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minus-squareCowbee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·10 months agoSave 15-25% of your income for retirement and future expenses, then spend the rest on whatever you want.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoSpend 60% of your income on rent, then spend the rest on various other necessities and have nothing left over to save. Welcome to modern Western society.
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agopay people enough to be able to first
minus-squareshath [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoif i saved that high of a percentage i would not be able to heat house and eat
minus-squareCowbee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoYep, I can’t make it myself either. I just shoot for it when I can.
minus-squareTheCaconym [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoHow do people not think of that, putting a quarter of your income away monthly, so obvious, I wonder why they don’t do it Also a “retirement” implies a functioning biosphere in which to retire, fat chance.
minus-squareCowbee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoI don’t think its easy, or reasonable. Part of my point is specifically that it’s unattainable for most.
Save 15-25% of your income for retirement and future expenses, then spend the rest on whatever you want.
Spend 60% of your income on rent, then spend the rest on various other necessities and have nothing left over to save.
Welcome to modern Western society.
pay people enough to be able to first
Yes.
if i saved that high of a percentage i would not be able to heat house and eat
Yep, I can’t make it myself either. I just shoot for it when I can.
How do people not think of that, putting a quarter of your income away monthly, so obvious, I wonder why they don’t do it
Also a “retirement” implies a functioning biosphere in which to retire, fat chance.
I don’t think its easy, or reasonable. Part of my point is specifically that it’s unattainable for most.