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Another strategy I’ve seen work very well: Find out where high-status or wealthy people congregate for recreation. Pay close attention to their culture, manner
by afpx 8y ago
Another strategy I’ve seen work very well:
Find out where high-status or wealthy people congregate for recreation. Pay close attention to their culture, mannerisms, language, and dress. Practice emulating them until sufficiently skilled. Frequent the same places as them until some begin to recognize you and believe you are one of them. Then, make them actually enjoy your company.
In modern times, this would probably be called “networking” or “sales”.
And, then there is marriage. Another ages-old strategy. But, pretty much the same strategy as above.
The rest of the wealthy people whom I personally know worked hard at software companies before the 90s and reinvested in equities, and later, real estate. (These cases could be considered luck, though. They had to be in the right place at the right time. And, that same strategy didn’t work only a decade or so later.)
- rc_hadoken 8y agoIsn't the marriage strategy primarily possible for the opposite gender..the prettier one that is.
- sokoloff 8y agoEven if this were only (or primarily) available to one gender, what makes you conclude that that gender is "the opposite gender" in the context of GP's post?
- frockington 8y agoMost people are sexually attracted to the opposite gender, it's a safe assumption
- maxxxxx 8y agoJohn McCain and John Kerry did well financially with marrying for example.
- liftdd 8y agoI'm 23 so please excuse my ignorance. I've been struggling with the marriage benefits personally. There are the extra single taxes, rates for insurance, etc. However, in the US, with the amount of divorce (alimony / child support) it seems less than optimal to view marriage as an asset. Or am I totally off the mark?
- jacquesm 8y agoIf you get into marriage thinking of alimony and child support I'd advise to hold off.