Everything High

Why is everything so high?

I don't remember things being this expensive as a kid? Guns, cars, motorcycles, ammo, gas, food, etc

I make $109k before taxes. Save $700 a month in an IRA, $100 in a fun account and $1500 in savings/stock.

Despite this, I'm only have $80k saved.

I have two houses and one is being rented out.
I have two cars, one is paid off. And about $90k in firearms for fun and investment.

My wife refuses to work and acts like a brat. I hate my job and never have enough it seems.

I want to quit my job and be a trucker driver. If I can't live the life I want and am constantly in a rat race I might as well just quit.

>My wife refuses to work and acts like a brat

I found your problem. you married very poorly

almost forgot, $20k debt and 2 mortgages totalling $438k

Yea no shit, don't marry an "asian waifu" they are all autistic garbage. Been married 2 to asians and had countless girlfriend. They are all autistic.

P.S. I'm not a gook.

>Make 109k a year
>Want to be a truck driver
If you are having trouble now, you will probably end up living in a trailer on that sort of pay.

Why do you want to be a truck driver anyway? Sounds like you just want a job that gets you away from your wife. Not judging, btw.

Also, the purchasing power of the dollar has gone down significantly, so yeah. Shit's higher because the dollars worth less.

When I was a kid $35k was a sweet spot for income.

Then it was $60k then $90k, then $100k, now its like $200k.

I'm 35 and am realizing "it just doesn't end". You always need more, you'll never beat inflation, there is almost some emergency or bullshit that requires money. Nearly 99% of the things you spend your money on are a flat out scam. The world is a pyramid scheme.

Sometimes i just want to tell my piece of shit wife I'm going out for a burger. Never come home, move to Oregon and be a vagrant. Just life on welfare or be a bum. I am just tired of the bullshit.

And what kills me is that people always give the same advice, "get a hobby" that cost money! They act like we all have some rich trust fund waiting for us.

Then some inevitable say, "Go back to school". I have a B.S. and two masters. WTF is school going to fix!

Is that Picture suposed to represent that it was bad to the berlin wall to be destroyed with porn and Hooker or is it good?

I have no idea, just a pic I had.

Keep your chin up man. Everybody is treading water these days, something will give soon. For better or worse I have no idea.

And even if you made a million a year you probably, along with most people, wouldn't be content. Something about unlimited human wants and the grass always being greener. Society is in a weird faze lately, decadence and struggle, and people are reaching a breaking point. People are also waking up to who runs our democracy, and their realizing that our country and people exist to ensure the economic and political power of a few men and women.

Tl;dr everyones struggling, and it's a very weird time to be alive.

Why does that image given such mixed and Trippy feelings?

Thanks for the words man. They meant something.

Its just weird. When I was in school, high school and college I didn't feel this dispair. I didn't question everything.

Now I find every institution is a joke, dishonest or just plain evil. I'm starting to feel like a big joke was played on me. Some of my friends started dealing drugs in high school and went into crime. I envy them. They have no demeaning silver spoon fed boss, they only debt they have is a car note, and their fall back plan in a baby momma or 90 days in jail. They are actually more free than I ever will be.

I'm starting to feel in a land of thieves and liars its best to just be one.

Because it shows the futility of both sides of the coin.

Endless materialism and an empty existence or a stoic purpose to serve the greater good with the personal expense of your humanity.

The saying ignorance is bliss, is extremely true. When your life consists of selling some crack so you and your baby mama can get high, eat dinner, and fuck, things are alot simpler. You don't see what really goes on in the world. Think of all the Sup Forumsacks getting red pilled, then becoming extremely depressed. It's not just having your eyes opened to the rampant corruption, it's realizing the people you trusted, the people who taught you everything, the people who govern you, have been lieing the who'll time.

Arguably the hardest red pill to swallow.

Also, I don't think we were supposes to get to this level of consciousness. Somewhere we went from eating and humping, to morals, politics, and intricate societies. It goes against all of our primal instincts, so one could assume this is what leaves people with that hallow, empty feeling. We're smart enough to see what goes on, comprehend. build. But in the end what answers do we actually have?

Honestly I don't know. Lifes confusing as fuck.

I understand that exactly. I often think I would be much happier if I got knocked out and dropped a few IQ points.

I look at the some of the people I work with, money and daddy helped them through their whole lives, paid for their wedding, lent them money. They ramble on about football and critize those who are poor as being lazy and stupid. They have no idea.

If I hadn't started from humble beginnings, my parents where homeless from time to time (not criminals, just hard working immigrants) I would have thought everything is roses and if, "...you just work hard and have faith you'll make it!" bullshit they repeated to us in school. I knew at age 5 that was a load of shit. My dad worked from 3am to 8pm at three different jobs. My mother worked two.

That kinda "bent me" to be untrusting from a young age yet for whatever reasons my siblings and friends I grew up with become complete idiots. Go figure.

> There is always some emergency that requires money

This is what's taking s significant portion of your money, and there's no real logical way I can explain it, but... Just hear me out.

I've lived on my own for 2+ years at a time on the following yearly pay, 25k, 40k, and 75k.

When I was making 25k, emergencies would come up and I would be straight up fucked because I didn't have any money in my savings, but I always came up with a cheap, ghetto solution to the problem, and was able to get by.

Here are some examples:
> Making $25k and I went to the beach with some friends. Got life threatening sun poisoning that had my entire body bright red and oozing with blisters. Instead of going to the doctor I floated in a bath with ice in it for about two days. This probably saved me several thousand dollars.

> Making $25k a year and the A/C in my truck shitted out. I got a quote for repair at $1800. I studied YouTube videos for a good three days and then was able to fix the hose leak and recharge the system myself. This cost me $75.
> Making $25k and I had several tears in the screen porch where my pool is. Quoted $900 for a repair. Watch YouTube videos and repaired the screens myself for about $110.

There's other examples I just can't think of off the top of my head, but when you make more money you tend to use money as a solution to every speed bump that life puts in your way.

The next time something bad happens. Take a second to think to yourself "if I was poor, how would I solve this problem?" There may not always be a way, but sometimes there will be.

Also in regards to your general despair about life, I have a feeling that there will be genuine opportunity for men to be heroes again sometime soon, granted you are able bodied and under the age of 45.

So look forward to that.

I know what you mean. I work on my car myself. Its a rare day I rely on a mechanic or a handyman to do anything. I fix about 90% of the problems myself.

My issue is my stupid wife. "I need to go to korea!" boom $1400 for a plain ticket. Then of course she needs to buy gifts, do stuff, "relax" from not working. I wish she got gang raped and killed by a bunch of illegals and thrown in a ditch.

She is also like "Why do we have a 10 year old car! so-and-so has a BMW!" My response is usually, "Its paid off bitch! If you don't like then go fuck so-and-so for a car!" God I hate that bitch.

I know that feeling. When I was 17, I was working summer jobs and buying silver and gold in small amounts. Meanwhile my friends blew their money, fast forward several years and their all working shitty jobs, smoking bot, have kids out of marriage, and wonder where their life went so wrong. I honestly can't think of anybody I knew growing up, who's at all successful today. Sad really. But some people just don't learn. And it seems the people who made fuck all out of their lives, are the same idiots who can live day to day without any worry about what goes on around them.

Yeah man the only time I go on vacation outside the country is when I see a really phenomenal deal.

I went on a cruise to Mexico and got to pet tigers for $180 last year.

The problem is when you get a specific destination and date in mind, you're at the mercy of somebody else and they will fucking rape you in airfare and accomidations

I've been waiting on it for a while, I'm in the reserves. I was active but go out. Promotions stopped and it turned back into an old boy network. You would have thought they would have learned their lesson. In 03 those blue-blood officers where getting reliefed daily. I saw captains break down in tears during a firefight. The idea that an officer should be a "gentlemen" crapped out and a generation of OCS Officers and blue-collar officers from state schools made shit happen. Then the war ended and all those guys got kicked to the curb. If they called me back, fuck them. They can march into battle with their "gentlemen" marching band army and get their fucking head blow off for all I care.

Inflation?

Wow how fucking insightful.

I'm really glad you decided to post this you fucking cretin.

I don't go on vacations. Its a sunk cost with nothing to show for it. I'd rather buy something tangible I might be able to sell at a later date. I've spend 8 years outside the US thanks to the military. I don't want to see anymore of the world.

What kills me is the little rich liberal brats who are like "You should really see the world" Oh, you mean on a vacation package for 10 days? Yea, that will really give me a real perspective. How about spending 2-3 years in a country.

I just relieved I have sage in the name field from earlier today lol.

Yeah my buddy is like that. Inherited a bunch of money and gets wasted all over Europe every year, occasionally getting lucky with one of the local girls some years.

Just because he gets his dick wet in a tourist town, he thinks he's "more cultured and worldly" and has first hand experience that Europe is thriving and the refugees are fucking fantastic.

The "travel le world" meme is fucking moronic and gives you no perspective of the country you are visiting, unless you actually drive 100 miles out into the country, knock on a lower class homes door, and ask to live with them for a week.

Yeah men have become fucked it's this mass popular culture of evolution that everything is evolving and evolution is the natural progression of "onward and upward" when in fact if you read any of the serious evolutionary scientist they will tell you that progress is the exception in evolution and degeneration is the rule 9 time out 10. We are devolving as a species we are more blind and fucking retarded than ever. We have allowed thoughts to be the object of our attention and it is being perpetrated by the political left in America. It's as if we took our eyeballs out of our head to look at them. It only leads to madness and, in my view, will damn our souls. It is a philosophy based on emotion not reason. Before men used to trust his natural reason and through it saw all other things. Of course now so many people are brainwashed that I fear it may be too late.

>2 houses
>3 marriges

Nice bait, retard.

I've honestly grown very scared the last few years especially, talking to friends on social media and when presented with concrete factual knowledge, they don't even register that their opinion is supposed to change when presented with strong factual contrary information.

If you showed me documented proof that Donald trump was arming radicals overseas, had helped a child rapist walk as a free man, or casually allowed a warlord group to murder over 10,000 in Africa, I would be skeptical at first, but when sufficent proof was brought to my attention, I could no longer support him.

Yet when I present lifelong friends with this data about Hillary, they don't even momentarily consider it. I don't understand what is happening to humanity now, but I feel like even 6 years ago they would have at least listened to reason a little bit.

>And about $90k in firearms for fun and investment.
Christ. What do you mean by "investment" anyway?

Guns I buy with the intention of selling them at hte next panic because they will be banned.

You spent $90,000 on guns when your total savings are only $80,000? And you wonder why you have financial problems?

Could you ship me one? Just a glock or a revolver or something?

t. ATF

Two problems:
>$90k in firearms
>My wife refuses to work

>creme de la 1st world problems

What did you expect from a race mixer?

Not to defend Hillary (I think she's bad and corrupt as fuck) but she didn't want to defend that rapist. And also, in order to run a superpower, or any country really, you've got to do bad things. I mean what would have happened if say, reagan didn't arm brutal dictators with death squads? What if we didn't arm the mujahideen?
Life, and leadership are complex; there are rarely easy and good answers.

I make over 100k a year and only spend 20k, with most of it being rent. It feels good not being a consumerist sheep with fucking $90,000 in fucking firearms and half of everything going to a lazy bitch.

>Been married 2 to asians
Why did you not learn the first time around, dumbass?

ITT OP comes to brag about his money.

It's pretty obvious he hates his wife. I wouldn't say he's come here solely to brag about cashflow.

Federal reserve creating inflation