theater must always be a safe and special place <| sep |> With no debt or income , spending habitsexpenses , it is extremely difficult to provide any kind of advice . Figure out what you make vs . your expenses . Then prioritize and strip away expenses that are sinking your debt further . Like a 6 Gb data plan on your cell phone , or that $ 700 month car payment for example . <| sep |> If I negotiated a much higher salary than my coworker on the same position , I ' m sure as hell not telling anyone , and that ' s a win for my rights , as a single worker . You can lose your shit all you want , but you know why the situation is like it is if you think about it for even a second . Hell , I might be for real worth more than a coworker in the same position , but tell them that and they ' ll get pissed or even leave , productivity goes down , stress goes up , expenses go up , if they quit suddenly you have people doing double work , you need time to find someone new who will get a bigger salary because now you ' re desperate to hire . Or you could force companies to pay as much as they can afford and fuck themselves , not just in profitability loss , but flexibility loss . Pay as much as you can to one person and if you suddenly find out you really needed two you can ' t afford the second one . And the first one sure as hell won ' t take a pay cut to keep the company afloat . Or you can forbid companies from paying any new hires more than their old hires , and suddenly they can ' t convince more than half the people they want to hire to actually come work for them . Please join us in the real world sometime .