So it was hard work after all, just not their own
You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
He did say “they”
gestures broadly
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The real secret to becoming rich is to have parents who are rich.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Forgot rich parents
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Also my dad is a billionaire
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
“Do you know how hard it is to keep the plebs just happy enough that they don’t burn down my property?”
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 month 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.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sad but true that some people’s need for success, money, and power allows them to rationalize their complete disregard for basic morality.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I think you forgot to buy the Washington Post, but otherwise a pretty solid plan.
thoon@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Henry Ford would’ve begged to differ.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Varying9125@lemmy.world 1 month ago
change it to billionaire and I agree, people with $1m are not obscenely wealthy these days
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
GojuRyu@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Man, that graph and website is amazing. Simple, but gets the point across. I’ll share it from time to time.
DeviantOvary@reddthat.com 1 month 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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
checks under the hood
Where’d you, uh… where’d you get all that compound interest on your investments from?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
In USA they’re not, but most of rest of the world that’d be
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d rather have it than not.