quot Don t Have Children You Can t Fully Afford quot 40 People Share Their Most Controversial Money Tips
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Publish Not your original work? Add source Esther Mukumbo is a mom from South Africa, trying to find her way toward financial independence. She has over 10 years of experience in Development Finance and Banking and is a director at a black women-owned investment company she co-founded called Malkia Invest. While trying to achieve her goals, Esther also regularly posts on social media and one of her latest tweets has gone viral. In it, the woman asked everyone to share their most controversial takes on personal finance, and people happily obliged. This prompted an interesting discussion on money, a subject many often avoid in the real world, fearing making a fool of themselves or saying something that would trigger those around them. Yay the internet! Image credits: EMukumbo This post may include affiliate links. #1 Zalacoza Report Final score: 589points POST Commander OwO Commander OwO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Same with children 217 217points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 petti_mayonaise Report Final score: 437points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago HA!!! HERE IT IS!!! The Terry Pratchett Sam Vimes Boots theory I mentioned before! 93 93points reply View More Replies... View more comments However, let's challenge this thread from a different perspective. Not because it's inherently wrong-it might allow us to get a better understanding of what these people are talking about. As Kristin Wong pointed out in The New York Times, traditional personal finance advice is often tossed around in blanket statements. While there's nothing wrong with the actual advice in theory, the way we deal with money in reality is often much more nuanced. Consumer spending is increasing and unemployment rates have fallen, but wage growth has been slow, and income inequality is still very much a problem. With the situation changing so fast and drastically, what can we actually do about money? #3 ldragoon Report Final score: 382points POST shodokai shodokai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Healthcare in Murica is financially predatory. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 withlovemaria Report Final score: 375points POST Rabbit Carrot Rabbit Carrot Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago (edited) How is this controversial? They absolutely should not exist. You don’t become a billionaire by paying people fair wages and a fair amount of tax. You become one by playing the system and cheating people out a liveable wage. 171 171points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 ThereGoesTonio Report Final score: 342points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago This is true. Terry Pratchett's Sam Vimes had a GREAT little commentary on that.... too darn true. 47 47points reply View More Replies... View more comments "I'm interested in the causes and consequences of inequality, particularly from a labor market perspective," Kate Bahn, director of labor market policy and an economist at the research organization Washington Center for Equitable Growth, told Wong. Dr. Bahn argued there's not enough emphasis on the larger structural barriers that make people's financial lives difficult. Personal finance might sometimes even further de-emphasize these barriers, she said. There is, for example, a concept called labor monopsony, which is what happens when a single hiring entity gains control over the workforce. "So employers will take advantage and pay workers less because there's nowhere else to go," Dr. Bahn said. "It's geographically remote areas where there may be only one big employer, and there's no other company to work for, so that company can pay whatever they want because workers can't say, 'Screw this,' and go somewhere else." #6 darealjaymz Report Final score: 320points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago YES to #2. "Start your own business" is advice that gets abused just as much as "Go to college." It's not for everyone, folks. 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 EmpressRandom Report Final score: 302points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Or better yet: Don't police how other people spend their money. Unless they ask you directly, it's literally none of your business. How would you like it if people commented and judged you on your purchases? Don't do it to others. 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 Duubemmm Report Final score: 287points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I had very good grades at school where's he money they promised my I'd have if I worked hard? did I work hard for nothing? Do you just have to know rich people and they give you jobs... or not FILLON RENDS L'ARGENT! 46 46points reply View more comments #9 justxhenry Report Final score: 270points POST Wilko Lunenburg Wilko Lunenburg Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Get rid of religion, it is only about control and money. Controlling YOU and YOUR money. 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments Dr. Bahn's argument is that personal finance is necessary, but not quite sufficient. It's put forth as a solution when what we really need is policy, she said, and places priority on personal choice over issues that are ultimately out of most people's control. But there are still plenty of folks who think that personal finance remains helpful because it is a way to share information that many are discouraged from seeking. "People have criticized financial education, saying it doesn't work because people are still making mistakes," Billy Hensley, president and CEO at a private nonprofit, National Endowment for Financial Education, also told Wong. "Education can't help access jobs, but it can help people navigate the system as it exists." #10 melanindokter Report Final score: 263points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago You also can't buy in bulk, transport far for savings, or afford an annual subscription for discount stores or Prime. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 DavidW128 Report Final score: 252points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago In... the USA... yes. I remember well the incredulous conversation I had when I was in my early 20s with an American friend. I laughed and asked him something like 'Ha ha.. yeah, sure, so what happens if you break your leg on vacation?" and he said "I dunno... pray... and beg?" - then I realized he was serious. And... the conversation got worse from there... it took me a WHILE to truly accept he wasn't exaggerating. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 ceruleanspiral Report Final score: 249points POST Linda Lee Linda Lee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Yes! The highest earner's compensation should not be more than x% of the lowest wage employee. This should apply to every company! 113 113points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 Sherinapoyyail Report Final score: 245points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Affordable birth control NOW and forever! 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments But when you think about it, how do you even measure the effectiveness of personal finance? After all, so much of it is... personal. Rachel Schneider, a researcher and co-author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty, tried to look at how people handle money in the real world. She and her co-author, Jonathan Morduch, a researcher and professor at N.Y.U., worked with over 200 families for a year, gathering information on every dollar that went in and out of their homes. #14 ChilopaChilopa1 Report Final score: 225points POST Sue User Sue User Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Our job offered " free 30 talk with a financial planner" He determined that I would have to put 1800 a month towards retirement to make the magical 1 million mark. That would have left me with $800 a month to live. And why do i need a million if i am living off 45,000 a year now ? 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 MimiThobile Report Final score: 222points POST Trevor Nicholson Trevor Nicholson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Don't go broke trying to impress people. 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 amyliztweets Report Final score: 220points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago It’s also totally fine to keep finances separate. Have one shared account for joint household bills, but then separate accounts for your fun money and personal expenses. 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 ChadMethnerMBA Report Final score: 212points POST Peter H Peter H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Conversely, many rich people ARE lazy. 99 99points reply View More Replies... View more comments "A huge finding was the level of volatility people experience in their financial lives over the course of a year," Ms. Schneider explained. Although she expected to find income volatility year to year, she was surprised to see how widely income varied within the year, too. A subject could be above the poverty line for the year overall, but that same person could fall below the poverty line in any given month. #18 kiwicuties Report Final score: 209points POST Karen K Karen K Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago When my mother was in her late eighties, I told her that she could stop saving for her old age. She blinked and started laughing because she realized that she was, in her mind, still doing so. I miss her every day. 108 108points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 mekkaokereke Report Final score: 203points POST shodokai shodokai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Medical treatment in Murica is financially predatory. 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 lucie_dhog Report Final score: 187points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago My mom has a serious problem with this. She's super finicky about interior/exterior appearances and every boyfriend she's moved in with, she's "helped" with redecorating and renovating. Each time I just shake my head and roll my eyes when she's not looking. Keep telling her to just stop and stop moving in with men just because she doesn't feel comfortable being a "single woman living on her own". 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 sp_carey Report Final score: 176points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago This is a personal matter between the family. There are some well-to-do parents who have no problems kicking their 18 year old to the curb without anything to survive on. And then there are the other parents, regardless of how well-off or not, who know how hard it is for the single, young folk to get by on their own and are okay with letting them remain at home to save money. It's no one else's business. You do you, people. If you're okay with your kids living at home, then that's you're business. If you want to kick them out of the nest, that's you're business. 56 56points reply View More Replies... View more comments "This has a huge impact on how people deal with money," Schneider said. "The economy has been growing and the unemployment rate is relatively low and declining, yet we're not seeing that growth and prosperity getting distributed down to the bottom." While Schneider agreed that financial education is necessary and can be useful, she also worried that overemphasizing it as a solution to financial challenges shifts responsibility away from our economy's major players (like banks that offer subprime predatory loans or companies that take advantage of workers). #22 BrianOsenda_K Report Final score: 172points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago yes some poor children are smart but we never get to grow our smartness meet other people study be given opportunity we just stay there in the bled.. I mean.. it's a waste ; and I hate waste; us, poor people, do 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 paradisepennies Report Final score: 165points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Unless you have been in those shoes, you can't know how to advise someone on living in them. 26 26points reply View more comments #24 vynluvbot Report Final score: 164points POST Amy S Amy S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I get frustrated at people saying it's inexpensive to cook healthy stews with cheaper cuts of meat and veg. The ingredients might be less expensive but having the oven on for 2 hours is more than many can afford where I live. 10 10points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Pajamazon Report Final score: 159points POST ChimeraBubbles ChimeraBubbles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Disability benefits are there to cover the extra costs associated with having a disability/being disabled. Do you have to keep the heating on 3/4 of the year because of kidney failure, because there's a cost to that. Do you have to eat food without certain niche ingredients and therefore spend additional money covering the cost of that. I spend additional money each month on petrol so I can get to places because the bus isn't suitable. Disabilities cost more. 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective One thing that both proponents and critics of financial education seem to find common ground on, however, is that if we're going to help people navigate the current system, the way we talk about money has to evolve. Financial education should not be telling a person to do this and in this exact way or you're a failure. We need to humanize the topic and try to acknowledge the individual. #26 _dazils_ Report Final score: 157points POST You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Anyway saving is a myth, that is NOT how rich people get rich. Source: I am in the 1% in my country, own 3 cars, paying off two properties, have two servants, private schooling, etc. How did I do it? Sheer luck, and playing the stock market with spare cash. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Landilani_M Report Final score: 142points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago nothing is ! 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 ThakaNgidi Report Final score: 135points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Not having a car payment ROCKS! I’ll drive mine until the wheels fall off or it’s no longer economically sound to keep it 76 76points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 NwandoWoman Report Final score: 134points POST Deb M.F. Deb M.F. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago been hearing that poor people need to work harder to have better things. If we don't work harder we don't deserve nice things. I work hard yet things don't get better..at my age I don't think they ever will 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 jintemptation Report Final score: 123points POST Lesley Shore Lesley Shore Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Ex-Credit Union manager here. If you're married, you should at least tell your spouse you have your own acct. Most honest couples disclose that ahead of time. AND don't ask anymore questions. If they can't accept that then they have issues that will probably ruin your relationship eventually anyhow. In the event of death the spouse is usually the beneficiary anyway. 29 29points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 angryaboutbikes Report Final score: 117points POST You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago This. I keep saying to people let's say "he is paid X" instead of "he earns X". Generally a person in management or above does not earn anything, they are more or less email forwarding devices that forward instructions between upper management and staff. That's not work. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 bluemglory Report Final score: 116points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago a child's happiness depends on money I would feel better (and the people at school insulting me too) if I coul take a shower when I want instead of "water is expensive and we only have one hot water balloon-storage/day so we'll have to take turns : for a family of three max MAX is 1 shower every three days :( 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 Huey_Crypto Report Final score: 115points POST Juliet Penna Juliet Penna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I love my credit union. Still some fees but not nearly as bad as banks! 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 MAN_ANGE Report Final score: 112points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago "Financial literacy" is code for rich people wanting to believe that poverty only happens due to personal faults and not systemic injustice. 69 69points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 BaldMoneyGuy Report Final score: 105points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago Youtubers and other platformers get a lot of help from friends and family to advertise, and those who really did it themselves took a lot of sacrifices many of us aren't willing to risk. All these ones saying they quit their jobs to focus on their channel for a couple never tell you how they were able to do to that. Same with the ones saying they tried working one office job, quit and vowed to never work for someone again. HOW? 20 20points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #36 kushchronicle21 Report Final score: 102points POST Kylie Leanne Kylie Leanne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I think it should be taught in secondary school, as not everyone goes on to university 128 128points reply View More Replies... View more comments #37 solitarycheese Report Final score: 100points POST Amy S Amy S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago The US system seems so complicated to me. In the UK your employer just deducts your taxes for you, mostly it's self-employed people have to do tax returns/work out their own payments. 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #38 LovelyT_31 Report Final score: 93points POST madbakes madbakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I never knew how true this was until a year ago. If I end up not being able to go back to work (currently on leave with a medical issue), I may or may not get social security benefits. They say that I can work, even if it's a job with less pay and less hours. How am I supposed to live on working 20 hours a week at $10 or $15 an hour?? If I don't find the right treatment, I'm poor no matter what. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #39 thedevilenergy Report Final score: 75points POST chaotic legal chaotic legal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Lemme emphasize the "if you are good at your job". 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #40 Sobieck Report Final score: 72points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago If you have dyscalculia that is a very annoying statement to hear. It's not like we can't learn it just takes longer, and not a lot of people have the patience to take the time to teach it to someone with math dyslexia. It's frustrating and easier to just give up. But it's not that we're ignorant. We want this knowledge. 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 113 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! 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John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago 100% agreed. 0 0points reply Susanne B Susanne B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why ever not. Any financial advice may help, if you remember to disregard it, if it is not useful to your situation 0 0points reply Brandon Marlowe Brandon Marlowe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago My financial advice to my fellow Americans: STOP voting against your own interests! If we would all do this then UNEARNED income wouldn't be taxed at a lower rate than earned income in this country. 10 10points reply Evelyn Haskins Evelyn Haskins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Absolutely. I'd vote many time more UP if I could -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Al Christensen Al Christensen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Being poor is not a moral failing, but not giving a s#it about the poor is. 17 17points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago TIL not to take financial advice from random strangers on Twitter. 12 12points reply You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Other advice to not take from Twitter: who to vote for; whether to get vaccinated; whether the earth is flat; etc. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago 100% agreed. 0 0points reply Susanne B Susanne B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why ever not. Any financial advice may help, if you remember to disregard it, if it is not useful to your situation 0 0points reply Brandon Marlowe Brandon Marlowe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago My financial advice to my fellow Americans: STOP voting against your own interests! If we would all do this then UNEARNED income wouldn't be taxed at a lower rate than earned income in this country. 10 10points reply Evelyn Haskins Evelyn Haskins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Absolutely. I'd vote many time more UP if I could -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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“ Don’ t Have Children You Can’ t Fully Afford” 40 People Share Their Most Controversial Money Tips
Rokas Laurinavičius andViktorija Ošikaitė
Publish Not your original work? Add source Esther Mukumbo is a mom from South Africa, trying to find her way toward financial independence. She has over 10 years of experience in Development Finance and Banking and is a director at a black women-owned investment company she co-founded called Malkia Invest. While trying to achieve her goals, Esther also regularly posts on social media and one of her latest tweets has gone viral. In it, the woman asked everyone to share their most controversial takes on personal finance, and people happily obliged. This prompted an interesting discussion on money, a subject many often avoid in the real world, fearing making a fool of themselves or saying something that would trigger those around them. Yay the internet! Image credits: EMukumbo This post may include affiliate links. #1 Zalacoza Report Final score: 589points POST Commander OwO Commander OwO Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Same with children 217 217points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 petti_mayonaise Report Final score: 437points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago HA!!! HERE IT IS!!! The Terry Pratchett Sam Vimes Boots theory I mentioned before! 93 93points reply View More Replies... View more comments However, let's challenge this thread from a different perspective. Not because it's inherently wrong-it might allow us to get a better understanding of what these people are talking about. As Kristin Wong pointed out in The New York Times, traditional personal finance advice is often tossed around in blanket statements. While there's nothing wrong with the actual advice in theory, the way we deal with money in reality is often much more nuanced. Consumer spending is increasing and unemployment rates have fallen, but wage growth has been slow, and income inequality is still very much a problem. With the situation changing so fast and drastically, what can we actually do about money? #3 ldragoon Report Final score: 382points POST shodokai shodokai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Healthcare in Murica is financially predatory. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 withlovemaria Report Final score: 375points POST Rabbit Carrot Rabbit Carrot Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago (edited) How is this controversial? They absolutely should not exist. You don’t become a billionaire by paying people fair wages and a fair amount of tax. You become one by playing the system and cheating people out a liveable wage. 171 171points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 ThereGoesTonio Report Final score: 342points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago This is true. Terry Pratchett's Sam Vimes had a GREAT little commentary on that.... too darn true. 47 47points reply View More Replies... View more comments "I'm interested in the causes and consequences of inequality, particularly from a labor market perspective," Kate Bahn, director of labor market policy and an economist at the research organization Washington Center for Equitable Growth, told Wong. Dr. Bahn argued there's not enough emphasis on the larger structural barriers that make people's financial lives difficult. Personal finance might sometimes even further de-emphasize these barriers, she said. There is, for example, a concept called labor monopsony, which is what happens when a single hiring entity gains control over the workforce. "So employers will take advantage and pay workers less because there's nowhere else to go," Dr. Bahn said. "It's geographically remote areas where there may be only one big employer, and there's no other company to work for, so that company can pay whatever they want because workers can't say, 'Screw this,' and go somewhere else." #6 darealjaymz Report Final score: 320points POST Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago YES to #2. "Start your own business" is advice that gets abused just as much as "Go to college." It's not for everyone, folks. 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 EmpressRandom Report Final score: 302points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Or better yet: Don't police how other people spend their money. Unless they ask you directly, it's literally none of your business. How would you like it if people commented and judged you on your purchases? Don't do it to others. 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 Duubemmm Report Final score: 287points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I had very good grades at school where's he money they promised my I'd have if I worked hard? did I work hard for nothing? Do you just have to know rich people and they give you jobs... or not FILLON RENDS L'ARGENT! 46 46points reply View more comments #9 justxhenry Report Final score: 270points POST Wilko Lunenburg Wilko Lunenburg Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Get rid of religion, it is only about control and money. Controlling YOU and YOUR money. 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments Dr. Bahn's argument is that personal finance is necessary, but not quite sufficient. It's put forth as a solution when what we really need is policy, she said, and places priority on personal choice over issues that are ultimately out of most people's control. But there are still plenty of folks who think that personal finance remains helpful because it is a way to share information that many are discouraged from seeking. "People have criticized financial education, saying it doesn't work because people are still making mistakes," Billy Hensley, president and CEO at a private nonprofit, National Endowment for Financial Education, also told Wong. "Education can't help access jobs, but it can help people navigate the system as it exists." #10 melanindokter Report Final score: 263points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago You also can't buy in bulk, transport far for savings, or afford an annual subscription for discount stores or Prime. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 DavidW128 Report Final score: 252points POST D. Pitbull D. Pitbull Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago In... the USA... yes. I remember well the incredulous conversation I had when I was in my early 20s with an American friend. I laughed and asked him something like 'Ha ha.. yeah, sure, so what happens if you break your leg on vacation?" and he said "I dunno... pray... and beg?" - then I realized he was serious. And... the conversation got worse from there... it took me a WHILE to truly accept he wasn't exaggerating. 112 112points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 ceruleanspiral Report Final score: 249points POST Linda Lee Linda Lee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Yes! The highest earner's compensation should not be more than x% of the lowest wage employee. This should apply to every company! 113 113points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 Sherinapoyyail Report Final score: 245points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Affordable birth control NOW and forever! 150 150points reply View More Replies... View more comments But when you think about it, how do you even measure the effectiveness of personal finance? After all, so much of it is... personal. Rachel Schneider, a researcher and co-author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty, tried to look at how people handle money in the real world. She and her co-author, Jonathan Morduch, a researcher and professor at N.Y.U., worked with over 200 families for a year, gathering information on every dollar that went in and out of their homes. #14 ChilopaChilopa1 Report Final score: 225points POST Sue User Sue User Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Our job offered " free 30 talk with a financial planner" He determined that I would have to put 1800 a month towards retirement to make the magical 1 million mark. That would have left me with $800 a month to live. And why do i need a million if i am living off 45,000 a year now ? 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 MimiThobile Report Final score: 222points POST Trevor Nicholson Trevor Nicholson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Don't go broke trying to impress people. 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 amyliztweets Report Final score: 220points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago It’s also totally fine to keep finances separate. Have one shared account for joint household bills, but then separate accounts for your fun money and personal expenses. 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 ChadMethnerMBA Report Final score: 212points POST Peter H Peter H Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Conversely, many rich people ARE lazy. 99 99points reply View More Replies... View more comments "A huge finding was the level of volatility people experience in their financial lives over the course of a year," Ms. Schneider explained. Although she expected to find income volatility year to year, she was surprised to see how widely income varied within the year, too. A subject could be above the poverty line for the year overall, but that same person could fall below the poverty line in any given month. #18 kiwicuties Report Final score: 209points POST Karen K Karen K Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago When my mother was in her late eighties, I told her that she could stop saving for her old age. She blinked and started laughing because she realized that she was, in her mind, still doing so. I miss her every day. 108 108points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 mekkaokereke Report Final score: 203points POST shodokai shodokai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Medical treatment in Murica is financially predatory. 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 lucie_dhog Report Final score: 187points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago My mom has a serious problem with this. She's super finicky about interior/exterior appearances and every boyfriend she's moved in with, she's "helped" with redecorating and renovating. Each time I just shake my head and roll my eyes when she's not looking. Keep telling her to just stop and stop moving in with men just because she doesn't feel comfortable being a "single woman living on her own". 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 sp_carey Report Final score: 176points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago This is a personal matter between the family. There are some well-to-do parents who have no problems kicking their 18 year old to the curb without anything to survive on. And then there are the other parents, regardless of how well-off or not, who know how hard it is for the single, young folk to get by on their own and are okay with letting them remain at home to save money. It's no one else's business. You do you, people. If you're okay with your kids living at home, then that's you're business. If you want to kick them out of the nest, that's you're business. 56 56points reply View More Replies... View more comments "This has a huge impact on how people deal with money," Schneider said. "The economy has been growing and the unemployment rate is relatively low and declining, yet we're not seeing that growth and prosperity getting distributed down to the bottom." While Schneider agreed that financial education is necessary and can be useful, she also worried that overemphasizing it as a solution to financial challenges shifts responsibility away from our economy's major players (like banks that offer subprime predatory loans or companies that take advantage of workers). #22 BrianOsenda_K Report Final score: 172points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago yes some poor children are smart but we never get to grow our smartness meet other people study be given opportunity we just stay there in the bled.. I mean.. it's a waste ; and I hate waste; us, poor people, do 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 paradisepennies Report Final score: 165points POST Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Unless you have been in those shoes, you can't know how to advise someone on living in them. 26 26points reply View more comments #24 vynluvbot Report Final score: 164points POST Amy S Amy S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I get frustrated at people saying it's inexpensive to cook healthy stews with cheaper cuts of meat and veg. The ingredients might be less expensive but having the oven on for 2 hours is more than many can afford where I live. 10 10points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Pajamazon Report Final score: 159points POST ChimeraBubbles ChimeraBubbles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Disability benefits are there to cover the extra costs associated with having a disability/being disabled. Do you have to keep the heating on 3/4 of the year because of kidney failure, because there's a cost to that. Do you have to eat food without certain niche ingredients and therefore spend additional money covering the cost of that. I spend additional money each month on petrol so I can get to places because the bus isn't suitable. Disabilities cost more. 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective One thing that both proponents and critics of financial education seem to find common ground on, however, is that if we're going to help people navigate the current system, the way we talk about money has to evolve. Financial education should not be telling a person to do this and in this exact way or you're a failure. We need to humanize the topic and try to acknowledge the individual. #26 _dazils_ Report Final score: 157points POST You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Anyway saving is a myth, that is NOT how rich people get rich. Source: I am in the 1% in my country, own 3 cars, paying off two properties, have two servants, private schooling, etc. How did I do it? Sheer luck, and playing the stock market with spare cash. 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Landilani_M Report Final score: 142points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago nothing is ! 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 ThakaNgidi Report Final score: 135points POST Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Not having a car payment ROCKS! I’ll drive mine until the wheels fall off or it’s no longer economically sound to keep it 76 76points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 NwandoWoman Report Final score: 134points POST Deb M.F. Deb M.F. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago been hearing that poor people need to work harder to have better things. If we don't work harder we don't deserve nice things. I work hard yet things don't get better..at my age I don't think they ever will 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 jintemptation Report Final score: 123points POST Lesley Shore Lesley Shore Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Ex-Credit Union manager here. If you're married, you should at least tell your spouse you have your own acct. Most honest couples disclose that ahead of time. AND don't ask anymore questions. If they can't accept that then they have issues that will probably ruin your relationship eventually anyhow. In the event of death the spouse is usually the beneficiary anyway. 29 29points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 angryaboutbikes Report Final score: 117points POST You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago This. I keep saying to people let's say "he is paid X" instead of "he earns X". Generally a person in management or above does not earn anything, they are more or less email forwarding devices that forward instructions between upper management and staff. That's not work. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 bluemglory Report Final score: 116points POST Swan Swan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago a child's happiness depends on money I would feel better (and the people at school insulting me too) if I coul take a shower when I want instead of "water is expensive and we only have one hot water balloon-storage/day so we'll have to take turns : for a family of three max MAX is 1 shower every three days :( 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 Huey_Crypto Report Final score: 115points POST Juliet Penna Juliet Penna Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I love my credit union. Still some fees but not nearly as bad as banks! 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 MAN_ANGE Report Final score: 112points POST Andy Acceber Andy Acceber Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago "Financial literacy" is code for rich people wanting to believe that poverty only happens due to personal faults and not systemic injustice. 69 69points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 BaldMoneyGuy Report Final score: 105points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago Youtubers and other platformers get a lot of help from friends and family to advertise, and those who really did it themselves took a lot of sacrifices many of us aren't willing to risk. All these ones saying they quit their jobs to focus on their channel for a couple never tell you how they were able to do to that. Same with the ones saying they tried working one office job, quit and vowed to never work for someone again. HOW? 20 20points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #36 kushchronicle21 Report Final score: 102points POST Kylie Leanne Kylie Leanne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I think it should be taught in secondary school, as not everyone goes on to university 128 128points reply View More Replies... View more comments #37 solitarycheese Report Final score: 100points POST Amy S Amy S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago The US system seems so complicated to me. In the UK your employer just deducts your taxes for you, mostly it's self-employed people have to do tax returns/work out their own payments. 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #38 LovelyT_31 Report Final score: 93points POST madbakes madbakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago I never knew how true this was until a year ago. If I end up not being able to go back to work (currently on leave with a medical issue), I may or may not get social security benefits. They say that I can work, even if it's a job with less pay and less hours. How am I supposed to live on working 20 hours a week at $10 or $15 an hour?? If I don't find the right treatment, I'm poor no matter what. 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #39 thedevilenergy Report Final score: 75points POST chaotic legal chaotic legal Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Lemme emphasize the "if you are good at your job". 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #40 Sobieck Report Final score: 72points POST LagoonaBlueColleen LagoonaBlueColleen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 6 months ago If you have dyscalculia that is a very annoying statement to hear. It's not like we can't learn it just takes longer, and not a lot of people have the patience to take the time to teach it to someone with math dyslexia. It's frustrating and easier to just give up. But it's not that we're ignorant. We want this knowledge. 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 113 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! 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John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago 100% agreed. 0 0points reply Susanne B Susanne B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why ever not. Any financial advice may help, if you remember to disregard it, if it is not useful to your situation 0 0points reply Brandon Marlowe Brandon Marlowe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago My financial advice to my fellow Americans: STOP voting against your own interests! If we would all do this then UNEARNED income wouldn't be taxed at a lower rate than earned income in this country. 10 10points reply Evelyn Haskins Evelyn Haskins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Absolutely. I'd vote many time more UP if I could -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Al Christensen Al Christensen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Being poor is not a moral failing, but not giving a s#it about the poor is. 17 17points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago TIL not to take financial advice from random strangers on Twitter. 12 12points reply You cant stop the truth You cant stop the truth Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago Other advice to not take from Twitter: who to vote for; whether to get vaccinated; whether the earth is flat; etc. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago 100% agreed. 0 0points reply Susanne B Susanne B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Why ever not. Any financial advice may help, if you remember to disregard it, if it is not useful to your situation 0 0points reply Brandon Marlowe Brandon Marlowe Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 6 months ago My financial advice to my fellow Americans: STOP voting against your own interests! If we would all do this then UNEARNED income wouldn't be taxed at a lower rate than earned income in this country. 10 10points reply Evelyn Haskins Evelyn Haskins Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Absolutely. I'd vote many time more UP if I could -1 -1point reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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