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Death is about to end tho thanks to obama and the human connectome project we have proven everything on monkeys and now in clinical trial on a alzhimers patient wirelessly im referring to a true brain to computer interface utilizing microwaves so wireless mindcontrol or full dive virtual reality we even have brain os that lets us write on your mind quite literally there are economic boons like these on the way and i recommend everyone prepare for them because as we proven and stated before America theres no stopping the march forward enjoy the memory i uploaded of bacon I dont need to be wealthy a spaceship and body is all i want or can afford
40K on interest yearly to live on and a fully paid home in America is rich. You're not filthy stinking rich but you're still rich. Living in a home right now with today's modern amenities is far better than what Andrew Carnegie are Rockefeller had back in their day during the peak of their wealth. If I had to choose one or the other I would definitely choose 40K a year.
One of the richest people to ever live is Donald Trump. Donald Trump got his first job when he was 8 years old and he opened a lemonade stand with his 3 older sisters. He took the money he made from that and bought himself a Radio Wagen and a Colman Cooler and he bought a bag of ice and went to a Coca Cola distributer and then walked 50 to 300 miles each day he could to sell the Coca Cola to construction workers, police, and anyone who wanted a cold iced drink during the day. For 5 years Trump busted his ass walking his ass off selling drinks and learning the tools of the trade of construction and everything he could about real estate. Then when Trump turned 18 he found the perfect opportunity in which he could fix up a building and re sell it for a profit but he needed $380,000 to buy it and fix it up but he only had $80,000 so he talked to his dad to ask for help. His dad and his dads construction friends because here is the reality Trumps father was an iron worker also known as a beam walker in which he busted his ass as a grunt construction worker building the buildings by welding the metal beams together and was in no way rich at all. So Trump's father and his friends risked their life for Trump by going to the mob and asking to borrow money which if you know anything about the mob if you do not pay they kill you. So Trump got the money in which he risked his life to get that victory and Trump bought the building and with his father and his family friends fixed that building and Trump sold it to a compony out of America to get its footing in America and Trump then used the money he made to do the same thing to about 30 other buildings and paid back the money, gave everyone who helped him $1,000,000 each and he himself maid $1,000,000 within less than 1 year and then Trump used that money he maid to buy and build his own empire and within 5 years he became a solid millionaire by literally risking his life, busting his ass to the point of insanity and for literally years he spends less than 2 to 4 hours a day sleeping and blatantly works 16 to 28 hours a day which seems impossible but when you look at the fact that he literally works for 28 hours straight without sleep and he works 7 days a week every week of his fucking life. Sure he takes vacations but even when he is on vacation he busts his ass. Trump owns so many buildings and companies he literally has had to kill himself busting his ass to the point that he does not sleep and does not have the time to sit down for a home cooked meal but instead he literally will stop at random fast food or pop up stands to eat do to the fact that he is so busy that he has not actual schedule to sit and eat and literally eats while busting his fucking ass working. Hell even at the white house the late night staff were horrified at how he was still doing paper work from the time they got to work at midnight and when they were leaving to go home at 9 am and Trump then had meeting the entire fucking next day and he was literally in meetings the day before and had done 2 speeches that lasted 4 plus hours each the day before and Trump was running out of the midnight oil because he burnt threw it all working 300 hours days without sleep. Yea to be rich you have to literally kill your social life and kill your sleep schedule. To be rich you have to have no fucking life outside of work. I would rather be poor than obliterate my life working it away. Hell when I worked at a grocery store I saw my managers there from the time I got there and they had already been there for hours and they were there when I left which was after I got off work. The average hourly work schedule of a manger is 16 hours a day because they have to aid in clocking people in and clocking people out. The rich are not as well off as people think they are. Sure a rich person has a lot of money but in order to get that money you have to destroy your life by literally being one with no life outside of work. People who are rich from work generally do not live as long and are extremely depressed and suffering in their soul.
I was a financial adviser for many years and I can't tell you how true this video is. I used to have to do suitability by federal law which means I had to ask what people made and almost every millionaire I dealt with income was over 250000. Even more notable was most millionares didn't understand basic investing. Trust me they got more help then the average Joe.
I thnik part is that people that earn a lot of money via work, don't have much time/motivation to invest. If you work 60 hours per week (or more) on a demanding job, you want to relax when you get home. You don't want to work another hour on your finances. ;)
I make $250,000 a year, have worked for 15 years to get here, and I'm STILL not worth a million if you don't count my house. Soon. But yeah, it's all about either 1) income or even better 2) inheriting millions.
@@Demmrir inheriting is preferable as it is waaaay more comfortable. I've seen it with friends. My buddy is the fourth generation that does not need to work. Their portfolio is so well stacked that they live purely off of the dividends.
@@Demmrir you won't but your kid will be. It always took multiple generations. My great grandfather started with this mindset and now we are 1% in my country.
@@CosmicLionKai It's only depression if you don't know how to deal with it. Your accuracy in life is dependent on disabusing yourself of your delusions.
@@j0nrages Of course. Clinical depression needs to be treated like the serious affliction that it is. But being sad because you won't be filthy rich is just childish. Refraiming what is meaningful to you is now the quest. "So many wonderful things that I do not want" -Socrates
Right? Ironically, I find a "painful" truth is more comforting than a comforting lie. I don't know how people eat up all of that "you could be rich tomorrow if you were just 1% less dumb" stuff without feeling terribly depressed, inadequate. Getting told that something that has proven impossible for you is actually so easy, if you just sucked a little less, that's not "motivational", that's gaslighting.
Remote work has been the best thing to reduce lifestyle inflation in software engineering. No need to live in an expensive city; no need to spend significant sums of money to look great. I hope this trend continues in other fields, since it has really helped to keep a low-spending lifestyle while making the same money as before.
I litteraly save my commute costs to the Office. No more savings here. And I gotta pay the Coffee and electricy at home. Must be I am even spending more staying at home. And I'll buy a new desk soon. So yeah thats a minus for me.
I could not agree more though I am not a software engineer. Thank you for the added courtesy that you wish for all industries to continue the WFA trend.
Agreed, and as stated below when we worked remote I saved between 1-200 dollars a month on gas. While not too much just starting off my career it's not a bad "raise"
@Dalton Black I mean, while it's fun and hip to give all the boomer business people pitchforks not many of them or people in general are wringing their hands thinking of ways to actively harm others. Technology has given the ability to work from home and the older generation are slower to pick up on new trends just like we probably will be as we get older. It's dangerous to just blanket think that older people are evil.
I remember my finance teacher asking us if we were all going to millionaires, he stated that all hands should be raised up because that was what it was going to take to have a decent retirement.
@@rafizxDx You seriously think you need FIVE million at a MINIMUM? That's the most out of touch statement I've ever read. 4% of that is $200,000 a year for 25 years. What kind of greedy ass lifestyle are you living that 200k is a NECESSITY for you to live comfortably?
@@rafizxDx that’s nonsense, though, isn’t it. $5m is equivalent to $200k year income, when you have no dependents and a paid off house. It’s a silly number to mandate as needed.
I am an independent house cleaner and my husband is in appliance repair. We do pretty well but to us that looks like: 1300 sq ft home, 2013 Honda Odyssey, being able to splurge on food, go on modest vacations, and taking the kids to Chuckee Cheese every now and then. Happiness is not in THINGS. Do you REALLY need a 3000 sq ft house and a new car? To me happiness is taking my time cleaning a house while listening to podcasts, being able to not schedule houses on Fridays, and not working myself to death so I can keep up with the Johnsons.
I need a 3000 sq ft house to display all the things I bought to fill up the empty void in my heart. If I pile enough things into the void, some day, it will fill up...
It seems like part of the issue is the inconsistent definition of the word 'rich' I'd consider $40,000 annually to be rich, especially if I didn't actively work for it
I 100% agree with you. I personally don't want to be rich. Frankly I'm happy being in the middle class with the hobbies and adventures I go on. I do wish yo retire early, which is achievable for me if I stick with my current career
Also note that some form of social security (even a reduced amount) will likely be in there; as such, you can reasonably tack on another 20k to that. 60k/year (likely tax-advantaged), with no need to save for the future, and probably a house already paid for? That's actually pretty good.
@@kevinschultz6091 It's a silly conclusion because the only people that need to be rich in this way are already rich in this way. The median American worker making 35k/year doesn't need to become a millionaire or 1%er to be comfortable.
@@Lam-ba-Lam I completely agree. A person who is working in a stressful job 70 hours a week plus commuting for $240,000 is very different to earning $40,000 with no stress and no commuting.
@@imCurveee NO one wants to hear the god dammed truth. thats why, no one wants to hear that the biggest secret to wealth, time, it takes 40 years and all your blood sweat and tears to make it, if you grew up poor. People want to be rich in their 20's-30's and have fun with it not when they are 60-70, but thats just not how it works.
you can easily clear 250-600k in the first few years of medicine, if you don't spend any and save it you can retire by 35 or so and live on 100k interest for the rest of your life.
Really appreciate the no-nonsense this channel provides. I can never get behind the other finance youtubers out there because they just feel like the physical embodiment of survivorship bias. And (anecdotally) you're totally right. I make 6 figures as an engineer, as yeah I'm not destitute or anything, but I wouldn't say I'm on the fast track to financial independence.
I used to follow a channel (I forgot the name) where the guy was updating his portfolio amount on every video for passive income. But then the numbers didn't really add up, his portfolio was growing mainly because he was injecting money into it on a regular basis, ok that's how you should do things, but the guy had a 6 figure income, his audience not necessarily. So that's a bit he doesn't really say in his videos, just pretending that his way of doing passive income is the best.
Sounds like you're suffering from lifestyle inflation. If you cut your expenses you could be on the fast track to financial independence. I was just over half way to having a 6 figure income when I was working the most, but I managed to reach financial independence anyway. Because I've avoided most of that lifestyle inflation.
@@Astillion I promise you, the only way I could cut my expenditure any more is if I stopped eating every day. I just live in a very high cost of living area and I can't really move due to my work.
Thank you! I was in a crypto sub on reddit. Everyone was spouting off about how they were going to be millionaires and buy lambos. I chimed in stating that I'm a millionaire, and I still go to work and save like everyone else, and That a million dollars wasn't $hit. You'd think I'd had told everyone I ate my own children with the amount of hate I got. No one wanted to hear that a million dollars doesn't make you rich. It reminded me of that quote that "most people say they want to make a million dollars, but most really just want to SPEND a million dollars, and these are 2 very different things."
@@iitdream4901 I think 19 is generous. Glad you like the quote. Edit: it's from "Psychology of money" by Morgan Housel. I misquoted, but same principle.
So you just bragged about being relatively Rich to a bunch of teenagers? A million dollars is an incredible amount of money and to most people, being out out of poverty and owning their own home, car and the like is insane. We're not talking about 15 year olds who bought dogecoin cos Elon said so.
That "lifestyle inflation" is a big one. I used to live in a city, but found I was not happy as I was constantly surrounded by people who had nicer things and more money than I did. It's a constant reminder of your own inadequacy. I moved to a rural town and increased my commute, but am much happier and less inclined to compare myself to others. Around here, the millionaires all wear overalls covered in dirt and grease and drive old pickup trucks, so I never find myself getting jealous. :)
This is what I did too. Life is so much better here in backwoods. This is also why being engineer is great. You get nice salary and no one cares how you look as long as you're being professional.
Most of us already knew this, i didn't become software engineer over becoming a physicist because i wanted to be poor my entire life, and i always hated when my family said "just finish anything it will work itself out" no it won't.
To the young people out there starting college or about to, do not pick a major just because you feel you ought to. I know so many people who absolutely and literally hate their lives because they just went with "something". When I was 18, I knew I wasn't mature enough to decide on my future so I joined the military. I found my passion for medicine in the military and they paid for all of the schooling I needed down the road. Your life is the longest thing you'll ever do. Don't rush into a potentially lifelong commitment you hate just because you felt you needed to pick something at 18 years old.
Same here, from physics to software, then to infosec. The first move was purely financially motivated (when I learned I was going to have a kid), the second one not that much, but the financial incentive is there. Now starting my own business to try to stop selling my time.
I'm guessing physics grads going into Software Engineering is a fairly common route, there's hardly any funding in physics so Academia is a scary prospect. At least that was my perspective.
I read the millionaire next door twenty years ago. I finally got to a household net worth of $1M. I do attribute its long term disciplined saving approach to my mindset. This video is very accurate. I don’t feel rich at all; $1M isn’t what it used to be, it’s all in retirement and only worth $40k/year anyway. Our income is high but after money spent on family we have surprisingly little left.
Even if you made more, you'd acclimate to it insanely quickly. Case in point, my best friend grew up pretty poor. In college he upgraded his 20 year old $500 Ford Escort to a 15 year old $950 Toyota Camry and was proud of it. Now he works at Google, makes well into the 6 figures, was given a $1.5 million+ home by his wife's parents as a wedding gift, has over $100k in the bank, over $300k invested, yet he told me the other day that a married couple they know who make over $2 million/year are always broke because they spend it all, and he understands why they do so. I'm completely dumbfounded that anyone could spend $2 million a year, but for him, it's completely understandable, and he feels poor because he only makes a few hundred thousand a year while they make millions. Acclimation to your situation ensures that no matter what you achieve, you'll ALWAYS want more.
For me being rich is actually an option to work like 20 hours a week and still getting enough money for every day-to-day expences. Having own house is nice and all, but not really required as long as you have high enough income. We spend our most productive years working these jobs hoping to get a good retirement but if you think about it - you work for ~40-50 years to live a good life for, I don't know, 10-20 years you have left by the time you retire? That's a "poor" choice and not worth it, I would rather have rich memories, good health from my younger age then a retirement fund with a few more zeroes and regrets about living my life in the office.
I gotta agree and it doesn't hurt to have cheap hobbies and tastes. I like my 2003 Honda accord just fine and I love backpacking and camping in the outdoors. Expensive Golf and a new car lease every 3 years ain't my kind of rich for sure lol.
@@duncdunc76 "the best things in life are free". There is no point in accumulating money. I wish society as a whole would understand this, all of us would be much better off.
@PS Actually, "having nothing later" is a very USA thing. I don't live in the USA. Here (and in most developed countries save the US), you get a pension when you retire, which admiteddly is less than your working salaries were (obviously) but which is enough.
same. I don't actually mind offing myself at a certain age, there's no pride in living longer than needs be. when my body stops working and breakdowns start happening frequently, when I'm needing to go to the hospital just to survive and can't work for myself, then I'll thank the lord and the earth for the chance and opportunity I've been given to be here and leave on my own accord. The space after your brain loses activity, is the same as before you were born. you will feel nothing, remember nothing, and miss nothing. so in reality, you don't have death. There's nothing to be afraid of about death, just like you can't fear "before you were born". you only have life, this short flicker into existence. Question is: what do you want to do with it? What do you want to spend it on? Chasing wealth for a retirement? I want to live frugally, spending on free experiences like hiking and relationships around me, "invest" in 1 house - my home, build a backyard fruit and vegetables farm and tend to it when I get old. I'll eat cheaply from community supported farms and from my own, and when it gets time for me to leave, I will leave. That's how I want to spend my short flicker into existence.
My ideal 'retirement' is scrimping, getting to around $600k, then getting a part-time job I actually enjoy. I think it's achievable, only due to that last bit xD
I’m happy this video included how lifestyle inflation can help people and is necessary depending on where you’re coming from. For example, I grew up in a low income, under resourced community. When I was able to afford to move, I did! And guess what, I have more options for transportation, groceries, and banks. Surprisingly, I didn’t know what my former zip code meant to people until I moved. Now, when I say where I live, I get “oh nice”, “good for you” as if they’re so proud / impressed. I never would get those responses from my hometown. In society, if you’re from a “good” zip code, some people would automatically consider you trusted or a “good” person. But if you’re from a “bad” zip code, there are people who will judge you and deny you opportunities because they think you’re “ghetto”, “bad”, “dangerous”, and whatever other perceived judgments they have. SMH!
When I first moved to the city I live in now, I lived in a “bad” neighborhood and would not even get rejection letters from jobs. As soon as I moved I got a work from home job that pays more than I’ve personally ever made before. It really opened my eyes
Who cares what people think? Is this really affecting your ability to earn? Why talk to people so shallow as to treat you differently upon hearing where you live? Who are you trying to impress? People like this will also judge you on everything else (the cloths you wear and the car you drive). Did driving a cheap car stop Warren Buffet?
@@ihague4568 unfortunately, it can effect our ability to earn if that individual is a client or in a hiring position. But I agree, it shouldn’t have to matter. But we live in a classist country.
@@cheyenneharmon1022 Are you saying that the hiring manager is driving around to see what kind of house you live in, or whether you own vs. rent? Are you saying that they are able (or care) to check to see if the car you drove to the interview is owned vs. not rented for the day? Are you saying that they want to see proof of purchase of the suit that you brought to the interview? Are you saying that they want proof that you take expensive vacations every year? Are you saying they want to see receipts proving that you go to expensive restaurants at least 20 times a month? Of course not!! You are socially susceptible and gullible!
I love the advice on “how to get rich by thrift”, because if you follow it, you might actually avoid getting into credit card debt over your head. That isn’y “rich” or “financially secure”, but it is better than average.
Thrift can actually have a significant impact on your net worth over time. I make about $75K a year and save $50K through thrift. This is probably the same savings rate as somebody making $250K a year. Once your brain has adapted (and it does), your hedonic response is no different. Your brain just releases dopamine in response to things like food, exercise, friendship, music etc. The brain doesn't stop releasing pleasure chemicals just because you don't spend money. (unless you have got yourself addicted, and need a withdrawal phase). Over time, it just rewires to the types of events that cause that release. Spending for happiness is really a type of addiction.
Honestly all I care about is being financially stable and having a chance at future retirement. But I've learned to set much more realistic goals such as eating and having a roof over my head since then...
Reminds me what that a teacher at a community class I went to said. I went up to him after class and said, "The name of your class was 'Have a Comfortable Retirement at Any Income,' but I don't feel like the class addressed that. What would you recommend for my income?" He asked what my income was. I told him. He said, "I recommend you make more income." I immediately thought (but didn't say), "So the title of your class was a flat-out lie?" I was hoping for tips about self-sufficiency and frugality. I was not hoping to be told that my chosen career (which pays very poorly, but which makes me happy) somehow wasn't good enough. It was REALLY nice that you said the quiet part out loud.
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I used to be concerned with "getting ahead" until one day my father told me that you will never really get ahead. It's just life. It's the way the system is designed. Until he told me that I would freak out every time something broke (like a car transmission or some kind of house maintenance problem). After he told me that, I accepted his wisdom and was a lot more comfortable with my average middle class life.
I recently sold some of my long-term position and currently sitting on about 250k, do you think Nvidia is a good buy right now or I have I missed out on a crucial buy period, any good stock recommendation on great performing stocks will be appreciated.
Based on personal experience working with an investment advisor, I currently have $1m in a well-diversified portfolio that has experienced exponential growth. It's not only about having money to invest in stocks, but you also need to be knowledgeable, persistent, and have strong hands to back it up.
This is definitely considerable! think you could suggest any professional/advisors i can get on the phone with? i'm in dire need of proper portfolio allocation
“LAURELYN GROSS POHLMEIER ’’ is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
Ive started looking at life as how much free time do I have instead of how much money do I make. In that sense, my life working from home since the pandemic has made me twice as rich, even though I make the same money. My advice for others wouldnt be to get a better paying job or go back to school, it would be to find an equal or lower paying job working from home. Unless you have shitty kids.
It's not even about the amount of free time. It's more like: of the time that you live, how much of it is spent doing things actually valuable to you? Of course, that is far harder to quantify, and the actual value is really only useful to you, especially in deciding between different courses of action.
"Rich" is so subjective and often based on envy. I consider anyone to be "Rich" who can generally 1. Get the things they need to live 2. Can save for or purchase things they want with little or no debt 3. Can lose their job and survive without debt long enough to find a new one 4. Can help others charitably without sacrificing much 5. Have a skill, talent or other thing that allows them to maintain the above 4 Your definition may be different, I don't hate rich people in my definition but my definition is attainable. There will always be someone with more than you, stop caring about it
It depends on what you are after. I'm 31 and I'm working 50 % because of how well in order our finances are. While not all investments in all time periods are equally successful, the person who keeps making good financial choices in the long term will be very likely to have a good return. I have no real desire for obscene wealth. I just want to be more in charge of my time and to do more things that are fulfilling to me and my family. As you hit a certain (fairly low) bar in personal finances you stop paying a premium when complications occur because you have options in resolving issues. Not just avoiding debt but choosing what is the best course of action long term. In spite of working 50 % I can place more demands on my workplace and my payraises have been higher than previously and above the workplace average. In most situations my advantage simply compounds. I'll probably never get a private jet, but I have a very strong foundation for stability and comfort. I don't know what expectations other people have, but my progress so far is absolutely enough to be worth it.
Can you also make such cheerful videos as: "we're all going to die", "no one will ever love you even if you are rich" and "the world is fucked" to complete the depression saga?
Live with your parents as long as its possible and contribute to family wealth as a whole. I think one of the wests biggest flaws is the individual expectation of a young adult. Turn 18 and youre on your own. Grandparents as babysitters allows two income streams, saving on daycare and a strong family upbringing. This is especially advantageous for those lucky enough to have a genration above them who have established some form of wealth; ideally this can be built upon by the following generation and so on. On the other hand, some are starting with nothing and the burden is on them to build a legacy which they will never see the benefit from. That in itself can be rewarding and should be the goal within this idea, not being rich. Obviously this is very idealistic and I'll admit I am ignorant of all the variables here, but we as adults and families need to stick together. A mediocre life is okay, average income is okay.
💯 If America had more multigenerational households, on average we would all be wealthier, children would be raised better, and the housing crisis would abate.
If people had no reason to move out they wouldn't, usually the reasons are: job opportunities in other areas away from home, grown up kids that don't want to deal with growing indifferences with parents, they had enough of negativity, judgements, pressure etc, sometimes its the parents that want the kid out so they can have more freedom and space, these are all realities of life and people are no longer willing to pretend that multiple families living under one roof is necessarily a positive thing when behind closed doors there is resentment, drama, tension, arguments etc etc...let's not forget all that before we do the West vs. East cultural differences, there are usually underlying reasons and explanations.
@@AA-iy4gm Yes, it’s definitely complicated, but living with other generations of family can develop tolerance, humility, patience, love - for everyone involved. It’s definitely not easy, but nurture is living in poverty, never buying a house, or dying alone because of stubbornness and determination to do everything your own way. I’m just pointing out that building a life together across generations is a worthwhile endeavor for some.
Theres two issues America is SO big and disparate, that unlike other major nations where you can live in the capital with your family and get great jobs, its not an option in the US. Secondly it’s the worst consumer based society in the world, people are literally shamed into spending money to show status.
I agree with a realistic and somewhat cynical view this video provides. However, as much as toxic positivity can be annoying, I fear that the cynicism/negativity of this message just reinforces the notion of "if im not gonna be rich or financially comfortable I shouldn't even bother trying".
It's funny how things hit people differently. What I got out of it was quit letting societal advertising sell you a false bill of goods and start focusing on what's really important to obtaining a fulfilled life instead of trying to become a millionaire. Especially since your realistic chances are slim. Start focusing on having a truely rich life which has much less to do with how much money you have or chase then you think.
Remember, reallity and hard data is neutral and doesn't care about feelings, we put the feelings. I also got the message of stop wasting your time following dream sellers and focus on important and demanding carreer for as long as you can and get as much money as possible from it
If you still care about money, then you should bother trying, but put that effort into either moving to a cheaper place (inside your country or outside), reducing your cost of living drastically (like living in a van or tiny home), or upskilling to get a high income job. the only one that'll get you rich realistically is upskilling, but the others can give you the sense of security you might need if you have an anxiety over money(?). that should be the takeaway of this video If you no longer care after watching this, that doesn't mean sit around in a perpetual state of gloom and practise unhealthy habits like drinking, eating unhealthily, etc. That means use the little you have and make your life happy and worthwhile. Spend time with family and loved ones, go hiking, go on cheap holidays with a converted vehicle, go on walks, pursue a hobby like art, volunteer if you want to, etc, create memories.
If you live in the US you do. You have a phone, a TV, internet, air conditioning, plumbing a roof and food to eat and in an economy that can be in a recession and still have more work than there are people willing to go to work.
In the words of Dave Ramsey: "Sell the car" No, you don't need an imported car and a tailored suit. If you see a $200/mo raise as an opportunity to add $250/mo to your financial obligations then you will always be poor, obviously.
well duh, but selling the car won't make you a millionaire. a very high income, and living in an economically stable time (not an overvalued/near-peak bubble like we are) will make you a millionaire. like he said in the video, the book's research would look very different if it were conducted in the 30s or 80s.
Thank you so much!!! Now you wiped away the guilt in me for never getting rich, while I keep hearing stories of people my age (mid-30’s) who got rich out of something.
Not to mention the avalanche of stories of people in their 20's, or kids in their teens who have already managed to become millionaires, usually by being an "influencer". Nothing is more depressing than seeing someone half your age who's already accomplished more than you ever will. Especially when you know that they just hit the universes lottery and got insanely lucky to blow up at such a young age. Then you tell yourself that they're the 0.0001% and everyone is struggling, only to drive to the grocery store and see $100k+ Tesla's, Porches, Corvettes etc. at every stop light. Sometimes it seems like other peoples version of "struggling" is our version of "things going better than they ever have".
Wealthy is a nice dream. But financial independence in my late 30s is my goal. Time is most precious commodity we got. Building enough passive income to pay most or all the basic cost of living goal.
I retired 2 years ago at age 36. "I am a USD millionarie, but my highest annual income was 65k USD over my career of 11 years before I retired early. To be fair though, I don't pay income taxes since I was born and still live in Singapore. Plus, stuff is cheaper here than in the US by around 30%."
I define rich as not having to work to pay your daily expences. So that 1 million dollars/40k per year would work well for me. I would consider myself rich at that point.
the paradox I think is that you would live a middle class lifestyle no one would associate with the word 'rich', but that doesn't mean you can't be happy. You won't owning flashy cars or other expensive shit. You will live a lot like your full time working neighbour, with the major difference of having much more spare time. So you would actually be rich in time moreso than in money, if you see time as an asset that definately makes you rich. But then another problem comes, how do you spend all that free time without exceeding your 40k/year budget? The more spare time you have the harder it is to spend conservatively because most hobbies will cost you money.
@@dekippiesip I wonder how happy you would be, though. Honestly, after more than a week on holiday i start to feel uneasy. It is just... boring. There is something depressing in having as your main problem, and decision, how to fill up your time. Were i super rich i would still work. Maybe only 2-3 hours a day, taking days off whenever i want, but i would still work.
@@dekippiesip I disagree 100% - everyone has a passion and you'd be able to spend all your time doing it. If you don't have a passion, you'd have the time to discover it. Imagine being able to spend all your time painting without having to stress about turning a profit from it. All that practise and skill would make you really good at it, AND make you really satisfied with life. Buying cars isn't everything.
What a refreshing wake-up to those younger, more driven individuals. I think everyone should be aware of the lifestyle and financial traps before them, and not to be misguided by ads and popular personalities. Well done, thank you
I’m a millionaire next door. I read that book when it was first released and it had a huge impact on my financial journey. And I agree you have to make a lot of money to save a lot of money.
Having enough to eat, a shelter and no worries about a war is actually rich. Most of your viewers have exactly that. You're talking about WEALTH, mate...
I wonder if the 4% rule will even survive the global debt super bubble? I like how financial youtubers say: "dollar cost average it has worked for the last 100 years" *checks human history "that's not that long"
@@alexisleclerc595 That is true since the creation of the Fed and the strategy I have largely used, but most of that as been in a global market Pax Americana world. The larger trends of history are not that way. As an example the last half of the 19th century was deflationary, it actually made sense to just save money. Also all fiat currencies eventually go to zero, how many more boom bust cycles do you think the dollar has?
Yeah, I hear stuff like that all the time and think, 100 years is a really short amount of time, these statistics are only valid for the U.S. and a handful of other countries, and everything tells me this rate of economic expansion is impossible to maintain for any length of time. Doesn’t matter though since I’m broke and have nothing to invest anyways.
@@ColinAdventures Even with premiums physical silver is less than $30 an ounce. In the life cycle of currencies fiat eventually reverts to commodity money. Global fiat has only existed for 50 years and I doubt the central banks can keep it going much longer
A paid off home and $40,000 a year is not rich? Please tell me who in all of human history has never had to worry about a roof over their head and Food. Yeah it's not stinking rich but it's still rich. Ps depending on which point in life you manage to acquire that amount of money you can still continue to work if you want to.
@@zinjanthropus322 did you watch the video he said that a paid off house and $40,000 in passive income for the rest of your life. In other words money that you do not have to work for is not rich.
@@user-tf5uk1rc5j Yeah but I come from Subsaharan Africa. 150 years ago there was no such thing as money or jobs. You built your own house with your family on land you automatically inherited and farmed, fished, hunted or gathered for food. Things haven't always been like this for most of the world.
@@zinjanthropus322 yes and that is my point if you are making 40K USD adjusted for inflation in today's money from now on and until the day you die and have a paid off home. You are richer than the kings and queens of 100 years ago. To not consider that status to be rich is the epitome of greed.
@@user-tf5uk1rc5j I understand where you're coming from. Even the video's image at 7:02 of "Americans needing $500k to feel secure" while saying having double that amount is not enough is mixed messaging. Getting paid to do nothing is the epitome of rich. Take that $40k USD to Panama, Russia, or Peru and you can still live better than the average resident there.
Thank you for the video. You make some good points. Lifestyle creep is very real and it is much easier to control when you are single. I remember that book a little differently. The millionaires next door were most often business owners who were able to provide valuable services that others often overlooked. The majority of them were not "do-it-yourselfers" meaning they hired skilled people to to their taxes, accounting, landscaping, etc, because they could make more per hour than paying for those services cost. They focused on what they were good at and they did not have lavish lifestyles. They were good at growing their assets and avoiding things that lose money.
I know 1 rich person. He's Rick because of a few factors. 1. Talent, he's very good at his job. 2. Saving, he can hold on to a dollar. 3. Making good choices, he don't care about expensive bs. 4. Education, he always keep up to date about everything in his field. And 5. Patience, he didn't become rich over night.
I like your videos, a quick issue with this one though. you did inflation calculating that 1 mil in 1996 would be 1.7 now, but then used the 1 mil number to get 40K (which we all of course think of in today's value). if you instead did 1.7 mil times .04 you get 68K which is a substantial difference IMO. Also if you use the 5% rule (as some financial people now are calling for, you get 85K but that's neither here nor there. Millionaire next-door also did what we're talking about, but rather than using the 4% rule, they used the people's actual expenditures and found that most of them could stop working for 20 years before running out of money. the idea that you have to be able to retire and live off personal investments is not anything to do with being rich, a millionare, or even wealthy, its the FIRE movement, which the book made no claims on. Final bit, lifestyle inflation is not a necessity, although as a lawyer (where my knowledge is) you do need to make sure your suit doesn't have holes in it, nobody cares if its 300 dollars from men's warehouse or 10,000 dollar custom made. Perhaps I'm too optimistic, but I don't think we're all screwed, and the ideas from the millionaire next-door are still valid
Exactly! Although I agree that this video maybe correct to some extent but I still don't agree with what he says, you might call this naive but I believe being rich has to do with a state of mind or a particular mindset. So far so good, all the people I've known or heard of who became millionaires had a very strong sense of purpose to achieve their specified dreams and most importantly did not accept someone saying they can't be rich. I truly understand that one must be open minded no matter the circumstance that's why I can understand this video and the channel but I just can't accept it.
I've noticed that HMW has kind of foregone quality finance videos for this kind of "shocking outrage" content that is all over the internet now. Like there is a lot of logical fallacies and issues with this video.
The inflation adjusted figure and the 4% rule were two different points within the video. Also, I highly disagree that you can expect fast advancement in any elitist career without looking the part. If you think rich VPs, directors, and executives aren't judging base your appearance you'd be sadly mistaken.
@@Stompii01x . First, define rich because having $1 million to sustain you for 2-3 decades until you die isn't rich. Personally, I think that with anything less than $2 million it means that I will need to watch my expenses very carefully during retirement. Second, you can be a multimillionaire by simply saving and contributing to your 401k account without ever breaking $100k in annual salary. How? You need to start VERY young to give your investments time to earn interest. However, not many young people are thinking about retirement and much less doing detail analysis of their retirement accounts. If you wait until your 30s or even 40s to start saving for retirement you're screwed. The key is time or a high income. There is no way about it.
Even knowing that the chances of getting to the 1% are slim, my plans for now is keep trying, I can only get luck if I am in the game. And worst that can happen is if I don't take any reckless decision is be 'financially stable'.
I appreciate such kind of videos. Videos that are realistic and ground you to the times we live in, I think part of the reason most people end up disappointed and depressed is because they feed their minds with the, "feel good, life is what you make it, you are meant to be a billionaire/successful, you are poor because you are lazy" kind of content, then when they see that their lives isn't turning out to how they expect it should, mental distress occurs.
Correct, 1,000,000 in someone’s net worth can indefinitely generate 40k a year. But 2,000,000 can generate 80k a year. Explained to me how 80k a year without a house payment isn’t rich in just any part of the country? You’re leaving out how compound interest works. And let’s be frank, average household in America is 50k a year. Live on 40k (possible almost anywhere besides, SoCal, NYC, Bay Area, Seattle and Chicago) and that’s saving 10k a year. Apply to the law of 72… at say 10%. That 10k a year doubles the nest egg every 7 years on *average* I’ll make it. Someone that invests 10k a year from 27 to 67 will retire with 5 million dollars. Adjust for inflation. Call it 2 million dollars. You can sustain your self indefinitely at an 80k lifestyle by investing 10k a year. Which means your income never changes.
I learned a long while back to redefine "rich". I have a wife who loves and respects me. I have a teenage son who likes spending time with me. I have a toddler who brings me so much joy. My parents are alive and live nearby, and we are on good terms. My in-laws live nearby and we are close to them. We have friends who would help us out in a pinch. We have a house big enough for the family. I have a stable job that provides enough for my family, and enough to where my wife doesn't need to work and can care for family. I feel like one of the most wealthy people alive.
What do you mean I will never be rich? I already am. I've got a roof over my head, a warm bed to sleep in, high-speed internet giving me instant access to the total sum of human knowledge and I never have to worry about food. I am richer than at least 99,5% of all humans that have ever existed. Also, on a sidenote: this is a fantastic video. It is both great advice and it also encapsulates why HMW, The Plain Bagel, Patrick Boyle and Economics Explained are the only finance channels on TH-cam that I actually like.
Being rich is being able to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. If for you having guaranteed 3 meals a day, no matter what it is, you're rich. For some, it's going to Napoly to eat pizza. Even so: if you're able to eat whatever you want, you're rich.
^This! It’s all about perspective. I work in a blue collar industry but most of my colleagues make between 100-300k (granted at the cost of working an average of 70+ hours per week) and they never shut up about how financially strapped they are and how they constantly need to stretch their paychecks to feed and clothe their families. They aren’t being humble or sarcastic; they are in sincere tears when they talk about their money struggles. Meanwhile, they have blinders on when it comes to their new fishing boat and that second lifted pickup truck sitting in their three stall garage. They are oblivious to all of the things around them for which they should be grateful.
This is absolutely so spot on!!! The average person will never become rich and the vast majority may only be worse off with time. So much of the lower and middle classes are struggling and may never see real financial stability. I consider myself lucky that I have a good job at my young age and know finances very well to the point where I know I'll be better off than most everyone I know. But that only means there's something super wrong with the system here if so many will fail.
Many will fail for many reasons, some preventable, some not. Money education, living within your means, taking care of what you have and investing can equal wealth. Anticipating setbacks and planning and preventing them or mitigating them is extremely important. Some are insurmountable to be honest - accident causing you to become a quadriplegic or dying of cancer would be examples. What if in addition to your job you (or partner) set up a small business and paid your children (2) each $3k-12k a year starting at birth into a Roth IRA, as earned income they can earn up to $12k with no income tax or having to pay Social Security taxes. By the time they are 17, they would have $51k-$204k just in contributions not including earnings. 6.5k to ROTH and remaining to college or general investment. University/College - if you save it should be minimal in my opinion. The ROTH IRA money is not used for FAFSA for College, it is excluded by law. If you want them to live on campus, then save that much for them. Their freshman year should be done using AP classes and online CLEPP testing. Why? I’ve watched to many freshman flunk out by hanging with immature freshman who flunk out. Let them start taking classes that are part of their major asap. Freshman year is just basics, most is already covered in high school advanced classes. They graduate debt FREE from State University in 3 yrs working only summers and winter breaks for minimum wage or a little better, using the $2k college credit you get and with a little help from your salary. You should expect some out of cost expenses. They can major in their career and minor in real estate while learning basic maintenance for homes. At 21, debt free with a University degree, get a job making ?, with careful money planning they can buy a home (with mortgage) at 23-25yr. (Maybe not in NYC, LA, Seattle). They buy a solid, low mileage 5yr old car (or e-bike if that’s possible) for a low cost after college. They can save and buy a rental every 2-5 yrs. Stopping at 4-5 rentals and with 15-30 year mortgages paid off when your child is 50-55. The money they might have needed to an IRA can be put into the rentals and just let the money you set aside in the ROTH IRA grow. They will easily be millionaire by the 10s of millions be 55-65. I use 55 because let’s be honest health may dictate 55 not 65-70. If they do the same for their children this can be a repeating cycle. *Another possibility of a money strangler is divorce. With divorce in the 55+% range it is a reason able thing to plan for the possibility. Pre-nuptials to protect assets held before marriage is reasonable. Know your state laws for divorce. This education needs to before a child falls in love, they won’t listen after they fall in love. If nothing else the Roth IRA should be shielded. And no one can take away their college degree.
As long as I can pay my bills, put food on the table, and clothing on my back, I'm comfortable and pretty darn successful, especially with seeing how so many are now living in poverty and homeless! I'm blessed! ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾
that's a really good mindset! it also helps to save some, because you understand that you don't have to consume more to have a good life. peace of mind is so important!
I agree with this video 100%. In my 20s I grew my career to make six figures by 28. Bought a house, turned it into a rental, then bought another one. Then I financed a new car. Ate out all the time. I was making a lot of money but saving and investing nothing. I was constantly anxious about emergency expenses, and gradually built up some debt. All the while I was also planning on starting a business. Luckily the house I was living in appreciated quite nicely, so I sold it, paid off my debt, and used the rest of the money to keep me alive for three years while I grow the business... 1.5 years in, I'm still not paying myself yet, but I carefully track my finances and have almost no anxiety over money anymore. I'm not rich, but I know that when my income does return to a higher level, I now have the habits that will sustainably grow my assets over time. Not sure if that will put me in the 1% but I'll be a lot better off than where I was.
May I ask what your business is? I was on a similar trajectory to you. Making a solid 6 figure income by 29 as a construction consultant. I won a high 8 figure lotto and retired at 35 though. My financial advisor and accountant are gobbling up local real estate, some stuff in high demand areas if it seems a good deal and buying boring bonds. I like boring and safe. I'm young-ish still (just about to tick 40)so I have a long time for the boring stuff to pay off for the grand kids. I don't have flashy cars aside from 2 dodge vipers, I guess my heavy equipment counts as well. I'm developing 6k acres I purchased, ran water, electric and sewage to the property. Built a 5k sqft 5 bedroom 4 bathroom house and a pair of 6k sqft outbuildings for a woodshop and metal fabrication shop. The lot was 85% forest I'm changing it to a more reasonable 55-65% wooded and the utilities are already set up to be added upon if I want to parcel it out. I'm currently digging an 8 acre reservoir lake from my natural spring. I'm sure it's worth more than I paid and have wrapped up in it besides my own time. Beauty part of knowing how to do the shit yourself. The goal is to make sure if my daughters don't want to work they won't have to and their kids as well. But they started a resaw business making custom milled lumber at 15 now they are 17 and bought their own 1st cars last year and a 65k work truck along with the bandsaws and other stuff they needed.
@@jeffreyhill1011 if you’re ever open to personal loans, collateralized of course, please let me know. I have been struggling to put together resources so I can startup a co. and build a portfolio on my own instead of manage one for co. I work for now.
@@jeffreyhill1011 I really liked reading your story. What you’re doing is exactly what I’d love to do if i was in that situation. I’m currently 24 getting close to reaching the three figure mark from my engineering job right out of school. I got lucky by getting a house with my wife as soon as we graduated right before covid made the prices spike up and I’m considering maybe selling for close to 100k profit. Ive just have been really thinking out what kind of early financial habits I should be doing now that would benefit me in the future. Along with looking into myself seeing what I truly want at the end of this. Seeing that your kids won’t need to work is a game changing goal I want to accomplish now. (I don’t have kids yet but do plan on having some)
This is a good check to remind people becoming rich isn't as easy as a lot of channels make it out to be. Now, I really like a few of these channels and recommend them, but there is some survivor bias there. Usually I prefer the channels that acknowledge that. But, a lot of times that advice will help you get into a better financial situation, even if it doesn't make you rich. Reducing debt and having a decent sized savings cushion for emergencies by cutting out unnecessary expenses, for example.
I'm having a late start in life as well. However, I do have college debt because I went to college in my 30s. The good news is that my salary is growing pretty fast and I hope that I can make up for lost ground. I'm already frugal by nature but catching up is no easy feat. The goal is at least $1.5 mill by retirement. Just before I saw this video I forecasted my income, contributions and retirement savings in a spreadsheet. I still have time to get it right but it will take discipline. I wish I would have done this in my 20s and had the discipline to keep saving.
27 and networth of 26k, I just wanted to brag, but it's not an easy ride, I am extremely frugal and we can not compare life, because our opportunities will always be different. Compare to your previous self who had 30k, you are doing fantastic bro, DO NOT lose track of your progress and keep it up!
@@k4piii 25 and 50k off less than 6 figures a year it’s pretty easy to become a millionaire as long as you stay frugal and invest safely. Becoming rich is a strange thing, I was taught as a kid that being rich isn’t buying stuff and not caring but rather being able to say I can buy that and deciding not to.
Not to toot my own horn here but I did the wealth accumulator calculation on myself and I’m actually above that at age 27. But the reason why is because I’m unmarried and have STUPID low cost of living while earning a lower-middle class income and investing much of it and saving it. All in all, I’m comfortable and enjoy living in the woods where it’s nice and chill. (:
Yeah...I'm about 4x the average net worth for my age, and 20x the median net worth. Most of my coworkers making the same income are below the average and median. For most people, its a spending problem far more than anything it seems.
@@randomyoutuber308 Living like misers (which is a common them for people like you) is not something to aspire to. Glad it works for you and many like you, but on my death bed, I'd like to remember more than the fact that I was able to LiVe bELow mY mEanS and be debt free.
@@IM-qy7mf I don't live like a miser though lol. The trick is, you only have to get yourself out of debt once. When you don't have 600 dollar a month student loan payments, an 800 dollar a month car payment, a 2500 dollar a month mortgage, and carry over credit card balances month to month, its not hard to have way more disposable income than you need. On my deathbed I'll be glad I retired in my 40s and a lot of the money I got to enjoy over my lifetime was passive income from investments and I wasn't a wage slave into my 60s struggling to make interest payments to the banks the entire time. If that is what you want to remember on your death bed, just keep in mind the interest you are paying to the banks are paying me some nice dividends.
Having harbored financial concerns throughout my entire adulthood, it's intriguing to watch this video and recognize the potential for significant achievements with proper goal-setting. Experiencing the freedom of not being consumed by financial worries that haunted me for numerous years is genuinely liberating. I believe this is the outcome of consistently putting in diligent effort for the future.
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What most people do not understand is that they need to transfer purchasing power from other people. Purchasing power other people do not want to concede. This task is incredibly difficult we all know the methods people use to attempt this task: 1. Get the best education. 2. Get the best job. 3. Saving and investing. 4. Starting a business. 5. Winning the lottery or some other stroke of luck. Personally I have probably made it to the top 3% or so through saving and investing while not having dependents. Others have improved their financial position by one of the methods mentioned above. It is possible to transfer sufficient purchasing power to improve your financial position but it is incredibly difficult and the numbers don't lie a majority of people will be in the middle group of income and wealth.
The definition of rich: having abundant possessions and especially material wealth And there is the reason you will never be rich If there is no set target for being rich then how can you tell you're rich If you ask someone you think is rich they just say, "I'm not rich, that guy is rich and point to someone else who is even wealthier and then that guy will say the same and point the finger to someone even wealthier than him"
@@DavidEVogel I gave the Merrian-Webster dictionary definition of "rich" I did not define "Top 1%" And you missed the point, you might define the 1% as rich but the 1% don't think they are rich. They are dirt poor compared to the 1% of the 1% and they think they are poor when they see the wealth of the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. And top 1% of what? Top 1 % of Somalia wages would be poverty levels in the US... 6% of Americans would be part of the top 1% worldwide... Its like the 80-20 rule applied to itself over and over again.
Naval said it, there is three ways, You become a monk You lower your lifestyle so much and keep earning consistently Or you blow up your income while keeping your finances on check
I'm a beginning farmer and you can still have net worth. Make your own flatbread in a skillet, use a woodstove for primary heating, don't eat out, never carry a credit card balance. I love on fb how people say 15/hour isn't a livable wage. Communal living in a house and not spending money needlessly and you will save money. My ex-wife would spend money on totally useless things and I was the one making most of the money and she was bleeding us dry, I divorced her. All my equipment is paid for, life isn't too bad. 40k a year like in his example is easy street.
That's the truth: income matters. Look at any successful finance/investor youtuber. Meet Kevin, ice coffee guy, chandler david Smith, etc. They all had extremely high income that they then invested wisely. That's what enabled the bulk of their wealth. For most of them, TH-cam income itself is enabling their successful appearance in investing which draws in more viewership. Not diminishing their accomplishments, but rather, like this video, just saying that what draws people to their channels is their investing/finance advice, but they got to where they are due to high income primarily.
"So are we all just destined to be on the precipice of financial ruin for our entire lives? Well, yeah." Thanks for the heads up. Now I don't have to worry about money as much as I did before. lol
My grandmother grew up in a household with no plumbing no power and an 80 hour work week. This was the norm when she was growing up. I have always considered myself rich and know very few people that weren’t born rich.
While I like that this video goes over the realities of being rich, I think there are some short comings, particularly when he talks about those who are high income earners and even more particularly among those who are in tech. Nowadays a lot of the high paying jobs are remote (we can thank the pandemic for this, but I have a feeling this won't change) and I expect us to transition towards a lot more remote work in the future. So many high income earners won't necessarily have to live in high cost areas (we already see a lot of people moving out of high cost areas because of the available remote work) so I think it gives more high income earners the opportunity to become "rich". The idea of having to get a nicer car so you can take up a reserved parking spot at your job and to bring up your status just sounds a bit outdated. And it will become more and more outdated as more jobs become remote. All that said, lifestyle inflation is a real thing, and it is not always to our fault. Many people get married, have children and before they know it, life becomes so much more expensive. I think it's fair to say that only a small number of people will get "rich" (however you decide to define that) but many can become financially stable even among those with families as long as you are earning a high enough wage. From personal experience when lifestyle inflation is definitely real, but it's often taken way too far. All this said, I do appreciate the reality check as I think more people need to hear this.
I realized that the secret to making a million is making better investment. I always tell myself you don't need that new Car or that vacation just yet and that mindset helps me make more money invest:ng. For example last year I invested 70k in blue chip stocks and crypt0 s (with the help of my advisor of course) and made about 380k, but guess what? I put it back and traded with her again and now I'm rounding up close to a million. Delayed gratification always pays off
My plan of being an engineer living in an rv still works even given all your points. Big income, waiting to start a family, and massive underspending for years is the only way to do it.
You’re absolutely right but I think it’s a combo of both approaches. Use your increased income to save up wealth that can produce passive income that will supplement your lifestyle expenses. That’s what the COVID era thought me. That’s what I appreciate about the FIRE movement. I may not be a bare bones lifestyle FIRE disciple but I believe that your increased revenue model built on FIRE tenets will definitely make you rich. I have an MBA but some of the PFP lessons taught in FIRE weren’t taught to me in school. FIRE makes you lean - it forces you to think about what you “need” vs what you “want”.
I think the problem with people are the perception what being rich means If you don't care how people see you and don't compare yourself to others (in short just be grateful with what you have) That basically will lead you to a more humble lifestyle than lavish one Hence you will keep your finances in a more stable state than others
It actually makes me feel better to know everyone is financially insecure. Not just me. Commercial media, social media, and even the outward appearances my neighbors put on make me feel like I'm the only financially struggling person on the planet. The only loser. While everyone else is living the good life and looking down on me as a failure.
@@J.A.706 Oh, I will be fine. I have decent medical insurance. Not saying I can't die obviously, just the medical bills aspect. And my Chinese family are all hard workers. So, the entire household has made it.
@@John_Smith_86 And hopefully you'll be fine for the rest of your life. But many families of hard workers have had unforeseen world or national situations come out of nowhere. Things they could never have planned ahead for or predicted. And have been at best financially stressed if not destroyed. It's the reality of money. It feels safe now but there are things you can never see ahead and never control. Even American billionaires could, and have, lose it all out of nowhere. Hard working families with fantastic pensions have seen their source of income and pensions dissolve almost overnight. Health insurance companies have collapsed seemingly out of nowhere. There are certainly families (hopefully yours) that slip through this reality and feel relatively comfortable until the end. But they still lived in a world where nothing is certain, their luck could have run out at any time. They were never truly secure. No doubt they believe their sense of money security is because of something they've done (such as worked hard, planned ahead for great pensions and medical insurance, or were born into financial security). But it's never those reasons. There are also people who never work hard and weren't born into financial security and never plan for anything and they, too, manage to avoid many of life's financial pitfalls. But it was random luck which could have turned on them at any moment. There's no pattern to those rare people who slip by and none of us can do anything to try to be one of the lucky ones. It's a complete illusion to think that hard work and either government or big corporation pensions/health care keep people financially safe. There's only a current false sense of security with hopes that rare luck will remain on our side forever.
I think you make two separate points in this video that don't necessarily go together. The first half is how having a large nest egg isn't enough because you'll have to live off the passive income (which is low), whereas the second half is how having a high income isn't enough because your expenses will also rise. I don't believe having a high savings and a high income are mutually exclusive though, and having both would mean you're financially independent enough to consider yourself "rich". About not making it into the 1%, I suppose that comes from the definition, but the thesis I'd go with is that a large section of your viewership can get rich, but not all of them can simultaneously.
Yeah, I think this video focuses too much on statistical averages. Like yes, on the whole most won't, but isn't the point of learning about this stuff and finding ways to increase your income all about rising above the average? This video seems to ignore that there are stages between 1% and not 1%, just because reaching the top isn't a totally realistic aspiration doesn't mean that reaching the middle or even slightly above the middle should be totally off the table here. I actually think it's kind of insulting to act like surgeons have no choice in being on the precipe of financial ruin considering how many people have so much less, there's always some amount of choice, some just have more than others.
He's trying to not say the quiet part out loud: most people wind up financially secure because they came from financially secure families. If mom and dad can finance your college, your extended family supports you so you aren't trapped in low-paying service jobs* and can apply until you get your foot in the door in a decent career field that pays ok, if your grandparents provide your downpayment and closing costs, then the odds of you being secure and not being thrust into homelessness for the sin of not being employed for two weeks are pretty good. If not... retirement's not going to be an option for you. * The current job market is a very different beast. The 2000 - 2019 job market could see you fired if you tied your shoes in a way your boss didn't like. Most people have (or know) stories that involved being fired for absolutely asinine things.
Millionarie next door is an old book that I read...it is a dream...some do make it..I did...so don't trash a book that makes some dreams come true...Good Luck to All...more money does make you happier...give it to others and make their dreams come true
Lol not going to lie, this definitely hits at home. Between me and my partner we push 250k and we don't have kids yet. We put money into an ETF, a joint investment account, and regular stuff with our jobs. However, we aren't dumb....there is no way we are going to be absolutely wealthy since we have to live in a somewhat high cost area and have normal debts. You need to have your mortgage paid for, student loans paid, and someone investing in you before you were born. While you as an individual stay disciplined to a degree, in order to maintain real wealth. I don't understand how there are people making less money than us, but act like they are going to be a millionaire any day now?...it is odd.... I would rather have a good work life balance, and be able to take vacations or do hobbies. When compared to sacrificing everything just to get to a number that doesn't even matter at the end of the day. As long as retirement isn't a serious struggle.
There is a great hispanic movie from the late 90s which exemplifies your comment so great. And I just made thatp connection after reading your comment Those people, sell dreams From you, someone who knows how those trajectory have slim to none chances of success, how those people are brainwashing young or broke fellows. Man, you made me have a deep and emotionally intensive connection, in which I can see poor or broke people buying garbages that was sell to them as the cure or dream and they were buying it, because, little to no other hope they had....
Every time I think that I don't earn enough or don't have enough I remember that some hundred years ago people worked mostly to have enough for a home of some kind and food. I have way more than that, so maybe not being able to buy an expensive "toy" isn't really showing that I'm poor, but that it's not really neccessary. As I get older (I'm still just 34) I'm starting to see that having more just makes you want for more - a new car isn't good enough, you want a better new car. Your own house isn't enough, you want a better/newer/bigger house etc. You need to draw a line when it's actually enough, otherwise you'll be left chasing the next tier unless you are someone like Bezos, but even then he probably can't have certain things (like privacy?) that normal people have.
Having multiple stream of investment is the best thing that can happen to anybody, i started investing in stocks recently, while i was researching i stumbled on an article where an investor make over $80k monthly, i would appreciated any tips on how i can develop my portfolio to produce such profits.
@TheNorthMan That's extremely remarkable; I'd want more information about your financial advisor because I'm planning to make some changes in my portfolio this year as well.
This question reveals all that is wrong with retail investing. Do you really think there is some secret, risk-proof strategy that allows everyone to make 80k a month and all it is needed is to learn the "secret"? Please. You want to know how to do 80k a month? It is super simple actually, just not easy. Start with a 32million$ capital and place it in safe triple-A bonds. At a modest 3% return per year, you can get your 80k a month.
I think that the *prepper* mentality like food storage helps you long term. It frees you from any pressure and helps you focus on goals that *you* want.
The reason most people will never be rich is because most people never learn that the meaning of rich isn't just having a lot of money or having a lot of access to money. Being rich is about balancing ownership of assets to grow value and revenue faster than the loss thereof through ownership of liabilities and consumption spending. Proof that money isn't wealth is easy enough: Poor lottery winners only rarely maintain their fortunes while rich bankruptcies usually shed their destitution.
Tldw : those who are born rich, mostly stay rich, those who are born poor or middle class start the same, no matter how hard you try to climb that ladder..
I absolutely love programming and problem solving. There is also definitely no shortage of job opportunities for the level of knowledge that I'm at. There are quite a lot of points in this video that simply aren't true. You can earn a lot of money and save it. You don't have to conform to a statistic at all. The more you conform to the statistic the more likely you are to become part of it. But just think of this, how many people are actually "normal"?
yep, working as a Dev is not necessarily a pain and you can have really good incomes working only 40 hours a week, and I'm talking about over 100k USD per year. Looking at the statistics he is right, but not all statistics are right as well :)
May i know are you already doing a job or still a student? That's what most people think, if your job is in a field that you enjoy, like a coding job for you as you enjoy coding, they think they will never get burnt out or can keep working for 16 hours a day and 7 days a week, but that's not the case once they start their job.. The same happened with me too, trust me I'm telling from my experience, I love machine design and after struggling for a year, i finally got a machine design job, but I'm really struggling to have a work life balance, there is no life and only work, even though i loved to do machine design as a hobby, I absolutely HATE my job. What's different when I'm hating my passion as hobby and work is , my job is repetitive, i have to work under others management and under a boss, it demands a lot of time like 10 hrs a day, whereas as a hobby only like a hour a day, my work has deadlines which as hobby won't have any deadlines and the pressure is enormous, I don't want to work like a donkey all the time and ignore my health, family, and other stuff just because I'm working in a field I'm passionate about . I really want to quit my job and find a better job, even if that means working in a field I'm not passionate about, or just follow lying flat movement...
@@MadsTer you can't just flick your finger and become a dev who works 40 hours a week and make that much money, it takes a ton of time and effort to master in your profession to reach such a point . And about statistics, yeah if majority of ppl aren't millionaires or won't be millionaires won't really mean you can't be one, but that's the point of statistics you know, that also means the probability of you becoming a millionaire is super low, but you still can become one, though it's hard and demands it's own sacrifices..
@@suprithAnCom I agree with you. As a backend engineer myself, a lot of the times, the work is kinda boring and repetitive, it's even worse if we consider the bad client that we got. And coming from a 3rd world country, you can tell that the salary is not that great here.
I'm the "richest" among my coworkers, but I drive the oldest and crappies car, wear cheap offbrand clothes, and eat on the same leftovers for a whole week. They simultaneously view me as being a boring stiff, but also are envious of my financial comfort and stability. I'm set to retire in my mid-50s, and my coworkers can't make the connection between financial success and self discipline.
For me, if you're needs are met, rich is just a state of mind. I've set up a system so my needs are met in retirement as well as now and so far(12 years) it's been working. Your videos are pretty good, btw. Regarding Millionaire Next Door is a good read. For me, I've found living below means, establish an emergency fund then begin investing and have a side business that's profitable. Then take discipline, patience, time, knowledge (and applying it) and a bit of luck but it's mostly effort.
I am rich. I have three great kids, a career I enjoy, a work-life balance, a wife who loves me, a healthy body, spiritual fulfillment, hobbies, and a small circle of friends. I'm not sure what else more money could provide me.
This is so true. With a practical approach of safe investments returning an expected 6-8% per year and a good salary you will become ’rich enough’ without risking anything. You only live once so what you really have to manage is risk. Its 10 times worse to lose 90% of your savings at 30 than to have 100k instead of 200k at 30. When you raise a family you have to plan financial buffers and how to limit your responsibilities at work. Being able to take days off work without risking too much of a backlash is incredibly valueable, reckless risk taking and stress at work are the two things you want to afford to say no to in your 30s.
Fortunatly, the high income earner problems are far easier to avoid in this day and age, specifically high cost of living areas. I live and work in the DC area, but because I have the ability to work remotely I am able to live further from work and commute less. This then means I spend less on housing, transportation and food since I can stay home most of a week if needed. I am an outlier though, 22 working for a startup company spending 40% of my earnings and using the rest to buy investments... and uh some cars... Might need to cut back on the cars.
I mean if you buy the right cars they can appreciate in value. 90's Japanese sportscars for example have really started going up in price the last few years.
@@CockatooDude I mean one is a Subaru wrx, the other is a 25th anniversary mustang so going well in the depressiation department. Never planning to sell either though
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Death is about to end tho thanks to obama and the human connectome project we have proven everything on monkeys and now in clinical trial on a alzhimers patient wirelessly im referring to a true brain to computer interface utilizing microwaves so wireless mindcontrol or full dive virtual reality we even have brain os that lets us write on your mind quite literally there are economic boons like these on the way and i recommend everyone prepare for them because as we proven and stated before America theres no stopping the march forward enjoy the memory i uploaded of bacon I dont need to be wealthy a spaceship and body is all i want or can afford
40K on interest yearly to live on and a fully paid home in America is rich. You're not filthy stinking rich but you're still rich. Living in a home right now with today's modern amenities is far better than what Andrew Carnegie are Rockefeller had back in their day during the peak of their wealth. If I had to choose one or the other I would definitely choose 40K a year.
Why do people get so angry when you tell them you can’t do something because of circumstance?
One of the richest people to ever live is Donald Trump. Donald Trump got his first job when he was 8 years old and he opened a lemonade stand with his 3 older sisters. He took the money he made from that and bought himself a Radio Wagen and a Colman Cooler and he bought a bag of ice and went to a Coca Cola distributer and then walked 50 to 300 miles each day he could to sell the Coca Cola to construction workers, police, and anyone who wanted a cold iced drink during the day. For 5 years Trump busted his ass walking his ass off selling drinks and learning the tools of the trade of construction and everything he could about real estate. Then when Trump turned 18 he found the perfect opportunity in which he could fix up a building and re sell it for a profit but he needed $380,000 to buy it and fix it up but he only had $80,000 so he talked to his dad to ask for help. His dad and his dads construction friends because here is the reality Trumps father was an iron worker also known as a beam walker in which he busted his ass as a grunt construction worker building the buildings by welding the metal beams together and was in no way rich at all. So Trump's father and his friends risked their life for Trump by going to the mob and asking to borrow money which if you know anything about the mob if you do not pay they kill you. So Trump got the money in which he risked his life to get that victory and Trump bought the building and with his father and his family friends fixed that building and Trump sold it to a compony out of America to get its footing in America and Trump then used the money he made to do the same thing to about 30 other buildings and paid back the money, gave everyone who helped him $1,000,000 each and he himself maid $1,000,000 within less than 1 year and then Trump used that money he maid to buy and build his own empire and within 5 years he became a solid millionaire by literally risking his life, busting his ass to the point of insanity and for literally years he spends less than 2 to 4 hours a day sleeping and blatantly works 16 to 28 hours a day which seems impossible but when you look at the fact that he literally works for 28 hours straight without sleep and he works 7 days a week every week of his fucking life. Sure he takes vacations but even when he is on vacation he busts his ass. Trump owns so many buildings and companies he literally has had to kill himself busting his ass to the point that he does not sleep and does not have the time to sit down for a home cooked meal but instead he literally will stop at random fast food or pop up stands to eat do to the fact that he is so busy that he has not actual schedule to sit and eat and literally eats while busting his fucking ass working. Hell even at the white house the late night staff were horrified at how he was still doing paper work from the time they got to work at midnight and when they were leaving to go home at 9 am and Trump then had meeting the entire fucking next day and he was literally in meetings the day before and had done 2 speeches that lasted 4 plus hours each the day before and Trump was running out of the midnight oil because he burnt threw it all working 300 hours days without sleep. Yea to be rich you have to literally kill your social life and kill your sleep schedule. To be rich you have to have no fucking life outside of work. I would rather be poor than obliterate my life working it away. Hell when I worked at a grocery store I saw my managers there from the time I got there and they had already been there for hours and they were there when I left which was after I got off work. The average hourly work schedule of a manger is 16 hours a day because they have to aid in clocking people in and clocking people out. The rich are not as well off as people think they are. Sure a rich person has a lot of money but in order to get that money you have to destroy your life by literally being one with no life outside of work. People who are rich from work generally do not live as long and are extremely depressed and suffering in their soul.
thanks for helping me save thousands of dollars on therapy. I decided to just give up in life after watching this video.
Cheers!
I was a financial adviser for many years and I can't tell you how true this video is. I used to have to do suitability by federal law which means I had to ask what people made and almost every millionaire I dealt with income was over 250000. Even more notable was most millionares didn't understand basic investing. Trust me they got more help then the average Joe.
I thnik part is that people that earn a lot of money via work, don't have much time/motivation to invest.
If you work 60 hours per week (or more) on a demanding job, you want to relax when you get home. You don't want to work another hour on your finances. ;)
I make $250,000 a year, have worked for 15 years to get here, and I'm STILL not worth a million if you don't count my house. Soon. But yeah, it's all about either 1) income or even better 2) inheriting millions.
@@Demmrir inheriting is preferable as it is waaaay more comfortable. I've seen it with friends. My buddy is the fourth generation that does not need to work.
Their portfolio is so well stacked that they live purely off of the dividends.
@@daszieher Does he have bad spending habits though?
@@Demmrir you won't but your kid will be. It always took multiple generations.
My great grandfather started with this mindset and now we are 1% in my country.
I love a healthy dose of reality.
More like red pill depression.
@@CosmicLionKai It's only depression if you don't know how to deal with it. Your accuracy in life is dependent on disabusing yourself of your delusions.
@@HudsonHandel Daaaaaaamn, nice phrase.
As long as it's healthy and not crippling lol
@@j0nrages Of course. Clinical depression needs to be treated like the serious affliction that it is. But being sad because you won't be filthy rich is just childish. Refraiming what is meaningful to you is now the quest. "So many wonderful things that I do not want" -Socrates
"How Money Works is where dreams come to die"
That's why I like this channel
I love how he slowly crushes my dreams like the boot of a tyrant on the back of a squirrel
@@CorinthianIvory so not supposed to be like that but that’s what it is.
Right? Ironically, I find a "painful" truth is more comforting than a comforting lie. I don't know how people eat up all of that "you could be rich tomorrow if you were just 1% less dumb" stuff without feeling terribly depressed, inadequate. Getting told that something that has proven impossible for you is actually so easy, if you just sucked a little less, that's not "motivational", that's gaslighting.
@@Hubcool367 Facts. People should know what you are saying
Exactly, he just feeds you the hot soup 😌
Remote work has been the best thing to reduce lifestyle inflation in software engineering. No need to live in an expensive city; no need to spend significant sums of money to look great. I hope this trend continues in other fields, since it has really helped to keep a low-spending lifestyle while making the same money as before.
I litteraly save my commute costs to the Office. No more savings here. And I gotta pay the Coffee and electricy at home. Must be I am even spending more staying at home. And I'll buy a new desk soon.
So yeah thats a minus for me.
I could not agree more though I am not a software engineer. Thank you for the added courtesy that you wish for all industries to continue the WFA trend.
Agreed, and as stated below when we worked remote I saved between 1-200 dollars a month on gas. While not too much just starting off my career it's not a bad "raise"
@Dalton Black I mean, while it's fun and hip to give all the boomer business people pitchforks not many of them or people in general are wringing their hands thinking of ways to actively harm others. Technology has given the ability to work from home and the older generation are slower to pick up on new trends just like we probably will be as we get older. It's dangerous to just blanket think that older people are evil.
I cant wait till they bring work from home to the manuel labor department
I remember my finance teacher asking us if we were all going to millionaires, he stated that all hands should be raised up because that was what it was going to take to have a decent retirement.
Nowadays you actually need more like 10 million, at a minimum 5.
@@rafizxDx If you live in socal sure, most places 1 will still work.
Just move to a Latin American country with a cheap cost of living (like Brazil) after you retire. In Latin America, you'll be fine with your dollars.
@@rafizxDx You seriously think you need FIVE million at a MINIMUM? That's the most out of touch statement I've ever read.
4% of that is $200,000 a year for 25 years. What kind of greedy ass lifestyle are you living that 200k is a NECESSITY for you to live comfortably?
@@rafizxDx that’s nonsense, though, isn’t it. $5m is equivalent to $200k year income, when you have no dependents and a paid off house. It’s a silly number to mandate as needed.
I am an independent house cleaner and my husband is in appliance repair. We do pretty well but to us that looks like: 1300 sq ft home, 2013 Honda Odyssey, being able to splurge on food, go on modest vacations, and taking the kids to Chuckee Cheese every now and then. Happiness is not in THINGS. Do you REALLY need a 3000 sq ft house and a new car? To me happiness is taking my time cleaning a house while listening to podcasts, being able to not schedule houses on Fridays, and not working myself to death so I can keep up with the Johnsons.
Thanks for the honest statement
i agree with you
1300 sq ft considers as villa in my country😂
Wait, there's another family to keep up with!? First it was a Joneses and now it's the Johnsons?? I'm gonna go broke...
I need a 3000 sq ft house to display all the things I bought to fill up the empty void in my heart. If I pile enough things into the void, some day, it will fill up...
Conclusion is true because it nearly impossible to be the 1% but financially comfortable is a much more desirable goal which is achievable
It seems like part of the issue is the inconsistent definition of the word 'rich'
I'd consider $40,000 annually to be rich, especially if I didn't actively work for it
I 100% agree with you. I personally don't want to be rich. Frankly I'm happy being in the middle class with the hobbies and adventures I go on. I do wish yo retire early, which is achievable for me if I stick with my current career
Also note that some form of social security (even a reduced amount) will likely be in there; as such, you can reasonably tack on another 20k to that. 60k/year (likely tax-advantaged), with no need to save for the future, and probably a house already paid for? That's actually pretty good.
@@kevinschultz6091 It's a silly conclusion because the only people that need to be rich in this way are already rich in this way. The median American worker making 35k/year doesn't need to become a millionaire or 1%er to be comfortable.
@@Lam-ba-Lam I completely agree. A person who is working in a stressful job 70 hours a week plus commuting for $240,000 is very different to earning $40,000 with no stress and no commuting.
"Nobody wants to buy a course on building wealth through a 40 year career in medicine."...ain't that the truth?!
The intellectual capacity of individuals will be one of the largest dividing factors in our society
Why would you do that when your parents tell you that for free? Lol
@@imCurveee NO one wants to hear the god dammed truth. thats why, no one wants to hear that the biggest secret to wealth, time, it takes 40 years and all your blood sweat and tears to make it, if you grew up poor. People want to be rich in their 20's-30's and have fun with it not when they are 60-70, but thats just not how it works.
@@Purpless_ON truth.
you can easily clear 250-600k in the first few years of medicine, if you don't spend any and save it you can retire by 35 or so and live on 100k interest for the rest of your life.
Really appreciate the no-nonsense this channel provides. I can never get behind the other finance youtubers out there because they just feel like the physical embodiment of survivorship bias. And (anecdotally) you're totally right. I make 6 figures as an engineer, as yeah I'm not destitute or anything, but I wouldn't say I'm on the fast track to financial independence.
I agree with you mate
I used to follow a channel (I forgot the name) where the guy was updating his portfolio amount on every video for passive income. But then the numbers didn't really add up, his portfolio was growing mainly because he was injecting money into it on a regular basis, ok that's how you should do things, but the guy had a 6 figure income, his audience not necessarily. So that's a bit he doesn't really say in his videos, just pretending that his way of doing passive income is the best.
Then you my friend are suffering from user error. You just want a struggle you don’t have.
Sounds like you're suffering from lifestyle inflation. If you cut your expenses you could be on the fast track to financial independence. I was just over half way to having a 6 figure income when I was working the most, but I managed to reach financial independence anyway. Because I've avoided most of that lifestyle inflation.
@@Astillion I promise you, the only way I could cut my expenditure any more is if I stopped eating every day. I just live in a very high cost of living area and I can't really move due to my work.
Thank you! I was in a crypto sub on reddit. Everyone was spouting off about how they were going to be millionaires and buy lambos. I chimed in stating that I'm a millionaire, and I still go to work and save like everyone else, and That a million dollars wasn't $hit. You'd think I'd had told everyone I ate my own children with the amount of hate I got. No one wanted to hear that a million dollars doesn't make you rich. It reminded me of that quote that "most people say they want to make a million dollars, but most really just want to SPEND a million dollars, and these are 2 very different things."
Reddit crypto Members have a average iq of 19 lol btw last quote was really inspiring
@@iitdream4901 I think 19 is generous. Glad you like the quote.
Edit: it's from "Psychology of money" by Morgan Housel. I misquoted, but same principle.
@@ToblerX thank you 😊 CT Wealth for spending your precious time on a comment thanking you agian
So you just bragged about being relatively Rich to a bunch of teenagers? A million dollars is an incredible amount of money and to most people, being out out of poverty and owning their own home, car and the like is insane. We're not talking about 15 year olds who bought dogecoin cos Elon said so.
Having a million dollars would lift a lot of anxiety and uncertainty by offering financial stability and safety
You can’t stop me from trying tho
Amen!!!
He can’t, but I will
Amen!!!
@@Dark_Souls_3
All hail DARK SOULS
You can is you own a business and sacrifice your youth
That "lifestyle inflation" is a big one. I used to live in a city, but found I was not happy as I was constantly surrounded by people who had nicer things and more money than I did. It's a constant reminder of your own inadequacy. I moved to a rural town and increased my commute, but am much happier and less inclined to compare myself to others. Around here, the millionaires all wear overalls covered in dirt and grease and drive old pickup trucks, so I never find myself getting jealous. :)
my friend, Sahk Deek, lives in India so im never jealous!
Long commute is a deal breaker for me!
This is what I did too. Life is so much better here in backwoods.
This is also why being engineer is great. You get nice salary and no one cares how you look as long as you're being professional.
@@ShadowebEB Welcome to America. This country was built for you...
... where by "you" I mean your car.
@@lonestarr1490 I don't live in that shithole, I'm in London.
Most of us already knew this, i didn't become software engineer over becoming a physicist because i wanted to be poor my entire life, and i always hated when my family said "just finish anything it will work itself out" no it won't.
"just finish anything it will work itself out" god this phrase I hate it
To the young people out there starting college or about to, do not pick a major just because you feel you ought to. I know so many people who absolutely and literally hate their lives because they just went with "something". When I was 18, I knew I wasn't mature enough to decide on my future so I joined the military. I found my passion for medicine in the military and they paid for all of the schooling I needed down the road. Your life is the longest thing you'll ever do. Don't rush into a potentially lifelong commitment you hate just because you felt you needed to pick something at 18 years old.
Same here, from physics to software, then to infosec. The first move was purely financially motivated (when I learned I was going to have a kid), the second one not that much, but the financial incentive is there. Now starting my own business to try to stop selling my time.
Can totally relate
I'm guessing physics grads going into Software Engineering is a fairly common route, there's hardly any funding in physics so Academia is a scary prospect. At least that was my perspective.
I read the millionaire next door twenty years ago. I finally got to a household net worth of $1M. I do attribute its long term disciplined saving approach to my mindset.
This video is very accurate. I don’t feel rich at all; $1M isn’t what it used to be, it’s all in retirement and only worth $40k/year anyway.
Our income is high but after money spent on family we have surprisingly little left.
Even if you made more, you'd acclimate to it insanely quickly. Case in point, my best friend grew up pretty poor. In college he upgraded his 20 year old $500 Ford Escort to a 15 year old $950 Toyota Camry and was proud of it. Now he works at Google, makes well into the 6 figures, was given a $1.5 million+ home by his wife's parents as a wedding gift, has over $100k in the bank, over $300k invested, yet he told me the other day that a married couple they know who make over $2 million/year are always broke because they spend it all, and he understands why they do so.
I'm completely dumbfounded that anyone could spend $2 million a year, but for him, it's completely understandable, and he feels poor because he only makes a few hundred thousand a year while they make millions. Acclimation to your situation ensures that no matter what you achieve, you'll ALWAYS want more.
This video is bs
For me being rich is actually an option to work like 20 hours a week and still getting enough money for every day-to-day expences. Having own house is nice and all, but not really required as long as you have high enough income. We spend our most productive years working these jobs hoping to get a good retirement but if you think about it - you work for ~40-50 years to live a good life for, I don't know, 10-20 years you have left by the time you retire? That's a "poor" choice and not worth it, I would rather have rich memories, good health from my younger age then a retirement fund with a few more zeroes and regrets about living my life in the office.
I gotta agree and it doesn't hurt to have cheap hobbies and tastes. I like my 2003 Honda accord just fine and I love backpacking and camping in the outdoors. Expensive Golf and a new car lease every 3 years ain't my kind of rich for sure lol.
@@duncdunc76 "the best things in life are free". There is no point in accumulating money. I wish society as a whole would understand this, all of us would be much better off.
@PS Actually, "having nothing later" is a very USA thing. I don't live in the USA. Here (and in most developed countries save the US), you get a pension when you retire, which admiteddly is less than your working salaries were (obviously) but which is enough.
same. I don't actually mind offing myself at a certain age, there's no pride in living longer than needs be. when my body stops working and breakdowns start happening frequently, when I'm needing to go to the hospital just to survive and can't work for myself, then I'll thank the lord and the earth for the chance and opportunity I've been given to be here and leave on my own accord.
The space after your brain loses activity, is the same as before you were born. you will feel nothing, remember nothing, and miss nothing. so in reality, you don't have death. There's nothing to be afraid of about death, just like you can't fear "before you were born". you only have life, this short flicker into existence. Question is: what do you want to do with it? What do you want to spend it on? Chasing wealth for a retirement? I want to live frugally, spending on free experiences like hiking and relationships around me, "invest" in 1 house - my home, build a backyard fruit and vegetables farm and tend to it when I get old. I'll eat cheaply from community supported farms and from my own, and when it gets time for me to leave, I will leave. That's how I want to spend my short flicker into existence.
Amen. I want more time.
Thank you for being real and honest. TH-cam is such a deceptive space where people pretend to be rich so they can actually get rich.
The guru's are selling dreams
My ideal 'retirement' is scrimping, getting to around $600k, then getting a part-time job I actually enjoy. I think it's achievable, only due to that last bit xD
Indeed
Wouldn't it make more sense to get a career in a field you actually enjoy? You can make good money and be happy all in one
You should watch his "Why you want a boring job" video
@@IFearlessINinja I second the comment above, watch the boring job video lol
I’m happy this video included how lifestyle inflation can help people and is necessary depending on where you’re coming from. For example, I grew up in a low income, under resourced community. When I was able to afford to move, I did! And guess what, I have more options for transportation, groceries, and banks.
Surprisingly, I didn’t know what my former zip code meant to people until I moved. Now, when I say where I live, I get “oh nice”, “good for you” as if they’re so proud / impressed. I never would get those responses from my hometown.
In society, if you’re from a “good” zip code, some people would automatically consider you trusted or a “good” person. But if you’re from a “bad” zip code, there are people who will judge you and deny you opportunities because they think you’re “ghetto”, “bad”, “dangerous”, and whatever other perceived judgments they have. SMH!
When I first moved to the city I live in now, I lived in a “bad” neighborhood and would not even get rejection letters from jobs. As soon as I moved I got a work from home job that pays more than I’ve personally ever made before. It really opened my eyes
Who cares what people think? Is this really affecting your ability to earn? Why talk to people so shallow as to treat you differently upon hearing where you live? Who are you trying to impress? People like this will also judge you on everything else (the cloths you wear and the car you drive). Did driving a cheap car stop Warren Buffet?
@@ihague4568 unfortunately, it can effect our ability to earn if that individual is a client or in a hiring position. But I agree, it shouldn’t have to matter. But we live in a classist country.
@@cheyenneharmon1022 Are you saying that the hiring manager is driving around to see what kind of house you live in, or whether you own vs. rent? Are you saying that they are able (or care) to check to see if the car you drove to the interview is owned vs. not rented for the day? Are you saying that they want to see proof of purchase of the suit that you brought to the interview? Are you saying that they want proof that you take expensive vacations every year? Are you saying they want to see receipts proving that you go to expensive restaurants at least 20 times a month? Of course not!! You are socially susceptible and gullible!
@@ihague4568 . Relax.
I love the advice on “how to get rich by thrift”, because if you follow it, you might actually avoid getting into credit card debt over your head. That isn’y “rich” or “financially secure”, but it is better than average.
Thrift can actually have a significant impact on your net worth over time. I make about $75K a year and save $50K through thrift. This is probably the same savings rate as somebody making $250K a year. Once your brain has adapted (and it does), your hedonic response is no different. Your brain just releases dopamine in response to things like food, exercise, friendship, music etc. The brain doesn't stop releasing pleasure chemicals just because you don't spend money. (unless you have got yourself addicted, and need a withdrawal phase). Over time, it just rewires to the types of events that cause that release. Spending for happiness is really a type of addiction.
@@ihague4568 Saving is pretty addicting as well, with dopamine hits.
Honestly all I care about is being financially stable and having a chance at future retirement. But I've learned to set much more realistic goals such as eating and having a roof over my head since then...
Haha. Straight. Curious, how old were you when you came to this realisation?
ow was what you said unrealistic?
Reminds me what that a teacher at a community class I went to said. I went up to him after class and said, "The name of your class was 'Have a Comfortable Retirement at Any Income,' but I don't feel like the class addressed that. What would you recommend for my income?" He asked what my income was. I told him. He said, "I recommend you make more income."
I immediately thought (but didn't say), "So the title of your class was a flat-out lie?"
I was hoping for tips about self-sufficiency and frugality. I was not hoping to be told that my chosen career (which pays very poorly, but which makes me happy) somehow wasn't good enough.
It was REALLY nice that you said the quiet part out loud.
Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials - much to live on and much to live for. Invest wisely and get good returns.
thank you, can you give a pointer the best investment now ? i am thinking of getting stocks or cryto
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. get a financial assistant
I currently work with VIVIAN KLAINE MORGAN a financial expert i met in a seminar
I recently watched VIVIAN KLAINE MORGAN on TV , such a great speaker . but have you made any profit whatsoever working with her ?
I have been able to make maximum profits off my trade with $40,000 and I have amassed about $190,000 in net profit In 4 weeks
I used to be concerned with "getting ahead" until one day my father told me that you will never really get ahead. It's just life. It's the way the system is designed. Until he told me that I would freak out every time something broke (like a car transmission or some kind of house maintenance problem). After he told me that, I accepted his wisdom and was a lot more comfortable with my average middle class life.
If you believe that then it just becomes a self fullfilling prophecy
@@luisandrade2254 If you don't believe that, then it's just a lesson waiting to be learned.
@@TheBushrangianOrder if you believe that you’ll never achieve anything better try and fail and then fail better to eventually succeed
@@luisandrade2254 The system is rigged Luís, your optimism is misplaced.
@@TheBushrangianOrder the system is not rigged bushranger you’re just too young to see it
Anyone who says money doesn’t buy happiness isn’t a poor person. Being rich is 100% better then being poor. That is a fact.
Damn right being poor makes you unhappy and unhealthy.
Thats right only from very poor to kindof comfortable. Beyond that point, your personality and attitude plays a way more important role than income
I recently sold some of my long-term position and currently sitting on about 250k, do you think Nvidia is a good buy right now or I have I missed out on a crucial buy period, any good stock recommendation on great performing stocks will be appreciated.
Palantir, ARM and Nvidia are all still good buy, but what do I know I’m not a financial advisor lol
Based on personal experience working with an investment advisor, I currently have $1m in a well-diversified portfolio that has experienced exponential growth. It's not only about having money to invest in stocks, but you also need to be knowledgeable, persistent, and have strong hands to back it up.
This is definitely considerable! think you could suggest any professional/advisors i can get on the phone with? i'm in dire need of proper portfolio allocation
“LAURELYN GROSS POHLMEIER ’’ is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
I just Googled her name and her website came up right away. It looks interesting so far. I sent her an email and i hope she responds soon. Thanks
Ive started looking at life as how much free time do I have instead of how much money do I make. In that sense, my life working from home since the pandemic has made me twice as rich, even though I make the same money. My advice for others wouldnt be to get a better paying job or go back to school, it would be to find an equal or lower paying job working from home.
Unless you have shitty kids.
if you have shitty kids, you can still move to an other flat.
Good one! Where do I park the kids? Oh, heaven, I'm never going to be at peace!!! Well, thanks for the advice.
“Unless you have shitty kids” lol 😂 I guess one is simply F’d at that point
It's not even about the amount of free time. It's more like: of the time that you live, how much of it is spent doing things actually valuable to you? Of course, that is far harder to quantify, and the actual value is really only useful to you, especially in deciding between different courses of action.
Having shitty kids costs you money - wow, who would've known!
"Rich" is so subjective and often based on envy. I consider anyone to be "Rich" who can generally
1. Get the things they need to live
2. Can save for or purchase things they want with little or no debt
3. Can lose their job and survive without debt long enough to find a new one
4. Can help others charitably without sacrificing much
5. Have a skill, talent or other thing that allows them to maintain the above 4
Your definition may be different, I don't hate rich people in my definition but my definition is attainable. There will always be someone with more than you, stop caring about it
It depends on what you are after. I'm 31 and I'm working 50 % because of how well in order our finances are. While not all investments in all time periods are equally successful, the person who keeps making good financial choices in the long term will be very likely to have a good return. I have no real desire for obscene wealth. I just want to be more in charge of my time and to do more things that are fulfilling to me and my family. As you hit a certain (fairly low) bar in personal finances you stop paying a premium when complications occur because you have options in resolving issues. Not just avoiding debt but choosing what is the best course of action long term. In spite of working 50 % I can place more demands on my workplace and my payraises have been higher than previously and above the workplace average. In most situations my advantage simply compounds. I'll probably never get a private jet, but I have a very strong foundation for stability and comfort. I don't know what expectations other people have, but my progress so far is absolutely enough to be worth it.
Can you also make such cheerful videos as: "we're all going to die", "no one will ever love you even if you are rich" and "the world is fucked" to complete the depression saga?
Live with your parents as long as its possible and contribute to family wealth as a whole. I think one of the wests biggest flaws is the individual expectation of a young adult. Turn 18 and youre on your own. Grandparents as babysitters allows two income streams, saving on daycare and a strong family upbringing.
This is especially advantageous for those lucky enough to have a genration above them who have established some form of wealth; ideally this can be built upon by the following generation and so on. On the other hand, some are starting with nothing and the burden is on them to build a legacy which they will never see the benefit from. That in itself can be rewarding and should be the goal within this idea, not being rich.
Obviously this is very idealistic and I'll admit I am ignorant of all the variables here, but we as adults and families need to stick together. A mediocre life is okay, average income is okay.
💯 If America had more multigenerational households, on average we would all be wealthier, children would be raised better, and the housing crisis would abate.
If people had no reason to move out they wouldn't, usually the reasons are: job opportunities in other areas away from home, grown up kids that don't want to deal with growing indifferences with parents, they had enough of negativity, judgements, pressure etc, sometimes its the parents that want the kid out so they can have more freedom and space, these are all realities of life and people are no longer willing to pretend that multiple families living under one roof is necessarily a positive thing when behind closed doors there is resentment, drama, tension, arguments etc etc...let's not forget all that before we do the West vs. East cultural differences, there are usually underlying reasons and explanations.
@@AA-iy4gm Yes, it’s definitely complicated, but living with other generations of family can develop tolerance, humility, patience, love - for everyone involved. It’s definitely not easy, but nurture is living in poverty, never buying a house, or dying alone because of stubbornness and determination to do everything your own way. I’m just pointing out that building a life together across generations is a worthwhile endeavor for some.
Theres two issues
America is SO big and disparate, that unlike other major nations where you can live in the capital with your family and get great jobs, its not an option in the US.
Secondly it’s the worst consumer based society in the world, people are literally shamed into spending money to show status.
I agree with a realistic and somewhat cynical view this video provides. However, as much as toxic positivity can be annoying, I fear that the cynicism/negativity of this message just reinforces the notion of "if im not gonna be rich or financially comfortable I shouldn't even bother trying".
I feel like the video was more, if you wanna be rich go be a surgeon, engineer, other high paying field. Everything else is a dream.
It's funny how things hit people differently. What I got out of it was quit letting societal advertising sell you a false bill of goods and start focusing on what's really important to obtaining a fulfilled life instead of trying to become a millionaire. Especially since your realistic chances are slim. Start focusing on having a truely rich life which has much less to do with how much money you have or chase then you think.
Remember, reallity and hard data is neutral and doesn't care about feelings, we put the feelings. I also got the message of stop wasting your time following dream sellers and focus on important and demanding carreer for as long as you can and get as much money as possible from it
If you still care about money, then you should bother trying, but put that effort into either moving to a cheaper place (inside your country or outside), reducing your cost of living drastically (like living in a van or tiny home), or upskilling to get a high income job. the only one that'll get you rich realistically is upskilling, but the others can give you the sense of security you might need if you have an anxiety over money(?). that should be the takeaway of this video
If you no longer care after watching this, that doesn't mean sit around in a perpetual state of gloom and practise unhealthy habits like drinking, eating unhealthily, etc. That means use the little you have and make your life happy and worthwhile. Spend time with family and loved ones, go hiking, go on cheap holidays with a converted vehicle, go on walks, pursue a hobby like art, volunteer if you want to, etc, create memories.
@@duncdunc76 agree!
Your brutal honesty is rarest amongst youtubers. I became fan of you.
I just want to live in a society where you DON’T HAVE TO BE WEALTHY to live a good, meaningful life.
Doesn't exist
Depends on how or what you define a good meaningful life, cuz you can do it without being wealthy to begin with
You’re a communist.
If you live in the US you do. You have a phone, a TV, internet, air conditioning, plumbing a roof and food to eat and in an economy that can be in a recession and still have more work than there are people willing to go to work.
@@JS-nr7te agreed
In the words of Dave Ramsey:
"Sell the car"
No, you don't need an imported car and a tailored suit. If you see a $200/mo raise as an opportunity to add $250/mo to your financial obligations then you will always be poor, obviously.
well duh, but selling the car won't make you a millionaire. a very high income, and living in an economically stable time (not an overvalued/near-peak bubble like we are) will make you a millionaire. like he said in the video, the book's research would look very different if it were conducted in the 30s or 80s.
Yeah he’s basically prechimg a self fulfilling prophecy of course if you do what most people do you’ll always be like them that’s why you do different
@@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587 selling your car can actually go a long
Away to make you a millionaire also it’s not the 30s or 80s anymore
@@luisandrade2254 it will be one this bubble pops
Thank you so much!!! Now you wiped away the guilt in me for never getting rich, while I keep hearing stories of people my age (mid-30’s) who got rich out of something.
Not to mention the avalanche of stories of people in their 20's, or kids in their teens who have already managed to become millionaires, usually by being an "influencer". Nothing is more depressing than seeing someone half your age who's already accomplished more than you ever will. Especially when you know that they just hit the universes lottery and got insanely lucky to blow up at such a young age.
Then you tell yourself that they're the 0.0001% and everyone is struggling, only to drive to the grocery store and see $100k+ Tesla's, Porches, Corvettes etc. at every stop light. Sometimes it seems like other peoples version of "struggling" is our version of "things going better than they ever have".
Wealthy is a nice dream. But financial independence in my late 30s is my goal. Time is most precious commodity we got. Building enough passive income to pay most or all the basic cost of living goal.
I retired 2 years ago at age 36. "I am a USD millionarie, but my highest annual income was 65k USD over my career of 11 years before I retired early. To be fair though, I don't pay income taxes since I was born and still live in Singapore. Plus, stuff is cheaper here than in the US by around 30%."
I define rich as not having to work to pay your daily expences. So that 1 million dollars/40k per year would work well for me. I would consider myself rich at that point.
Same!
You did your math a d set your goals, most don't. Just make sure when you get there you don't move your goal post...thats what most do
the paradox I think is that you would live a middle class lifestyle no one would associate with the word 'rich', but that doesn't mean you can't be happy.
You won't owning flashy cars or other expensive shit. You will live a lot like your full time working neighbour, with the major difference of having much more spare time. So you would actually be rich in time moreso than in money, if you see time as an asset that definately makes you rich. But then another problem comes, how do you spend all that free time without exceeding your 40k/year budget? The more spare time you have the harder it is to spend conservatively because most hobbies will cost you money.
@@dekippiesip I wonder how happy you would be, though. Honestly, after more than a week on holiday i start to feel uneasy. It is just... boring. There is something depressing in having as your main problem, and decision, how to fill up your time.
Were i super rich i would still work. Maybe only 2-3 hours a day, taking days off whenever i want, but i would still work.
@@dekippiesip I disagree 100% - everyone has a passion and you'd be able to spend all your time doing it. If you don't have a passion, you'd have the time to discover it.
Imagine being able to spend all your time painting without having to stress about turning a profit from it. All that practise and skill would make you really good at it, AND make you really satisfied with life.
Buying cars isn't everything.
What a refreshing wake-up to those younger, more driven individuals. I think everyone should be aware of the lifestyle and financial traps before them, and not to be misguided by ads and popular personalities. Well done, thank you
I love the no bullshit attitude of this channel.
I’m a millionaire next door. I read that book when it was first released and it had a huge impact on my financial journey. And I agree you have to make a lot of money to save a lot of money.
Having enough to eat, a shelter and no worries about a war is actually rich. Most of your viewers have exactly that. You're talking about WEALTH, mate...
yep. People loose sight of what real wealth actually is. It's not just money.
They mean rich relative to the plebs around them.
I wonder if the 4% rule will even survive the global debt super bubble? I like how financial youtubers say:
"dollar cost average it has worked for the last 100 years"
*checks human history
"that's not that long"
How long has dollar cost averaging been around though?? Compared to other methods of investment this is the most reliable one
Its also statistically proven the more you buy averaged out over time the more your average is tied to the movement of the market
@@alexisleclerc595 That is true since the creation of the Fed and the strategy I have largely used, but most of that as been in a global market Pax Americana world. The larger trends of history are not that way. As an example the last half of the 19th century was deflationary, it actually made sense to just save money. Also all fiat currencies eventually go to zero, how many more boom bust cycles do you think the dollar has?
Yeah, I hear stuff like that all the time and think, 100 years is a really short amount of time, these statistics are only valid for the U.S. and a handful of other countries, and everything tells me this rate of economic expansion is impossible to maintain for any length of time. Doesn’t matter though since I’m broke and have nothing to invest anyways.
@@ColinAdventures Even with premiums physical silver is less than $30 an ounce. In the life cycle of currencies fiat eventually reverts to commodity money. Global fiat has only existed for 50 years and I doubt the central banks can keep it going much longer
A paid off home and $40,000 a year is not rich? Please tell me who in all of human history has never had to worry about a roof over their head and Food. Yeah it's not stinking rich but it's still rich. Ps depending on which point in life you manage to acquire that amount of money you can still continue to work if you want to.
Hunting and huts.
@@zinjanthropus322 did you watch the video he said that a paid off house and $40,000 in passive income for the rest of your life. In other words money that you do not have to work for is not rich.
@@user-tf5uk1rc5j Yeah but I come from Subsaharan Africa. 150 years ago there was no such thing as money or jobs. You built your own house with your family on land you automatically inherited and farmed, fished, hunted or gathered for food. Things haven't always been like this for most of the world.
@@zinjanthropus322 yes and that is my point if you are making 40K USD adjusted for inflation in today's money from now on and until the day you die and have a paid off home. You are richer than the kings and queens of 100 years ago. To not consider that status to be rich is the epitome of greed.
@@user-tf5uk1rc5j I understand where you're coming from. Even the video's image at 7:02 of "Americans needing $500k to feel secure" while saying having double that amount is not enough is mixed messaging. Getting paid to do nothing is the epitome of rich. Take that $40k USD to Panama, Russia, or Peru and you can still live better than the average resident there.
Thank you for the video. You make some good points. Lifestyle creep is very real and it is much easier to control when you are single. I remember that book a little differently. The millionaires next door were most often business owners who were able to provide valuable services that others often overlooked. The majority of them were not "do-it-yourselfers" meaning they hired skilled people to to their taxes, accounting, landscaping, etc, because they could make more per hour than paying for those services cost. They focused on what they were good at and they did not have lavish lifestyles. They were good at growing their assets and avoiding things that lose money.
I know 1 rich person. He's Rick because of a few factors. 1. Talent, he's very good at his job. 2. Saving, he can hold on to a dollar. 3. Making good choices, he don't care about expensive bs. 4. Education, he always keep up to date about everything in his field. And 5. Patience, he didn't become rich over night.
I like your videos, a quick issue with this one though. you did inflation calculating that 1 mil in 1996 would be 1.7 now, but then used the 1 mil number to get 40K (which we all of course think of in today's value). if you instead did 1.7 mil times .04 you get 68K which is a substantial difference IMO. Also if you use the 5% rule (as some financial people now are calling for, you get 85K but that's neither here nor there. Millionaire next-door also did what we're talking about, but rather than using the 4% rule, they used the people's actual expenditures and found that most of them could stop working for 20 years before running out of money. the idea that you have to be able to retire and live off personal investments is not anything to do with being rich, a millionare, or even wealthy, its the FIRE movement, which the book made no claims on.
Final bit, lifestyle inflation is not a necessity, although as a lawyer (where my knowledge is) you do need to make sure your suit doesn't have holes in it, nobody cares if its 300 dollars from men's warehouse or 10,000 dollar custom made. Perhaps I'm too optimistic, but I don't think we're all screwed, and the ideas from the millionaire next-door are still valid
Exactly!
Although I agree that this video maybe correct to some extent but I still don't agree with what he says, you might call this naive but I believe being rich has to do with a state of mind or a particular mindset.
So far so good, all the people I've known or heard of who became millionaires had a very strong sense of purpose to achieve their specified dreams and most importantly did not accept someone saying they can't be rich.
I truly understand that one must be open minded no matter the circumstance that's why I can understand this video and the channel but I just can't accept it.
I've noticed that HMW has kind of foregone quality finance videos for this kind of "shocking outrage" content that is all over the internet now. Like there is a lot of logical fallacies and issues with this video.
@@Bolensgoldrush yeah I think it's a marketing strategy to get people to talk about the video
The inflation adjusted figure and the 4% rule were two different points within the video. Also, I highly disagree that you can expect fast advancement in any elitist career without looking the part. If you think rich VPs, directors, and executives aren't judging base your appearance you'd be sadly mistaken.
@@Stompii01x . First, define rich because having $1 million to sustain you for 2-3 decades until you die isn't rich. Personally, I think that with anything less than $2 million it means that I will need to watch my expenses very carefully during retirement. Second, you can be a multimillionaire by simply saving and contributing to your 401k account without ever breaking $100k in annual salary. How? You need to start VERY young to give your investments time to earn interest. However, not many young people are thinking about retirement and much less doing detail analysis of their retirement accounts. If you wait until your 30s or even 40s to start saving for retirement you're screwed. The key is time or a high income. There is no way about it.
Even knowing that the chances of getting to the 1% are slim, my plans for now is keep trying, I can only get luck if I am in the game. And worst that can happen is if I don't take any reckless decision is be 'financially stable'.
I appreciate such kind of videos. Videos that are realistic and ground you to the times we live in, I think part of the reason most people end up disappointed and depressed is because they feed their minds with the, "feel good, life is what you make it, you are meant to be a billionaire/successful, you are poor because you are lazy" kind of content, then when they see that their lives isn't turning out to how they expect it should, mental distress occurs.
Correct, 1,000,000 in someone’s net worth can indefinitely generate 40k a year. But 2,000,000 can generate 80k a year. Explained to me how 80k a year without a house payment isn’t rich in just any part of the country? You’re leaving out how compound interest works. And let’s be frank, average household in America is 50k a year. Live on 40k (possible almost anywhere besides, SoCal, NYC, Bay Area, Seattle and Chicago) and that’s saving 10k a year. Apply to the law of 72… at say 10%. That 10k a year doubles the nest egg every 7 years on *average* I’ll make it. Someone that invests 10k a year from 27 to 67 will retire with 5 million dollars. Adjust for inflation. Call it 2 million dollars. You can sustain your self indefinitely at an 80k lifestyle by investing 10k a year. Which means your income never changes.
I learned a long while back to redefine "rich". I have a wife who loves and respects me. I have a teenage son who likes spending time with me. I have a toddler who brings me so much joy. My parents are alive and live nearby, and we are on good terms. My in-laws live nearby and we are close to them. We have friends who would help us out in a pinch. We have a house big enough for the family. I have a stable job that provides enough for my family, and enough to where my wife doesn't need to work and can care for family.
I feel like one of the most wealthy people alive.
What do you mean I will never be rich? I already am.
I've got a roof over my head, a warm bed to sleep in, high-speed internet giving me instant access to the total sum of human knowledge and I never have to worry about food. I am richer than at least 99,5% of all humans that have ever existed.
Also, on a sidenote: this is a fantastic video. It is both great advice and it also encapsulates why HMW, The Plain Bagel, Patrick Boyle and Economics Explained are the only finance channels on TH-cam that I actually like.
Cool. Just change the definition of “Top 1%” to whatever you want.
@@DavidEVogel Well by his definition we all are the Top 1% of all humans that ever existed.
Being rich is being able to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. If for you having guaranteed 3 meals a day, no matter what it is, you're rich. For some, it's going to Napoly to eat pizza. Even so: if you're able to eat whatever you want, you're rich.
^This!
It’s all about perspective.
I work in a blue collar industry but most of my colleagues make between 100-300k (granted at the cost of working an average of 70+ hours per week) and they never shut up about how financially strapped they are and how they constantly need to stretch their paychecks to feed and clothe their families. They aren’t being humble or sarcastic; they are in sincere tears when they talk about their money struggles. Meanwhile, they have blinders on when it comes to their new fishing boat and that second lifted pickup truck sitting in their three stall garage. They are oblivious to all of the things around them for which they should be grateful.
This is absolutely so spot on!!! The average person will never become rich and the vast majority may only be worse off with time. So much of the lower and middle classes are struggling and may never see real financial stability. I consider myself lucky that I have a good job at my young age and know finances very well to the point where I know I'll be better off than most everyone I know. But that only means there's something super wrong with the system here if so many will fail.
Many will fail for many reasons, some preventable, some not. Money education, living within your means, taking care of what you have and investing can equal wealth. Anticipating setbacks and planning and preventing them or mitigating them is extremely important. Some are insurmountable to be honest - accident causing you to become a quadriplegic or dying of cancer would be examples.
What if in addition to your job you (or partner) set up a small business and paid your children (2) each $3k-12k a year starting at birth into a Roth IRA, as earned income they can earn up to $12k with no income tax or having to pay Social Security taxes. By the time they are 17, they would have $51k-$204k just in contributions not including earnings. 6.5k to ROTH and remaining to college or general investment.
University/College - if you save it should be minimal in my opinion. The ROTH IRA money is not used for FAFSA for College, it is excluded by law. If you want them to live on campus, then save that much for them. Their freshman year should be done using AP classes and online CLEPP testing. Why? I’ve watched to many freshman flunk out by hanging with immature freshman who flunk out. Let them start taking classes that are part of their major asap. Freshman year is just basics, most is already covered in high school advanced classes. They graduate debt FREE from State University in 3 yrs working only summers and winter breaks for minimum wage or a little better, using the $2k college credit you get and with a little help from your salary. You should expect some out of cost expenses. They can major in their career and minor in real estate while learning basic maintenance for homes.
At 21, debt free with a University degree, get a job making ?, with careful money planning they can buy a home (with mortgage) at 23-25yr. (Maybe not in NYC, LA, Seattle). They buy a solid, low mileage 5yr old car (or e-bike if that’s possible) for a low cost after college. They can save and buy a rental every 2-5 yrs. Stopping at 4-5 rentals and with 15-30 year mortgages paid off when your child is 50-55. The money they might have needed to an IRA can be put into the rentals and just let the money you set aside in the ROTH IRA grow. They will easily be millionaire by the 10s of millions be 55-65. I use 55 because let’s be honest health may dictate 55 not 65-70.
If they do the same for their children this can be a repeating cycle.
*Another possibility of a money strangler is divorce. With divorce in the 55+% range it is a reason able thing to plan for the possibility. Pre-nuptials to protect assets held before marriage is reasonable. Know your state laws for divorce. This education needs to before a child falls in love, they won’t listen after they fall in love. If nothing else the Roth IRA should be shielded. And no one can take away their college degree.
As long as I can pay my bills, put food on the table, and clothing on my back, I'm comfortable and pretty darn successful, especially with seeing how so many are now living in poverty and homeless! I'm blessed! ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾
that's a really good mindset! it also helps to save some, because you understand that you don't have to consume more to have a good life. peace of mind is so important!
People will still find a way to shame you into giving to the poor.
I agree with this video 100%. In my 20s I grew my career to make six figures by 28. Bought a house, turned it into a rental, then bought another one. Then I financed a new car. Ate out all the time. I was making a lot of money but saving and investing nothing. I was constantly anxious about emergency expenses, and gradually built up some debt. All the while I was also planning on starting a business. Luckily the house I was living in appreciated quite nicely, so I sold it, paid off my debt, and used the rest of the money to keep me alive for three years while I grow the business... 1.5 years in, I'm still not paying myself yet, but I carefully track my finances and have almost no anxiety over money anymore. I'm not rich, but I know that when my income does return to a higher level, I now have the habits that will sustainably grow my assets over time. Not sure if that will put me in the 1% but I'll be a lot better off than where I was.
May I ask what your business is? I was on a similar trajectory to you. Making a solid 6 figure income by 29 as a construction consultant. I won a high 8 figure lotto and retired at 35 though. My financial advisor and accountant are gobbling up local real estate, some stuff in high demand areas if it seems a good deal and buying boring bonds. I like boring and safe. I'm young-ish still (just about to tick 40)so I have a long time for the boring stuff to pay off for the grand kids. I don't have flashy cars aside from 2 dodge vipers, I guess my heavy equipment counts as well. I'm developing 6k acres I purchased, ran water, electric and sewage to the property. Built a 5k sqft 5 bedroom 4 bathroom house and a pair of 6k sqft outbuildings for a woodshop and metal fabrication shop. The lot was 85% forest I'm changing it to a more reasonable 55-65% wooded and the utilities are already set up to be added upon if I want to parcel it out. I'm currently digging an 8 acre reservoir lake from my natural spring. I'm sure it's worth more than I paid and have wrapped up in it besides my own time. Beauty part of knowing how to do the shit yourself. The goal is to make sure if my daughters don't want to work they won't have to and their kids as well. But they started a resaw business making custom milled lumber at 15 now they are 17 and bought their own 1st cars last year and a 65k work truck along with the bandsaws and other stuff they needed.
@@jeffreyhill1011 if you’re ever open to personal loans, collateralized of course, please let me know. I have been struggling to put together resources so I can startup a co. and build a portfolio on my own instead of manage one for co. I work for now.
@@PoppaTG as lucrative as getting into the lending game can be, idk if I want grey hair and migraines lol.
@@jeffreyhill1011 I really liked reading your story. What you’re doing is exactly what I’d love to do if i was in that situation. I’m currently 24 getting close to reaching the three figure mark from my engineering job right out of school. I got lucky by getting a house with my wife as soon as we graduated right before covid made the prices spike up and I’m considering maybe selling for close to 100k profit.
Ive just have been really thinking out what kind of early financial habits I should be doing now that would benefit me in the future. Along with looking into myself seeing what I truly want at the end of this. Seeing that your kids won’t need to work is a game changing goal I want to accomplish now. (I don’t have kids yet but do plan on having some)
Yes all thanks to your high paying job
This is a good check to remind people becoming rich isn't as easy as a lot of channels make it out to be. Now, I really like a few of these channels and recommend them, but there is some survivor bias there. Usually I prefer the channels that acknowledge that. But, a lot of times that advice will help you get into a better financial situation, even if it doesn't make you rich. Reducing debt and having a decent sized savings cushion for emergencies by cutting out unnecessary expenses, for example.
Ahhhh, finally I feel better about being 33 and only having a net worth of about 38,000. Almost all of it in retirement. I am debt free, though!
Keep up the good work .most have less.
I'm having a late start in life as well. However, I do have college debt because I went to college in my 30s. The good news is that my salary is growing pretty fast and I hope that I can make up for lost ground. I'm already frugal by nature but catching up is no easy feat. The goal is at least $1.5 mill by retirement. Just before I saw this video I forecasted my income, contributions and retirement savings in a spreadsheet. I still have time to get it right but it will take discipline. I wish I would have done this in my 20s and had the discipline to keep saving.
27 and networth of 26k, I just wanted to brag, but it's not an easy ride, I am extremely frugal and we can not compare life, because our opportunities will always be different.
Compare to your previous self who had 30k, you are doing fantastic bro, DO NOT lose track of your progress and keep it up!
@@k4piii 25 and 50k off less than 6 figures a year it’s pretty easy to become a millionaire as long as you stay frugal and invest safely. Becoming rich is a strange thing, I was taught as a kid that being rich isn’t buying stuff and not caring but rather being able to say I can buy that and deciding not to.
Grateful to be an engineer in big pharma. Pays well and i can check out at 5pm
Not to toot my own horn here but I did the wealth accumulator calculation on myself and I’m actually above that at age 27. But the reason why is because I’m unmarried and have STUPID low cost of living while earning a lower-middle class income and investing much of it and saving it. All in all, I’m comfortable and enjoy living in the woods where it’s nice and chill. (:
Yeah...I'm about 4x the average net worth for my age, and 20x the median net worth. Most of my coworkers making the same income are below the average and median. For most people, its a spending problem far more than anything it seems.
@@randomyoutuber308 Living like misers (which is a common them for people like you) is not something to aspire to. Glad it works for you and many like you, but on my death bed, I'd like to remember more than the fact that I was able to LiVe bELow mY mEanS and be debt free.
@@IM-qy7mf I don't live like a miser though lol. The trick is, you only have to get yourself out of debt once. When you don't have 600 dollar a month student loan payments, an 800 dollar a month car payment, a 2500 dollar a month mortgage, and carry over credit card balances month to month, its not hard to have way more disposable income than you need.
On my deathbed I'll be glad I retired in my 40s and a lot of the money I got to enjoy over my lifetime was passive income from investments and I wasn't a wage slave into my 60s struggling to make interest payments to the banks the entire time. If that is what you want to remember on your death bed, just keep in mind the interest you are paying to the banks are paying me some nice dividends.
Having harbored financial concerns throughout my entire adulthood, it's intriguing to watch this video and recognize the potential for significant achievements with proper goal-setting. Experiencing the freedom of not being consumed by financial worries that haunted me for numerous years is genuinely liberating. I believe this is the outcome of consistently putting in diligent effort for the future.
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What most people do not understand is that they need to transfer purchasing power from other people. Purchasing power other people do not want to concede. This task is incredibly difficult we all know the methods people use to attempt this task:
1. Get the best education.
2. Get the best job.
3. Saving and investing.
4. Starting a business.
5. Winning the lottery or some other stroke of luck.
Personally I have probably made it to the top 3% or so through saving and investing while not having dependents. Others have improved their financial position by one of the methods mentioned above.
It is possible to transfer sufficient purchasing power to improve your financial position but it is incredibly difficult and the numbers don't lie a majority of people will be in the middle group of income and wealth.
The definition of rich: having abundant possessions and especially material wealth
And there is the reason you will never be rich
If there is no set target for being rich then how can you tell you're rich
If you ask someone you think is rich they just say, "I'm not rich, that guy is rich and point to someone else who is even wealthier and then that guy will say the same and point the finger to someone even wealthier than him"
Cool. Just change the definition of “Top 1%” to whatever you want.
@@DavidEVogel I gave the Merrian-Webster dictionary definition of "rich" I did not define "Top 1%"
And you missed the point, you might define the 1% as rich but the 1% don't think they are rich. They are dirt poor compared to the 1% of the 1% and they think they are poor when they see the wealth of the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
And top 1% of what?
Top 1 % of Somalia wages would be poverty levels in the US...
6% of Americans would be part of the top 1% worldwide...
Its like the 80-20 rule applied to itself over and over again.
As long as your total income increases faster than your expenses you are always getting ahead
Naval said it, there is three ways,
You become a monk
You lower your lifestyle so much and keep earning consistently
Or you blow up your income while keeping your finances on check
I'm a beginning farmer and you can still have net worth. Make your own flatbread in a skillet, use a woodstove for primary heating, don't eat out, never carry a credit card balance. I love on fb how people say 15/hour isn't a livable wage. Communal living in a house and not spending money needlessly and you will save money. My ex-wife would spend money on totally useless things and I was the one making most of the money and she was bleeding us dry, I divorced her. All my equipment is paid for, life isn't too bad. 40k a year like in his example is easy street.
I getting the sense that this channels meta is “you’re screwed, I’m not but you all are so don’t think of trying. Sucks to suck”
My criticism of this video is that the book most certainly did mention that millionaires DID have above average incomes.
Keep being so honest. I am grateful for you giving me a reality check on nearly every video.
That's the truth: income matters. Look at any successful finance/investor youtuber. Meet Kevin, ice coffee guy, chandler david Smith, etc. They all had extremely high income that they then invested wisely. That's what enabled the bulk of their wealth. For most of them, TH-cam income itself is enabling their successful appearance in investing which draws in more viewership. Not diminishing their accomplishments, but rather, like this video, just saying that what draws people to their channels is their investing/finance advice, but they got to where they are due to high income primarily.
"So are we all just destined to be on the precipice of financial ruin for our entire lives? Well, yeah." Thanks for the heads up. Now I don't have to worry about money as much as I did before. lol
The loopholes exist, getting rich involves knowing what you're doing and hedging your bets.
My grandmother grew up in a household with no plumbing no power and an 80 hour work week. This was the norm when she was growing up. I have always considered myself rich and know very few people that weren’t born rich.
While I like that this video goes over the realities of being rich, I think there are some short comings, particularly when he talks about those who are high income earners and even more particularly among those who are in tech.
Nowadays a lot of the high paying jobs are remote (we can thank the pandemic for this, but I have a feeling this won't change) and I expect us to transition towards a lot more remote work in the future. So many high income earners won't necessarily have to live in high cost areas (we already see a lot of people moving out of high cost areas because of the available remote work) so I think it gives more high income earners the opportunity to become "rich". The idea of having to get a nicer car so you can take up a reserved parking spot at your job and to bring up your status just sounds a bit outdated. And it will become more and more outdated as more jobs become remote.
All that said, lifestyle inflation is a real thing, and it is not always to our fault. Many people get married, have children and before they know it, life becomes so much more expensive.
I think it's fair to say that only a small number of people will get "rich" (however you decide to define that) but many can become financially stable even among those with families as long as you are earning a high enough wage. From personal experience when lifestyle inflation is definitely real, but it's often taken way too far.
All this said, I do appreciate the reality check as I think more people need to hear this.
I realized that the secret to making a million is making better investment. I always tell myself you don't need that new Car or that vacation just yet and that mindset helps me make more money invest:ng. For example last year I invested 70k in blue chip stocks and crypt0 s (with the help of my advisor of course) and made about 380k, but guess what? I put it back and traded with her again and now I'm rounding up close to a million. Delayed gratification always pays off
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My plan of being an engineer living in an rv still works even given all your points. Big income, waiting to start a family, and massive underspending for years is the only way to do it.
You’re absolutely right but I think it’s a combo of both approaches. Use your increased income to save up wealth that can produce passive income that will supplement your lifestyle expenses. That’s what the COVID era thought me. That’s what I appreciate about the FIRE movement. I may not be a bare bones lifestyle FIRE disciple but I believe that your increased revenue model built on FIRE tenets will definitely make you rich. I have an MBA but some of the PFP lessons taught in FIRE weren’t taught to me in school. FIRE makes you lean - it forces you to think about what you “need” vs what you “want”.
I think the problem with people are the perception what being rich means
If you don't care how people see you and don't compare yourself to others (in short just be grateful with what you have)
That basically will lead you to a more humble lifestyle than lavish one
Hence you will keep your finances in a more stable state than others
It actually makes me feel better to know everyone is financially insecure. Not just me. Commercial media, social media, and even the outward appearances my neighbors put on make me feel like I'm the only financially struggling person on the planet. The only loser. While everyone else is living the good life and looking down on me as a failure.
I am very finanically secure and stable. Not ****everyone**** is having problems
@@John_Smith_86 As long as you keep it you'll be just fine. But curve balls come out of nowhere.
@@J.A.706 Oh, I will be fine. I have decent medical insurance. Not saying I can't die obviously, just the medical bills aspect.
And my Chinese family are all hard workers. So, the entire household has made it.
@@John_Smith_86 And hopefully you'll be fine for the rest of your life. But many families of hard workers have had unforeseen world or national situations come out of nowhere. Things they could never have planned ahead for or predicted. And have been at best financially stressed if not destroyed. It's the reality of money. It feels safe now but there are things you can never see ahead and never control. Even American billionaires could, and have, lose it all out of nowhere. Hard working families with fantastic pensions have seen their source of income and pensions dissolve almost overnight. Health insurance companies have collapsed seemingly out of nowhere. There are certainly families (hopefully yours) that slip through this reality and feel relatively comfortable until the end. But they still lived in a world where nothing is certain, their luck could have run out at any time. They were never truly secure. No doubt they believe their sense of money security is because of something they've done (such as worked hard, planned ahead for great pensions and medical insurance, or were born into financial security). But it's never those reasons. There are also people who never work hard and weren't born into financial security and never plan for anything and they, too, manage to avoid many of life's financial pitfalls. But it was random luck which could have turned on them at any moment. There's no pattern to those rare people who slip by and none of us can do anything to try to be one of the lucky ones. It's a complete illusion to think that hard work and either government or big corporation pensions/health care keep people financially safe. There's only a current false sense of security with hopes that rare luck will remain on our side forever.
I think you make two separate points in this video that don't necessarily go together. The first half is how having a large nest egg isn't enough because you'll have to live off the passive income (which is low), whereas the second half is how having a high income isn't enough because your expenses will also rise. I don't believe having a high savings and a high income are mutually exclusive though, and having both would mean you're financially independent enough to consider yourself "rich". About not making it into the 1%, I suppose that comes from the definition, but the thesis I'd go with is that a large section of your viewership can get rich, but not all of them can simultaneously.
Yeah, I think this video focuses too much on statistical averages. Like yes, on the whole most won't, but isn't the point of learning about this stuff and finding ways to increase your income all about rising above the average? This video seems to ignore that there are stages between 1% and not 1%, just because reaching the top isn't a totally realistic aspiration doesn't mean that reaching the middle or even slightly above the middle should be totally off the table here. I actually think it's kind of insulting to act like surgeons have no choice in being on the precipe of financial ruin considering how many people have so much less, there's always some amount of choice, some just have more than others.
He's trying to not say the quiet part out loud: most people wind up financially secure because they came from financially secure families. If mom and dad can finance your college, your extended family supports you so you aren't trapped in low-paying service jobs* and can apply until you get your foot in the door in a decent career field that pays ok, if your grandparents provide your downpayment and closing costs, then the odds of you being secure and not being thrust into homelessness for the sin of not being employed for two weeks are pretty good. If not... retirement's not going to be an option for you.
* The current job market is a very different beast. The 2000 - 2019 job market could see you fired if you tied your shoes in a way your boss didn't like. Most people have (or know) stories that involved being fired for absolutely asinine things.
You’re like a combination of economics explained and cinemasins. I appreciate this more pessimistic look at finances
You and Plain Bagel are my new favorite finance channels
Millionarie next door is an old book that I read...it is a dream...some do make it..I did...so don't trash a book that makes some dreams come true...Good Luck to All...more money does make you happier...give it to others and make their dreams come true
Lol not going to lie, this definitely hits at home. Between me and my partner we push 250k and we don't have kids yet. We put money into an ETF, a joint investment account, and regular stuff with our jobs. However, we aren't dumb....there is no way we are going to be absolutely wealthy since we have to live in a somewhat high cost area and have normal debts.
You need to have your mortgage paid for, student loans paid, and someone investing in you before you were born. While you as an individual stay disciplined to a degree, in order to maintain real wealth. I don't understand how there are people making less money than us, but act like they are going to be a millionaire any day now?...it is odd....
I would rather have a good work life balance, and be able to take vacations or do hobbies. When compared to sacrificing everything just to get to a number that doesn't even matter at the end of the day. As long as retirement isn't a serious struggle.
There is a great hispanic movie from the late 90s which exemplifies your comment so great. And I just made thatp connection after reading your comment
Those people, sell dreams
From you, someone who knows how those trajectory have slim to none chances of success, how those people are brainwashing young or broke fellows.
Man, you made me have a deep and emotionally intensive connection, in which I can see poor or broke people buying garbages that was sell to them as the cure or dream and they were buying it, because, little to no other hope they had....
You're bad with money. I'm wealthy and i earn 50k a year and that's it, just don't be terrible with money.
@@DavidDawkins-l7iso you coupd stop working today and be good for life?
Every time I think that I don't earn enough or don't have enough I remember that some hundred years ago people worked mostly to have enough for a home of some kind and food. I have way more than that, so maybe not being able to buy an expensive "toy" isn't really showing that I'm poor, but that it's not really neccessary.
As I get older (I'm still just 34) I'm starting to see that having more just makes you want for more - a new car isn't good enough, you want a better new car. Your own house isn't enough, you want a better/newer/bigger house etc. You need to draw a line when it's actually enough, otherwise you'll be left chasing the next tier unless you are someone like Bezos, but even then he probably can't have certain things (like privacy?) that normal people have.
Having multiple stream of investment is the best thing that can happen to anybody, i started investing in stocks recently, while i was researching i stumbled on an article where an investor make over $80k monthly, i would appreciated any tips on how i can develop my portfolio to produce such profits.
@TheNorthMan That's extremely remarkable; I'd want more information about your financial advisor because I'm planning to make some changes in my portfolio this year as well.
th-cam.com/video/NF5H7ch2Ngg/w-d-xo.html How-Money-Works talks about multiple streams of investment here, interesting!
This question reveals all that is wrong with retail investing. Do you really think there is some secret, risk-proof strategy that allows everyone to make 80k a month and all it is needed is to learn the "secret"? Please. You want to know how to do 80k a month? It is super simple actually, just not easy. Start with a 32million$ capital and place it in safe triple-A bonds. At a modest 3% return per year, you can get your 80k a month.
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@@1zbosszTheres something about them. Maybe the soulessness. Maybe the total lack of humanity. They can be detected inside of the first few words.
this right here is the reason this is the only financial and economics channel I trust on youtube.
“Financially comfortable” is fine with me. I wouldn’t even know what to do with tens of millions of dollars.
Biggie said it best, mo money, mo problems.
My man is out here making moves telling everyone else not to try. Love it!
Yet people believe and cry that „the system is rigged“. Funny
I love your videos. But you're not shitting on my dreams; I've already reached them. Your videos bring me to a lot of nodding and laughter. Love it!
I think that the *prepper* mentality like food storage helps you long term.
It frees you from any pressure and helps you focus on goals that *you* want.
The reason most people will never be rich is because most people never learn that the meaning of rich isn't just having a lot of money or having a lot of access to money. Being rich is about balancing ownership of assets to grow value and revenue faster than the loss thereof through ownership of liabilities and consumption spending. Proof that money isn't wealth is easy enough: Poor lottery winners only rarely maintain their fortunes while rich bankruptcies usually shed their destitution.
Thank you for keeping it real and killing my dreams
Tldw : those who are born rich, mostly stay rich, those who are born poor or middle class start the same, no matter how hard you try to climb that ladder..
But some climb that ladder (only who's taking very risky decission)
Than get ill and die . But atleast you die rich right?
I absolutely love programming and problem solving. There is also definitely no shortage of job opportunities for the level of knowledge that I'm at.
There are quite a lot of points in this video that simply aren't true. You can earn a lot of money and save it. You don't have to conform to a statistic at all. The more you conform to the statistic the more likely you are to become part of it. But just think of this, how many people are actually "normal"?
Agreed!
yep, working as a Dev is not necessarily a pain and you can have really good incomes working only 40 hours a week, and I'm talking about over 100k USD per year. Looking at the statistics he is right, but not all statistics are right as well :)
May i know are you already doing a job or still a student?
That's what most people think, if your job is in a field that you enjoy, like a coding job for you as you enjoy coding, they think they will never get burnt out or can keep working for 16 hours a day and 7 days a week, but that's not the case once they start their job..
The same happened with me too, trust me I'm telling from my experience, I love machine design and after struggling for a year, i finally got a machine design job, but I'm really struggling to have a work life balance, there is no life and only work, even though i loved to do machine design as a hobby, I absolutely HATE my job. What's different when I'm hating my passion as hobby and work is , my job is repetitive, i have to work under others management and under a boss, it demands a lot of time like 10 hrs a day, whereas as a hobby only like a hour a day, my work has deadlines which as hobby won't have any deadlines and the pressure is enormous, I don't want to work like a donkey all the time and ignore my health, family, and other stuff just because I'm working in a field I'm passionate about .
I really want to quit my job and find a better job, even if that means working in a field I'm not passionate about, or just follow lying flat movement...
@@MadsTer you can't just flick your finger and become a dev who works 40 hours a week and make that much money, it takes a ton of time and effort to master in your profession to reach such a point .
And about statistics, yeah if majority of ppl aren't millionaires or won't be millionaires won't really mean you can't be one, but that's the point of statistics you know, that also means the probability of you becoming a millionaire is super low, but you still can become one, though it's hard and demands it's own sacrifices..
@@suprithAnCom I agree with you. As a backend engineer myself, a lot of the times, the work is kinda boring and repetitive, it's even worse if we consider the bad client that we got.
And coming from a 3rd world country, you can tell that the salary is not that great here.
I'm the "richest" among my coworkers, but I drive the oldest and crappies car, wear cheap offbrand clothes, and eat on the same leftovers for a whole week. They simultaneously view me as being a boring stiff, but also are envious of my financial comfort and stability. I'm set to retire in my mid-50s, and my coworkers can't make the connection between financial success and self discipline.
For me, if you're needs are met, rich is just a state of mind. I've set up a system so my needs are met in retirement as well as now and so far(12 years) it's been working. Your videos are pretty good, btw. Regarding Millionaire Next Door is a good read. For me, I've found living below means, establish an emergency fund then begin investing and have a side business that's profitable. Then take discipline, patience, time, knowledge (and applying it) and a bit of luck but it's mostly effort.
I am rich. I have three great kids, a career I enjoy, a work-life balance, a wife who loves me, a healthy body, spiritual fulfillment, hobbies, and a small circle of friends. I'm not sure what else more money could provide me.
This is so true. With a practical approach of safe investments returning an expected 6-8% per year and a good salary you will become ’rich enough’ without risking anything. You only live once so what you really have to manage is risk. Its 10 times worse to lose 90% of your savings at 30 than to have 100k instead of 200k at 30. When you raise a family you have to plan financial buffers and how to limit your responsibilities at work. Being able to take days off work without risking too much of a backlash is incredibly valueable, reckless risk taking and stress at work are the two things you want to afford to say no to in your 30s.
Fortunatly, the high income earner problems are far easier to avoid in this day and age, specifically high cost of living areas. I live and work in the DC area, but because I have the ability to work remotely I am able to live further from work and commute less. This then means I spend less on housing, transportation and food since I can stay home most of a week if needed.
I am an outlier though, 22 working for a startup company spending 40% of my earnings and using the rest to buy investments... and uh some cars... Might need to cut back on the cars.
I wasted some money on cars too. I dropped the car habit early thank goodness.
I also use too much money to buy cars, so my advice: keep buying cars, theyre awesome
I mean if you buy the right cars they can appreciate in value. 90's Japanese sportscars for example have really started going up in price the last few years.
@@CockatooDude I mean one is a Subaru wrx, the other is a 25th anniversary mustang so going well in the
depressiation department.
Never planning to sell either though
I just live a simple life and I try to enjoy my work, which includes my job. Being rich doesn't even matter to me when I focus on those two goals.