• thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    This myth needs to die hard. Inheriting off daddy’s blood emerald mine allows you to start businesses and buy people to make them work. This takes zero intelligence — it takes capital which was not earned. It continues to make money through the labor of shady accountants who know how to keep you from paying taxes, the labor of H1-B visa holder slaves, non-unionized assembly line workers, etc. who you crush and exploit for more capital to keep repeating the same unethical and dumb shit.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      What should cure people of it fast is listening to real estate investment podcasts. These people are often dumb as rocks. They copy each others homework, happen to know the right people, and most importantly, have no ethics. You don’t have to be smart to make a fortune in real estate, and you can potentially even do it with zero starting cash, but you do have to forget about ethics.

      • njordomir@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        Toothpaste is for brushing your teeth, not filling the nail holes in the patchy drywall that is our economy! :-)