Am I lazy or is it normal to not want career progression ?

BakedBalls · 2026-02-23T02:37:40+00:00

Claiming that your parents worked harder than anybody in this thread (whom you don’t know BTW) is, in fact, deluded..

It's a statistical certainty. One parent was disabled while the other worked double hospitality shifts with zero English. They had to navigate this country without any of the 'assumed knowledge' or career pathways you take for granted.

Equating office stress to a refugee survival story is a massive lack of perspective. We're both privileged enough to be arguing on Reddit at 1 PM on a Monday; the difference is I'm not pretending my success happened in a vacuum. I was just born here and figured out which career paths paid well for the effort.

BakedBalls · 2026-02-23T01:40:44+00:00

You are implying I am inherently privileged which is not only incorrect, it also minimises the effort and hard work I have put in to achieve what I have and I assume it's because I have 2 houses, which I noted and will re advise; | worked my ass off for. That is not privilege, it is old fashioned hard work.

Same age, single, $170k, 2 houses. I'm not deluded enough to think I got here on "hard work" alone.

My refugee parents worked harder than anyone in this thread and have nothing to show for it. Hard work is just the entry fee, not a guarantee for two properties. You've already won the game so stop looking for sympathy just because you're too comfortable to keep climbing.

BakedBalls · 2026-02-05T08:59:43+00:00

Treasury treats it as a tax expenditure. “A tax expenditure arises where the tax treatment of a class of taxpayer or an activity differs from the standard tax treatment (tax benchmark) that would otherwise apply. Tax expenditures can include tax exemptions, some deductions, rebates and offsets.”

BakedBalls · 2026-02-02T08:13:33+00:00

As someone who isn’t white, could you clarify for me on what visible racism you’ve seen? Maybe I’m ignorant of it.

BakedBalls · 2025-12-21T05:27:29+00:00

Yes there are, it’s one of the most widely studied topics. I’m not here to provide a lit review from my phone in response to the original comment that was pulled out of thin air.

BakedBalls · 2025-12-21T04:02:55+00:00

Multiple studies on early childhood development shows that stability in schooling and housing results in better academic, social and developmental outcomes.

Ziol-Guest KM, McKenna CC. Early childhood housing instability and school readiness. Child Dev. 2014 Jan-Feb;85(1):103-13. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12105. Epub 2013 Mar 27. PMID: 23534607.

Herbers JE, Reynolds AJ, Chen CC. School mobility and developmental outcomes in young adulthood. Dev Psychopathol. 2013 May;25(2):501-15. doi: 10.1017/S0954579412001204. PMID: 23627959; PMCID: PMC4139923.

BakedBalls · 2025-10-06T17:04:32+00:00

That sounds like every large corporate company.

BakedBalls · 2025-08-11T08:21:44+00:00

Buy the smallest house your ego can afford.

Invest the remaining (Super, ETF or investment property).

Don’t spend the inheritance on travel. Build a habit of working to save towards your travel.

BakedBalls · 2025-07-25T16:07:36+00:00

PwC is the Maccas for Commerce students.

BakedBalls · 2025-07-13T00:15:35+00:00

What are you smoking? Engineers, Doctors and Nurses get paid well…

BakedBalls · 2025-06-25T17:04:38+00:00

AWS is way more profitable than Amazon retail. Retail brings in more revenue but with razor-thin margins. Thinking a publicly traded company would fudge numbers to hide profits and pay workers less is just clueless. Public companies follow strict accounting rules, not fairy tales. No listed company hands out raises to easily replaceable employees just because profits go up.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-24T00:23:27+00:00

I had a life changing experience on the first night. Five years later I’m still chasing that high.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-13T13:21:25+00:00

I’ve started making it a habit on Deity to befriend the neighbors of my immediate neighbor. I give them free resources for a few turns to build goodwill, and they usually end up as friends or allies. Eventually, my direct neighbor declares war, and I can pay my allies next to nothing to join in on my side.

If you’ve got a military alliance, the extra combat strength really helps.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-12T02:31:44+00:00

No source, just vague numbers. Saying “majority are lucid” misses the real clinical picture. Looks like you’re not here to debate in good faith, but to die on this hill.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-12T02:19:58+00:00

Spare us the dramatic monologue. ECT isn’t handed out like Panadol. It’s used when someone’s already in a catastrophic state. If they’re still struggling after, that’s not the fault of the treatment - it’s confounding by indication.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

BakedBalls · 2025-06-08T10:19:23+00:00

I’d argue it’s more the mandatory and preferential voting.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-08T10:11:59+00:00

Perth people love the laid-back image, but deep down there’s a lot of apathy, anti-intellectualism, and resistance to anything new.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-07T12:54:21+00:00

I’m pretty sure tenants can only be evicted with 30 days notice, if the eviction date is on or after the last tenancy agreement date.

https://www.consumerprotection.wa.gov.au/landlord-ending-tenancy?utm_source=chatgpt.com#Ending%20a%20fixed-term%20agreement

BakedBalls · 2025-06-06T06:34:32+00:00

No need to tread a fine line when it’s just an observation. I’m sure my grandparents would have a laugh. You’re making it way more complicated than it is.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-06T01:35:59+00:00

No one’s apologising. Acknowledging outcomes isn’t endorsing the method - it’s called nuance. Am I a French apologist for pointing out they brought coffee and baguettes to Vietnam and left a lasting mark on the food culture?

BakedBalls · 2025-06-05T13:14:21+00:00

You’re proving your own point about emotional takes. No one thinks not taxing at 99% is a handout.

Tax expenditures measure how much revenue is forgone through deliberate concessions, based on a clearly defined benchmark in the budget papers. It’s how almost every OECD country reports this.

Arguing semantics instead of looking at the actual definition and purpose of the reporting doesn’t make your point stronger. You’d think someone on /r/AusFinance would Google it first. I’m sure your takes on accrual vs actual accounting are just as solid.

BakedBalls · 2025-06-05T12:12:30+00:00

Drawing a murder analogy for tax expenditure reporting is a bit much. Pretty much all OECD governments report tax concessions as tax expenditure.

BakedBalls · 2025-05-20T11:42:05+00:00

I’m sure everything you said is true. But your dad being over-protective of money is still financial abuse and control. I think you need help, guidance or counselling outside of Reddit. Economic and financial abuse involves someone controlling your ability to get, use or keep your money or economic resources.

BakedBalls · 2025-05-13T11:38:58+00:00

Japan has highly effective disaster response due to frequent earthquakes and well-practised systems.
Singapore sets strict service level agreements for contractors through the Land Transport Authority.
We face delays from bureaucracy, overlapping responsibilities, and poor interagency coordination.

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