• Zipitydew
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    4 months ago

    We’re back on pace for where we would have been pre-pandemic.

    People chilling out on spending and/or paying down their debt during the pandemic was the weird part.

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      4 months ago

      Prices weren’t jacked to the moon yet and we weren’t commuting. The market readjusted back to torture levels…

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        4 months ago

        People stopped traveling too. This year the record for US domestic flight passengers has been broken and reset multiple times.

        Lot of my colleagues are doing bucket list vacations because they don’t give a fuck about saving anymore. They’re convinced the world is ending so everyone millennial and down shouldn’t bother saving.

        And I can’t say I disagree with that outlook. But I’m still maxing my 401k to be safe.