Peasant Spotting

With the spirit of getting this thread back on topic. Can we discuss this point please?

Average people earn money doing things they don’t love. Rich people follow their passion.
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This is ignoring the "NEED/PAIN" factor. If there's a NEED for dog snuggie, and you sell dog snuggie, you'll make money regardless? Or do I have to cultivate my love for Dog Snuggie before I can bank?
 


SkyFire said:
Nice to see you back guerilla.
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As short-lived as it may be.

lukep said:
Oh, in that case, yeah, Matt was obviously a hot-headed moron for stepping in. I think I knew better than to do that when I was like 11. :smokin:
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Look, maybe the girl was in trouble, but as I remember it, she was passed out, so it's not like anyone could ask her.

Maybe Matt did the right thing. Maybe Matt did the wrong thing. Sort of hard to take credit for doing something with intent when you don't have all the facts.
 
clyde said:
This is ignoring the "NEED/PAIN" factor. If there's a NEED for dog snuggie, and you sell dog snuggie, you'll make money regardless? Or do I have to cultivate my love for Dog Snuggie before I can bank?
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I think you are reading passion too-literally.

Following your passion is taking risks and responsibility so you can be successful. It doesn't matter what you sell, if you're doing things your way to achieve your ends.

The counter-example is doing things which you don't care about and don't help you achieve your ends. Think people who stay in dead end jobs and never take a risk. People who makes excuses for why they can't change what they are doing (although they don't feel fulfilled by it).
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
While we're at it talking about your beloved liberal Presidents, FDR locked up all the Japanese Americans (but not the Germans of course) in concentration camps in WWII.
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Not 100% but I think he locked up some Italians too. Not surprisingly the people who were locked up had their property confiscated, so it was a very profitable enterprise for their jailers.
 
riddarhusetgal said:
Rightttt....
..And conservatives like Romney would have you over for lunch? Marry his brother's daughter maybe? No wait. You'll be invited to his 30th wedding anniversary in the South of France. Where he dodged the Vietnam war (that liberals opposed because conservatives were sending poor kids to die).

It boggles my mind how people like you defend conservatives who don't think you're even good enough to wipe their ass - but would happily smile in your face just to take your vote.
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Woah.

I am not a Romney or Obama supporter, they're both pieces of shit.

And what are you talking about votes? I don't vote, never have and probably never will. Voting is for people who think there is a significant difference between candidates. It's also for morons who think their vote actually makes a difference. I'm not delusional enough to fall into either category.
 
guerilla said:
I think you are reading passion too-literally.
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That's what the article meant though;

“To the average person, it looks like the rich are working all the time,” Siebold says. “But one of the smartest strategies of the world class is doing what they love and finding a way to get paid for it.”On the other hand, middle class take jobs they don’t enjoy “because they need the money and they’ve been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.”
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and I disagree with that.

Anyway, all-around good advice.
 
I agree with all 21 points, but they should add one more.

World class rich people don't go around calling poor people peasants.
 
Your_Pal said:
but still you get affected by their decisions. You should land on Mars.
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Why? Why participate in a delusion that you're forced to endure? Because it's the easy way out?

Oliver Wendell Holmes has one of my most favorite quotes.

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

In other words, what is known, cannot be unknown.

It's people who pretend delusions are real, or really believe in delusions that have us in this fucking mess.

Whether it is secular atheist liberal democrats or religious nutjob conservatives, minarchists, objectivists, it's all delusion and projection.

johnmatrix said:
World class rich people don't go around calling poor people peasants.
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And how many world class rich people do you know? Have you even met one?
 
guerilla said:
Why? Why participate in a delusion that you're forced to endure? Because it's the easy way out?

Oliver Wendell Holmes has one of my most favorite quotes.

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

In other words, what is known, cannot be unknown.

It's people who pretend delusions are real, or really believe in delusions that have us in this fucking mess.

Whether it is secular atheist liberal democrats or religious nutjob conservatives, minarchists, objectivists, it's all delusion and projection.


And how many world class rich people do you know? Have you even met one?
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If you think everything is delusion then why not come out and introduce something new to the world? Why always criticize and moan about it? If you think you are mature enough to understand what is going on then why not try expand other pplz mind? Enlighten us.
 
Your_Pal said:
If you think everything is delusion
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I don't think everything is delusion, I think delusion is delusion.

Your_Pal said:
... then why not come out and introduce something new to the world? Why always criticize and moan about it? If you think you are mature enough to understand what is going on then why not try expand other pplz mind? Enlighten us.
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Do you read any of my posts?
 
World class rich people don't go around calling poor people peasants.
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And how many world class rich people do you know?
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I have no idea how many "world class rich people" he knows, but I'm fairly close family friends with the Stryker and Parfet/Upjohn families. In all of my time around them, be it in private or in public, I have never witnessed or heard them looking down on or berating anyone who has less than they do. And they sure as hell don't go around calling poor people peasants.

In fact, they're, in large part, the families behind getting the Kalamazoo Promise started, which pays tuition for any student graduating from Kalamazoo Public Schools who meets the academic requirements (which isn't all that difficult) and the residency requirements.

So there's that.
 
JRose said:
I have never witnessed or heard them looking down on or berating anyone who has less than they do.
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Peasantry is an attitude, not a standard of wealth. In the modern age, welfare recipients live materially better lives than kings did 150 years ago.

Of course people with a rich attitude take care of people worse off than them. A wealthy person with a peasant mentality would not.
 
clyde said:
That's what the article meant though;

and I disagree with that.

Anyway, all-around good advice.
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I think what they're going at is that if you were a web developer for instance, and you built a crazy successful site about knitting even if you don't give a shit about knitting, you're still doing what you love, which is building crazy successful sites.

the guy who built this site: Ravelry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is the exact example I'm referencing. He built it because his wife wanted it. She loves knitting, he loves web development (and her), everyone's happy.
 
johnmatrix said:
World class rich people don't go around calling poor people peasants.
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Agreed. Any truly wealthy people I've met have come off as very down to earth, humane individuals with lots of common sense and empathy. They definitely don't go around with their noses in the air. My guess is that's how they got to be so bloody rich in the first place.

Only exception is people that were born into it. I've met some people born into obscene amounts of money, and they were complete morons. Their families expected them to be successful entrepreneurs though, so they're out there spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of family money, with absolutely no business acumen, or any idea of what they're doing. Worst part is, they didn't even care.
 
I read somewhere, and I can't recall the source, that people born into wealth generally regard money much more reasonably than those who have lived without, whereas people not born into wealth, and more specifically people who acquire new money, get all highfalutin and "in-your-face brand-new-Ferrari" about it.

The story has always stuck in my head because I've decided that if I ever came into "new money", I wouldn't treat it as such. Haven't had the opportunity to put it into practice yet, but it'll hold true.
 
Whether or not someone is a "peasant" in the Wickedfire sense has everything to do with attitude and very little to do with the size of their bankroll.

Or in other words, read Ryan Eagle's tweets.
 
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