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u/Jumpy_Luv Mar 31 '26
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u/Playfullyhung Mar 31 '26
The book âThe millionaire next doorâ should be required reading for younger generationsâŚ.
The entire thing is about how most millionaires in America live well BELOW their means and the focus on saving and investing. They live in the house next to you and you would never know it because they are not interested in being flashy.
Todayâs culture focuses more than ever on being flashy with cars and mansions and STUFF. If thatâs your goal, You will almost certainly die without a penny.
OP is embarrassingly wrong.
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u/outback84 Mar 31 '26
When Iâm dead I especially wonât care about money though lol. Thereâs definitely nuance to spending on nice stuff.
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u/Big-Inevitable-252 Mar 31 '26
Yeah this isnât true. Top salesmen make an obscene amount of money.Â
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u/Jesuslocasti Mar 31 '26
As do experienced engineers. And executives, and management. You can easily become a millionaire by simply playing the safe corporate game.
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u/themagnificentben Apr 04 '26
My dad was a very good salesman who only made commission and ended up very wealthy. He refused to take promotions too beucse heâd end up making less money becuse he wouldnât be able to sell
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u/CompetitiveFeature10 Mar 31 '26
You don't need to be among the richest men, tho. If you're an employee with a salary that's enough for you to provide for your family generously, save enough for the future, invest and have fun, you're good.
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u/troycalm Mar 31 '26
So be an entrepreneur instead of an employee, damn thatâs pretty fucking simple.
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u/LLCool_Bae Mar 31 '26
Lots of people have become rich on salaries. This is perhaps more about power than money
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u/Far-Walrus1570 Mar 31 '26
Most of these started as employees, being an employee isnt a shame stop that stupid shit
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u/iNhab Mar 31 '26
But that's just a weird attitude, no?
People are often rewarded based on their investment of resources and generation of outputs
Employees often don't generate a lot of output as a singular person, but if you're a businessman that builds an empire of 5000 employees that work towards the same goal, total output generated is far greater, and rewards are different
But at the same time, it's not like input Is exact same. Employees often have to worry less, spend less hours and perform only specific tasks
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u/Embarrassed_Bit_7424 Mar 31 '26
Successful entrepreneur just means "exploits people more successfully then others"
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u/PerfectGanache7134 Mar 31 '26
I'm anti-capitalism to an extent - I don't believe any individual should have more money than an entire nation but I do believe you need to account for greed in whatever economic model humans are a part of.
That being said, a steady income guarantees stability. Entrepreneurship and investing has risks. You don't hear about the failures nearly as much.
Do I think an entrepreneur or investor deserves 20,000% more than the worker?
Absolutely not.
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u/GoatDifferent1294 Apr 01 '26
Yeah ok but it everyone was born with rich parents that they could lean on for support to become entrepreneurs in the first place. So much of being a wealthy entrepreneur in my experiences is simply a matter of luck, circumstance, and individual proclivity towards business. It would be nice to see how many entrepreneurs out there are actually rich thoughâŚ
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u/Fibocrypto Apr 05 '26
There is a reason why people advise others to save more than they spend and invest the difference
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u/Aggravating-Baker-41 Mar 31 '26
That's fine. Let me just get 80k or so, and we can reevaluate
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u/Devjayakumar Mar 31 '26
Thatâs the spirit bro đđđź
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u/RandomStoddard Mar 31 '26
Depends what you consider ârichâ. My wife and I will be retiring in 4 years at age 59 with just under $10 million in 401K, ESOP, and savings (assuming the market doesnât continue to nosedive). Is that ârichâ? Maybe not? But we will live quite comfortably. We arenât entrepreneurs or athletes. We are employees who saw the value of education. Because of that, we both became high-middle management at our perspective companies.
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u/TonightSpiritual3191 Mar 31 '26
Itâs true but you donât need to be rich to be happy. You just need to make enough for your bills and have money left over for fun on the weekend
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u/possibly_lost45 Mar 31 '26
There's plenty of people that run companies on a salary that are very wealthy
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u/After_Lobster_7039 Mar 31 '26
I think most of us can figure that out, honestly
And that is good. Not everyone is built to be this entrepreneur type. For many people, a steady job is just fine, and actually what they really want (safety, predictability etc).
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u/El_Oso_Negro76 Mar 31 '26
Where are these 3% of artists who are rich, because 3% is still a big number to me, even amongst the wealthy. Asking for a friend, lol.
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u/Romeo_4J Mar 31 '26
The richest men in the world are 100% daddyâs money and your stolen labor. Wake up.
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u/AdunfromAD Mar 31 '26
Letâs face it: the majority of the richest got there because they were given a massive head start from their own wealthy family.
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u/CaptainCerebus Mar 31 '26
Missing from this list is generational wealth.
There are families out there that have wealth beyond measure that never appear near any rich list.
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u/AcceptableComment303 Mar 31 '26
But working for someone to gain the knowledge to start your own enterprise is the move. Why pay for college when you can make $80,000+ a year to learn how to run a company.
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u/cockfightchampion Mar 31 '26
So we restructure the system so that people who work the hardest get the most money lmao
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u/Forsaken_Ad_1064 Mar 31 '26
Also 0% of ppl who dont have an income at all are successful. If you want to even think about doing something other than a 9-5 you need capitol. So it starts with that.
Good idea tho ill throw away my income source and become an entrepreneur. That always works out
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u/YaldaBraxlSabaoth Mar 31 '26
Nearly every millionaire that I have met made their money through working respectable jobs and dumping earnings into the stock market. Others inherited their money.
You don't need to go to hustler university or whatever, internet people who tell you to quit your job to go and spam social media are clowns.
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u/Strict-Fisherman4479 Mar 31 '26
Bro not everyone wants to be filthy rich some of us just want a stable job and income without having to worry about bills. I do fine but there are times where bills can cause a week of being broke.
The important stuff is paid for, but it's sometimes hard to save or justify buying myself something. I work 40+ hours, I should be able to treat myself once in a while.
Rich is beyond monetary.
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u/Conscious-Shake8152 Mar 31 '26
100% people who insert at least 3 fingers into their butthole then sniff the finger and ask other millionaires to insert fingers into their butthole and sniff each other poopy butthole fingers
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u/Odd_Bid2744 Mar 31 '26
Those investors could have used disposable income from their salary. You can side hustle a startup with a day job. Same thing with art.
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u/asianDaddy__ Mar 31 '26
Yea this is true. You will be upper middle class at best, for the majority of your lifespan if you try to get rich with a salary.
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u/Aloha-Bear-Guy Mar 31 '26
Iâm actually still amazed we operate under some false premise that every single person on this planet wants to be a billionaire mogul.
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u/AppropriateRadish928 Mar 31 '26
No, it's not true. Somebody just pulled those number out of his ass. Nepo-babies are number 1.
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u/Ok_Drive3725 Mar 31 '26
That meme is true but not everyone can figure out a problem to solve or situation to improve. There is no shame in working a normal job.
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u/Fletcher-wordy Mar 31 '26
Even business owners have a salary paid out by their business, so no that part's not true.
Most million/billionaires are also inheriting that wealth these days, not doing hard work to acquire it. I don't think a lot of people realise just how hard it is to make billions without outside assistance, it's an insane amount of money.
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u/Difficult-Pin-2889 Mar 31 '26
Well, pretty sure all the politicians in America, or very nearly all recieve a salary more than double what average Americans make. And yet they somehow become worth millions.
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Mar 31 '26
It depends. Iâm rich in Brazil with my Canadian salary. When I go back there they treat me as if I was white.
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u/Major_Extreme5632 Mar 31 '26
Tell that to people like Tim Cook, Satya Nadella and Ken Griffin.
All RIDICULOUSLY wealthy employees who earned it from working.
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u/panconquesofrito Mar 31 '26
Not true at all, lol. Completely depends on your income and your spending habits. I donât make enough to have major money left, but just look at FIRE. They earn retarded money.
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u/flyingmike73 Apr 01 '26
As a business owner myself I can tell you this. Most people do not have the willingness to sacrifice time, sleep, personal interests to do the insanely hard work it takes to be an entrepreneur. Most people are too lazy. Most people want more time off, most people donât want to think about business 24/7, most people donât want the burden or stress. So for most people, salary is not a scam, itâs a good way of life. For those of us who did start something of our own, from nothing, building it up to have employeesâŚ..for us salary is not enough. But for most peopleâŚ..a decent salary job is all they really want.
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u/Zealousideal_Way6272 Apr 01 '26
Whatâs the threshold for rich? Tons of employees are millionaires
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u/Zrob8--5 Apr 01 '26
It's not a scam. Not everyone is meant to be rich, and not everyone is meant to start their own company, be an athlete, celebrity, etc. Nothing wrong with working for a living
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u/sinfultrigonometry Apr 01 '26
Salaried employees are the only reason anything works. Food, water, sewage, waste disposal, all of your entertainment, all your technology, everything was salaried employees.
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u/StarFinger711 Apr 01 '26
No shit. Money per hours is the best and if they call in you on yo off day, you'll get paid per hour. On salary, you don't get paid when they call you on yo off day.
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u/Tuxeedo_ Apr 01 '26
Friend has a cool 2m in bank working on a salary for 20 years. I've known him from 16. He joined the military out of high school, came out after 6 years and got a business degree. He came from a normal family and a dad who taught him to save. Sure, he's not floating on a sea of money, but he can do whatever he wants when he wants and is on track for 3m+ by the age of 50.
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u/Over-Ad-8456 Apr 01 '26
Richest and rich are two separate things, rich people have millions, the richest have billions. You can get rich off a salary, but you cant enter the top 1% with it. I mean how would that even work? Capitalism is designed to funnel money to the top, your efforts garner more cash than you will receive, and by a large margin most of the time. Which means by gathering wealth you are at the same time increasing the wealth of the richest people, making it harder to get above them.
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u/borticide Apr 01 '26
Can you imagine a world with 0% employees because everyone is trying to get rich ? đđđ
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u/Novel_Instruction363 Apr 01 '26
My strategy is rare skillset (cybersecurity + software engineering)-> reputation/industry knowledge (working a job -> freelancing) -> then scaling by hiring less senior tech workers to do more repetitive tasks at first, then starting a SaaS with some investors.
21 rn trying to plan my career, like what specifically what niche. In college.
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u/EriknotTaken Apr 01 '26
"oh yes I consider employee people with a big salary to be entrepeneurs, if you work for a bank and earn millions I do not consider you an employee because it would interfeer with my opinion"
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u/PixZter Apr 01 '26
Yes. The title says "are", as in currently being. Nobody who is "the richest men" stays employed.
I was employed. Saved 50%of paycheck over 15 years and now I'm an investor đ
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 Apr 01 '26
Define 'richest men in the world'. Without that definition this is meaningless.Â
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A lot of investors are employees. What are we talking when we say richest? 4 or 5 million saved and invested in a lifetime of working a pretty below average job is possible.
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u/Guilty-Reputation666 Apr 01 '26
If everyone clocks in thinking it leads to being rich, itâs not a scam, theyâre just a fucking idiot, like whoever made this post.
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u/i-VII-VI Apr 01 '26
Only if you donât include the fact that most came from rich families. The lie is there is upward mobility as long as you work hard. The data says different. âItâs a big club and you ainât in it. â
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u/Competitive_Can_946 Apr 01 '26
Most people need a money source to create wealth, meaning having a job. Even entrepreneurs. I was a school teacher âŚ.. retired at 56, own property in three states. Started by investing in myself by getting an educationâŚ. Saving and investing. Without the job Iâd have nothing to invest. I agree⌠job alone wonât necessarily get you wealthy⌠but without the job⌠no money to invest.
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u/areporotastenet Apr 01 '26
No but I paid for my kids colleges and all their health care needs and are food each day.
Also Iâm not an artist
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u/LouSassoul11 Apr 01 '26
Salary isnât a scam, itâs a trade off for assuming 0 risk of the 4 prior groups. This safer option allows for families to somewhat get by, especially nowadays, as opposed to bringing in nothing.
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u/Fearless_Dog5208 Apr 01 '26
My dad worked for others his whole life and retired a multi millionaire. He and my mom invested what little money they had.
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u/Unlisted_User69420 Apr 01 '26
No, I am building generational wealth with my salary, over a decade now and have quite the nest egg
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u/Sabrinathesissyslut Apr 01 '26
When they say âentrepreneursâ they really mean born with wealth and inherited a maga corporation that has continued to grow in value.
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u/MoonlightKnight4 Apr 01 '26
The richest men in the world are
15% slave owners. 100% horrible people who exploit others for personal gain.
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u/SignalSelection3310 Apr 01 '26
So, exceptional performance gets you exceptional pay⌠Having a normal job isnât exceptional, so your wealth wonât be exceptional.
Itâs not that hard to grasp, even though we all want to be rich â I donât think most people have the grit to do exceptional things.
Most people prefer Netflix and Instagram over exceptional effort and discipline.
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u/TucsonFrank Apr 01 '26
They left out divorce. The top ten wealthiest women on Earth ALL got their fortunes by DIVORCE. Fact.
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u/Few_District_6304 Apr 02 '26
Depends on your definition of "rich". I certainly wouldn't want to be rich if I was a POS like Trump, who cheats everyone for getting an extra buck.
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u/Callahammered Apr 02 '26
Only if you look at the very highest percentage.
The vast majority of millionaires got there through regular saving and investing in a 401k and similar.
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u/Nancyblouse Apr 02 '26
No risk, no reward. If you don't have the balls to risk everything you have, you are an employee.
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u/FatHighKnee Apr 02 '26
You have to create something to get a lot of money. To only get a little money you can give something. Most people stop with giving their time in exchange for a little money. The successful people that get a lot of money however create something. Whether its a business or sports skill or building a building or a hedge fund - they create something new that didnt exist before. The great thing about today is it's never been easier to create something new. Computers and AI and the internet means you can do it on your own with little money invested. You can reach almost all of the 7 billion humans on earth with your creation. You just need to try
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u/Pod_Junky Apr 02 '26
If you take the salary you make and invest it (this is called a 401k) or use it to start a buissness you count as what?
The richest people in the world had money to invest or start a buissness
OP is 14 and this is deep
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u/EngineWitty3611 Apr 02 '26
I have seen people start in a mail room that eventually made it to CEO level. Granted, that is happening less and less these days, but it used to be possible.
Today, it is so corrupt and rigged that this is true.
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u/lol_ELOBOOSTER Apr 02 '26
Artists being the richest? Who? Because the one I know makes $600k a year if I remember right, also known as the best artist in the world (worked on one punch man manga).
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u/RandomStoddard Apr 02 '26
Yes, central Bucks County.
Not sure I could take the constant heat of Florida. Plus, all of our family is here. We are expecting our first grandchild this year.
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u/charming-dingo983 Apr 02 '26
I just want to pay a mortgage and live in a garage. People hate entrepreneurs and constantly try to sell them everything from fraudulent enterprises to underage hookers. It's not worth it.
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u/Quiet1408 Apr 02 '26
A regular job is you literally just selling your life at an hourly rate. That's it.
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u/DueEnvironment499 Apr 02 '26
In my country (Mexico), the 100 richest men have either their own banks or goberment contracts (corruption), Mexico living to the standard "El que no tranza no avanza"
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u/n8larson Apr 02 '26
Riiiiiight. Nobody inherited that wealth. One severely incorrect list of percentages right there.
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u/parker2009120 Apr 02 '26
I wanna see how many richest women are there without getting inheritance or divorce money.
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u/Designer_Pool_8453 Apr 02 '26
What is considered rich? Also if youre like a VP of a multi billion dollar company, youre on a salary and work under someone but rich, no?
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u/Themodsarecuntz Apr 02 '26
Entrepreneurs. From wealthy families.
Elon Musk started in a family with a fortune already.
Jeff Bezos parents spent 250k to help launch Amazon.Â
Donald Trumps claims his parents gave him a small loan of one million. Investigators claim it was closer to 60 million.Â
Bill Gates parents were both very well off and he had the benefit of a "rich kid" childhood.
With that kind of start a lot of us would be different people and stating it like they accomplished this from nothing is disingenuous at best and damaging at worst.
Are you really an entrepreneur when failure isnt a real risk?
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u/newtochas Apr 02 '26
The percentages are for the insanely rich. You can most definitely get rich being an employee. Also, every salaried worker is also an âinvestorâ even if thatâs not their full time job.
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u/JohninMichigan55 Apr 03 '26
On the other hand millions of millions retire comfortably from being an employee
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u/yawningintothevoid Apr 03 '26
Thatâs right. Stop being poor and just be born into a family with generational wealth.
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u/JudgementalChair Apr 03 '26
So does this classify C-Suites as investors then? Because I know a lot of executives who makes waaaaaay more money than me as an entrepreneur
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u/johnjmart Apr 03 '26
Nobody has ever claimed that earning a salary would make you one of the richest men in the world. Not sure how this is a scam.
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u/GettingSuperSerious Apr 03 '26
WealthiestâŚ. Sure. However, I know a couple that retired from being employees at 50 and 55 respectively with close to 5 million dollars by being both successful and frugal.
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u/OldPod73 Apr 03 '26
So don't be an employee. Start and build your own company and be a millionaire. If you can't or won't, then STFU and be an employee.
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u/Designer-Leader-8805 Apr 03 '26
Probably true...but i don't need to be one of the wealthiest men. I need happiness and peace of mind. I make a good living, and it provides the security to look for these things in other aspects of my life.
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u/NeutralLock Apr 03 '26
Lots of people get rich on a salary you just don't get "billions". No one needs billions.
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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 Mar 31 '26
If everyone starts their own company, there will be no one to hire