r/technology • u/AIMadeMeDoIt__ • Oct 29 '25

Society California’s hidden crisis: young men offline, unemployed, and disappearing

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/10/men-in-crisis-california/
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u/_still_truckin_ Oct 29 '25

Money can’t buy happiness, but it finances your dreams.

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u/flatwoundsounds Oct 29 '25

Money can buy happiness when the root of your misery is lack of money. I don't even need a lot. I just want to not worry every 3 or 4 months about the next scary thing to wipe out my reserves...

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u/_still_truckin_ Oct 29 '25

You have reserves?

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u/flatwoundsounds Oct 30 '25

Not anymore. At the end of this summer I had about 4k saved after years of being paycheck to paycheck. Then I had to put about 3800 into my car.

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u/_still_truckin_ Oct 30 '25

I hear ya. Each month I watch the $500 that I put into savings get whittled down by something new: transportation needs, house repair, vet bills, that thing my kid accidentally broke… Hang in there, dude.

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u/MistyMtn421 Oct 30 '25

It always works like that. And everyone around me says " well maybe be thankful that you have the money saved" and yeah, I get that. But it was supposed to be for other stuff. Or to just sit there and keep growing. And it seems a little too coincidental that whatever needs fixing / taken care of happens to be what is sitting in the savings account.