The “Fluent In Finance” Online Group Shared These 40 Funny Posts Summing Up Our Financial Status

for more and more ppl the rule is: the more money you have the more you want... i.o.w. Greed rules

Then try a government that has better social ideals than the USA. For the purposes of this post, "social ideals" means NOT trying to passively kill citizens.

Jeff Bezos: Funds his own space program for zillionaires to say they’re “astronauts.” Also Jeff Bezos: Makes workers routinely urinate into plastic bottles because they’re denied breaks. Locks workers in warehouses during hurricanes.

AOC all the way!

The rich ARE the minority!

I got 99 problems, and MONEY is all of them.

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This is actually true. What's a small bump in life's road for someone with money to handle it becomes catastrophic life change for someone without the means.

Ask the government why it's using our tax dollars to regularly bail out corporations. Ask the Republicans why they always vote to give massive tax breaks to the wealthy. Ask why we haven't had minimum wage increases to meet inflation since the f*****g 1960's.

'effin A!!!

The American dream is just a dream.

I hate that you feel you have to point out you are not trying to be socialist. This is realism, not any other ism. The value of a human life is a real and precious thing just on its own and denigrating others time and labour to poverty levels is elitism and slavery under a new name.

Amazon has fired 22,000 workers since 2022, but hey, they just had a private Foo Fighters concert for the upper level employees. 🙄

Imagine if there was a loan where if you could show consistent on time rent payments for a certain amount for a certain period you could get a loan without needing to front a deposit?

The filthy rich don't understand what life is.

I DESPISE the "Food Stamp" bickering. You know who's on food stamps? You're picturing a "lazy" person not working. It's also the working poor (6.2 BILLION for Walmart employees ALONE), those with disabilities, the elderly, and military families.

bcuz f**k yeah, regan

That is depressingly true. There are so many people who don't stand a chance from the moment they were born. It's not 'you don't try hard enough' or 'if you really want it, it will happen', it's the lack of access to good food, medical care, education, housing, not having to wonder whether you will be able to eat the next day or where you are going to sleep'. It means that the problems of homelessness, addiction, child abuse, vagrancy and crime will never be solved without a near-complete overhaul of how our society sees its members.

Mo money, mo money, mo money in Damon’s voice

Every damn time. Every new noise I hear on my 17 year old car makes me anxious.

No change required. I'll back you up! WHO would need more than (let's say) 30 Million dollar. For what? Maybe, just maybe it's time to put an end to greed. Maybe it's not a bad idea to set a limit on how much one should posses.

I disagree with the caption, which is unrelated to the meme. Ronald Reagan dismantled decades of progressive tax policies, effective destroying the middle class and sentencing the working class to lives of poverty.

What "should" be happening, is that WE should be kidnapping billionaires until they release a bunch of their money to the rest of us.

Just being devil's advocate here. Canadian speaking... unfortunately many corporations are also willing to move their businesses and jobs to cheaper countries. So sometimes (not every time) the government gives them a tax break to keep the jobs. GM took a bailout from the Canadian government then after repaying their portion of the low interest loan they moved many of their operations to Mexico.

And never earned any interest on it.

Homer Simpson is "average Joe". Well, he was in 1987 when the show started. Single income household with two cars and vacations! Homer Simpson. That comical figure (which was also comicaly fat at 240 pounds). Maybe something is wrong when Homer Simpson is not comical, but somebody we can aspire to be.

This is as dumb as it looks, right? Or am I missing something subtle? People in El Salvador aren't earning US salaries.

Being French I have an idea. Chop chop! :D

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Remember when he was the people's choice for the presidential nomination but the DNC played dirty politics and put someone else in place who lost to an sociopathic oompa loompa and it made everything worse for everyone but corporations? That was fun.

I know this is a repost. Not cuz I've seen it before, but because where on god's earth is a mortgage only $950 nowadays?

Yes, this is a falsely manufactured inflation being manipulated and driven by large corporations seeking mega profits, it's so damn obvious and it makes me ill every time I think about it.

They had to pass a federal law saying the DR must tell you what a treatment/ appt will cost IF you ask. Why ? Because people were losing thier houses over medical debt so now they can say well we told you that life saving treatment was 200 grand & you agreed. Or you can say I will just die quietly in the corner so as not to leave my family in debt.

Progressive income tax. Takes from people that earn more than they deserve and gives to those who earn less than they deserve.

There's a difference between social capitalism and locust capitalism.

But $15.09 per hour is the interest charge on the school loan to get that masters degree.

So, so many things wrong with this!

I was always afraid of this and told them i was ill but now i know the correct answer is 'none of your business'.

Why would you brag about losing 3 million?

Noam Chomsky once stated that Ronald Reagan's massive defense spending increase was the primary tool for the transfer of tax payer wealth to the upper class. The defense budget gets increased every year. The wasteful spending on the military is the top method of enriching the upper class.

Where did the inflation in the rest of the world come from, then?

Pretty sure that one ends up with you being in prison for fraud.

*unregulated capitalism. Capitalism is fine, as no other economic system has ever worked; it’s the dismantling of the regulatory state and dramatically reducing taxes on the wealthy and corporations that is causing many of the problems. Grover Norquist & Ronald Reagan led the charge in creating our current dystopia.

Why isn't "How to Handle Finances and Save Money" a class in high school? I mean yeah, barely any of us can save any money right now.. but I still think that subject is more important than kick ball.

Who else read this in Elmo's voice, in their head?

Fake salmon for the win!

This makes great points about the rich but I also read the "one does not simply" part in Boromir's voice

Pandemic or not, trumps administration spent money like a drunken sailor. Said by many of the GOP holding office at the time.

I really don't think that the same house that cost 500.000 in 2021 still cost 500.000 in 2023

I saw a banner outside a subdivision advertizing custom houses being built starting at $200k. Like a new development subdivision. I was actually like "not bad, not bad" while I'm on my way to fill up my gas at costco lol

There are so many ridiculous assumptions here that I can't even begin to point them out. So instead I say: I bite my thumb at you, sir.

Just in case anyone is taking this seriously, the caption for this picture is intended to be majorly sarcastic. This mansion is the largest private home in the US. It was built by the Vanderbilt family, a sickeningly wealthy family in a time before income tax. It was intended to be lived in by just one man and his mother (and, of course, a huge amount of staff), for part of each year. And this was one of the less nauseating members of the family - one of his cousins repeatedly got away with reckless driving (causing injuries and fatalities), just because he was rich.