Goals

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/0dayssince]

When you start working as a child, starring in blockbuster movies, it’s a little different for you than for the rest of us.

[u/Sad_Wishbone_1524 → u/0dayssince]

It’s wild when rich celebrities say shit like this but never had to make top Raman for dinner a couple nights in a row to make a payment.

[u/CasinoMarginale → u/0dayssince]

She also married a wealthy man. Before that, she had a long relationship with an Italian real estate developer who got busted for defrauding investors.

[u/UnusualEmphasis7 → u/0dayssince]

While it's different, the point completely stands on it's own.

Financial literacy is good no matter how rich you are

[u/fionnuisce]

It must be nice to have never struggled financially. Those people tend to be the most black and white with their financial advice. You don't like renting? Buy a house, it saves you money! You don't like a mortgage? Buy your house outright! 

[u/Active-Curve1280 → u/fionnuisce]

Don’t like a mortgage? Rent and invest!

[u/Main-Cheesecake3287 → u/fionnuisce]

Nobody says buying a house saves money.

She’s giving generic advice which is fine advice as well.

[u/greensandgrains → u/fionnuisce]

Financial literacy is still a tool you need when you’re poor. I’d argue poor people need it the most, to make the best out of their situation.

Fresh out of college, I worked as a bank teller in an extremely low income inner city neighbourhood. I grew up middle class, only “poor” compared to the wealth of my suburb. I had no idea what people were up against. It also made me angry seeing how banks and capitalism preyed on people’s ignorance, because yes, financial literacy (can be) a class issue. There was such a stark divide between the quality of life for people who had the financial literacy but were just poor and the ones who didn’t have financial literacy and were just as poor and struggling more. Small things like explaining how credit card interest works were major lightbulbs moments for some people.

Look, I think Anne is mildly out of touch. She’s been an A-lister since she was 16 and is Vassar-educated but what’s she’s saying isn’t wrong.

[u/CalHudsonsGhost → u/fionnuisce]

Also, acting is not real work and humans use to see it as such. Now, it’s not real work but also, in a very controlled manipulated environment. I can’t wait for the stock tips from OF “models” next.

[u/Main-Cheesecake3287 → u/CalHudsonsGhost]

Lmao yeah the Romans and others in history looked at actors like they looked at prostitutes, because they were stupid and held goofy biases.

We get it. You grind. They don’t grind. Therefore not work. Just sad some people have way better jobs than you.

[u/Fragrant_Fox_5056]

Another rich person telling us the importance of managing finances 🙄🖕

[u/Upset-Government-856 → u/Fragrant_Fox_5056]

She wasn't born rich. She was middle class.

[u/Wolfhun1 → u/Upset-Government-856]

Ohh how sad middle class? Really? Tell me more

[u/BentoBus2 → u/[deleted]]

I can rephrase it, another nepo baby is telling us the importance of financial literacy for the money and oppurtunity afforded to you by your parents. It’s very relatable

[u/avanross → u/BentoBus2]

It’s really not that hard..

First, be born extremely rich and attractive

Second, use your looks and wealth to find work in an industry that pays you millions of dollars per year

Finally, keep your spending to less than a few million dollars per year

[u/LibertyCash → u/[deleted]]

She hit a one in a million jackpot of becoming a famous Hollywood actress. How are the rest of supposed to do that?

[u/Active-Curve1280 → u/LibertyCash]

I think she hit the literally before that by being born to rich parents

[u/Friendly-Table6785]

I mean, yes, love that energy for her, but she came from a wealthy family. Im sure her family has paid for some bills before. Not all women have this pre-existing financial freedom to be able to think so freely.

[u/MrEllis72 → u/Friendly-Table6785]

People, not just women, people don't have this freedom and it's why we have to work or die.

[u/Remarkable-Month-241 → u/Friendly-Table6785]

Maybe she should donate to other women so that they too can get a head start in life… I love the vibes but be more authentic or show us with actions not words.

Good people don’t need to tell us that they are good people. We know by the fruits that they bare.

[u/Ill-Description3096 → u/Remarkable-Month-241]

She does loads of charity work/donates money. It's quite easy to look up if you're actually interested in seeing.

[u/ssana → u/Ill-Description3096]

Ehmmm. She may do that but if she then says such tripe as the above which seems to be completely blind against people’s actual financial and everyday struggles then that is not standing on values but virtue signalling. Even if she does charity work.

She may be an aright actress but to me the quotes are akin to when one of the Kardashians said ‘people just don’t want to work these days’. People live paycheque to paycheque because the system has been set up for exactly that to happen. Don’t blame people for not being financially literate if they have no money to invest.

[u/Ill-Description3096 → u/ssana]

I mean these look like interview excerpts. If she is asked a question and answers why is that some horrible thing? I don't see her saying everyone has to be like her, or even that people won't ever struggle. At that point nobody nobody should ever share an opinion because there are almost certainly people who can't do the same for whatever reason.

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/ssana]

Its an ad for HerWealth. A group that promotes women's financial literacy.

[u/IAmANobodyAMA → u/Friendly-Table6785]

Not all people. FTFY

[u/insidetraderpelosi]

“i’m rich af”

[u/maplestriker]

Fun fact: being rich and being good with money is not the same thing. For many women, having children means having to rely on the father financially at least for a little while. That does mean we are financially illiterate. It means we are not millionairs.

[u/Kotsida123]

Ta de jävligt lugnt så bra är du inte.

[u/Critical-Cost9068]

When she was a little girl? When her lawyer dad was paying for everything and her mom with theater connections was helping her study acting in comfort without having to worry about preparing for a “real job?”

[u/Kichenlimeaid]

Reminds me of an old ex-friend of mine, life long bachelor by choice, nothin' wrong with that...who told me he didn't need anyone and never needed anybody"s help. Growing up his parents owned a golf course and then several bars throughout his childhood into adulthood. He did work for them, and I believe he worked hard from an early age and up until he was in his 50's-off and on in his adulthood (at the last remaing bar). We met after his father died and he was helping his mother sell that house. Parents had been separated, but lived across the street from each other! Come to find out he was driving one of her cars and lived in the father's house until it sold. He then lived with his mother after both parents old houses sold, and moved in with her, in a newer smaller home. Apparently after he dropped out of college he traveled the states and parts of Europe. He thought of himself as a wildly independent soul. Don't get me wrong...he was extremely smart and was a hell of a character. But I did call him out on his stuff when he would go into that 'I never needed anybody mode'.

[u/imamonkeyface]

I think for her it means being involved and educated about her finances, even though she doesn’t have to be. There are so many rich people who just have someone else manage their stuff, never bother to get educated about it. We’ve all heard stories of wealthy or famous people be screwed out of their money by their own accountants embezzling or something and wondered how they didn’t notice.

[u/loocretius]

“goals” = growing up with well-off two parent household, privilege, and access? when someone with inherited advantages talks about “self-made” success without acknowledging their head start, that’s dismissive of the structural inequality that’s blatantly clear specially with what’s going on in the world right now

[u/UnusualEmphasis7 → u/loocretius]

Saying it's good to be financially literate is a point that stands no matter where you come from.

Dismissing her point because of "privilege" is just silly

[u/AssBlast2020]

so refreshing to see some hollyweird millionaire give advice to little girls

[u/HippoTakingGLP3]

Thats awesome. Slay queen.
I can't afford health insurance

[u/PoursTea-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Off topic.

[u/moeterminatorx → u/[deleted]]

What does have to do with her personal finances?

[u/MarlinMan2001 → u/moeterminatorx]

What does dating or marrying a ponzi schemer have to do with someone’s personal finances?
🤦‍♂️

[u/Elpeep → u/moeterminatorx]

It means she has sufficient financial literacy to know what he was doing and she stood by while he scammed people.

[u/moeterminatorx → u/Elpeep]

Or he hid it from her? That’s also a possibility.

[u/Elpeep → u/moeterminatorx]

I'm not sure if you're married or in a relationship, but can you honestly say you don't know what your partner does?

[u/Kichenlimeaid → u/Elpeep]

Yeah, I remember that case, but I just looked it up again. Italian guy she dated 4yrs. Lived in his apartment. He scammed millions from would be investors, pretending to represent the Vatican for mostly real estate deals that never happened. So during that time he spent buku buckeroos on private jets traveling all over the world and had a lavish lifestyle buying expensive gifts. How much she knew? Who knows. He probably lied to her obviously. But I'm guessing he paid all the bills...but oh wait, she also probably maintained a seperate place or always had somewhere to go. But sure, she has ALWAYS paid her own bills. Never had a bill paid for her...

[u/Kichenlimeaid → u/Elpeep]

She left him right before all that went down(him being convicted and sentenced 4 yrs) after living in his place and he spent millions of stolen $. But hey you know, since she was a little wee girl she made a promise to herself. Must be nice to be so sure that no one would ever pay a bill for you bc your so self sufficient!

[u/PoursTea-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Banned

[u/Dddddd92]

Right message, wrong messenger

[u/Bladerunner2028]

[u/Single-Hovercraft-33]

She Hathaway of taking care of herself.

[u/ariestoaries]

The third quote's the worst. "I've always defined power in terms of freedom. Because real wealth is having more choice over how you live, work and spend your time."

Really, Anne? Guess how you get to have the freedom to have choice over those things - by having actual wealth.

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/ariestoaries]

I mean, these pictures and quotes are an ad for HerWealth. Its like criticizing Ryan Reynolds for emphasizing how much mint mobile changed his life.

[u/ariestoaries → u/schrodingers_bra]

Ryan Reynolds and mint mobile, or Jennifer Garner and whatever that phone thing she does, all of them - that's very obviously a celebrity hired for a product. I find Anne Hathaway quite likable, but it's tone deaf to have a celebrity born into wealth, married into wealth, and living in wealth advising people in supposedly deep-quote ways about "choices, freedom, and power."

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/ariestoaries]

The product name is written on these prints. What are you talking about?

[u/youburyitidigitup]

Everybody should do this!!! Be an independent human

[u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets]

So should everyone think like that?

[u/sonpensantes → u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets]

No. She's just saying that it's important for her and her life. You should live by your own terms and philosophy.

[u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets → u/sonpensantes]

well, it says "financial independence starts with knowing you can stand on your own two feet". So.... yeah.... And its posted here, sooo....

[u/robinlynk]

Good for her! If someone wants to pay my bills, please feel free.

[u/Valerie_Vega]

Easy when you get paid $15mil per film😂

[u/Biscuits4u2]

Real wealth is having a shitload of money.

[u/freedomonke]

I took this as not being dependant on a man for money. But lots of people seem to have taken it differently

[u/Asleep_Control_2564 → u/freedomonke]

This is exactly how I took it too. My mom used to tell me the exact thing

[u/Timbucktwo1230]

[u/InformalLandscape445]

I see ppl calling her out for something, but dont understand the problem

[u/moeterminatorx → u/InformalLandscape445]

I think you are the one who don’t understand the problem.

[u/InformalLandscape445 → u/moeterminatorx]

Yeah I said I dont understand hoping for someone to explain

[u/Intelligent_Eye3508 → u/InformalLandscape445]

Comes across as a little ignorant when Anne was raised with that much privilege, although she’s not wrong about the message

[u/Asleep_Control_2564 → u/Intelligent_Eye3508]

It reads like she's talking about not being dependent on someone else though, which yeah she's privileged, but she's also right. My mom used to tell me the same thing and to especially never be financially reliant on a man

[u/moeterminatorx → u/InformalLandscape445]

I understood your sentence completely wrong. I think people have an issue with her saying these things from a privileged position. Most people don’t choose to be financially independent or not. They rely on others out of necessity not choice.

[u/youburyitidigitup → u/moeterminatorx]

That’s literally what he just said

[u/Haunting_Ant_5061 → u/youburyitidigitup]

It’s not literally, it implicitly what people are interpreting. Not defending but here, I will explain…

“I see ppl calling her out for something, but [I] dont understand the problem” … is how you’re reading it, but without that missing “I” it could easily be read as…

“I see ppl calling her out for something, but [they] dont understand the problem” … which is what the second person replying interpreted it as.

[u/moeterminatorx → u/Haunting_Ant_5061]

Exactly, the sentence is not clear.

[u/NatePJ84]

She had access to rich ppl that taught her how to make money and she also had access to the money to make it happen. She still got scammed out of millions but when you start the race with such a massive advantage losing millions won't set you back very much

[u/121gigawhatevs]

Personally if I were wealthy I would avoid talking about money publicly. With that said, some people routinely make monstrously bad financial decisions though I don’t think a magazine article is going to fix that

[u/Longer---Donger]

Love her and I'm gay

[u/Elegant_Passenger551]

OMG! she is using her platform to encourage women to be financially literate. Good for her! Truth is most girls grow up not being taught about managing money, credit debt, financial independence and the importance of a career path.

[u/Wolfhun1 → u/Elegant_Passenger551]

Loll where are the feminist now?

[u/Simple_Rough_2411 → u/Elegant_Passenger551]

If only someone told me I would need [what you said] I would have [what you said] now. It surely was the only thing stopping me from having [what you said]. 🙄

[u/PoursTea-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Off topic.

[u/PoursTea-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Banned

[u/research_badger]

I have zero confidence she said that or did that

[u/MediaEvening8917]

when she was little? like 9 years old? lol. Kinda goofy. But thats cool i guess. She should help women who are totally fucked right now. Some people do indeed need help

[u/Gullible_Friend99]

Also, i eat people- Anne Hathaway.

[u/No_Knee3385]

Inspiration from celebrities...

[u/Big_Sheepherder_3764]

Good intentions, bad messaging.

[u/Pride_Before_Fall]

This comment section is a cess pool.

[u/Hour_Sell3547]

Can't relate to celebrity struggles, and can't get inspired by their motivational speech. Sorry.

[u/ownhigh]

Doing endless press junkets while pregnant isn’t exactly what I’d call freedom and having more choice over how you work and spend your time, but love this sentiment for her.

[u/mrv113]

Anne always hadaway!

[u/HaeL756]

Thanks Miss top 1%

[u/Tuna_Surprise]

She can’t be that financially literate - she dated that fraudster guy for four years

[u/smart_move1986]

Can…you pay my bills for me though? Please?

[u/Free-Painting192]

She just became hotter in my eyes

[u/Longer---Donger]

As a single man, she is my idol, never rely on anyone to pay for anything

[u/Mobile_Conference484]

Another nepo-baby preaching self-reliance.

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the message, I just find it hollow and out of touch coming from her.

[u/classy-ass]

Didn’t she get scammed for millions? So much for financial literacy

[u/Independent-Story883]

Very powerful words!
Men don’t like that.

But who really cares . Congratulations to her 😎👏🥳

[u/NoSleepTilBrklynn → u/Independent-Story883]

I’m a man. I have no problem with what she said. Why would anyone have a problem with that? She didn’t mention women. She didn’t mention men. Why be divisive?

[u/NightXD → u/NoSleepTilBrklynn]

Because being a loser isn't unique to a gender.

[u/smolkijolki → u/Independent-Story883]

Men don't like freeloaders who make them pay for dates, seems like she has a different mindset.

[u/Independent-Story883 → u/smolkijolki]

Men like all types I suppose. If a man doesn’t want to pay for dates. He should not be made to do so

If a woman doesn’t want to date a man because he will not pay for dates - she shouldn’t be made to do so

See how streets go both ways. Its okay. Who cares. You can find happiness no matter what. Just be happy with yourself and your decisions. There is someone out there for everyone. I firmly believe that.

[u/Wolfhun1 → u/Independent-Story883]

Nc karma farm

[u/Independent-Story883 → u/Wolfhun1]

I don’t need more karma. But looks like you do

[u/Wolfhun1 → u/Independent-Story883]

K

[u/not_accepting_now → u/Independent-Story883]

It's because she has never been independent. She grew up rich.

[u/PoursTea-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Please comment only regarding the topic under discussion.

[u/Longer---Donger]

I love educated and independent women, as a male, she is my hero

[u/Swimming_Agent_1063]

X to doubt

[u/No_Insect997]

Wow your a adult. Good job

[u/mgwelder24]

right on Berkshire, I mean Anne Hathaway. what a joke. these trust fund babies are the last ones that need to be advising us peasants on financial matters.

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/mgwelder24]

Are you saying peasants dont need to be financially literate?

[u/mgwelder24 → u/schrodingers_bra]

Just a joke. im referring to myself as well

[u/Itchy_Pressure_8311]

Notice that she doesnt say anything about being a good actress. Too bad she didnt do both.

[u/More-Initial3870 → u/Itchy_Pressure_8311]

So edgy

[u/whereyouatdesmondo → u/More-Initial3870]

This poster is super duper edgy, they just want to make everyone knows it. I'm sure Oscar-winning A-list actress Anne Hathaway will never recover from his brutal takedown.