ADVICE : AUNTIE AGNI

Dear Auntie,I am 17. My eldest sister is in medical college and my other two siblings are in a cadet college. So, our educational expenditures are endless.

My father is 51 and only studied till high school. He used to run a family business and a factory, but he lost the factory in 2021 during Covid. Since then, he has not had a stable job or business. Instead, he saw an advertisement for a stockbroker on Facebook. He trusts Facebook blindly but refuses to trust anything I say, even though I do thorough research. I explained to him so many times that stock investing is not a reliable way to generate a steady monthly income and pleaded with him to start a side business for steady cash flow. He scolded me for “trying to teach him.”

Now, due to poor investments and global geopolitics, he has lost over three million rupees........

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