sangheilios
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Bro, when I read this back it reminds me of a couple huge phonies that were famous.I know a guy who lives in Texas (kinda of a friend of a friend) who is SO rich it's insane. I'm talking multiple million dollar houses, gambles 100k at the casino on a night out like it's nothing etc etc. I don't know his net worth but i'd guess it's like 200 million!
He tells people that he grew up poor and is rich because he's an amazing day trader and learnt the skill at a young age and so never needed a 'job', but i've seen him trade live before and he's clueless. I've seen him make lots of money some days (like 100k in a day) but he kind of relies on his bankroll with positions often going way against him. There's no way in the world his story is remotely true. He'd never have been able to 'build' a huge account in the first place based on his trading skillset. What i do know is that he DOES indeed trade but it's basically just a bored millionnaire gambling for fun. Some days makes 100k Some days loses 200k. But there's no way that's HOW he got rich
I'm convinced he must have billionnaire parents or something lol
So yeah, as you say, for some reason most don't want to admit it
This doesn't really have anything to do with the OP btw, but your post made me think of him!
The first one is Dan Bilzerian. He claimed to have made millions playing poker and had a whole bunch of stories behind that which didn't line up at all. Poker requires a high degree of intelligence and studying/effort to get to that point, and he sure as hell did not have the traits neccessary for that. His father was a wall street crook who embezzled ridiculous amounts of money, actually ended up going to jail for it. The reality was his dad probably put it in a trust or somewhere that the authorities couldn't touch, so it went to his children lol. There is nothing wrong with having a lot of money, but Dan Bilzerian basically lived a life of vice and sin instead of doing something good with it. Associated with a bunch of gold digging prostitutes, gambled, did drugs and partied, etc. There was a story where he was partying in vegas and was drinking, doing drugs and popped a bunch of Viagra like they were skittles.....to which resulted in him having a heart attack lol. He's just a huge phoney that a ton of teenage boys looked up to because he was regularly surrounded by a bunch of *****s, had cars, guns, private jets, etc.. Whenever I watched him he just seemed super insecure and fake, especially with that beard to cover up his horrendous jawline lol.. He also claimed to be a Navy Seal and a lot of that didn't really line up either. I actually met a guy a few years ago that claimed to have been a Seal and it gave off the same vibe lol.
Another example that also comes to mind is Rich Piana, he was a freaky bodybuilder that was famous on youtube for several years before he passed. He was all about appearance, fancy cars, clothes, tattoos, etc. and tried to portray this larger than life persona. He had a few minor acting roles, but nothing where he'd be making a lot of money. Anyway, he had accrued a bunch of houses in CA well before his youtube fame and made this claim of having been a "day trader", which was how he became wealthy. After he died there was a ton of stuff released about him, such as him having a drug addiction and other issues. However, there was an audio clip where he is in the car with his wife and he is clearly talking to someone and selling him steroids, specifically Anavar. There was a bunch of other stuff that came out about this, he was basically a drug dealer lol. The guy was nowhere remotely intelligent enough to have been some super successful trader/investor lol.
Whenever I hear these stories about people having ridiculous degrees of wealth at a young age there's always something off about them. The whole "day trader" thing I've seen a lot and whenever I see that I just assume it's a front lol.