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I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

From the perspective of most of history, you’re that guy with everything he needs.

[-] Pottsunami@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Isn't this the plot to elysium?

In all seriousness, its not impossible to go from the bottom to the top, but its definitely improbable. Anyone can do middle class. Just do middle class.

If you really want to go wild, sacrifice your pleasantries in order to save a bit and give it to your child a chance. Ill give you an example.

Jeff Bezos mother Jackie and father Tim when were 16 and 18 respectively when she was pregnant with Jeff. Jeffs first dad was a drunk asshole and they got divored. She met a Cuban Refugee named Miguel Bezos, who adopted Jeff. Jeff went and got himself into Princeton, where he graduated and started working for a financial tech company.

Now Miguel got his degree and was working for exxon. Thats how he was able to save up the $254k that he and Jackie loaned to Jeff. With that, he made an online bookstore called amazon.com. From there Jeff became the multi billionaire he is now. Oh, Jackie and Miguel got 6% each so they're billionaires too.

Now that's the American Dream. Even so, I think the question is, how rich is too rich?

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[-] banana_meccanica@feddit.it -5 points 1 year ago

They're gonna fall, we just have to stop saying yes. No more subscriptions, no more taxes, no more work. And we're getting so many, 30s and 20s, we're not buying anything anymore and most of all, we've been doing nothing. Soon billionaires will become millionaires and millionaires ordinary people.

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