I feel like this post, and a frequent problem with these types of conversations online, is that it confuses millionaire and billionaire.
You might be able to become a millionaire if you invest in a retirement fund your entire working life. It's basically required to do so if you expect to retire middle class.
But you cannot work or invest your way towards becoming a billionaire. You can only get there by being extremely wealthy to begin with.
Or through really hard work, right? Like if you worked really, really hard and maybe visualized it?
I put become a billionaire on my mood board!
Three whole months from homelessness??? Wow talk about wealthy! /s
I'm sure I could stretch the eviction out at least a year
Give me one very good month of buying lottery tickets and I can get there. I swear I can get there..
Clearly the problem is that you're not buying enough lottery tickets
I do wonder about that. Odds of winning the Powerball are 1 in 292.2 million. So theoretically if you spent $292 million on a $1B powerball payout (and no one else won), you be guaranteed to win and should come out well ahead because you’d have other tickets that would win downstream amounts. It’s just having that initial capital and surprised we haven’t seen someone try to invest that amount.
I’m two years away from problems.
That said, I’m a decade away from being a millionaire, which puts me at two decades away from a retirement at my current non-crazy-but-eat-out-a-lot lifestyle.
A big part of this is people not living within their means.
I keep hearing about people making 6 figures a year living paycheck to paycheck and honestly I have no sympathy.
You don't need that brand new car that has $600/month payments. You don't need a 3 story house. You don't need every luxury under the fuckin sun.
Live within your means and you'll rarely go wanting.
This is coming from someone who's been legitimately poor their whole life. If you can't make it with that much money it's your own fuckin fault.
I'm exactly who you're talking about and i can say its not as simple of a take now primarily because housing is exorbitantly expensive and it looks to be only getting worse.
Idk if I even disagree with what you're saying. But its so frustrating bc i really spend on just food an housing and i'm barely getting by. And i hate it.
A random viral video could put you up pretty high, but don't count on that luck.
I wanted to see if the image is small enough for me to fetch:
$ curl -I 'https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/a1582706-199c-4994-9c4b-3057f85f3b97.webp' HTTP/2 405 server: nginx date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:39:44 GMT content-length: 0 vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers allow: GET cache-control: public, max-age=60 access-control-expose-headers: allowThe content-length is zero. #LemmyBug indeed.
For those on limited connections and for the blind, what does the pic show?
Whenever I try to get people to understand where they *actually* are in the class war, the reminder that "you are *always* three very bad months away from being homeless, but *never* three very good months away from being a millionaire", can be clarifying
here, lad
Thanks!
