Damus
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How to not be poor:

1) live below your means
2) buy assets with your surplus
3) continue for 20+ years

Living below your means is the hard part, all your friends and neighbours spend so much and so it feels weird to have the smaller house or the older car or do a camping trip over a European getaway.

But if you don't wanna work until you're 70, sacrifices must be made.
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Meyer · 2d
Appreciate this perspective and agree Living below our means is the real struggle lately though. Want to provide my family a great life and feel awful telling my son I can’t take him to soccer games and shit because everything is a fucking fortune.
Chiefwhite · 2d
says the guy going to the Dentist
Vincent Anton · 2d
I prefer earn beyond my means. Allows me to have enough house for the family and no holes in our clothing.
Laeserin · 2d
1. Don't have children.
Showtime · 2d
#blabliblablo #onlybusiness tu le sais tout autant que moi qui ne suit pas dev. D’ajouter la maxime d’une amie : #ArnaquesCrimesEtMarketing - simplement…. #ABE Salut !
Bfgreen · 2d
We live this. Hardest part is kids seeing peers with “all the things” and not having the same. Fast forward 20 years, house paid off, four new cars paid off, kids college costs paid off. Both kids starting their professional life with zero debt and a newish car paid for. Now they understand wha...
BlueWizard · 2d
Easy choices = hard life Hard choices = easy life
Sven · 2d
Wonderful advice!
DanDan · 2d
Once you get out of the consumer mindset, it's not that difficult. Eventually, the behavior even begins to seem strange, which makes it easier to not go back to old habits. I think has a lot to do with the invention of "disposable" single use items. That shifts your mindset from only seeing things ...
Moist · 2d
or, 1. get elected to office. 2. steal everyone else's money
The COG Catholic · 2d
I thought wealth came from getting zaps and stacking sats. That's what I've heard on nostr.
Sam · 2d
Learn how fix/build things yourself is another good one.
MAV21 · 2d
save in bitcoin
kman2140 · 1d
4) then have it all taken by .gov