ilmscore | Growing Up Poor: When "Good" Money Advice Doesn't Apply

Predictions from this Video

Total: 6
Correct: 0
Incorrect: 0
Pending: 6
Prediction
Topic
Status
Jessica hopes to increase her military medical retirement disability percentage (currently 80%) in the future.
"I am medically retired at 80% I hope to increase that to later"
Military Disability Benefits
Pending
As her children get older and she addresses health issues, Jessica predicts she will reassess and start her own career, leading to more financial independence.
"but now it's opening back up again as the kids get older as the kids get older and addressing health issues I'm like 20 years behind everyone else and that's fine whatever it's nobody's racing against each other but now that things are opening back up again I can reassess and start having my own career and separating myself and not feeling that dependency anymore"
Personal Career / Financial Autonomy
Pending
The military will continue to recruit by recreating conditions of poverty to incentivize enlistment or by focusing on individuals who are most eager to join.
"they'll do what they've always done they either recreate the situation that gave them the most which is recreate the poverty which gave them the most volun or they start recruiting the people who want to be there the most"
Military Recruitment
Pending
The military will likely resort to drastic measures like a draft or exacerbating poverty to ensure recruitment for future conflicts.
"of course they're going to sacrifice everybody of course they're going to start doing a draft and grabbing all the pores of course they're going to create more poverty so they don't have to make a draft because nobody likes that anyway like what is the next logical step so it's like the next logical step is probably going to be the most bow evil thing you can think of and it's not even like an intentional like I've got a cat I'm gonna stroke it gently and turn around in this chair slowly kind of evil that would be fun but the boring kind we need more poor people to go to war to get more stuff"
Military Strategy / Socioeconomic Impact
Pending
Jessica's children will not face pressure from her to marry, have children, or move out until they are ready and choose to do so.
"they will not get married or have children until they are damn well ready to period if they want to to there's no pressure to have grandchildren there is no pressure to get married there's not even a pressure to move out like I'm not doing that to to my children whatsoever I do expect them to try their best but I will not accept any of the nonsense that says that I have to physically eject my children or I have to be anything"
Parenting / Children's Future
Pending
Jessica predicts she will eventually complete a college degree, despite having failed out eight times due to ADHD, vowing to continue until she is forced to stop.
"I have failed out of college eight times now eight I keep trying to use my GI bill because I'm terrible at school I have hardcore ADHD I can't read a paragraph without falling asleep or getting distracted and creating characters out of equations like I am so distractable there is no way I'm doing college but because I keep going I'm just like eventually eventually I'm going to finish a degree in something I don't know what it's going to be it's going to be underwater basket weaving but I'm keep going until they make me stop"
Personal Achievement / Education
Pending