• 1984@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    I’ve noticed that some people just have some built in resistence to learning about stocks. It keeps them poor and it’s almost as they want that. At the same time, some kids learn about stocks in their teens and start getting experience and then they invest through their entire life, seeing their money grow.

    Its interesting see that attitude. Someone put it there. I would highly recommend challenging your views on this.

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      14 days ago

      Say you get 300% gains on your money and consistently put 50% of your money in stocks for 50 years. It still won’t make most people rich.

      Retiring comfortably? Sure, you’ve saved 50% of your salary. But rich? Like, Elon Musk family money in the 90s when no one knew him? Nope.

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        14 days ago

        I really think 99.99% of people would be super happy to just be rich enough to have a car, a house, and good food. We don’t need very much. People just dont want to be poor.

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          21 hours ago

          Ironically, the solution is similar: eliminate billionaires and the wealth they are hoarding would flow back to everyone.

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            20 hours ago

            How would it end up in the hands of the people? Salary slaves paying taxes would pay less? I don’t think so. It would be taken by the state and used for weapons (in the USA).

            Or am I missing something?

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              4 hours ago

              War is business to billionaires, one of the best. Most of the money that goes into war doesn’t make it into salaries and veteran services, it goes into suppliers. And the biggest suppliers are VERY big, and are run by VERY large corporations.

              War is yet another way of transferring money from everyday people into billionaires pockets. And it’s way more effective at doing that than Amazon.