There's just been this big push against the salaried job with benefits in our people that baffles me. The way people think it's just easy money sitting out there shows how little they pay attention to the real world and are wrapped up in social media lies. Everyone cannot be a millionaire. The system cannot supply that. But if you find a lane were you make a decent salary with benefits to live comfortably and take a few trips what's wrong with that?! The quickest path to generational wealth is life insurance and passing on land and property to those behind us. That's how alot of them are well off because they've had generations of this knowledge. We still have people out here dying and putting together go fund me to pay funeral costs
It seems like at every step of financial intelligence, there's a large group of black people telling you to do the opposite. Don't get married and benefit from dual income, tax breaks, etc. Don't go to school, despite decades worth of data showing people with degrees make more money than people without degrees. Don't work a 9-5, despite most of the upper income people in this country (doctors, attorneys, engineers, etc) working a 9-5. And the people advocating these positions the most vehemently are rarely successful. It's like a woman getting relationship advice from her bitter, single homegirl.
A lot of this has gotten worse since the pandemic and a lot of black people are running around acting like they can match dollars or investments with white people who have thousands of dollars in savings or leisure spending to pump into smart (or dumb) ideas. Just because someone took a W on bitcoin from investing early doesn't mean you're going to replicate that. A lot of black people lost insane amounts money on various bullshyt crypto products or scams. Money that could have gone towards education, index funds, etc. More than likely you are NOT going to get rich quick. That's not the fukking point of investing.