Motivational
Motivational
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Starting with a small loan of $10 million, at 8% return, invested for 60 years, is all that is needed to be a billionaire.
Get rich parents that will loan their newborn $10 million.
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Here in Norway, a few years back, almost every news outlet had "guides" on how to buy your first apartment/house (buying a home became an integrated part of our economy after the war).
It was in the style of "if I can do it, anyone can"-interview with someone that just recently had bought their first home. The articles started pretty tame with clever tips where the boy/girl made coffee/lunch at home and saved a miniscule amount of money. Sure. Nice tips on how to save money.
Then it usually escalated to get your parents to buy an apartment, rent it out and keep all the rent income while living for free at home. After a while, sell the apartment and buy a new one.
Pretty fucking horrifying that journalists thought: "yes, this is a good article to print. It will help people!"
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That reminds me of this savings plan from 10 year ago that McDonalds and Visa created to show people how you can live on ~$20k per year:
They forgot to include food, among other wild inaccuracies. I love it when corporations give helpful savings tips.
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That's right, it's not too late to get adopted by an oligarch
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But maaa, I want my own e-corp producing proprietary garbage 😭
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Eat your veggies Timmy... yes, they're digitally signed by MS, don't worry.
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No way! At 40, I'm the perfect age to make TWO Microsofts! Or one Megahard!
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Or conquer all of Asia and kill enough people, and cause enough children to be a significant part of the gene pool for thousands of years
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Oppan Ghenghis style!
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I can make Orange. All we do is take other people's ideas, make them look a little nicer and charge 1000% more.
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I've never seen capitalism explained better than this.
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like the telephone company?
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Also most of those "self made" billionaires already grew up in wealthy families.
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Yeah, the youngest ever (at the time, at least) "self made" billionaire was a fucking Kardashian!
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Steve Jobs was 21 when he got Mike Markkula to invest a ton of money into incorporating Apple.
Bill Gates was 20 when he realized he came from a rich family thanks to his dad being a good lawyer and his mom was on a ton of Executice Boards.
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Ibm.
That's how he got a hold of dos.
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IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn't, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don't know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.
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Probably was the parents pushing him(and helping him ofc), but where is the "star child" history in that eh?
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Sadly, the age of garage tech startups is over, big tech made sure of that. They now just buy tech start ups with no intention of leveraging their innovations, but rather to maintain the status quo. Late stage capitalism...
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Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents
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I know it's not a business, but the whole fediverse gives "garage startup" vibes, and it's refreshing.
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no such thing as big tech. Just tech companies
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Too lazy to give up, fuck it
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Don’t forget to mention that you were born 50 years too late on wrong part of the globe to wrong parents. Game was rigged from the start.
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Silly. I gave up way before I was in my 20s.
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Better cite Wozniak as the one who 'made' Apple; but anyway.
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Nah I'm too tired to give up
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Think outside of the box, make pear.
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Megahard Pear.
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If you never try, you never have to give up.
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I believe these are known as demotivational posters.
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Joke's on you, I gave up long ago!
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I wasn't planning on making a company like Apple or Microsoft, but thanks for the heads up, now I know I shouldn't even bother 👍.
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Elizabeth Holmes screeching noises
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In all honesty the big market is basically full but nicht products still allow for small company creation
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Upvoating for comedy not accuracy.
It's unlikely to create a successful business late in life, but not impossible. Best of luck to all who are giving it a shot!
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Not for me.
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That’s correct, thanks
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Never!
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I like to suffer tho
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My internal monologue: "I'm not giving up, I can do this all day!"
"Yeah, I know! I know..."
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