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Most rich people are rich because they serve others well. They offer value, something other people want and are willing to pay for. "As a result" of serving others, they become rich.
Poor are only concerned with serving themselves. Thats why they are called "takers".
Think about it.
You should think about it too, because your argument is false. All poor people I know offer services, but don't get paid much for them. Construction, daycare, golf course maintenance, hotel/restaurant workers, airport workers etc just don't make people rich, but to claim they are "takers" who are concerned only with serving themselves is just plain dishonest.
This is why the former CEO and co-founder of "The Home Depot" has said that if Dodd-Frank had been in effect when they started, they would not have been able to get financing, which means there would have been no "Home Depot." They couldn't have done it, he has said many times.
99.9 percent couldn't get the financing. Did he think he was special?
My ex was making $150,000/year as a senior software engineer. I don't know anybody making $250,000 / year just by working for somebody else.
Correct. I love how the whole paradigm has shifted to the point that regular working people that ain't seeing anything close to six figures can sit around and talk as if 250k is small potatoes.
250k a year is RICH...period. Anyone pretending that it's not is just being a bit too highfalutin' for their own good. I'm not even sure if my doctors earn that much annually.
Of course that doesn't mean that you can buy several Ferraris and a few mansions. But that's beside the point.
I just read a book called, "Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" and within 50 some odd years after his death, the offspring and their offspring, of the very wealthy, uneducated and self-made rich guy, Corneilius Vanderbilt, had plowed through his entire fortune. However, for all of their excesses, they hired a gazillion poor people to cater to them personally, take care of their many estates and take care of their businesses -- people who might not have had jobs otherwise in those days.
You should think about it too, because your argument is false. All poor people I know offer services, but don't get paid much for them. Construction, daycare, golf course maintenance, hotel/restaurant workers, airport workers etc just don't make people rich, but to claim they are "takers" who are concerned only with serving themselves is just plain dishonest.
What these people do have is a way to keep all of their earned income........by filing their taxes the correctly.
You can work down a coalmine for forty years and still be poor. so its not always to do with work... the thing about the rich is that they can make more money easily with shares and taking risks.. the poor have nothing to take risks with... another thing is the rich have their own advisers and accountants ,and ways of finding places to put their millions so as not to pay a lot of tax etc...the rest of us can only dream of the lives these people have..
You can work down a coalmine for forty years and still be poor. so its not always to do with work... the thing about the rich is that they can make more money easily with shares and taking risks.. the poor have nothing to take risks with... another thing is the rich have their own advisers and accountants ,and ways of finding places to put their millions so as not to pay a lot of tax etc...the rest of us can only dream of the lives these people have..
the wealthy also have no money worries which frees them up to enjoy life more than someone worried if they have enough to pay the rent and feed their children. no money worries is a great thing.
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