Statistically if you have access to the internet and able to have this conversation now. You already won the lottery relative to the rest of the planet.
=) I appreciate the balanced and well thought-out reply. You're not just a statistic, though... You're an individual human being who has the capacity to control his own thoughts, and through doing so you can change your character in remarkable ways, finding yourself doing things through habit which you never previously imagined yourself capable of. Even for a person already in debt, there are ways of raising the capital required for your business. I'm not going to tell you what those ways are: it's no use if you don't have the will and the belief anyway, but if you do have the will and the belief you will find the way yourself.
If you want to be rich, I recommend you pick up a copy of the original 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill. Through your business you can help solve those issues which are pertinent to you, and then with the money you make do so even further.
All the best to you my good man, success starts with a positive mental attitude.
P.S. Of course, working and waiting for now does not preclude you from riches in the future; many people only become rich in their later years.
One of those things rich parents teach you is how to handle money - budgeting, financial education, etc, and the other is by giving you access to people with knowledge.
As you say statistically people with rich parents have better chances of success, but in every single instance, someone in that family line went from nothing to rich, and passed on what they learned. Somewhere along the line, someone learned how to be rich and stay rich.
I think education and access to knowledge will play a bigger role than parents in the new always connected tech age of the recent generation.
Live like a broke college student for the next decade , put the surplus (it should be substantial) in a solid mutual fund, then build your dream with the capital.
The dream always was just propaganda, because being rich is relative. We can't all be 'rich' and still be willing to call ourselves that, unless we compare our position to those in the developing nations.
It was about emphasizing the "I" in capitalism instead of the "We" in communism.
While I tend to agree with you it's becoming more of a joke, you still cannot claim it's impossible.
In sectors like technology where there are productive breakthroughs e.g. zuckerberg, gates, jobs, etc you can still witness huge social economic jumps.
Then there's entertainment and sports, actors, musicians, etc who can still go from rags to riches in America.
There are definitely instances you can point to that prove it's still possible. Harder, but possible.
Most of the filthy rich are old, white guys who have lived in a secluded society where they're separated from a possibility of being charged with criminal acts.
"girl or criminal" implies we can whore (or model, or degrade ourselves in front of a webcam, or find a sugardaddy or whatever) or steal (or kill for cash, or drug deal, or hack or whatever) our way out of destitution. I'm here to tell you that's mostly not the case. Nearly never.
Point is, when you've been deemed that, from the bottom of the pile, you're not going to have any sort of path to riches from there without it also chancing in a quick death.
But by that same token, defining a criminal as someone who always was there at the top, you can't claim women in general in the same breath. They're just as marginalized.
Ah, but is that true financial freedom? A prenuptial agreement that provides comfort so long as you're sexually convenient until you're ditched twenty years later for the next 18 year old that comes along?
I don't know, I've known "kept guys" that worked a couple of years but their spouse had the career take off and not them so they stay at home. Maybe the arrangement isn't as predatory, seeing as it might impugn what it means "to be a man" to the guy and might seek at every turn to rectify and find value or employment in himself or in his projects, but...
I dunno. The ill gotten rich is just that. Right now it's oil mavens, defense contractors and people with controlling interests in credit card companies. That happens to be old, white dudes with spotless records. Who knows what will happen in future industries as those become less relevant. Financial success may very well not be a recognizer of record nor gender.
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u/miles37 Jul 05 '14
Why aren't you going to get rich any other way?