Why are young people so obsessed with get rich quick? I work with a ton of people in their early 20s and 30s. All of them invest, but the majority are buying random stocks and trying to time the market or straight up gambling on kalshi/shitcoins. I asked one of them the other day why he doesn't buy SPY or VOO, and he said>I have plenty of time for safe long-term investments but I'm young, so I want to prioritize high-risk high-reward optionsWhen I tried telling him that the 5 to 10 to 15 years he spends jacking off his paycheck are prime compound interest years, but he just shrugged. I haven't met any, even at a job that pays new grads 200k, who seem to care whether they can retire unless it's tomorrow through sheer blind luck. Are young people just retarded?
>>62551068When you are old you might aswell be dead anyway, you are sick, etc...Also who knows what wars will happen. Just live for now and figure shit out later.
>>62551084I'm 35. I remember being 15 and hearing people talk about the national debt and how we're weeks away from the draft so why bother trying in school. Same shit different day. The world isn't going anywhere. You're not going to die in your 30s.
>>62551084Lmao then you cry you are a broke incel loser and it's not your fault
>>62551088cope
>>62551098Are you retarded?
>>62551068Because young people in their twenties watched their parents struggle during the 2000 and 2008 recessions, they need money to feel secure. Childhood memories and experiences significantly shape their adult lives.
>>62551107So they throw all their money away?
>>62551068I successfully stockpicked on this AI run-up but i was CONSTANTLY researching and watching news and pundits round the clock to accurately assess when to buy and sell.And then seeing that some citadel faggot can cause a market crash is why I’m just VOO/VGT/VXUS now. I’ll just DCA weekly and that’ll be that
>>62551123They don't trust the real estate or stock markets because of the crashes in 2000 and 2008. Instead, they turn to alternative options like Bitcoin or communism to challenge the system. However, I am in no position to judge whether they are right or wrong.
>>62551138Reading incel threads has destroyed millions of young white men and convinced them to never even try
Most people of above average intelligence will do much better if they maximize their career and income and stack VOO instead of trying to daytrade.If you’re stupid and don’t have skills or an education I understand the compulsion to gamble, though.
>>62551214They already made their choices, and they just don’t know why they made such choices.
>>62551068Young men need money to start their life. Working will never give you the advancement you need so they look for alternatives. Getting rich quick used to be a luxurious fantasy but now it's a necessity just to have your own life. It doesn't matter if you buy a house at 43. You're old now. Life has passed you by. You need that money now when it matters. That's why men are obsessed with schemes.
>>62551333>Young men need money to start their life.Then get a job moron, you don't need $1 million today
>>62551068>Why are young people so obsessed with get rich quick?Jobs no longer reward loyalty. Jobs will still spoonfeed lies about loyalty and a couple denial addled turbo plebs still choose to believe it, but the rest are waking up. It's all fleeting gig economy. It's all fiat printed out of nothing. It's all bullshit.
>>62551068because they know being the richest man in the nursing home doesn't mean anything and wageslaving is a total scam when society doesn't reward hard work
>>62551378>just wageslave for 50 years bro just trust the system (which has no qualms about killing you in wars or giving you brain damage through leaded gas and asbestos)Utterly deranged, schizophrenic and retarded. Get turned into shoes, faggot.
>>62551068We don't want to wait 30 years to own a house.
>>62551068It's a mystery why somebody would want to be young and rich
>>62551873but you wont stay young AND you wont get rich.
>>62551875It's a high enough rewards to try
>>62551878so are scratch tickets. its about reward vs outcome and the outcome is literally dog shit. the only sure-fire way of getting rich (long term) is unironically career+long term saving/investing+index funds. no way around it. would you REALLY take that 1% of "making it" vs the 100% just because of a few years (which you would end up spending in front of your computer anyway).
>>62551084Correct.>>62551088How the fuck do you know. You don't
They need to work for it like the boomers did. They don't make em like they used to
>>62551898>just give up, goyNo, I don't think I will.
>>62552088so its either gambling or giving up? me saying long-term investing is the way to go is not even an option for you? the majority of people will die poor
>>62551068>Are young people just retarded?No you're retarded for thinking the world is the same as it was decades ago. You're clearly some oldfag.
Its always the dude whose working some $300k job that tells people "Just invest in index funds and be safe, dont do any of that high risk stuff, there's no need!"actually, you're wrong, actually, most guys who are earning an average income are never going to ever have any "comfort" in life until they're 70+ fucking years old at this point, and thats them autistically saving & investing and having no extra money to do ANYTHING in life, all so they can MAYBE end up comfy at age SEVENTYSo the natural high IQ response to this reality is to just say fuck it and gamblemaxx and try get a 100X, a 1000X, etc - you lose? so what, the end-game of losing vs not doing it is pretty much the same at this point if you're on an average income or lowerThe only people "Safe Investing" makes sense for anymore is people on extremely high incomes who can invest a lot while also still being able to enjoy a nice lifestyle at the same time.
>>62551088Wait im just as old as you lol>>62551096It wouldnt be since face >>>>>> rest and number 2 is height.
>>62552335It's easier to get rich now than in the past. Much easier
Kill yourself gen xer
>>62551104You posted a dumbass bait thread on /biz/ asking why people wanted to make enough money to live and capped it off with>job that pays people 200kFuck off and kill yourself, unironically, you shitposting mongoloid.
>>62551274There's no careers to max anymore, shitposter, no one is going to hire you just because you think you're a smart boy with a degree. Stop posting this bullshit from 1980 everywhere.
>>62552350That's true but then why didn't you secure a solid income in the first place? It being from a tech job or founding a company. Some people tend to forget that you need huge qualities to be able to make serious money, and most people will never have them. Yeah you can make some through luck, but then, you will likely lose it. The same way if you were to give a million to a random nig he will likely completely trash them out. How many people that gambles stop when they actually make a number? How many criminals actually stop after they make a certain amount? How many faggot retarded kids that inherits from their parents do actually keep their funds? Near to none.
>>62551068WELCOME TO THE GRAND COMMUNIST CIRCUS Step right up, comrades! In today’s performance, everybody owns everything… which somehow means nobody can find toilet paper. HONK HONK.First act: The government confiscates the bakery to “help the people.” Five minutes later the shelves looking like they got raided by raccoons. But don’t worry! A man in a giant red suit appears yelling, “Production has increased by 9000%!” while standing directly in front of an empty store. Audience applauds nervously. Second act: The Amazing Disappearing Freedom Trick! One second you say, “Hey maybe this system ain’t working,” and POOF — now you taking an unscheduled vacation to a mysterious work camp somewhere cold enough to freeze soup solid. Incredible! Absolute cinema. Third act: Equality for all! Everybody gets the same tiny apartment, the same sad bread loaf, and the same mandatory portrait of Supreme Mustache Leader smiling at you from every wall like a haunted mascot. Meanwhile the party elites eating steak backstage talking about “shared sacrifice.” HONK HONK HONK.And the economy? Brother, the economy riding a unicycle on fire juggling potatoes. Every problem gets solved with another five-year plan written by twelve dudes who never touched a shovel in their life.Communism really be like:“We fixed greed!”creates a bigger greedy governmentPeak clown technology.
>>62551068If you weren't part of the top 10% in 2025, you're lower class
>>62552482Nah, you are just a lazy incel, the formula to riches is the same, work, voo and chill
>>62551096I realize theres a huge difference in how previous generations treat their male virgins, but it's gotta be gen z that's most terrible since social media didn't explode until the 2010s. The last time male virgins were treated fine has got to be when the internet joked that women didn't exist on the internet, so virgin men- being the majority on the internet- were considered 'wizards' and, in some capacity, was more respectable than the later term 'incel'. Gen z will never understand that feeling since they grew up pressured under likes and subscriber count.
>>62559266Also it doesn't help that internet users jumped up considerably by the time the ipad babies were born, so everyone and their grandma are online. Gen z is also the first generation to have a sort of 'mingling of the ages' since every generation previously just stayed or preferred their own age group, but the internet exposes them to all ages.That just means the younger generations are susceptible to getting groomed by the worst of society online tho.
>>62551815you're retarded. I've known people with trust funds who are rich young and they just waste their lives surrounded with gold diggers, yes men friend circles and drugs. If you can't be happy with enough to live off and steady compounds gains, you won't be happy no matter what. Find purpose.>>62552350just build to a good job and invest what you can. Maybe it's a much longer timeframe but it's better than 90% chance of being poor and one paycheck away from being homeless>>62555372>why didn't you secure a solid income in the first place?this. It's also easy come, easy go. Seen many guys here make almost life changing money, only to lose it all on the next trade.
>>62551814this right here. "golden years" lol what a scam. i want to be rich and free young, not when im fucking 70 and cant even play video games
>>62551068Why don't people want to work 55 years and then retire so old they can't walk?Those fools
>>62559266Stop being a loser that cries about every non problem you read about in your favorite incel blog your life will get better
>>62563593>I want Garunteed loser for lyfe mentality
