you personally need to break the mold and educate everyone as much as possible. > educate yourself on these ideas, they're not wrong > bounce ideas off your family > educate them > find a woman, educate her > if she agrees, marry her > educate her family > raise your kids, educate them > talk with people,  they will wake up, you want to know what i personally did to break the mold? because i fucked up and learned a ton of lessons personally. i can even challenge you to do this. > got rid of my debt > delineated my needs vs wants > you need air, water, food, shelter, clothes, transportation > all else are wants > went from saving blowing my entire paycheck to saving 70% of my income > invested into high quality companies that pay dividends > no lowcap/highrisk, theta chasers, or degen-bets > live on dividends > then diversify into re is this boring? absolutely. i basically gave myself an allowance. you want to spend more? you need increase your savings, the higher the savings, the more dividends they pay, the more dividends they pay the higher the allowance for me to spend. it's slow at first, but amplifies dramatically, to where after 20 years my wife and i live as separate from their system as possible. i can quit my job at any point in time now. i am not a part of their system as i have not obligated us to anything (outside property taxes). their system depends on debt and the creation of debt. there will always be those individuals that are comfortable with mountains of debt, and those people are the ones that have the illusion of wealth, but not actual wealth. being different is perfectly acceptable. co-workers will make fun of you asking if you have money problems, but i don't have a $15,000 mortgage, i don't have make a $2000 payment on a porsche for 84 months.
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