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Originally Posted by westopher
The most fucked up shit is that if you're 50, you live like that and you're a multi millionaire on paper in Vancouver, even though you are living like trash, yet clean, hardworking people in their 20s and early 30s can't find places to live and have a net worth of pennies.
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Literally every single post you make is something butthurt about the inequality of wealth distribution, generally in Vancouver.
First, it is completely mathematically obvious to expect people in their 50s to have a net worth significantly higher than their 20s or 30s. Later in life you are further in your career, generally have less drag on your cashflow (ie kids), and have been building equity and wealth for longer.
Second, bitching and moaning about how rich people are rich and poor people are poor is the biggest waste of time I can imagine. It is not easy for young people to get started these days, that is obvious, but it's also not impossible.
I think I remember you being a chef, and if that's the case, that's a cool career to express creativity, take satisfaction in creating happiness for people who visit your restaurant, and achieving technical proficiency in the art of cooking. But I don't think you were lied to going in that it would be a highly lucrative career. and if you chose that anyways because you love to be a chef, that's great, but then stop bitching about how it doesn't pay as much as being a finance bro.
You have choices along with everybody else. There ARE ways for young people to earn a very reasonable living that don't require going to an Ivy League school and networking with daddy's buddies from Harvard to get started. And if you do that and are married to a woman who does the same, there is a path to buying real estate and living a comfortable life, even in the GVRD.
-Mark (didn't come from family wealth, doesn't live in the British Properties)