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Learn from them. Clearly some of your friends are doing things right so try to absorb "knowledge", or even get one to invest in an idea of yours perhaps. Other

Learn from them. Clearly some of your friends are doing things right so try to absorb "knowledge", or even get one to invest in an idea of yours perhaps. Otherwise, find some new friends and stop torturing yourself.

dijit 5y ago
I find wealth mostly about luck more than any other qualifier. (well, any other qualifier than being born wealthy, that's the greatest predictor of wealth after all.)
- bloodyplonker22 5y ago
  The smart thing to do is not to whine about the cards you were dealt, but to make the most of them. Most of us here are lucky enough to be born into a non-third world country.
- topicseed 5y ago
  You're absolutely right, but then what? Hope OP can learn from some of his wealthy friends that acquired wealth, rather than inherited it. And if they all got it from mama and papa, then it is what it is, and OP probably should consider finding other friends if these current ones depress him.
- diob 5y ago
  Exactly, these folks were either in the right place at the right time, or got "help". Buying a home at all these days is getting harder and harder, I have no doubt OP's rent is higher than their mortgages.
rizkeyz 5y ago
Not OP but I would have an issue with that. I do not want to "copy" what is already there, because many things out there are just not good. Someone making a million basically doing nothing is bad, if most people have to work a few centuries to amass that wealth. Inequality is not good, not because everyone is equal, but because you are just using an unfair advantage. I do not want to copy that. I do not want to support this way of living. (Also, I do not think I'm whining. I'm in the top income bracket in my country, have some talent and was gifted with some brain at birth and healthiness. But, you know, most of these things are not my doing - I was lucky many times over, and often I see people working 100x harder than me not ending up nearly in the same spot. Is that a good society?)
- topicseed 5y ago
  We don't know his friends nor how they acquired their wealth, so I'd let OP make a distinction between those friend who they have stuff to learn from, and those who just were born rich and get richer off of that state of having been rich all their lives.
- the_lonely_road 5y ago
  Yes this is a good society. If your passion is cutting hair that’s fine, spend your life cutting hair. You might add value to 10,000 other humans before you die of natural causes at a ripe old age. If your passion is developing video games and you make a sleeper hit like Stardew Valley that is purchased and enjoyed by 20,000,000 other humans why shouldn’t you receive “social credit” ie money well in excess of the person that cut 10,000 people’s hair? It’s not fair and it’s not meant to be fair. It’s meant to allocate limited resources in an efficient manner. Doing something people don’t care about or producing something people don’t care about, get nothing back. Do something people value or produce something they want and get the amount they value it back. I’m aware that grifters exist and some people make money that shouldn’t make it like violently taking it from others that earned it or tricking people into giving away money they didn’t want to but you don’t cancel a system because it can’t run perfect. If we did that we would have to shut down public schools because a few teachers have sex with children, shut down the military because a few soldiers snapped on a civilian, and the list goes on and on.

dijit 5y ago

I find wealth mostly about luck more than any other qualifier. (well, any other qualifier than being born wealthy, that's the greatest predictor of wealth after all.)

bloodyplonker22 5y ago
The smart thing to do is not to whine about the cards you were dealt, but to make the most of them. Most of us here are lucky enough to be born into a non-third world country.
topicseed 5y ago
You're absolutely right, but then what? Hope OP can learn from some of his wealthy friends that acquired wealth, rather than inherited it. And if they all got it from mama and papa, then it is what it is, and OP probably should consider finding other friends if these current ones depress him.
diob 5y ago
Exactly, these folks were either in the right place at the right time, or got "help". Buying a home at all these days is getting harder and harder, I have no doubt OP's rent is higher than their mortgages.

rizkeyz 5y ago

Not OP but I would have an issue with that. I do not want to "copy" what is already there, because many things out there are just not good. Someone making a million basically doing nothing is bad, if most people have to work a few centuries to amass that wealth. Inequality is not good, not because everyone is equal, but because you are just using an unfair advantage. I do not want to copy that. I do not want to support this way of living. (Also, I do not think I'm whining. I'm in the top income bracket in my country, have some talent and was gifted with some brain at birth and healthiness. But, you know, most of these things are not my doing - I was lucky many times over, and often I see people working 100x harder than me not ending up nearly in the same spot. Is that a good society?)

topicseed 5y ago
We don't know his friends nor how they acquired their wealth, so I'd let OP make a distinction between those friend who they have stuff to learn from, and those who just were born rich and get richer off of that state of having been rich all their lives.
the_lonely_road 5y ago
Yes this is a good society. If your passion is cutting hair that’s fine, spend your life cutting hair. You might add value to 10,000 other humans before you die of natural causes at a ripe old age. If your passion is developing video games and you make a sleeper hit like Stardew Valley that is purchased and enjoyed by 20,000,000 other humans why shouldn’t you receive “social credit” ie money well in excess of the person that cut 10,000 people’s hair? It’s not fair and it’s not meant to be fair. It’s meant to allocate limited resources in an efficient manner. Doing something people don’t care about or producing something people don’t care about, get nothing back. Do something people value or produce something they want and get the amount they value it back. I’m aware that grifters exist and some people make money that shouldn’t make it like violently taking it from others that earned it or tricking people into giving away money they didn’t want to but you don’t cancel a system because it can’t run perfect. If we did that we would have to shut down public schools because a few teachers have sex with children, shut down the military because a few soldiers snapped on a civilian, and the list goes on and on.