Listen folks, I went from dirt poor to rich. I built 3 companies and now I do exactly what I want daily.
Almost anyone can do it. I have no degree. Barely graduated high school.
What this lady is saying may be true. I am definitely already giving my kids advantages that my parents never gave me.
Through decades of hard work and failure I discovered the importance of making the right friends and building a network. Dressing well and caring about the image you project.
I was fucking dirt poor my whole life and failed publicly over and over again. I've taken food from shelters. I've been humiliated in ways I cannot explain here.
Now I am teaching my children how to meet the right people and wear the right clothes to the right places.
I am putting them into the right groups and clubs. They aren't all that expensive either.
I'm giving them advantages my poor unsophisticated parents could not give me.
You can sit in your shitty neighborhood and be angry about "the elite" or you can wake up early every day relentlessly improve yourself. Fail in public. Read the books. The library is FREE! The internet is full of all the info and connections you need!
I'm not saying these people aren't corrupt. But they have nothing to do with you.
They are not the reason you are not enjoying your life. You are.
This is some boomer tier reasoning right here. Sure, working hard and becoming wealthy through making a company can be done, I’ve done the same thing, but hard working and “making it” measured by status or money are extremely low on the list of important things to care about when society is falling apart.
By pushing this work hard, do anything to make it, you can do it too as long as you sacrifice and don’t give up, narrative, you are ignoring the fact that to make it in many areas or businesses you have to be actively corrupt and evil.
It is simply a fact that more and more of what you do in your life and how successful you are, depending on what you choose to do of course, is depending on corruption and immorality to promote you.
I recently heard a joke that goes,
Gatekeeper: Sorry sir, but we can’t hire any more white men. We are going to have to look elsewhere.
White Man: Did I mention I’m really into sodomy?
Gatekeeper: Oh, in that case, welcome aboard.
The fact is, anyone can become rich if they are willing to be an immoral scum bag. There are plenty of internet scam artists promoting “how to be successful” or pyramid scheme creators who make money essentially lying and robbing people.
Before I started my own company, right out of college I sold insurance and investments. Every single financial planner or financial advisor is a scam artist making money off of you by convincing you that you need something you don’t, or making commission off of you for giving you information you can find learn in about 30 min online.
Basically, the point of the story linked above is that our world has become dominated by immorality, degeneracy, liars, and thieves. A rare person may get ahead in the old fashioned way without rent seeking, but this type off successes is increasingly rare and becoming more and more impossible. Which is their entire goal. Make every means of success or livelihood corrupt, and to live you must become as evil as they are.
One of my companies is 100% blue-collar. We do things that ordinary people need. A home service. We advertise, work hard, and make good money. No corruption required. We employ 25 people who need work to do. Zero corruption.
My other business helps people roll their 401k and other retirement funds out of wall-street and use them to own REAL investments and wealth. We hold their hand every step of the way. We work hard and make money. Zero corruption required.
My other business buys distressed assets from people in trouble. We work hard and make money. Zero corruption needed.
I have a friend who is great at metal fabrication. He started in his garage 10 years ago. Now he makes high-end furniture and artwork and commercial fixtures. He made over $500k last year. He works hard and makes money. Zero corruption required.
Another friend is a mechanic. Started in the pit. Became a manager. Eventually bought a place. Made over $200k profit last year. He works hard and makes money. Zero corruption required.
I have another associate who has 15 painting crews running. He started as a painter himself. He made over $800k last year. He works hard and makes money. He never gave up. Zero corruption required.
The truth is almost everyone has things they like or know how to do that can make them a lot of money and good lifestyle. If they will not do so, that is their problem. You absolutely do not have to be corrupt to make a lot of money.
It’s not cynical or depressing. You just listed off a bunch of things where you think making around $800k or less a year is a lot of money. I’m sorry to burst your bubble but unless you are making 7 figures, you’re not making a lot of money. Anything under 7-8 figures a year is not going to do anything but make you comfortable working your entire life managing people who do shit like painting houses.
Now, it’s not that blue collar work is bad. Blue collar workers and craftsman are needed to keep society running, of course, but the general upkeep and advancement of civilization doesn’t happen because of companies run by average IQ individuals spending their whole lives doing mundane civilization maintainence.
If the only way for abover average to high IQ individuals to do long term valuable work is for them to be corrupt or stoop the level of running blue collar businesses just to live comfortably while those with real power and money corrupt the society, then I’m afraid the situation is only going to get worse.
Second, your basic claim that this kind of blue collar work doesn’t involve corruption may be true in very rural areas, but with the government’s ever increasing creep into every aspect of our lives the amount of business you can actually conduct without inherent corruption is becoming limited.
Essentially, any and all business which needs a government license to operate is corrupt. You are actively participating in a scheme where you pay into a system, in whatever way is needed, so that the monopoly on force called the government will come and arrest or find anyone who isn’t in league with you and others who have also paid for licensing.
The general point is, not everyone should go to college. Not everyone should be in high IQ professions. Not everyone should be making groundbreaking technology. Not everyone should be advancing philosophy and truth by studying those that came before. Not everyone should do something where the government forces licensing. But when those who should be doing those things are forced to sell their souls or actively participate in a corrupt system, then your society is bound to collapse.
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fuckingawesomePOTUS ago
Listen folks, I went from dirt poor to rich. I built 3 companies and now I do exactly what I want daily.
Almost anyone can do it. I have no degree. Barely graduated high school.
What this lady is saying may be true. I am definitely already giving my kids advantages that my parents never gave me.
Through decades of hard work and failure I discovered the importance of making the right friends and building a network. Dressing well and caring about the image you project.
I was fucking dirt poor my whole life and failed publicly over and over again. I've taken food from shelters. I've been humiliated in ways I cannot explain here.
Now I am teaching my children how to meet the right people and wear the right clothes to the right places.
I am putting them into the right groups and clubs. They aren't all that expensive either.
I'm giving them advantages my poor unsophisticated parents could not give me.
You can sit in your shitty neighborhood and be angry about "the elite" or you can wake up early every day relentlessly improve yourself. Fail in public. Read the books. The library is FREE! The internet is full of all the info and connections you need!
I'm not saying these people aren't corrupt. But they have nothing to do with you.
They are not the reason you are not enjoying your life. You are.
RSNBH ago
This is some boomer tier reasoning right here. Sure, working hard and becoming wealthy through making a company can be done, I’ve done the same thing, but hard working and “making it” measured by status or money are extremely low on the list of important things to care about when society is falling apart.
By pushing this work hard, do anything to make it, you can do it too as long as you sacrifice and don’t give up, narrative, you are ignoring the fact that to make it in many areas or businesses you have to be actively corrupt and evil.
It is simply a fact that more and more of what you do in your life and how successful you are, depending on what you choose to do of course, is depending on corruption and immorality to promote you.
I recently heard a joke that goes,
Gatekeeper: Sorry sir, but we can’t hire any more white men. We are going to have to look elsewhere.
White Man: Did I mention I’m really into sodomy?
Gatekeeper: Oh, in that case, welcome aboard.
The fact is, anyone can become rich if they are willing to be an immoral scum bag. There are plenty of internet scam artists promoting “how to be successful” or pyramid scheme creators who make money essentially lying and robbing people.
Before I started my own company, right out of college I sold insurance and investments. Every single financial planner or financial advisor is a scam artist making money off of you by convincing you that you need something you don’t, or making commission off of you for giving you information you can find learn in about 30 min online.
Basically, the point of the story linked above is that our world has become dominated by immorality, degeneracy, liars, and thieves. A rare person may get ahead in the old fashioned way without rent seeking, but this type off successes is increasingly rare and becoming more and more impossible. Which is their entire goal. Make every means of success or livelihood corrupt, and to live you must become as evil as they are.
fuckingawesomePOTUS ago
Your outlook is both cynical and depressing.
One of my companies is 100% blue-collar. We do things that ordinary people need. A home service. We advertise, work hard, and make good money. No corruption required. We employ 25 people who need work to do. Zero corruption.
My other business helps people roll their 401k and other retirement funds out of wall-street and use them to own REAL investments and wealth. We hold their hand every step of the way. We work hard and make money. Zero corruption required.
My other business buys distressed assets from people in trouble. We work hard and make money. Zero corruption needed.
I have a friend who is great at metal fabrication. He started in his garage 10 years ago. Now he makes high-end furniture and artwork and commercial fixtures. He made over $500k last year. He works hard and makes money. Zero corruption required.
Another friend is a mechanic. Started in the pit. Became a manager. Eventually bought a place. Made over $200k profit last year. He works hard and makes money. Zero corruption required.
I have another associate who has 15 painting crews running. He started as a painter himself. He made over $800k last year. He works hard and makes money. He never gave up. Zero corruption required.
The truth is almost everyone has things they like or know how to do that can make them a lot of money and good lifestyle. If they will not do so, that is their problem. You absolutely do not have to be corrupt to make a lot of money.
Voaters can do with that info as they please.
RSNBH ago
It’s not cynical or depressing. You just listed off a bunch of things where you think making around $800k or less a year is a lot of money. I’m sorry to burst your bubble but unless you are making 7 figures, you’re not making a lot of money. Anything under 7-8 figures a year is not going to do anything but make you comfortable working your entire life managing people who do shit like painting houses.
Now, it’s not that blue collar work is bad. Blue collar workers and craftsman are needed to keep society running, of course, but the general upkeep and advancement of civilization doesn’t happen because of companies run by average IQ individuals spending their whole lives doing mundane civilization maintainence.
If the only way for abover average to high IQ individuals to do long term valuable work is for them to be corrupt or stoop the level of running blue collar businesses just to live comfortably while those with real power and money corrupt the society, then I’m afraid the situation is only going to get worse.
Second, your basic claim that this kind of blue collar work doesn’t involve corruption may be true in very rural areas, but with the government’s ever increasing creep into every aspect of our lives the amount of business you can actually conduct without inherent corruption is becoming limited.
Essentially, any and all business which needs a government license to operate is corrupt. You are actively participating in a scheme where you pay into a system, in whatever way is needed, so that the monopoly on force called the government will come and arrest or find anyone who isn’t in league with you and others who have also paid for licensing.
The general point is, not everyone should go to college. Not everyone should be in high IQ professions. Not everyone should be making groundbreaking technology. Not everyone should be advancing philosophy and truth by studying those that came before. Not everyone should do something where the government forces licensing. But when those who should be doing those things are forced to sell their souls or actively participate in a corrupt system, then your society is bound to collapse.