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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Rich people having movie theatres, expensive gaming rigs at home whitelist surrounded by PAs & maids sounds like the first category.

Only the buying/renting/paying people with actual knowledge is kinda from the second.

But it's options.
Rich people have options, the luxury to choose whatever - they have the time (no job or financial-survivor stress) to choose said options, and if they fail also the financial safety net with catch them comfortably/without years of additional debt.

The 24h of a rich person are not the same as 24h of an average person.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some of the most knowledgeable people I’ve meet were dirt-poor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

most academics/research roles. Huge competition, your life depends on winning grants, requires PhD and years of training, poverty-level salaries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

TIL, that Donald and Mush partying at Epstein Island is considered a hobby for the poor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Isn't musk posting on Twitter all day everyday that he is playing Diablo?

(Sidenote: did you know musk is one of the top players in the leaderboard in Diablo iv? Totally unrelated; Did you know you can buy yourself, through gambling mechanics, quite an advantage with real money?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It wasn't a party, it was a business meeting, involving business partners wink wink nudge nudge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

making enough money to be able to pay rent and eat something is my new hobby!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

In all fairness, this seems like one of those motivational posters where English isn't the native language. I suspect that what the person is trying to say: "if you want to stay poor, keep these habits. If you want to become rich, learn these habits." It utterly discounts the fact that, in the US, upward mobility has stagnated; the secret to becoming rich in the US is to be born rich. It's not impossible to improve your economic status, but it's hard. In some countries, it's still possible to move up a tax bracket within a decade.

I think American eyes read this differently than how the author intended.

I will call out that putting "work" in the poor row is BS, no matter what your philosophy. The only person I personally know who went from middle-middle class to lower upper has no personal life. He is his work. He's family and we often vacation together, and I've never been on a vacation with him when he didn't spend multiple hours on each of the days in meetings or on his computer. He's nearing 60 and is home about 50% of the year, and the rest of it he's traveling. We have a pool going for how long he'll stay retired before he commits himself to some board or something that demands half his time.

There's are three ways to get rich: inheritance, crime, and becoming your job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ask yeah - Elon "I'm in the global top 10 in Diablo" Musk sure doesn't have gaming as a hobby...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I wish my job was my hobby and not a necessity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Poor people hobby > Job

Rich people hobby > Business

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No. Since schools started becoming exclusively for training the next generation of laborers, arts is no longer funded.

Now, shut up and learn to pull that lever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I love how the education system in several countries can be summed as "the people and govts paying to train up kids so they can work, because the companies sure as hell don't want to spend a dime training and preparing people to work for them"

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