’s no way I’m putting money into that bottomless pit of indexation horror. I am worried about where this world is headed. I hope we can overthrow capitalism in my lifetime. We can’t live like this.
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