You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is

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• Varying9125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  change it to billionaire and I agree, people with $1m are not obscenely wealthy these days

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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The difference between a billion dollars and a million dollars is about a billion dollars.

    Everyone should see this if they haven’t already.

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    • GojuRyu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s like a clicker game but with scrolling and depression. I’ve attempted to get all the way through it multiple times, but never succeeded.

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Man, that graph and website is amazing. Simple, but gets the point across. I’ll share it from time to time.

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  • DeviantOvary@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know several (low) millionaires and none of them exploited other people’s hard work. All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

    Billionaires on the other hand. Yep, no way to get to a billion without heavy exploitation and sociopathic behavior.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know several (low) millionaires and none of them exploited other people’s hard work.

      checks under the hood

      Where’d you, uh… where’d you get all that compound interest on your investments from?

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In USA they’re not, but most of rest of the world that’d be

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US

      Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    people with $1m are not obscenely wealthy these days

    I’d rather have it than not.

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So it was hard work after all, just not their own

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  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He did say “they”

    gestures broadly

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• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The real secret to becoming rich is to have parents who are rich.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes you have rich parents. Sometimes you have friends with rich parents. Sometimes you just find yourself at the center of a CIA money laundering operation.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Forgot rich parents

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, but odds are that the parents also got rich by other people working hard for below a living wage and stay rich in the same way.

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• crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also my dad is a billionaire

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Do you know how hard it is to keep the plebs just happy enough that they don’t burn down my property?”

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• Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is easy to get rich, as long as you have the moral compass of a cactus.

  First I’d code some malware that specifically targets old people to try to scam them out of money. With that money I’d short out companies on the brink of going bankrupt and help by doing thing that cost money but aren’t technically illegal. With that money I’d start my own business selling crap bought from overseas, with students I can underpay, so I exploit both my customers and my workforce. Then with that money I’d bribe politicians to give me tax breaks.

  There, now I am a multi miljonaire.

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sad but true that some people’s need for success, money, and power allows them to rationalize their complete disregard for basic morality.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you forgot to buy the Washington Post, but otherwise a pretty solid plan.

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• thoon@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Henry Ford would’ve begged to differ.

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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Henry Ford still underpaid people for their labor. That is the fundamental key to capitalism. Profit is surplus labor that capitalists steal from laborers.

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• BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When it comes to new technologies, advancements, or discoveries, rarely is it the people who made them that get most of the profit made from them, the people that make the most are the ones that exploited them. It’s crazy that our best and brightest are more times than not indentured to our most greedy.

  There needs to be laws and regulation to prevent and stop excessive greed and exploitation.

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