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post 1577380781 04-04-2019, 09:42 PM
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Why aren't you rich?

Not for CEO $10k/day miscers.

Everyone would rather be rich than middle class or poor. Why aren't you making bank?
post 1577381131 04-04-2019, 09:50 PM
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tfw making 5.5k a month, am i gonna make it?
post 1577381191 04-04-2019, 09:50 PM
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Combination of low IQ and lack of drive mostly.
post 1577381301 04-04-2019, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted By PrimarisIn⏩
tfw making 5.5k a month, am i gonna make it?
If that's what you need to be happy, you made it.
post 1577381371 04-04-2019, 09:53 PM
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OP seems rather poor

I might have to give him some spare change
See Shakebrah's sig
post 1577381441 04-04-2019, 09:53 PM
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Barring extremely bad luck or below average intelligence, anyone can become pretty wealthy in a place like the U.S. with a legitimate income if they really want to. What it ultimately boils down to beyond those things is drive/motivation and personal goals/intetests.

For example, you're not going to be a CEO 10k /day and manage to be a good father who is actually around for his kids unless you wait to have kids until you're an oldcel in your 40's - 50's (if ever depending on specificbsituation). All depends on what you care about the most and your ambitions to accomplish those things.
post 1577381501 04-04-2019, 09:54 PM
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Why be rich when u can fraud
Losers let it happen, winners make it happen.

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post 1577381521 04-04-2019, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted By northernlights7⏩
Barring extremely bad luck or below average intelligence, anyone can become pretty wealthy in a place like the U.S. with a legitimate income if they really want to. What it ultimately boils down to beyond those things is drive/motivation and personal goals/intetests.
Not sure about that but damn if I'm not trying anyways.
Boycott foodservice industry crew
post 1577381591 04-04-2019, 09:55 PM
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Because women.
post 1577381671 04-04-2019, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted By SuperHercules⏩
OP seems rather poor

I might have to give him some spare change
I thought finance would make me rich ayyyyyy
post 1577382061 04-04-2019, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted By rectifryer⏩
Not sure about that but damn if I'm not trying anyways.
No, seriously. The opportunities for success are INSANE in the U.S. All you have to do is pass through the complete joke of a high school system with a C average (which borderline retards can do these days), and if your parent(s) are poor, boom, you've got a free ride to a plethora of state colleges via gov grants - not loans, but grants - debt free when you get done. Said colleges have preferences for accepting females and minority students, so that also gives people in those demographics a leg up.

So like I said, barring seriously chit luck like an upbrining so bad that it induces life long mental illness or what have you, any average person can succeed in the U.S. if they want to. Lmao @ excuse making for otherwise because someone either decided it was the NBA, rap or slinging chit on the streets or some yuppy picked a dumbasss liberal arts college major and blames it on their failures.

That's not to say they're all destined for CEO 10k /day status, but attaining a middle class lifestyle isn't that hard to do in the U.S. At least not yet, it isn't.
post 1577382081 04-04-2019, 10:05 PM
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low confidence and procrastinate to the max.
post 1577383471 04-04-2019, 10:29 PM
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Idk. Never really set out with the goal of making as much money as possible, just enough to not worry.

What's your definition of rich though
post 1577383491 04-04-2019, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Not for CEO $10k/day miscers.

Everyone would rather be rich than middle class or poor. Why aren't you making bank?
My goal in life is not to be a wageslave. Ok with being poor if it means I'm independent. Life is good.
post 1577383511 04-04-2019, 10:30 PM
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I am rich, jakes on you OP
post 1577383591 04-04-2019, 10:33 PM
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If everyone was CEO 10k/day would anyone actually be rich?
Short cuts to success are often paved with lies.
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post 1577383621 04-04-2019, 10:33 PM
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not all treasure is silver and gold, mate
post 1577383711 04-04-2019, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted By soaponarope1⏩
Idk. Never really set out with the goal of making as much money as possible, just enough to not worry.

What's your definition of rich though
Rich = can live your current lifestyle for 10 years without major impact
Wealthy = live solely off interest and relatively passive investments in perpetuity
post 1577383891 04-04-2019, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted By gbullock32⏩
If everyone was CEO 10k/day would anyone actually be rich?
Bet you are getting a siiiick pension and healthcare for life, aren't you?
post 1577383911 04-04-2019, 10:39 PM
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I was lazy and thinking with the wrong head in highschool/college but now I know better!
post 1577384131 04-04-2019, 10:42 PM
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lol @ OG Grant Cardone and Tai Lopez




RIP in peace, brah!
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post 1577384211 04-04-2019, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Bet you are getting a siiiick pension and healthcare for life, aren't you?
When I can retire with it at 57, so not for a long time; less if I retire earlier, but I should be good at 50 with what I'd have.
Short cuts to success are often paved with lies.
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post 1577384281 04-04-2019, 10:44 PM
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Never really had anyone to push me to do well. Never had the money that’s needed to afford a high education. Even if I ever had the smarts for law or some other high education I never had the money. You need the mind but also the coin to get started in these high paying fields. I ended up going to school in marketing. Did work as a marketing coordinator. Didn’t like it. Now currently in a trade in window and doors. Don’t really like this either. It sucks. Just never had direction in life.
post 1577384421 04-04-2019, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted By jesb7826⏩
Never really had anyone to push me to do well. Never had the money that’s needed to afford a high education. Even if I ever had the smarts for law or some other high education I never had the money. You need the mind but also the coin to get started in these high paying fields. I ended up going to school in marketing. Did work as a marketing coordinator. Didn’t like it. Now currently in a trade in window and doors. Don’t really like this either. It sucks. Just never had direction in life.
Not too late to find your path, brah.
post 1577386561 04-04-2019, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
Why aren't you making bank?
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post 1577386641 04-04-2019, 11:53 PM
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Mental illness
retired from powerlifting, retired from the misc
post 1577386911 04-05-2019, 12:07 AM
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As a Christian, I see materialism as a sin, remember what Jesus told the rich man
post 1577387201 04-05-2019, 12:18 AM
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I planned on being rich but every idea and plan I had failed and now I ran out of ideas and drive
post 1577387211 04-05-2019, 12:19 AM
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B/C im 16 and poor
9 months lifting
post 1577387221 04-05-2019, 12:19 AM
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But I must admit, even when i didn't care about religion or God, even when I was highly satanic (Anton Lavey style) I didn't care to make ''millions'' of dollars, I guess I realized you don't need that much money to survive, so why kill yourself for money? It doesn't make sense
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