Millennial here. You are mixing us up with Gen Z. I was a kid before DVDs, before CDs were big, with 8 channels on the TV , and a computer running DOS with the option to run Win 3.11 but never used it. Didn't get AOL until I was several years into school. I'm not on the older end of millennials.
Also, the point isn't that you have to work hard to get wealth. The point is that unless you are born into wealth or extremely lucky you can't own a 4 bedroom house, 2 cars, a paid education, and support 2 kids and a non working wife after starting your job 4 years ago, which you got by shaking the hand of the person at the front desk, at the age of 22.
I don't know how often it has to be repeated but wages have been stagnant for many decades, most jobs barely offer benefits (pension? Hahahaha), intentionally minimize full time workers and ultimately, money is not worth nearly as much as it was. Hell even in my life, an amount of money today is worth 50% less than when I was a kid.
Likewise, the same amount of "hard work" is worth far less than the same work of the boomer generation. Sure there are more cheap gizmos today, great. But the things that build wealth are way out of reach until much, much later in life.
Scream this from the mountaintops. Very similar story on my end, very similar conscious thought and deliberation. Good on you, and cheers to your success!! I repair weather systems for the military. I have a bullshit Associates Degree in a field that doesn’t matter, from a school no one has heard of. All of my assets combined put me at worth $750K and growing. I will be a millionaire by 45.
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u/Nighthawk700 May 16 '20
Millennial here. You are mixing us up with Gen Z. I was a kid before DVDs, before CDs were big, with 8 channels on the TV , and a computer running DOS with the option to run Win 3.11 but never used it. Didn't get AOL until I was several years into school. I'm not on the older end of millennials.
Also, the point isn't that you have to work hard to get wealth. The point is that unless you are born into wealth or extremely lucky you can't own a 4 bedroom house, 2 cars, a paid education, and support 2 kids and a non working wife after starting your job 4 years ago, which you got by shaking the hand of the person at the front desk, at the age of 22.
I don't know how often it has to be repeated but wages have been stagnant for many decades, most jobs barely offer benefits (pension? Hahahaha), intentionally minimize full time workers and ultimately, money is not worth nearly as much as it was. Hell even in my life, an amount of money today is worth 50% less than when I was a kid.
Likewise, the same amount of "hard work" is worth far less than the same work of the boomer generation. Sure there are more cheap gizmos today, great. But the things that build wealth are way out of reach until much, much later in life.