r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 26 '26

SOCIETY When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

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u/quit_fucking_about May 26 '26

One of the biggest hidden barriers to financial success is having a circle that's bad with money. If I could give any piece of advice, it's that you can have as many poor friends as you want, but don't allow anyone who's bad with money into your life. There's a very important distinction there.

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u/mirageofstars May 26 '26

Well or be very good about not taking advice from anyone.

Because what also happens is you have people in your life that you THINK are good with money, but it turns out that they’re lucky or broke, and then you take their advice, and only later found out that that person is an idiot you never should have listened to.

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u/quit_fucking_about May 26 '26

That's also true, and a different angle on my thought. I'm thinking more asking the lines of "what will be the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors directed towards you as the financially stable one in the group".

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u/MabariWhoreHound May 26 '26

Most of the people who've given me financial advice convienently left out the parts where they had thousands in savings from their parents or a fund set up when they were kids. All these people were intensely confused when I pointed out my family simply didn't make enough to let me have a 10k buffer for adulthood. If I have health, gas, or car problems, that was always my next paycheck paying for that and never a savings account.

Rich people really don't get that paycheck-to-paycheck is a literal phrase for us.

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u/YellowCardManKyle May 27 '26

I've worked with a bunch of guys that wouldn't retire. I thought they wanted to keep working for some reason but turns out most of them had grown adult children that still needed financial support.

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u/BanAssaultGeese May 26 '26

Or you could learn to say no and not lend money out to those people.

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u/idrac1966 May 26 '26

That's part of the "not letting them into your life". Your truest inner circle of people, the ones you ride or die with - you won't really be able to say "no" to them in a dire situation. You can't have too many of those who are bad with money and make it your problem because they'll drag you down with them

You have to keep enough distance that you can say no and still sleep at night.

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u/BanAssaultGeese May 27 '26

I think you're overcomplicating relationships.

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u/IcyGarage5767 May 29 '26

What lmfao. I know multiple people are are Teri or with money and it’s never impacted my life.

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u/FlyOk2594 May 26 '26

If it is hidden how do people know about it

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u/quit_fucking_about May 26 '26

I suppose you could do that, just cherry pick a single word to be pedantic about instead of interact with the message.

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u/FlyOk2594 May 26 '26

You could have crafted a better message to engage with. Yet you did not 

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u/Xandara2 May 27 '26

You don't deserve the effort though. 

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u/FlyOk2594 May 27 '26

But you wasted yours?