LIfestyle inflation is simply increasing your spending every time you earn more money. Investopedia describes it really well, and has some great advice: Lifestyle inflation refers to increasing one's spending when income goes up. Lifestyle inflation tends to continue each time someone gets a raise, making it perpetually difficult to get out of debt, save for retirement or meet other big-picture financial goals. Lifestyle inflation is what causes people to get stuck in the rat race of working just to pay the bills. Screw that. I'm going to avoid this typical scenario. That shit's for the normies. I just received a 18% increase in pay at work, and have a few goals centered around making it work for me, rather than letting it disappear into the mist.... Few things, just to be certain, I'm not going to live like a miser, or be a annoyingly cheap stiff. I'm going to invest MOST of my pay increase, not all of it. Life is to be enjoyed, and I'm...
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