Sup Sup Forums, today I am turned 30 and I have a couple advice for you youngster on how not to be a degenerate broke.
1. Stop smoking - cigarettes is ruining your health, it's the most degenerate thing one could possibly do in his life aside from taking drugs. E-cigs can be a good way to start and lowering nicotine dose over time can make the process of breaking the habit painless.
2. Stay away from the alcohol, if you can't force yourself not to drink at all, then invent a rule not to drink more often than once a month. Ethanol damages pretty much every system in the organism.
3. Start exercising. Our bodies not evolved to browse the internet all day, but to move, hunt, struggle. If you don't like the workout, find a sport that suits you. I personally do boxing. It won't only make you healthier but also help you to socialize and develop self-control, discipline, and confidence.
4. Build relationships with people around you. We are social creatures, evolved to live in small groups, being solitary is harmful to mental health. Call your parents, meet your friends, text your acquaintances more often. Help people you know and they'll help you later.
5. Stick to your own kind. Your family, your friends, your neighbors, your nation, your race are the people that see you as "part of the tribe" as "kin". Help them. A jew would help a jew, a Muslim would help the Muslim, so you should prefer people of your kind. People outside of Europe are tribalistic and would prefer their own kind thousand times over a westerner.
6. Start building capital. Save money, don't spend it on stupid stuff you don't really need. You don't need 100 games in Steam, you don't that expensive food in fancy restaurant (except you want to bang that chick). Get a better job, always strife for higher position. Don't listen to HR bullshit about horizontal development, the higher you're on hierarchy the better.
To be continued...