Varathien

Varathien t1_jaai961 wrote

Well, this family situation is unsustainable. You will never dig yourself out of debt if you take it upon yourself to financially support two non-working adults.

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Varathien t1_j92cau7 wrote

Victor Frankenstein is guilty, but not of murder.

Consider this more mundane situation. A woman wants to have a baby, so she gets pregnant, gives birth... and then finds that she's not very interested in being a mother. She treats the kid like crap. After 18 years of her shitty parenting, the kid goes up... to be a serial killer.

Is the mother responsible for all the murders? Obviously not. Only the murderer is the murderer. But had she abused or neglected the child who grew up to be the serial killer? Absolutely.

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Varathien t1_iuifvgt wrote

>From initial research I wanted to open a brokerage account and put 50% in VOO and 50% in QQQ.

That doesn't make sense. You're doubling up on a lot of stocks, while completely ignoring others.

Replace both VOO and QQQ with VTI. VTI contains basically every US stock. Add VXUS for international diversification.

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