• @MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    676 months ago

    Starting with a small loan of $10 million, at 8% return, invested for 60 years, is all that is needed to be a billionaire.

    Get rich parents that will loan their newborn $10 million.

    • @CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world
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      Here in Norway, a few years back, almost every news outlet had “guides” on how to buy your first apartment/house (buying a home became an integrated part of our economy after the war).

      It was in the style of “if I can do it, anyone can”-interview with someone that just recently had bought their first home. The articles started pretty tame with clever tips where the boy/girl made coffee/lunch at home and saved a miniscule amount of money. Sure. Nice tips on how to save money.

      Then it usually escalated to get your parents to buy an apartment, rent it out and keep all the rent income while living for free at home. After a while, sell the apartment and buy a new one.

      Pretty fucking horrifying that journalists thought: “yes, this is a good article to print. It will help people!”

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        That reminds me of this savings plan from 10 year ago that McDonalds and Visa created to show people how you can live on ~$20k per year:

        They forgot to include food, among other wild inaccuracies. I love it when corporations give helpful savings tips.

        Source

        • @SnuggleSnail@ani.social
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          86 months ago

          My health insurance costs 842€ a month. I pay half of it, the other half my employer. So I am quite impressed with the $20 from the estimation.

          But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

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            But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

            It’s because McDonald’s was trying to make an excuse that paying people US Federal Minimum wage (7.25$/hr since 2009, it’s still that in 2023) is enough to live on, and utterly failed, even while holding both a 40h a week and 30h a week min wage job. I guess they expect fast food employees to use to make their own fast food while they’re there as their food budget.

            It was a case in point in 2013, rent and all expenses are way up since then. People aren’t going to make a living or have any savings at all, probably accruing more debt even with 2 jobs and less than the minimum of expenses.

    • The Assman
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      96 months ago

      That’s right, it’s not too late to get adopted by an oligarch

      • Rhaedas
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        106 months ago

        IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn’t, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          26 months ago

          And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand.

          That’s not being “shrewd;” that’s just not giving a fuck about screwing over other people if your bet doesn’t work out.

  • @veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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    306 months ago

    Sadly, the age of garage tech startups is over, big tech made sure of that. They now just buy tech start ups with no intention of leveraging their innovations, but rather to maintain the status quo. Late stage capitalism…

    • @phx@lemmy.world
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      266 months ago

      Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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      166 months ago

      I know it’s not a business, but the whole fediverse gives “garage startup” vibes, and it’s refreshing.

  • Hovenko
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    166 months ago

    Don’t forget to mention that you were born 50 years too late on wrong part of the globe to wrong parents. Game was rigged from the start.

  • wvstolzing
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    136 months ago

    Better cite Wozniak as the one who ‘made’ Apple; but anyway.

  • RBG
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    116 months ago

    Think outside of the box, make pear.