Reason rich people leave people behind- adebayor share his story(updatepg5:adebayor travels home)

[jilla82]

The majority of rich people come from wealth so this doesn't happen often.

who told you this?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

It's funny how people act when you come into some money


I've loaned money to nikkas who I thought were my homies. They would preach this militant bullshyt about how "black people got to stick together" and "how they don't want to see black people succeed" yet it's black people asking me for handouts and not paying it back


Not all ofcourse, but for me, its only been black people... ONLY.

So I understand somewhat why people leave the hood when they make it... happened to my homeboy. His family left him broke and he felt guilty/obligated to continuously loan them money and take care of their responsibilities

 

[↓R↑LYB]

i wonder what kind of leeches mayweather has

He gotta know they using him too

 

[KingMalik]

It's funny how people act when you come into some money


I've loaned money to nikkas who I thought were my homies. They would preach this militant bullshyt about how "black people got to stick together" and "how they don't want to see black people succeed" yet it's black people asking me for handouts and not paying it back


Not all ofcourse, but for me, its only been black people... ONLY.

So I understand somewhat why people leave the hood when they make it... happened to my homeboy. His family left him broke and he felt guilty/obligated to continuously loan them money and take care of their responsibilities

There's a couple nikkas in my family that I've never seen before.

One uncle I've heard about is in Atlanta, another in Missouri, another one in Texas (We all in PA/DE). My mom has brothers she hasn't seen in 20 years and I know it's because them nikkas got ahold of some money someway somehow and they knew the family was ratchet as fukk and would bleed them dry I don't blame them either because I'm eventually moving to Seattle or Phoenix

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

africans are really weird and sneaky. ill never get involved with an african woman. i dont want my food to be posioned and die.

Your ignorance and stupidity will end up killing you much faster than this "scary african woman" you're bloviating about.

 

[Goat poster]

who told you this?

he is right that the vast majority of wealthy people were born that way.

most people die in the same tax bracket they were born in.

 

[jilla82]

he is right that the vast majority of wealthy people were born that way.

most people die in the same tax bracket they were born in.

in a country like the USA...its just not true.
yes, most people die in the tax bracket they were born in (most people are also fat)...but most millionaire are self made.

In the introduction to the interview, there was an interesting statement: "hard work will matter less, inherited wealth more." Really? Added up the entire annual realized income of those households in the $10M and over category the total would be over $300 billion. What percent of this amount is derived from trusts and estates? The answer is 1.3%. This percentage even doubled or tripled would hardly qualify America as a country where inherited wealth "mattered more."

It appears from the interview that both Mr. Piketty and the interviewer are using income and wealth as synonymous terms. They are not. In my thirty plus years of surveying and studying millionaires, I have consistently found that 80 to 86% are self made. That also applies to decamillionaires. In 1982 according to Forbes about 38% of America's wealthiest people were self made. In 2012, the percentage jumped to 70%.

http://www.thomasjstanley.com/blog-articles/564/America_Where_Millionaires_are_Self_Made.html

 

[MikelArteta]

I feel for his story and being Nigerian this not uncommon. The same shyt was done to my father because he went to America everyone felt he should speak with his money. No appreciation and then started blaming my mom as manipulation. Just Horrible. His truth is respected.

my brother in law is ghanian and hsi dad no longer speaks to him because he doesn't think my brother in law "helped him" as much as he should

 

[MikelArteta]

I ain't made not one million yet but I done already had cousins steal money and clothes
gave my sister a car-she fukked it up
paid off a car for my mother who gave it to my sister-she fukked that one up too
-loaned my cousin $1700 back in 2013 he still ain't paid me back
-loaned my sister money she ain't pay it back
-gave her money diff times
-had a white dude I wasn't even that cool wit in the army ask me to invest 10k so he could make a fitness infomercial
-done had fam I haven't seen since middle school lie about issues with their health for money
-had a chick from the army say her daughter needed medication and was lying

People ain't shyt

its sad how you cant even be nice to family like that or even close friends. I've lent close frinds some money and then see em go on vacation, buy tvs etc. and not even give me back a penny I learned my lesson.

Now if someone asks me for money ill give like 50 and say thats all I have if i lose it no biggie but thats all they getting from me

 

[emoney]

That's real. He is doing the right thing by cutting them off. They cut him off first, just evil. I noticed most of the abuse was from the women in his family, particularly his own mother.

His mother made a lot of sacrifices for him when he was a child.

 

[Jazzy B.]

fukk arsenal and tottenham

 

[Goat poster]

in a country like the USA...its just not true.
yes, most people die in the tax bracket they were born in (most people are also fat)...but most millionaire are self made.


http://www.thomasjstanley.com/blog-articles/564/America_Where_Millionaires_are_Self_Made.html

Well seeing as the guy this thread is about is from AFRIKA i'm speaking from a GLOBAL level.

I also said WEALTHY, I don't count the millionaire next door as wealthy.
And those whole "self made" numbers are bullshyt rich people like to put out to make it seem as if everyone is playing on a even playing field. By their definition Mitt Romney is self made

http://inequality.org/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-rich/
Not quite “nothing.” But no reason to pick on Mitt either. Most really deep pockets, not just Mitt, consider themselves entirely “self-made.” The best evidence of this predilection to claim “self-made” status? The annual September release of the Forbes magazine list of America’s 400 richest.

Each and every year Forbes celebrates the billionaires who populate this list as paragons of entrepreneurial get-up-and-go. The latest top 400, Forbes pronounced last week, “instills confidence that the American dream is still very much alive.”

Of America’s current 400 richest, gushes Forbes, 70 percent “made their fortunes entirely from scratch.”

Forbes made the same observation last year, too, and most news outlets took that claim at face value. Researchers at United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based group, did not. UFE analysts stepped back and took the time to investigate the actual backgrounds of last year’s Forbes 400. They released their findings last week, on the same day Forbes released its new 2012 top 400 list.

Most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.



The basic conclusion from these findings: Forbes is spinning “a misleading tale of what it takes to become wealthy in America.” Most of the Forbes 400 have benefited from a level of privilege unknown to the vast majority of Americans.

In effect, as commentator Jim Hightower has aptly been noting for years, most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.

- See more at: http://inequality.org/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-rich/#sthash.sWzWUlET.dpuf

 

[jilla82]

Well seeing as the guy this thread is about is from AFRIKA i'm speaking from a GLOBAL level.

I also said WEALTHY, I don't count the millionaire next door as wealthy.
And those whole "self made" numbers are bullshyt rich people like to put out to make it seem as if everyone is playing on a even playing field. By their definition Mitt Romney is self made

http://inequality.org/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-rich/
Not quite “nothing.” But no reason to pick on Mitt either. Most really deep pockets, not just Mitt, consider themselves entirely “self-made.” The best evidence of this predilection to claim “self-made” status? The annual September release of the Forbes magazine list of America’s 400 richest.

Each and every year Forbes celebrates the billionaires who populate this list as paragons of entrepreneurial get-up-and-go. The latest top 400, Forbes pronounced last week, “instills confidence that the American dream is still very much alive.”

Of America’s current 400 richest, gushes Forbes, 70 percent “made their fortunes entirely from scratch.”

Forbes made the same observation last year, too, and most news outlets took that claim at face value. Researchers at United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based group, did not. UFE analysts stepped back and took the time to investigate the actual backgrounds of last year’s Forbes 400. They released their findings last week, on the same day Forbes released its new 2012 top 400 list.

Most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.



The basic conclusion from these findings: Forbes is spinning “a misleading tale of what it takes to become wealthy in America.” Most of the Forbes 400 have benefited from a level of privilege unknown to the vast majority of Americans.

In effect, as commentator Jim Hightower has aptly been noting for years, most of our super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple.

- See more at: http://inequality.org/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-rich/#sthash.sWzWUlET.dpuf

what you just posted doesn't negate what I said.
The 400 richest people built on what they had...they grew that money!!
So someone inherited like $500,000 and turned it into a billion dollars....thats self made!
and about 35% of the people on that list started with nothing!!

and the numbers are even better for regular millionaires
If you're in a country like the U.S.A...you have great odds of moving up in class.

 

[LV Koopa]

when people say "but thats family" I always look at them stupid. The person you are responsible first and foremost is you. Take care of those who need it (like your mom) and be smart about it. Once you see money changing them gtfo.

 

[Kitsch]

my brother in law is ghanian and hsi dad no longer speaks to him because he doesn't think my brother in law "helped him" as much as he should

It's like that sometimes.