• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Most of the things mentioned in this thread are mostly dumb luck and not necessarily active financial decisions.

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      10 months ago

      Kind of the point. A lot of financial “success” is nothing but dumb luck.

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      10 months ago

      If there was an active financial decision you could make and reliably get rich, everyone would do it.

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        10 months ago

        Not necessarily rich, but there are active financial decisions you can make that will set you on the path to longterm prosperity. Buying a house at what happened to be exactly the right time and making a $100,000 in 3 years in the process is not one of them. That’s just dumb luck.

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          10 months ago

          I mean, “consistently save in a diversified portfolio” would be a pretty boring answer, but it would be an answer I guess. I’m not sure what the equivalent for the poor would be; stay away from substances, maybe?