r/pcmasterrace • u/ParticularCredit2023 9800X3d: 5080 FE • Jun 27 '26

News/Article This has to be a joke right?

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No possible way someone actually buy these at these prices right lol..

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB Jun 27 '26

It’s still poor financial decisions. There is a psychological component but they still swipe the card, take the Klarna monthly payment, or eat everything delivered by ubereats. I grew up poor. Sometimes people put themselves in those situations and aren’t born into them.

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u/Jomotaku Jun 27 '26

If your future is bleak nothing u do in the present matters. It's pretty easy to live like that if life is shit and there's no prospect of improvement.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB Jun 27 '26

Hey I get it, I have clinical depression and anxiety and let shit slide in life for a while. Then I realized only I can dig myself out of that shit. I’m not saying these folks don’t have shit stacked against them, but ultimately we make the decisions that move our lives. Letting shit just happen to you is still a choice.

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u/ThunderCorg Jun 28 '26

Yeah agreed. The thread is about people who are employed at some level and blowing money on DoorDash and mobile games at the rate mentioned about and “cannot” get ahead. I was also pretty poor and under-educated and it took years and years to make progress to any level of not completely paycheck to paycheck and collections.

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u/Papuszek2137 7800x3d | 5070ti | 64GB | 4k OLED Jun 27 '26

Sure but the service providers know that. And they exploit the shit out of it. People are financially illiterate and the education system won't address it because they are getting richer thanks to that.

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u/Mundane_Jump4268 Jun 27 '26

The education syatem won't address it because its a bloated bag of garbage based on concepts from 100 years designed to train factory workers.

Letting each state do its own thing would be ideal but there are too many hands in the cookie jar to make any type of effective change or decentralization.

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u/The_Dice_Have_Spoken PC Master Race Jun 28 '26

I'd like to hear your ideas for a solution to this whole mess. What would your system look like that wasn't designed to train factory workers? What should each grade be taught to best align with today's modern needs?

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u/Consistent-Youth-407 Jun 27 '26

They need to go to a therapist/psychologist! Well… if their job offers discounted insurance, and if they can even afford that discounted insurance, well, they probably should only go if they’ve met their yearly deductible first.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB Jun 27 '26

A lot of jobs offer these services under a company EAP plan that is separate from insurance and costs the employee nothing.

Source; I work in HR and have used these services.

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u/Consistent-Youth-407 Jun 27 '26

I’ve never heard of that at any of my jobs but looking it up it just looks like a short term thing to make sure you dust off the liability of an employee offing themselves by offering a couple free appointments? It’s good to hear that there is at least something out there to cover this crap.

Wouldn’t it be nicer if we just had universal healthcare that was cheaper for all of us though

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB Jun 27 '26

100%. It’s less of a liability thing and a way to keep employees who may be struggling. If you have an otherwise good employee who is struggling it’s cheaper to offer them 6 sessions for free to get stuff started than to just fire them and hire someone new. It’s not perfect but it’s something. But I agree, we should all have free healthcare and by extension mental healthcare.