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apathyduck t1_jeh2aai wrote

I worked for a wealthy guy who told me a secret I've never forgotten: it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep.

If $24k is allowing you to save $1k/mo in you current situation, you're doing better than people who make $150k/yr and live paycheck to paycheck. Just make sure you're building a skillset in the meantime that will allow you to bring in more money when your monthly expenses/needs go up.

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forcustomfrontpage t1_jeh29iu wrote

Don't know what that guy is on about but there is a real danger in just capping prices, I don't think this goes far enough. Capping prices is just squeezing one side of the tube but not solving any problems, you need to fix the conditions that lead to the price gouging. It's not like it all the sudden dawned on pharmaceutical companies to gouge people, they've always wanted that.

If you want something to be available at a reasonable price in the quantities people need, you've got to find that cause and fix it, high prices are the result of a problem and not the cause of a problem.

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