NickBe said:
Second that quote up there is why you will never be rich. You do not understand the way things work and if you do not understand by age 31 it is way too late.
That's fine by me. I'm not interested in becoming rich. Now if I woke up with 10 million in my bank account tomorrow I'd be stoked, but is it my goal to become rich, no. As long as I have a job I like, make enough money to live a comfortable life and can take vacations and such, I'm fine financially. There's other things I consider more important than money that goals for me. Like having a family of my own some day.
The business world is ruthless here is a quick example:
I started wit my company 3 years ago. I work for myself, I came in a clawed my way to the top 3 positions in just over a year. I had to do a lot of things to get to the top some things most empathetic people would struggle with.
2 months ago my company was in the top 3 biggest earning companies in the industry. I figured out a way to put the other two guys out of business and for me to become the top company. The problem for most people with empathy would be that they would look at the other guys see he has 3 kids a wife and that taking down his business would ruin his life. The other guy had one child who was autistic and again taking down his business would ruin lives. To me all it meant was increasing my income 10 fold, once I funneled all the business into one I would be looking at $5million + per year after about 2 years.
The problem is most people would stop and say 'no I cant do that', 'I can not put an autistic kid out of special needs school'. For me it was a non issue I done what I done and now they are both in the process of legally handing me their domain names to me for NO COST a move which will make me a multi millionaire. I saw what I had to do and even though I knew it would hurt people I done it because to em those people are insignificant.
Your not saying anything new or that nobody has ever heard of. It's called capitalism, and the attitude your displaying is what created people like Marx, Castro and Mao. Not saying I sympathize with communist, I can't stand them myself, I'm just saying that what you said above is no revelation to anyone and people have been discussing it forever. I am very aware that that it's cut throat out there, that's why all these jobs get outsourced and people bring in illegal aliens to work for pennies on the dollar rather than paying Americans middle class salaries. Employer's will send someone's job to India in a second if it will save them $5, sadly. That's why the gap between rich and poor is growing like crazy, because of the cut throat business world. I'm all for a market economy, but also think the free market MUST be regulated with some of ethics or else we end up like one of these 3rd world countries where there's only two classes, a corrupt wealthy class and everyone else just stuggling to get by. And don't anyone give me the crap that "everybody can work hard and become rich" because that's structurally impossible. I'd rather make a comfortable living but less money and have a conscious then make million upon millions and screw over people's lives. Why the hell do does anyone need to become a billionaire anyhow? For the life of me, I don't understand why there are people so obsessed with money that they live to accumulate more than they could ever even spend in a hundred lifetimes. If cut throat capitalism is your thing, then have at it, but collecting money endlessly, far in excess of what one needs to have a secure and comfortable existence is beyond me.There's plenty of pie to go around, some just want to be greedy and have it all.
Also money does lead to happiness if you are not happy to begin with. Money gives you freedom, power and financial security. People who say money can n ot make you happy are people who have never had money so in truth they have no say in the matter.
I don't want to get too much into my personal business, but I have enough networth to be far from living paycheck to paycheck. I'm hardly rich or anything or even close to it, but have plenty of cash in reserve. In fact at this moment, I'm taking a career break after quitting my job last December. I've done some travelling, spent time reading, studying, laying on the beach and just relaxing. Having some bucks to back me up has made this possible, so I'm surely not here saying money is irrelevent and that's never been my point. Money will lead to happiness IF THE PROBLEMS IN YOUR LIFE ARE FINANCIAL RELATED. If you have a great girlfriend or wife, great friends, have a well rounded life, but your problems are arguing over bills trying to make ends meet, then yeah, money is the silver bullet for your ails. But if you have problems deep down, and are an empty souled person, no amount of money in the world is going to fix that. Do you understand what I'm saying now?
