• PurrLure [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I think I marathoned the one you’re talking about for a couple months just to have something in the background while I worked (they’re relatively young and from Texas).

    While he usually didn’t go as far to say that eating out was preventing people from buying homes, he always loved to talk about how everyone can save money even if it means 0 treats for years at a time. As if that isn’t completely unrealistic. Oh but sure, let’s put $100 in the budget for once a month therapy, otherwise the commenters will get mad - what do you mean that’s not enough to help you cope with 50-60 hours of work??? And then when someone does come to him already scrapping at the bottom and budgeting to the max (for example, he had a single guardian on there that had to adopt younger family members due to a dysfunctional sister) he just says sorry and then gives them extremely unhelpful advice like get a third job (he ALWAYS tells people to get side gigs and second jobs and this lady already had two jobs, eventually what got me to stop watching ugh) or to look up local resources like food banks for help (she already was).

    I only watched as long as I did because he had wealthy shithead libertarians and toxic masculinity guys that would buy 60k trucks and teslas. Assholes that usually made more than enough money but always had mommy and/or employees do all the work for them so they never ended up learning any of the basics themselves. But whenever someone making $50k or less a year comes on… yikes.