What would you tell a 21yr old to do with his/her money?

going to post an unpopular(strawberry) opinion, but here goes...

Didn't asked to be born and raised, if you're going to talk about life being bad, it's perspective. I can always compare to those with better quality of life than me, but so can those who are doing worst than me (not on reddit) be comparing and complaining to those (me) with better quality of life than them.

Parents didn't think about the costs and plan out how they're going to raise their child. Haphazardly made not one but two, then now i'm getting put through life (or also known as suffering). Yep, strawberry generation, i'm going to complain and blame, but do you know about my circumstances? How much i have to deal with? How my mother who has sooooo many issues with her ownself is torturing me and the rest of my family with her actions and words?

I don't find anything worth repaying here.

Let's just use an easily related example: We're kids of Singapore, born to study hard and achieve if not die out in this rat race. The usual "every school is a good school" comes up, well, some(or maybe most) who are doing better (perhaps in elite better schools) don't have to let's say... hmmmm do chores, worry about bills, help out family members or get stressed from their own family members yelling at them all the time while they're at home trying to study.

So of course, being born in a better family with better circumstances will allow them to have more time and resources to study, then it's a never ending cycle. Except for those few who can actually make it. Yay meritocracy works! (a little )

Maybe you're going to bring up the argument of "oh back in 1980 or 70 or fuck when i had to deal with xxxx too! and even more! kids today! sheesh!", well, i don't think there's actually a way to compare the problems kids are facing now. Not like there's a scale for you to measure.

We get told day by day "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE AUTOMATED, YOUR JOBS WILL BE GONE! THE FUTURE "BIG" JOBS MAY NOT EVEN EXIST YET! However, work hard towards your goal ;)"

Huh?

Debts of my birth? Getting yelled at day by day? Being so stressed but can't do anything cause my purpose for 25 years is to study then can finally earn an income to help? For what? My own family is driving me crazy, so i don't think there's anything to pay back, sure i have a house and stuff, but i rather die.

/r/singapore Thread Parent