The amount of insight and self reflection in your reply tell me you are now ready to succeed. > I spent my life wanting to be just like him. Plaques and appre

The amount of insight and self reflection in your reply tell me you are now ready to succeed. > I spent my life wanting to be just like him. Plaques and appreciation awards all over the house That was your mistake: trying to please people. Life is not about being appreciated by others. I would even say it is a measure of being wrong, because if you are appreciated by others, it means you got a sucker bargain, exerting way too much effort for too little gains. > My uncle started a very simple sales business, spent 5 years doing a lot for a little, and then 35 years doing very little for a lot. That's the idea! I bet he must not be very popular or appreciated by people. > But what does success look like on the other side? It sucks From the other angle, it sucks too. I am like your uncle: I see people destroying their lives by refusing to listen. I tried to help, more than once, only to see them laugh at me but fail while I succeeded. I do not care much about the laughing part. I care more about the failing part. Because it is sad to see that people you want to see succeed keep failing, again and again. I've tried to engage people - I think a year ago I was saying the same thing: buy just enough BTC than you can afford to lose, and you will eventually get a nice car. No more, no less, as the time of much larger opportunities are unfortunately in the past Can't find it right now, only these similar conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286566 Most hackers are too emotionally invested. They are unable to say "I was wrong". BTW, Brian vision (replacing CC) will eventually happen, but with 2nd layers or stablecoins which have only recently become good enough, and were battle tested through the 2020 crash.