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Do you really want to be rich?

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Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by robryan »

Xurinos wrote: post #2

Yes, of course I do, and the generalizations here are gross and condescending. You will not convince me that I do not want this. I lean towards the Comfort angle, but I also start tinkering and producing when I am bored, so I could hardly be considered to walk the lazy path. I look for freedom from lower-level concerns so as to begin address higher-level needs. Money provides a layer of abstraction. http://en.wikiped…

I don't think you could ever have an amount of money you couldn't do anything with. Even if you had $100 billion, as Bill Gates shows their is plenty you can do with it.

I think I would head down the spaceX path if I even became mega rich. If government no longer wish to fund space exploration it would be great to take up that role and push humanity forward. You could never have enough money with a pursuit like this.

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by Locke1689 »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #40
jxcole wrote: post #38

I hate this article. I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) The statements x and y are opposites and combine to be a truism. Truisms are not interesting. (from the 2nd and 3rd matrix) "Some things change, and others don't". 2) The generalization is demonstrably false or unknowable. In this article in partiular, I found a sor…

I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) ... 2) ... Irony :)

I'm pretty sure he didn't rail against generalization in general, only for people in particular ;)

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by GFischer »

ekanes wrote: post #66
GFischer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. For me, 6 thousand monthly is "being rich". And so far, I have not been willing to do what it takes to get there (emigrate). I'm definitely a Category 2 guy so far :(

Why would you have to move? I'm guessing you're thinking along the lines of a funded startup, and access to capital and "deals" versus bootstrapping it yourself, but my guess is froo's startup is closer to the latter. When you bootstrap it, you call the shots and there's little reason you can't do just as well living wherever you are! Go for it.

That's the second choice, and far more appealing (don't have to uproot). Reading HN does keep that option front and center!

I'm still searching for what to sell - I have access to a relatively cheap and talented labor pool, and to some nice technology not used in the US (the Genexus codegen tool), but I don't know what niche I should target.

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by telemachos »

maxwin wrote: post #70
telemachos wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think that the article's popularity reflects badly on HN or HN's current users? Sure it's provocative (maybe deliberately so, maybe not), but it's also well-written and engaging. I won't argue about the writing, but engaging should be pretty obvious: almost everyone involved in this thread disagrees with the author, but they're all clearly involved in the debate, right?

So if I write an article about how to torture a dog for fun making most to engage in the conversation to voice their disagreement,does this article become a worthy one?is this article suited for this audience?do people gain any insights ?

I don't think that your analogy is fair. The blog post talks about different approaches to "getting rich." A lot of people here are interested in this issue. So, the article gets voted up.

For whatever it's worth, I'm have zero interest in getting rich. I wish HN were more about tech & code and less about the money and success. But that isn't a decision I get to make. Having said that, the article engaged me because it made me think about the psychology of people who do care that much about wealth.

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by jacobolus »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #40
jxcole wrote: post #38

I hate this article. I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) The statements x and y are opposites and combine to be a truism. Truisms are not interesting. (from the 2nd and 3rd matrix) "Some things change, and others don't". 2) The generalization is demonstrably false or unknowable. In this article in partiular, I found a sor…

I hate anything that says "There are two types of people in the world, those that x, and those that y". I hate it because either: 1) ... 2) ... Irony :)

Do those two options seem exhaustive to you? If so, could you explain how?

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by yequalsx »

pw0ncakes wrote: post #6

I don't like any of those categories. 1st group: starfucker douchebags, properly characterized by the OP. Prone to serve the "high-status" set they want to join as soon as they have access to those people, and therefore a liability to anyone who wants . 2nd group: contains a lot of clock-punching mediocrities, also correctly portrayed by OP. 3rd group: driven by empty ambition, likely psychopaths. These people are re…

The Group 2+ is the group that society ought to strive to empower. They are the ones from whom real progress is made. Almost all of the truly great discoveries and inventions come from this group.

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by froo »

jhancock wrote: post #59
froo wrote: post #10

I disagree. I think that there are not enough categories. For example, I've got a comfortable lifestyle, I earn a decent passive income (~18k a month) and it affords me time to work on the stuff that I want to work on. I'm working on something now because I look at the industry that I'm targeting and I all I see is flaws. The products don't match the consumers wants. I want to fix that and I see a big opportunity eve…

oh come on froo, you can't drop "I'm making 18k/month passively" and not give at least a tickle as to what your doing ;).

Well I can, simply because there are a lot of people here that would be able to emulate exactly what I'm doing.

Like I posted just before I went to bed, what I'm doing isn't concrete, it could end tomorrow and so, in that respect, I'm going to keep my mouth shut for as long as possible to reap the rewards.

Sorry, I hope you can understand.

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by soe »

pw0ncakes wrote: post #57
dnsworks wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Group #1: Social Media Scene people. You'd meet them at any networking event in San Francisco, like tonight's SF Beta Group #2: These are your friends who work at Facebook or Google. Group #3 ???

Wall Street.

exactly... i think he has to come up with another group to describe the personality he really means...

in for money but ethical?

Re: Do you really want to be rich?

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Post by akd »

Aetius wrote: post #64
Xurinos wrote: post #2

Yes, of course I do, and the generalizations here are gross and condescending. You will not convince me that I do not want this. I lean towards the Comfort angle, but I also start tinkering and producing when I am bored, so I could hardly be considered to walk the lazy path. I look for freedom from lower-level concerns so as to begin address higher-level needs. Money provides a layer of abstraction. http://en.wikiped…

"Money provides a layer of abstraction" This is so true. For those who say that getting money for the sake of getting money is a useless pursuit, no, it isn't. No one who isn't already rich is getting money strictly for the sake of getting money. They are doing it for an infinite number of reasons. Caricaturing them into rat-racey participants of Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous, simply because they want to be rich,…

Pedantry: a gigawatt is a unit of power, not energy. Perhaps you meant a gigawatt-hour? :)
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