Someone posted on AusFinance recently about hitting $80,000 in savings at twenty years old. No inheritance, no windfall. Just five years of working since they were fifteen, living at home with a dad who wouldn’t accept rent, and enough discipline to not blow it on whatever twenty-year-olds blow money on these days.

The post wasn’t a flex. That’s what made it interesting. It was more like: I have this thing and I don’t know what to do with it and also is it okay if I buy a cake.