RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:11 pm
Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 5:14 pm
Are you pissed that I won't waste my time with your responses? You're very flippant when someone ignores you and PROJECTING it quite exemplary.
Veritasium presented
proof that it is an illusion that 'hard work' supercedes 'luck'. It wasn't a trivial opinion. He's a promoter of science, not religious thinking. Or do you share the view by some of the others here that those who fail EARNED it....and thus, that the majority of the world's suffering is due to themselves enslaving themselves for some kind of game?
You're treading a fine line with me, Age.
The arrogant stupidity of this is that our Western ideals promote a BELIEF (very
religious one at that) that the ones in need the most are simply too lazy to reach out and grab what IS presumed to be there and that all wealthy people are 'hard workers' who EARNED their Billions. This is a con meant to MOTIVATE the sucker into 'working harder' but to ACCEPT the least. You cannot BE a billionaire without STEALING it off the backs of the hard worker. Anything else said is a fucking con and CLEARLY so on mere LOGICAL TERMS.
To make that kind of money the main criteria is an obsessive lust for money over everything else and a ruthlessness bordering on psychopathy. Call that 'work'? Thankfully most people aren't like that. Billionaires are separated from the rest of the human race by the wall of vast wealth that envelps them, and the only 'friends' they are capable of having are fellow billionaires who have nothing in common with them except that same shallow money-lust. The few wealthy people I've known (certainly not billionaires) have been the most boring people you could imagine. Their ONLY topic of conversation was money. When someone gets to be a money hoarder to the level where they actually have 'billions', by that stage they have become almost completely unhinged.
The character in 'Don't Look Up' was a perfect depiction of an unhinged billionaire; deranged and cut off from the rest of the human race (so barely qualifying as 'human').
Of course there are people who make a lot of money because of some great talent or genius they have, but they are rare exceptions, and when you think of all the most remarkable humans who have essentially carried the entire human race on their shoulders, most of them made very little money out of their achievements and many died penniless. They didn't do what they did to make a lot of money.
Where do you get this nonsense. You have no idea what you are talking about.
There are 46.8 million millionaires in the world. Of those millionaires.
Most of them are self-made. "The overwhelming majority (79%) of millionaires. did not receive any inheritance at all from their parents or other family members. While one in five millionaires (21%) received some inheritance, only 3% received an inheritance of $1 million or more."
So, according to this "statistic", not just EVERY parent of 79% of ALL "millionaires" died WITHOUT one cent or ABSOLUTELY PENNILESS so too did their other family members. This equates to 36,972,000 million "millionaires". So, if we dismiss the "other family members" and just combined two parents for EVERY one of these "millionaires", then that it is 73,944,000 million parents who had ABSOLUTELY NOT 'one cent' of money NOR absolutely ANY OTHER 'thing' that they could have left to EVERY one of these "millionaires". Which, to me, sounds 'far fetched'. But, 'you' are FREE to BELIEVE whatever 'you' like.
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
"The majority of millionaires didn't even grow up around a lot of money. Eight out of 10 millionaires come from families at or below middle-income level."
But, if your CLAIM that 79% of "millionaires" did NOT receive ANY inheritance AT ALL, then this would suggest that they grew up around practically NO money AT ALL. Or, their parents sold absolutely EVERY 'thing' that they DID HAVE, and spend absolutely EVERY cent that they DID HAVE, BEFORE they DIED.
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
On average, it takes a millionaire 32 years to hit the $1,000,000 mark, dispelling the notion that most get rich quick from a windfall.
Did it, on average, take 32 years for "millionaires" to reach million dollars at the turn of the millennia, and the turn of each century prior to what is generally known by some as the year 2000? Or, did it take, on average, 32 years for the above to happen just on the day when you wrote this?
For the 'average' to be worked out Truly and FULLY, then EVERY 'country' AND 'year' would have to be put TOGETHER. Because 'the average' in 'one country' is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to 'the average' in 'another country'. And, 'the average' in 'one year' is VERY DIFFERENT to 'another year'.
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
Eighty percent of current millionaires did not reach $1,000,000 until at least 50 years old. To get there, 86 percent of wealthy people who work full time put in 50 hours or more each week at their career. Since only 20 percent of millionaires actually retire, 80 percent are still working.
This sounds a bit like what "scott mayers" was referring to when SAYING;
"The arrogant stupidity of this is that our Western ideals promote a BELIEF (very religious one at that) that the wealthy people are 'hard workers' who EARNED their Billions." Or millions?
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
Sixty six percent of millionaires own their own business which they created.
Millionaires are your decent married neighbors. Most millionaires are married with families. Eighty six percent are married, including 65 percent in their first marriage. Only fifty percent of most Americans are married. Less than half of those (27 percent) are first marriages. You probably wouldn't know most millionaires, which is just the way they want it. They don't flaunt their wealth, they just enjoy it and the freedom it gives them.
What are 'you' 'trying to' argue AGAINST here "rcsaunders"?
From what I can ascertain absolutely NOTHING 'you' have SAID here is AGAINST what "vegetariantaxidermy" ACTUALLY SAID.
RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:45 am
Most are well educated. One in three funded their own college education without debt. Eighty four percent of them have college degrees but most of their education came after any formal education. Most are life-long learners and autodidacts. Most watch less than one hour of television a day and read at least 30 minutes every day, focused on self education.
WHERE are you getting these "statistics" from EXACTLY?
Who has spent their time asking ALL of these "millionaires" how much time they watch television for, and how much time they read for?
Also, if 'your' "statistics" are correct, then this could be interpreted as they spend more time watching television a day than they do reading and being focused on self education, anyway.
Which, by the way, has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with what "vegetariantaxidermy" SAID and WROTE, which is what you are, supposedly, RESPONDING to here.
'YOU', "rcsaunders" WERE the ONE who WAS stating that the word 'success' does NOT MEAN 'financial success', and ONLY MEANS;
achieving what one aspires to achieve. BUT NOW 'you' have TURNED 'this' COMPLETELY AROUND and posted a WHOLE POST about 'money and finances' as being 'success' and even questioning, 'WHY do so many despise "others" 'success'?' based on MONEY and FINANCES ALONE.
TALK ABOUT an 'inconsistency', 'hypocrisy', and 'contradiction' IN THE EXTREME.