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>> | No. 8631
8631
I think I have a substantial gap in my knowledge that exists somewhere between personal finance and economics. Let me explain: |
>> | No. 8632
8632
There is no particular route to becoming wealthy, if there was then everyone would do it. You can do a lot of the things you mention to optimise your chances but in the end that's all it is; chance. The right industries to work in varies depending on where and when you are. Sometimes having a niche works, sometimes you have better luck if you diversify. |
>> | No. 8633
8633
Wealth in this sense comes from earning money from means other than your own labour. |
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>>8632 |
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>> | No. 8637
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fff055c397b6fd0031368fa630bbd08f.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >How do people become wealthy? |
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>>8636 |
>> | No. 8639
8639
0_Huddersfield-born-Yorkshire-Shepherdess-Amanda-O.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() The answer is to marry someone rich and much older than you, proclaim your newfound wealth to be self-made and then call everyone else lazy for not being able to follow your path. |
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I'm curious how you'd account for factors that involve a risk-reward trade off. |
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Work in sales. That's the job that pays 100 grand a year with very little effort, if you're good at it. If you're not, then that's a shame because I honestly don't think it's possible to get good at it if you aren't naturally that sort of person. |
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1588170687766.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8666 |
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Exsctly. Putting £150 a month into a fund that makes on average 15% a year for 30 years and you're at a million no bother. |
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Untitled.png ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8689 |
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_117003116_perserverance_landing_x2_640-nc.png ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8695 |
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parachute-with-figure-soldier-toy-for-kids.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8696 |
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>> | No. 8700
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OP here. I just spent a good bit of my morning searching for this using key phrases like "social mobility without inheritance", "social mobility of the nouveau riche", "sociological studies of wealth accumulation", "wealth accumulation among poor households", etc. in academic and non-academic search engines. |
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>>8631 |
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molesworth.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8704 |
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Have you answered to yourself where being rich turns into wealth? Because the latter has some connotations that matter. |
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6253666696_473a07a266_b_OR3xqZH.width-800.jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() I was looking into this topic again today and recalled a powerfully honest article written by someone that earned what they call a "private basic income", i.e. they'll never have to work again. He seems to want to communicate the absurdity of his situation: |
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image_2021-06-14_100707.png ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8855 |
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download (10).jpg ![]() ![]() ![]() >>8860 |
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>> | No. 8863
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There's certainly a large amount of luck involved, because whatever guide you wind up with, there will be thousands of people who did everything on it and aren't millionaires. One thing that I think hasn't been mentioned yet is passion: people say you need to work hard, but you need to enjoy it too. Stephen Hendry spent his whole life on a snooker table and was world champion seven times. Sergio Aguero stayed late at football training every day until he was better at football than Bojan Krkic is, or you are. But what if they had swapped places? Would Sergio Aguero be a snooker champion and Stephen Hendry lifting the World Cup for Scotland? I doubt it enormously. They had the drive to succeed at what they wanted, but they also had the passion to enjoy it in the first place. I'm willing to guess that most of us, in our jobs, have bosses who love what we do more than we do. They'd do it at home for free if they could, and that's why they're good enough at it to get paid more than we do. But their drive to do our jobs does not translate into drive to be the world's best Cubist painter or Love Island contestant. In the end, it's just a question of personality. |
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>> | No. 8866
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I distinctly remember watching some video of some quality control people on an assembly line in the 70s or 80s testing electronics and thinking that if they had the radio on it would be my ideal job: boring, predictable, rote actions (plug it in, if it loads then box it, if it doesn't then chuck it) that you could do while daydreaming away to yourself. Unfortunately jobs like that no longer seem to exist (insofar as they ever did), so you're stuck with stuff that demands a much higher level of engagement and awareness, making it much more difficult to just compartmentalise away work and then come home to live your life. |
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>> | No. 9540
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I'm still on the lookout for research on this subject and chanced (heh) upon this article from a bunch of MIT maths wonks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068 |
>> | No. 10119
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https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/more-people-have-bank-accounts-one-ten-have-no-cash-savings |
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>>10119 |
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