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If you don’t want to work for a boss, then you have to start your own business or work for yourself.
If you want to make more money then you have to decide how much and change your job to accommodate that.
Smarts gets you to be upper middle class. Taking on a lot of risk, pushing yourself to the limit gets you to be rich.
Also add in a whole lot of luck.
But I am happy with my 9-5 job that provides enough to take care of the people I love.
Start loving yourself. Have you ever fell in love to the point where you’d do anything for that person and that person can do no wrong in your eyes? Make that person yourself. Takes practice!
I mean are you aggressively focused on pointing your intelligence in the direction of accumulating wealth? If you are and it's not working then you probably aren't as smart as you think you are. If that's not what you are optimizing for, be that lifestyle, or pursuit of interests, then there is no reason to expect the two to be correlated.
This is what I found by Googling around: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...
The world average median income seems to be about $10,000.
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For me, rich is someone who does not need to work. Someone who can retire at any given moment.
Honestly I never saw the appeal in this. I call it the Disney princess effect - most of them are rich enough to not work, but they end up lost and drafted into things that are bigger than themselves. They end up working harder than anyone. Maybe a rich person is someone who has enough that their priority is not personal wealth. Also under that definition, developing nations are richer than developed nations, as devel…