If you guys are so smart, why arent you rich?

>>105856577 (OP)
crippling social anxiety

working it ill get around it

I was only pretending to be smart

If you actually have work experience in programming you realize most of the programming related threads here are written by college students or retards.

>>105856577 (OP)
Because every time I have close to enough money not to care I stop caring and then slowly run out until I have to care again.

hidden algorithms that entrap people in poverty

I was and still getting manipulated by retards more wealthy than me.

>>105856577 (OP)
I had severe reaction to a vaccine and have been basically in a stupor for years now.
The eye damage doesn't help.
Neither do the migraines.
Nor the government pretending that these things are safe.

But basically, this crippled my career and I've been too sick to respond well.
But I have a theory my family were targeted through these things for genocide because of skeletons in the closet with our government. All of that side of the family have had weird side effects from the past few years.


tl;dr: fuck jews.

>>105856577 (OP)
there's 2 ways to get rich:
born to rich parents who invest into whatever you do
get really lucky and then somehow avoid being EEE'd by megacoporations

>>105856849
Getting money and being part of the system is literally contributing to the thing murdering my family at this stage.
It's over for this state. The money is pyrrhic.

>>105856849
You have to compete against luck. Those that know, know.

>>105856577 (OP)
Getting rich isn't a matter of being smart, it's a matter of being lucky at the start of your career and having the advantages from your random success rig the rest of the game in your favor. Google yard sale model.

The biggest lie everybody unconsciously believes in is that rich people are especially good at making money when they literally just got lucky a couple times.

>>105856577 (OP)
why is it sucking in all the dust from te ground into the power supply? whats their endgoal?

>>105856577 (OP)
Unironically too much of a moralfag. I've had two (2) opportunities to make some decent cash so far in my life, but both would involve some unscrupulous yet technically legal activities.

>>105856684
this board is for college fags. cope

there are a lot of people who appear smart and rich who are in reality dumb and poor (in fact, if you see someone at random that appears to be the former, they are most likely the latter). May who appear rich are in debt up to their eyeballs and have no savings or any real assets. Smart people who have wealth tend not to flaunt it or waste it on frivolous crap. They live comfortably and free of want and worry about money, and thats rich to them. Anything beyond that (luxury living) is about telling other people you spent X amount of money on something, which most rich people consider stupid.

>>105857151
also, getting money is seldom about being smart, its about making sound choices when opportunity presents itself. Getting rich is about other people giving you money. Its more about wisdom and cunning than intellect. Even in the tech space the people lauded as smart and rich are there because they created something that rich people gave them money for in hopes that they could make more money from it. That does not mean what they created will do that, they just have to be convinced. All kinds of tech stuff went absolutely nowhere or were a fad but people got lots of money from it all the same.

>all these faggots think luck has anything to do with it.
The key to getting more fun tickets is being an evil asshole willing to murder your own friends and family or will to serve an evil asshole that's already doing it.

I'm not rich because I don't care about paper. Don't care about numbers in a database either. It's bullshit all the way to the top. Money is only a form of control aka modern slavery. Anyone that willingly trades their limited time for it is a dumb retard.

smarts has nothing to do with being rich
there are people like the Russian mathematician Perelman, arguably one of the most intelligent people on the planet and he lives with his mother in her small commieblock apartment.

Getting rich takes connections, usually social smarts and luck. Stupid people get rich all the time, just look at Zuck or Elon Musk

>>105856577 (OP)
I am :3. I own an asset company which owns multiple properties. I pay myself peanuts so I don't have to pay income tax and stuff - but my personal expenditure is tiny.

>>105857304
How did you do it?

>>105856848
Why did you take an experimental vaccine for the flu?

>>105857446
hidden algorithms that entrap people in filter bubbles

>>105857251
I'll have the Big Mac menu, please.

>>105856627
take cbt.

>>105856577 (OP)
Simply not wanting to be rich. It's a bigger can of worms than you 12yo faggots think it is, the higher you get in "the hierarchy" the objectively worse your quality of life is.
When you own a successful business, you increasingly start running into amoral psychopaths with more power and money than you (+your entire lineage +everyone you know) could ever hope to grasp. Remember Heemeyer and the shit that made him go 'dozer? That was a couple small-town elected officials and 1 (ONE) concrete company. He owned a fucking muffler shop. Now imagine the tomfuckery that would happen to you if you tried to do something more. That's the reality of business(money/power etc) in this country.

For a typical well-adjusted person, the most you'd want is a well paid white-collar job. The higher you go, the more risk you open yourself up to. It takes a special kind of person to think they can succeed in that shark pit.

>>105857470
skill issue

Who said I was smart? Who?

>>105856577 (OP)
I'm not smart, I'm a 115iq midwit. I'm also very lazy, lack confidence and used to have crippling social anxiety.

>>105856577 (OP)
Because general intelligence is just a small component of what it takes to be "successful" in the modern world

>>105857423
Being smart with savings and investments (I invested in bitcoin back in 2011 lol)

>>105857912
>used to have
sure, sure

>>105856577 (OP)
I never claimed to be smart

The link between intelligence and money is laughably small, it’s like $4k for every 10 IQ points.

Personally from my experience, the secret to success is to be born with money, and then to not lose your mind. I’ve seen plenty of people lose their fortune to divorce, and most of the people I’ve known with money inherited it or otherwise had family connections.

>>105856577 (OP)
Einstein is one of the smartest people of the past century and, in today's currency, wouldn't even be considered a millionaire

Tesla was literally broke multiple points in his lifetime and died in poverty because he ultimately got ripped off with most of his patents. Tesla had the best chance at being uber rich via patents, but got scammed basically

Turing was decently rich though, but blew most of his money and died on what would be middle class salary in today's terms

Getting "rich" as a typical wage/salary worker has a lot less with just having a high income and a lot more about managing your finances. Making 6figs does help but there are plenty of people with high income that still fail to build their net worth. Absolutely none of the wealthiest people alive got their money by just getting paid a wage or salary. It all comes from investments, trades, and entrepreneurship which is a mix of luck and skill. There are people on /biz/ who are millionaires despite never working a day in their life because they put their high school allowance into Bitcoin 15 years ago after reading about the cool hacker money on the internet. The richest people are the ones who have an autistic fascination with investments/markets in the way some people have with speedrunning.

It doesn't help that a lot of people start spending money when they start making more money, you could double the salary of the average American and they would still fail to properly save or invest their money because they would immediately start buying more pointless luxury junk. Giving the average /g/ poster a pay raise just means they'll spend more money on shit like Blue Archive pulls. People disregard the old wisdom of "a penny saved is a penny earned" either because they're consumer goycattle or because they fall into the mental trap of income maximalism and don't understand that money is fungible and a penny saved is quite literally equal to a penny earned.

Plenty of people with high salaries also live in areas with high taxes and high costs of living so they have to spend more money for basic needs. I've known people with salaries in the $60k-80k range that live like kings in rural areas (massive house, multiple cars, no struggle paying off debt) because there's no almost taxes and everything is dirt cheap there meanwhile people making six figs in urban areas still barely make rent each month, but will absolutely refuse to move out of the city if given the choice.

>>105856627
>being scared of other humans
fucking cringe

>>105856577 (OP)
I’m a 6’1” muscular Puerto Rican man from a retarded and dysfunctional peasant family. Most people in tech aren’t willing to look past the physical aspect and coming from where I come from means I have no business connections outside of menial labor jobs. I’m also self taught because I can’t afford university or certification programs.

>>105856577 (OP)
Intelligence isn't how you get rich, it's sociopathy.

>>105856577 (OP)
There's 1 types of smartness.

1) ability to change the world in your will

>getting material comfort to satiate the constant hunger that looms in the back of your mind
but thats half measures and only a coping mechanism
>addressing the hunger, the source, the mechanism of hunger, and either 1) bypass and let the world be with you 2) master it and bend the world to your command

If you know, you know
If you dont, you will not understand

>>105856577 (OP)
I have just the right level of smarts to convincingly bullshit my employer that I'm doing far more work than I actually am. I have a cushy work from home web dev job that's paying me to do the bare minimum actual work. I'm far from rich but I'm financially comfortable.

My boss has told me before that I should go for higher positions when they open up as he thinks I'm more than capable, but I intentionally ignore them because I probably wouldn't be able to bullshit my employer so much anymore. The extra pay isn't worth it.

>>105859673
seems to me like autism and luck.

>>105856577 (OP)
But I am very rich.
however, it had nothing to do with my intelligence and instead depends on the fact that my grandfather invested heavily in real estate. And he taught my dad to keep investing. And my dad taught me the same. It is called generational wealth. My son is in university right now and I will retire at 45 as soon as he has his degree and I will pass it on to him.

>>105857151
>Smart people who have wealth tend not to flaunt it or waste it on frivolous crap. They live comfortably and free of want and worry about money, and thats rich to them
spoken like a true brokie. you probably think 200k a year is six digits too LMAOOOOO later brokie

>>105861583
>you probably think 200k a year is six digits
it is.

seethe more you fucking retard

>>105859416
>The richest people are the ones who have an autistic fascination with investments/markets in the way some people have with speedrunning.
Fuck I wish this was true, my reward for being artistically fascinated with markets is I’m not allowed to trade any securities and I get to sit in the cuck chair watching portfolio managers get rich

>>105861583
There’s so many different types of rich people. Some spend a ton of money buying flashy shit, others like to larp as old money WASP’s and don’t buy for luxury as much.

>>105856577 (OP)
Because I rather have more time than money.

I choose to

>>105856577 (OP)
>why aren't you rich?
I have enough money that I have zero financial worries in my daily life. I have $600k equity in my house (nearly all paid off) and have $300k in my retirement. Any time I get a raise I dump the difference into the sp500. My checking account has $25k in it as of this morning; I like to keep it around $20k as a rainy day buffer. Double-income, no kids, no desire for kids. My wife and I have the freedom to do whatever we want, within reason.

The difference between this lifestyle and "being rich" involves a much more active and stressful working situation than what I want. I don't like working harder than I have to, I hate corporate ladder bullshit, I love working ~25 hours a week (from home) and I'd have to sacrifice my slacker lifestyle for a chance at doubling my income within the next 5 years. And for what? To buy bullshit I don't particularly want or need? Status means nothing to me, all I want is financial stability and the freedom to pursue my interests, which are inexpensive (hiking and mountaineering 1-3 hours drive from my house).

>>105856577 (OP)
I ain't rich but got enough income to live a decent life
I was born in sacramento but went to live in Lima, Peru because my asian wife has relatives there.

>>105859508
>just interact with people that hate you chud!
no thanks nigger!

>>105861963
>thinking 99.9% of other people give a shit about you one way or the other

>>105856577 (OP)
i actually live very well for a person in my area. i'm not wealthy but i am "rich" in that i have more than enough money and don't really wont for anything major.

I am in fact Dumb As Hell

>>105861981
stop glowing so bright

>>105856848
No you didn’t, none of that is real. Of all the things to lie about

>>105856916
you vill consume the dust

>>105856577 (OP)
>If you guys despise the system, why don't you join it?

>>105856577 (OP)
>If you guys are so smart
Listen to me

>>105862117
Not as dumb as me

>>105862355
For real you'll one day figure out everybody is broken to some degree.
A lot of achievements and what people do is dictated by a cope, some internal deficiency or imagined shortcoming.

>>105859508
it's not a logical thing, it's more like an irrational phobia
you can get over it but it's kind of a life long thing that you have to constantly work at

>>105856577 (OP)
Being rich is gay, and I don’t like cum.

>>105856577 (OP)
Being rich isn't as enticing as sitting on my ass and farting.

>>105857530
You mean cbd right?

>>105856577 (OP)
I'm not poor, I'm well off and need not work. Why become rich if I'm happy with what I have?
I can't afford a Learjet, so what?

>>105863517
Yeah I know, just wanted to help. I said that because it's the equivalent of picrel for me.
I used to be a mega shut-in but I got lucky that I got forced "out of my conform zone(tm)" and saw how broken everybody actually is.
The question is, why do you believe you're less than whoever? You're not.

>>105856577 (OP)
Competition

>>105857089
Wrong it's for NEETs