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You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is

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  • deviantovary@reddthat.comD [email protected]

    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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    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?

    All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

    "I've never exploited anyone!"

    "Oh really, what do you do for a living?"

    "Insurance defense lawyer."

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      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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      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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      • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

        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?

        All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

        "I've never exploited anyone!"

        "Oh really, what do you do for a living?"

        "Insurance defense lawyer."

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        Heavy equipment operator is more likely

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          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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            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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            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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            • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

              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?

              All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

              "I've never exploited anyone!"

              "Oh really, what do you do for a living?"

              "Insurance defense lawyer."

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              You've started with the premise that making money is evil, and are working backward from there.

              "Oh no, you invested in index funds!!!" - yeah, so does everybody via their 401k or pension.

              "Oh no, the work you did had any negative impact at all!!!" - thats basically every job. Communist agitators pollute the environment by driving cars to protests, and vegans kill field mice in their fields of soybeans. There are plenty of ways to make money that make the world better on net.

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                You've started with the premise that making money is evil, and are working backward from there.

                "Oh no, you invested in index funds!!!" - yeah, so does everybody via their 401k or pension.

                "Oh no, the work you did had any negative impact at all!!!" - thats basically every job. Communist agitators pollute the environment by driving cars to protests, and vegans kill field mice in their fields of soybeans. There are plenty of ways to make money that make the world better on net.

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                You’ve started with the premise that making money is evil

                The monetary system is a miserable way to justify homelessness, neglect, and poverty, sure.

                thats basically every job.

                The fact that you can't imagine a job that improves the lives if your friends and neighbors is kinda bleak.

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                • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

                  You’ve started with the premise that making money is evil

                  The monetary system is a miserable way to justify homelessness, neglect, and poverty, sure.

                  thats basically every job.

                  The fact that you can't imagine a job that improves the lives if your friends and neighbors is kinda bleak.

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                  You seem to be acting intentionally dense to avoid changing your mind, so I'm going to stop responding.

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                    Also my dad is a billionaire

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                      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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                      Depression? I got bleak suicidal rage. Which is weird; it's not even tuesday.

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                      • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

                        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?

                        All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

                        "I've never exploited anyone!"

                        "Oh really, what do you do for a living?"

                        "Insurance defense lawyer."

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                        One of them is a self-employed pentester, they're very good at it. Pure income. The others are soft devs with their own product.

                        You can always move the goal post and say their clients are exploiting their employees, but we can keep moving it even further and claim that anyone who lives under capitalism exploits someone else down the line.

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