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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Get into a good program. Apply for scholarships, do well in school, choose a community college to start and finish at a four year school, get into a grad program that will pay you versus a grad school program that you pay for (much more common in STEM degrees where you can be a TA or work in a lab). Also be working the whole time (bar tender and line cook, baby!).

Once you are out of school get any job in your field and leave your hometown for it. Pay off your degree (I lived in a tent in Wyoming for work and paid my loans off because my living expenses were very small). Next up: pay yourself and max out retirement contributions best you can. When the time is right and you like where you’re at, buy a house if you want (I wanted to). Then keep saving money and keep grinding at your career. Switch jobs and get big raises. Learn from your peers and keep moving up.

Dad was a line cook, mom was a waitress. Ain’t no money to be given. Assuming I could only be successful due to handouts, pfft.

Work your ass off and be extremely mindful of your debt and your decisions.
gpt
Ok yeah that first but answers the education question but here's the thing... 

You lived in a tent.... I'll assume you're single because if you forced your wife and kids to live in a tent in Wyoming then wtf lol also that would be why I said "almost" everyone without a wealthy family. 

&gt;Next up: pay yourself and max out retirement contributions best you can. When the time is right and you like where you’re at, buy a house if you want (I wanted to).

When the time is right? That's exactly the issue. 

And pay myself? How does that work? Making retire contributions just using up your income, that would be less money being saved for a down-payment so I don't see how contributing to a retirement plan helps you buy a home in the near future... 

&gt;Then keep saving money and keep grinding at your career. Switch jobs and get big raises.

You do realize this is not realistic for the vast majority of industries/jobs right? 

You must make quite a lot of money with your career, so  even with living in a tent, how long did it take you to grind for the house? 

I make about 60k a year, my housing and food is paid for by my company, I save about 1k per month. Average price of a house where I'm from is 600k, 20% down-payment would be 120k so even though I've done what you said and moved away to take a pay raise for a new company that also covers my costs of living and I'll still need 10 years to save for a down-payment. 

Do you not see how unrealistic that is for the average person?