I don't like avocados. I've literally never had avocado toast.
And somehow I'm not a millionaire.
Have you tried getting a 10 million dollar loan from daddy?
Have you considered supplementing your income by committing massive fraud?
You need to start by making small changes to your daily habits, and build up to massive fraud. If you try to do it all at once the habit wont stick.
I dont know about that. Small crimes get prosecuted. Big crimes? You just pay a fine that's less than what you made.
I'm thinking "big crimes" is probably better overall. Might as well just start there.
Small crimes from small fish. You can only take money from people who have less than you, that's how the fraud system works. So you gotta ramp up your frauding slowly.
I was attempting to be facetious and mimic the self help type advice you see about daily habits, but yes, if you want to get away with it, bigger is probably better.
How to be a millionare by 30:
get 2 million as a gift from parents- Start a buisness in an untapped market
- get investors
- work all day every day
- workout and meditate to keep you body and mind healthy
- save as much as you can, no starbucks!
- sell the buisness once it is valued over a million
- use that money to start a new one
I have seen many adverts rich people make so heres a schedule:
Wake up at 4am
Get dressed 4-5
Go to gym 5-7
Get changed 7-8
Eat breakfast 8-8:30
Read newspaper 8:30-9
Work 9-12
Lunch 12-13
Hit the club 13-17
Dinner 17-18
Club again 18-?
Do these and you will be a billionare in no time. If you are an older gentleman replace the club with golf.
You don't see the ultra rich getting fancy coffee from your local barista.
They pay assistants to do that for them.
which is honestly fucking sad, you bet your ass i'd be buying the most expensive shit from the local coffee shop if i had a billion dollars
It's one coffee, Michael, how much can it cost? $100?
Not only does the assistant buy the coffee. He also drinks it, and does all the work for the billionaire.
As it should be. Imagine earning millions of dollars and still having to work for it
Being a millionaire is just saving a portion of income for 30 years and you can easily hit a net worth of a few million dollars.
Being a billionaire requires some level of absurdly lucky success, fraud, exploitation, and rich parents.
That's setting aside $33,333/yr
That's not easy for most people
I mean, that would be considering there is no interest at all. Yes if you would put it under a mattress, sure. If you would put it in s&p for instance, even on the low end you'd be getting about 6%. At that interest compounded monthly, you'd be able to be a millionaire at about $1000 a month, or $12000 a year. Still a buttload, but not unfeasible for dual earners without children, depending on where you're located and in what industry of course.
If you were saving it. Actually you would be investing it so no need to actually save up 1 million. 30 years is on the optimistic side though. The more common problem seem to be low wages, as those leave nothing to be safed (for 30+ years) at the end of the month.
It is between retirement savings and a. Net worth includes a home, that crazy expensive half million dollar house is going to seem cheap 30 years from now and is likely going to be a million dollars on it's own.
Those are the numbers of you're not investing your savings. You can use an investment calculator to see what it is if you're investing it, with an assumption of average returns. Non trivial to get a million dollars in 30 years, but way less than $33k.
Bring able to save a significant portion of your income more than the US poverty line for 30 years without some black swan life event happening to drain it also partly depends on being lucky or/and not having children. The median US household makes plenty to become millionaires for maintainkng a reasonable QoL if there aren't any such black swan events or children involved.
For my mom, it was a custody battle for children that initially wiped her life savings. She since has often worked 100 hours weeks at a job that pays above average for a blue collar job to make enough to back up to retire (plus happens to have worked at the same company long enough to get a pension, something they phased out for anyone less senior than her), but that's not something anyone should be expected to do be able to retire, so I'm not quick to judge people for not having accumulated money.
But a lot of people waste money on convenience in ways that definitely add up cumulatively over the decades. $5/day adds up to $150k after adjusting for inflation over 30 years. A $10/month subscription is $10k over 30 years. Reducing costs like that in a few places can cumulatively get you to at least theoretically being on track to be a millionaire.
I go out for a chai latte sometimes and bring my daughter with me to get a smoothie. Fuck people who think everyone else should cut back on this shit. Just because you're not wealthy doesn't mean you don't deserve the occasional nice treat to make your life a little less dismal.
I don't know avout deserving, cutting back is just something many do to make ends meet. If you have the money for tea and smoothies then I don't see what the issue for anyone would be.
All true. But this is on a linear scale. Worth noting that wealth aggregates exponentially. Which is to say, getting from $0 to $1M is far more difficult than getting from $1M to $2M, thanks to our financial system's method of compounding returns on investment over time.
The cost of one's basic living needs heavily weigh down one's ability to aggregate wealth when one is poor. But basic living costs are trivial to someone who is rich. Same with one's ability to leverage borrowing power. It is very easy to become a billionaire if you can get ahold of a billion dollars in credit. And much of the real value of modern billionaires is measured in their credit-worthiness rather than their real liquidity. Elon Musk is a great example - a guy whose billionaire status is almost entirely bound up in how his car company and his social media company and his aerospace company are valued.
The speculative valuation of these firms is driven by the availability of lending. That's why Tesla, a company that produces less than 1M vehicles/year is valued at twice the market cap of Toyota, a company that produces over 10M vehicles/year.
TL;DR; The millionaire/billionaire distinction isn't linear. It is exponential and heavily speculative. Real utility value isn't what gets measured. And so the distinction between a millionaire and a billionaire is far more about one's ability to borrow money than one's actual accumulated assets.
That’s an interesting way to think about it that had never occurred to me. Thanks.
And much of the real value of modern billionaires is measured in their credit-worthiness rather than their real liquidity. Elon Musk is a great example - a guy whose billionaire status is almost entirely bound up in how his car company and his social media company and his aerospace company are valued.
This describes most figures with a net worth over a few million - most of the time most of that wealth is in the form of non-liquid assets like owning pieces of companies or real estate. Much of their wealth is in their ability to borrow against speculative income from those sources.
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only applicable if you're a millionaire alreadyOr a friend or relative of a Tory MP.
I'm currently a millionaire because at the time, it was cheaper to buy then it is to rent. There was a first-time homebuyer bonus also and we only needed 3.5% down. We figured if we just broke even when we wanted to move, it would have been worth it. This was back in 2009. Then, waited 10 years and I can't afford that condo that I bought with my income today.
If becoming a millionaire/billionaire is an actual goal for some people, no wonder this planet is fucked.
You pretty much need to be a millionaire if you want to be a home owner in a lot of places, although the problem is the inflated market.
Yeah, saying millionaire/billionaire as a category is gibberish. You have to be a millionaire if you want to do something crazy, like, I dunno, retire comfortably when you're 65. You have to be a billionaire, well, never. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.
And even if you don't, you'll probably be a millionaire (on paper) once you have it paid off and the value has increased even more.
I'd like to be a millionaire, but that is an method to achieve another goal, not the goal itself.
I'd like to vertically farm algae on an industrial scale as an atmospheric carbon sink, and additionally see if there is any way to do so profitably while remaining carbon negative. 1 million dollars would probably be enough to construct a small facility and hire the staff and experts I would need to figure this out.
"Millionare/billionaire" as an identity should be an insult.
Anybody with an industrial mindset will bare minimum want to take any large amount of liquid asset and turn it into production. Build and improve factories, fund research, improve living conditions near your operations. Having money acruing interest can be part of that, but should not be your primary revenue stream.
Don't wait to be a millionaire for that. See if you can find people who are also interested in it and build it as a co-op.
That said, I think you'll run into problems with the square-cube problem. Volume of algae goes up by a cube factor, but they need light. That light has to be fed by energy that has to be gathered by taking up surface area of the Earth, like solar and wind, but that only goes up by a square factor. Hydro and nuclear sources are maybes here, but you'd have to scale way, way up to make that viable (many billions of dollars, not millions). Presumably, you don't want to use energy from carbon-based sources just to suck that carbon back into algae.
I mean...business school exists.
Being a millionaire is a good goal if you want to be able to retire before you're ancient. You need something like that just to live. No one needs to be a billionaire - the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is staggering.
Nobody wants to enter professions that require hard work because it pays pittance relative to popular entertainers, and traditional milestone purchases have become moving targets, so why not gamble it all?
Becoming a millionaire is surprisingly easy if you follow these steps:
- Make coffee at home
- Cut back on Avo toast
- Be born a millionaire
Can I get some help on #3?
Or being born into the family of a former Plantation Owner.
Generational wealth for us, nothing for the descendants of the people we used to own as property.
Waiting for SBF to respond to this.
Can take a while
Have you considered not eating? Cutting down on the breakfast, lunch and dinner could potentially save a lot of money.
Also, if you don't sleep and work three jobs, 24h a day, you'll certainly make much more money. It's the little things, really
First off, I want my coffee first thing. So I make it at home so I don't have to be dressed and already up.
I don't think I have access or motivation for the amount of fraud that would make me rich in the short term. I'll keep my ears open, though.
After making coffee at home and figuring out exactly the way I like it to be made, I hardly ever consider rolling the dice on one if I can help it. Getting it while out and about is only for when I have no other choice (not being home for a long time). The cost savings are just gravy.
