Spyke

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Anyone else feel like ~99% of their life was kind of wasted?

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Man, that doesn't resonate with me at all. I don't think there is any point to living other than just enjoying your time here. Sure, work when necessary to be able to afford the necessities, develop some skills to be able to afford a few luxuries, but honestly just do things that make you happy. Self-improvement as a reason to live seems awful. If you're unable to improve, are you a failure? If you're already happy as you are, should you just end it?

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Comparison of population, wage, and home price growth

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Eh, at least in my experience, interest in most normal mortgages ends up less than the standard deduction so it can't be claimed. It was a change Trump made to the tax code I think. I don't understand enough about it to know if it affects me negatively or not. I know it's better for me to claim the standard deduction instead of itemizing my deductions. This means I can't claim interest paid (which is bad), but the standard deduction is higher than it was before, so I think I'm still claiming more money as untaxable (which is good, I think?).

Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can chip in.

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Sort by Top of the last Hour

Agree! TopHour was my preferred way to sort reddit. Felt like I'd get new, active posts. And then they'd basically refresh each hour so i wasn't seeing the same things over and over again. I'm currently using TopDay and Hide When Read, but it's not the same bc i can't go back and find posts that I've read earlier.