Jason Voorhees
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My criteria for someone to be considered as failure in life. If you are above 25 and have one or more of these checks off most people including friends, family, dating prospects, and society at large will quietly write you off as a failure. Like someone who didn’t make.
1. Net worth below $50,000 or that equivalent amount in your country (and no realistic path to retirement)
Almost nothing saved or invested. Barely scraping by and just one disaster away from ending up on the streets. Will be poor or dependent in old age.
2. Never married or had a long-term partner (2+ years)/no kids etc
Zero family of your own. Not child-free by choice with a happy life just alone, and it’s permanent now.
3. Career still low-status or low-income (under ≈$45k–50k/year)
Stuck in dead end, replaceable jobs with no authority, no skills that took decades to build and no upward mobility left. Also includes NEETs.
4. Still financially dependent or in precarious housing
Lives with parents, relies on government benefits as primary income, pays rent that eats 50%+ of paycheck or has been evicted/homeless in the last 10 years.
5. Serious, ongoing self-destruction habits and poor health. Like Active addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, untreated mental illness that keeps them dysfunctional or obesity/health neglect that has caused repeated hospitalizations.
I do believe that 25 age criteria isn't rigid and people can fully turn their lives around after that but more often than not they continue that trajectory and end up in the same situation as in their 40s anyway.
1. Net worth below $50,000 or that equivalent amount in your country (and no realistic path to retirement)
Almost nothing saved or invested. Barely scraping by and just one disaster away from ending up on the streets. Will be poor or dependent in old age.
2. Never married or had a long-term partner (2+ years)/no kids etc
Zero family of your own. Not child-free by choice with a happy life just alone, and it’s permanent now.
3. Career still low-status or low-income (under ≈$45k–50k/year)
Stuck in dead end, replaceable jobs with no authority, no skills that took decades to build and no upward mobility left. Also includes NEETs.
4. Still financially dependent or in precarious housing
Lives with parents, relies on government benefits as primary income, pays rent that eats 50%+ of paycheck or has been evicted/homeless in the last 10 years.
5. Serious, ongoing self-destruction habits and poor health. Like Active addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, untreated mental illness that keeps them dysfunctional or obesity/health neglect that has caused repeated hospitalizations.
I do believe that 25 age criteria isn't rigid and people can fully turn their lives around after that but more often than not they continue that trajectory and end up in the same situation as in their 40s anyway.
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