Time is finite and it's up to us how we spend it. Every week has just 168 hours and if you spend 40 hours working and another 5 commuting then that's a big portion of your time.
That's 1/4 of your whole week given up to work. Another 1/3 in bed and you don't have much left over for yourself.
The biggest scam in the world is convincing everyone to work for 60 years straight while saving up to finally be free for the last ten years. But it's not real freedom since you are now already old and have health issues form the years of hard work. All that time which could have been better spent but taken up by work.
How many employees do Facebook have? Amazon or Twitter/tesla? IT's not the CEO's doing the work. They rely on thousands of people working on low wages to create their value. If jeff Bezos took his 205B fortune and doubled the pay of every employee would it even make a dent. At 1.5M employees worldwide he could give them all an extra 10,000 this year and it would only be 7.5% of his net worth. I'm sure that most of the people working in the supply centers need it a lot more than he does.
But that's not how it works. They will work forty hours plus every week creating value for his company for all of the value to flow upwards to the top table.
a lot of these people will take on debt early in life to try and create a better life but only end up working to service those debts for decades.
In some countries you have college loans. Not here fortunately but it's a big problem in the states. Then you get a car loan to start working. Work for a few years and get a mortgage. Maybe a nicer car on credit.
So your working hard every week. Get a decent wage in the door but it's decimated from debt. Paying for a car that you don't need and a house that can be too big.
People tend to live outside of their means in this social world where everybody is judged on what they can put in a picture.
It would make a lot more sense to buy a basic car for cash. A smaller house with low payments and a lifestyle that isn't filled with fakeness and store bought crap.
It's a vicious cycle of working and spending. Very hard to get out of when your stuck in the middle of it and one where the odds are stacked against you. Workplaces don't want you getting out. Governments don't want you getting ahead.
Whether it's orchestrated or not there is an elite faction at the top of the wealth scale and it suits them to keep people down on the poverty line. Big business and politicians are hand in hand.
The government rules in favor of these businesses and these businesses fund the politicians.
It only works if there is a poorer set of people who owe money to the elite. It keeps us in our place and keeps the world turning in their favor.
To break out takes a lot of effort and making the right choices time after time to build up funds. The only way to get into the upper circle is with money and the only way to get money by generating money. Passive income or profitable business.
If you stay working your whole life you will probably get to a comfortable stage but too late to enjoy it fully. When your old and the kids have already gone.
There is more to life than working so the best time to break the cycle is right now. Start making smart moves and plan to escape the employee trap.
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Agree on this, I work forty hours a week too and then just spend my weekends trying to find other ways so that I can earn more. Grind, create content, etc. The goal is to leave the rat race in the near future. The pay is lucrative, but then again in the coming years, without any back-ups, everything will be rubbish. I am a replaceable part of the workforce and something may happen in the future too.
Finding outside sources of income is a huge part of it for me.
Passive income that can earn even when we sleep. My end goal is to build up a large HBD position that will pay out every month but 1 i need to earn a lot of HBD and 2 the future of a crypto project is never certain.
If i can buy some land, shares, property over time to create a diverse portfolio then there is a chance. Not easy to pay the monthly bills and save enough money for investment as well.
Can't agree more to this man - projects come and go. I do plan to save some HBD too in the next few months once I got my mojo back in Hive. Been busy with irl concerns and upskilling.
It's so true, from my personal experience most of workplaces exploit workers like I'm working in a so called digital marketing company they say and timing is 8am to 4pm everyday and there's no off on weekends just to earn $55 a month that just cover groceries.
Trust me the entire workplace is full of people and new one do join every then and now.. can't barely save anything working for others.. so, I'm mostly spending time on trying to grind here and in crypto which takes a lot of time and effort. making financial condition better while working for others is just not possible unless they start to pay good.
Only $55 a month??
That's crazy. Things like hive must be a great opportunity then where you can earn a lot more than that over time.
10 hours a week here will earn you a nice bit once you build a reputation and get active on other peoples pots.
I totally agree with you. You'll never get rich working for someone else. You may not get rich working for yourself but at least you'll have a chance.
I don't even want to be rich at the end of the day.
Just to earn enough that we can live comfortably and have a good work life balance while doing so.
Not too much to ask when our parents generation could do the same with just one person working and one at home to mind the house and family. Now we can have two working full time and barely get by.
At least working for yourself puts it onto your own hands to make money and set the hours.
So true; that's the rat race thoroughly explained righ there. Hoping Hive is part of the way out!
The sad thing is how staffs get underpaid for the work that they do. It isn’t encouraging at all
It's so sad that people can be working full time and not even afford to rent a house or apartment.
There is something not right about that.
These is so much more to life than working, so true. We are conditioned to PRIDE ourselves in how good a slave we are to our employers. If a person is a mental slave to their employer, they should be a good slave, but not everyone is fit for that role. New game, new rules, release the captives, set them free.
It's just drilled into us. I remember all of the times i worked through sickness as i didn't want to let my team down. Not even the bosses but the people alongside me who would suffer if i didn't turn up.
It's madness really how we have been conditioned to slave away. In the older days people worked for themselves and their families. Supported these people and had satisfaction in their work.
I htink we need to start changing the game again.
The Iron Heel shows the math of crapitalism in chapter 9.
Confession of a Monopolist illustrates how the game has been played from the very first days.
They don't have to burn books when nobody reads them.™
Thanks for the heads up. I love a good read when i have the time to dive into it properly.
It's one thing seeing how the game is played which few enough even do.
It's another level to break out of the level that your currently in.