they key to success is to gamble with other people's money and make sure you can weasel yourself out of any losses
really, the key to success is already being able to afford to gamble with other people's money
I call it gambling with loaded market pressure dice and marked insider information cards.
A rich family or background also helps! Either through investment, free time, education/training and the ability to take risks with the knowledge of being supported regardless of outcome.
"I'm not a greedy fuck, I'm exercising rational self-interest "
"I'm not a practicing sociopath, It's just business."
"I'm not firing the workers who made my business successful in the first place to pocket even more money faster, I'm curtailing redundancies to maximize efficiency."
"I'm not exploiting human being's labor solely to benefit myself beyond all reason, capitalism is voluntary and they can die in any gutter they choose to instead, I'm a benevolent job creator."
We're living an Orwellian nightmare, and most don't even realize it. The reason the poor don't just start their own cooperatives is because the central purpose of capitalism is to keep them perpetuity separated from the capital means to do so, and it works.
The creepiest part is how, if you look back at the late 19th and early 20th Century visions of the future, even the most ardent capitalist fanboys were fully convinced that technology would deliver a post-market-economy world, some time between the 1960s and the 2060s.
As far as technology goes, we are absolutely on target to make that prediction come true. We're literally approaching the point where automation will physically be able to do almost 100 percent of the work needed to produce food, necessities, and even luxuries. But instead of allowing people to do less labor and have more free time, more security, longer lifespans, less pain of all kinds...we're literally going to roll the human experience back to the horrors of the Victorian age, and worse.
All that automated production capacity will be ploughed into stacking up more and more trillions of dollars, in the dusty and physically unspendable accounts of the hyper-mega-ultra-wealthy.
The billions of peasants will literally starve, because there won't even be Victorian-style workhouses, as there will be no work left to do. All while, to reiterate the point, the predators will be sitting on so much money that they could never possibly spend it.
Honestly though, if you don't take risks in life, you get nothing.
Leave your comfy job for better pay. Ask that person out. Stuff like that.
It is true you have to take risks, but wouldnt say higher payment is better than comfy job, as long as the comfy job gives you "enough" money. But enough money is the problem xD
Leave your comfy job for better pay.
Abso-fucking-lutely not. I've had horrible jobs that have paid significantly more than comfy jobs. The stress and misery is not worth the extra pay. At all.
Why would I want to be uncomfortable 40 hours a week?
It's cropped in a weird way. Guy on the left is on his way to set those down ahead so these gambling bricks have a pillar and the shit stain on the right never has to see them, his bricks have always been just as solid as they are now.
Its not wrong, but its not only a rich people thing.
The analogy I always liked was:
Success is like a carnival dart game.
If you're poor you probably don't even get a chance to play. Maybe once with some help from friends and family. But even then, the odds are still not good.
If you're middle class you can afford a throw or two, significantly increasing the odds of success.
If you're rich you can afford to throw as many darts as you want until you succeed.
If you're attractive and flirt with the carny, they'll probably give you a prize without playing, or at least upgrade you to a better prize for barely hitting the wall. Then you can brag to other people how easy it is to win and they just need to try harder.
You forgot the part were the successful people pop out of their mother's vagina already in a much higher platform than the rest (granted, it would probably require a NSFW tag).
How funny that this post appeared right above this other related post:
"Gamble" is a funny word for "other people's backs."
I guess that's why I'm not successful.