I do understand that it feels bad to hear about other people making so much more money than you do. When we talk about rampant inequality, it has so many impacts on our society. It's not just about doing math. The resentment is real and understandable.
And if you try to put people up on game, they're not listening. Instead they wanna talk about how your math doesn't add up in their head so you must be lying to them. People on the outside can't even help themselves because they're incapable of trust.
Let me say something that should be obvious. The fact that I'm "rich" doesn't mean I'm gonna be okay with you treating me like shit just because you're not rich. It's more likely that I'll say "no thanks", and you'll remain both angry and uninformed.
If you wanna learn how shit works, you're gonna have to build relationships with people who have actually seen it work. As it stands, the only people who actually wanna talk to me are the "brunch with Jay-Z" people. And I don't wanna hang out with them.
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My wife and I have worked hard to be comfortable with being more transparent when it comes to sharing our journey. We will be as real as we can be.
It will not be recorded though. Why? Cause y'all don't know how to act.
I want the conversation to have some focus though. Things can tend to meander all over the place and be less helpful. So let's crowdsource some questions. What is it that people want to hear about?
I mean... I guess I get it. But it's wild to me that people are legit fighting over whether $400K should be labeled "rich" or not. Like why is that the hill we wanna die on? In either direction?
If everybody who made $400K woke up tomorrow and said "okay, I admit it. I'm rich." What would happen? What are the next steps after we get aligned on this important issue?
Besides people who are making $399K breathing a sigh of relief that is.
If you're going to ask people to have in-depth discussions with you on twitter, it helps to make sure you know how to have in-depth discussions on twitter.
Saying "I disagree" is not a discussion. Wondering out loud in my mentions is not a discussion. Telling me what you think when I didn't ask you is not a discussion. Yes, I could give you a lot of grace and assume some things about what you wanna talk about. But I could also not.
I give the same advice all the time, but people don't seem to understand it. Ask a question. Ask an actual question that is well-formed and gets at what you want me to talk to you about. If you can't do that easily, consider that you may not be ready to "discuss" anything.
Wow. This is a great example of a thread that starts off good and then veers into selling you on some bullshit. It’s pretty seamless. It’s literally the transition from this first sentence to the second one.
This IS how twitter works folks. There is a feature that allows you to remove individuals before you reply. It allows you to respond to reasonable requests to be left alone rather than being a giant asshole and trying to blame it on technology.
This is what the feature looks like. First you hit reply. Then you click on the list of @ mentions. You'll get a list of people. Uncheck them and they will not be included in your reply. Is this clear @BryanFinster?
Right. We already knew this guy being an asshole had nothing to do with twitter. That's just the first excuse shitheads like this try to use.
If you had a business that made 10 million dollars every single year, and every single cent went to you without taxes or overhead. It would still take you 100 years to make a billion dollars. You would pass away before you "earned" it.
I keep talking about how we are connected. One person can only make a billion dollars if millions of other people are not. You can only make that kind of money by siphoning it off the backs of 100s of millions of people. The number of possible billionaires is extremely finite.
You can't actually spend 10 million dollars a year on yourself. I promise you. You can ball out for a couple of years. Make a few really big extravagant purchases. Then you pretty much have everything you need.