/wiz/ - Wizardry

One day I got up and decided to just stop being poor. Haven't looked back since.

>>228629
we need more inspiring stories like that

>>228628
I feel like if you're poor at one point or other you have to contend with realities of life, you slowly do, like as a kid I used to draw a mountains, rivers, hut, with me and my future wife.

Overtime, as I hit puberty, I realised, that I am an involuntary celibate, and my wife is limited to animated Disney movies, that hurt me a lot, to the point that I just constantly went around internet posting drivel about succubi and how they are heartless and lie about personality. And I was really hurt, while I still believe that, I am no longer hurt cause I don't care about them.

Same goes for being a child, as a child I was growing up thinking that I will one day own a Red Mclaren with Golden Stripes, I grew up a bit more, and I thought that Audis were cool when I reached Middle-School, in the non major metro parts of my crapholenation that was a rare sighting.

Then I came into High School and I thought man, Camry is really cool. I grew up a bit more in college, where I thought, a second-hand Corolla will be a dream come true. And of course, at this point, I am looking at what's in your currency 250USD used mopeds, about 7 years old, second-hand, pre-abused.

Sometimes, you have to do nothing but settle, maybe commies are right, when they say you are a capitalist because you dream of becoming a millionaire. I always thought it was baloney, but I was so upset that the Lexus LS was discontinued in my country, and I thought about it, I was dreaming to own a Lexus when in reality, I can't afford to move out of my parents' house.

I never got or was able to earn money to fulfil my wishes, I coped with not having a car by looking at constant reviews of cars on YouTube. Delusion is very necessary for someone like me to live, I spend consciously 5 hours of my day, day-dreaming, maladaptively, of course. About how I have a fixed life, how everything is fine and dandy and I am driving into a sunset. Cope is the fuel of heart, because reality is too brutal, too hopeless, too life-sapping.

You will be poor, you will be broke, you will eventually daydream, you will be happy.

I remember years ago there was a wizard who was a millionaire because of his inheritance. Nice guy. Hope he's doing okay.

>>228631
fukken saved. literally my thoughts turn text

>>228631
Great post. While I luckily I've never been poor I've long since grown out of the fantasy that you can just "make it" by working hard or whatever. Nowadays there is little to no upwards mobility in developed countries and it's probably much worse if you live in the third world. So it's mainly a game of trying to keep and maintain what you already have and finding peace in that. I've never seriously imagined moving out but the fact that I wouldn't be able to even if I wanted stings sometimes. Or sometimes I will look at cars online the way you do and then remember that if my current car breaks I will be simply SOL because I can't afford to buy even something used. Eastern philosophies sometimes help me with these things, you know, "accepting what is" and all that.

I live in a first world country off unemployment bux which will be cut off soon, currently considering which method I will use to off myself.
While having had no real money my entire life, I don't have any real hatred or bitterness about this, only this sense of meaninglessness and repulsion that society is based around this animal-like mode of living where you spend your existence gathering resources. Maybe it really is better to die and having money just shields you from experiencing the worst of it.

>>228631
Not to be mean but this reads like AI drivel. If not I'm sorry.

>>228637
>philosophies sometimes help me with these things, you know, "accepting what is" and all that.
Absolutely, I don't think anyone could or should accept a life which is full of nothing but compounding of bad situations. And as for me I have realised that I can't and won't accept it, so the option remains to rather resign to it, so to speak.I
>>228639
Man I don't know which AI can come up with a Red Mclaren with Golden Stripes. Rest assured I don't use AI for writing my posts.

>>228632

if one of us is rich its either cause parents were rich, and rich peoples kids are usually imbeciles who have no idea about money.

or were in correct place at correct time on crypto wave.

live with my parents and stacked up wizbux for over a decade, because there are no upper limits on what you can have where I live if you're on a bux system
it's a nice chunk of change but it is absolutely not enough money for me to be called "rich"

>>228628
if you are wageslaving and you are wizard then becoming rich is simple. just save everything and put it in an index fund and wait 20years and voila you are rich

>>228677
woa 20 years. sweet. youll be ded by then breh.

>>228678
Yeah, these kids are clueless. Most grinders will kill themselves by the 5-10 year mark or go nuts and end up institutionalized.

>>228679
Or they will stop grinding once they've had enough. Why always worst case scenario

Resigning from your job only takes a minute or so

>>228680
>always worst case scenario
Where do you think we are?

>>228682
wizchan.org seemingly

>>228631
I sort of agree with this post. I haven't given up on the dream of moving out, getting a better job that teaches me real skills, etc. but I'm turning 27 this year and can see the boat out slowly sliding away from me. Youth is such a big bandage on failure. It's nice for older adults to feel like they can mentor someone younger – so not knowing much at 25 is okay. It was okay. But I'm 27 now, it's less cute. Soon I'll be 30, and if I remain at this dead-end job, what will happen to me?

All that said I haven't given up on life. I am settling in my own way while still dreaming of a future. I want to go out of the country this year… France or Japan or something. Just walk around for a week, have a piece of my dreams even if I can't experience them in full.

>>228677
>and wait 20years
>what worked in past will work in the future!
The way the world is going, twenty years from now your index fund won't be worth shit.
Maybe buy defense-industry stocks.
A new world war seems to be on the menu, so Lockheed and Raytheon will surely be profitable.

>>228786
This is unironically good advice. AI itself cannot create gunpowder or explosive materials. These companies will be ultra relevant just like food producers.

>>228628
80% Blind Luck
I grew up in a trailer park, my dream of success was to live in a city and work in a big office with a shirt and tie.

I did that, it was fine, got boring and expensive, so I live in a small village now instead. Very seriously i'm starting to think it would be more cost effective from an ROI perspective to move to a trailer park.

Some dreams were installed in you through advertising; conditioning even. Others are - I think - subconscious signals for things you would like to try/experience one time.

My dreams - outside of work - were to eat enough food, read good fiction books and nap whenever I wanted; because living in a precarious environment where wild work shifts and home instability prevented any of that from happening made them so much more appealing.

All this to say, bad luck getting difficult dreams and bad luck getting dealt a hand that can't achieve them; some people get luckier.

Because you can do everything right and still lose, and do everything wrong and win because someone else lost and you were in the right place at the right time.

>>228648
Unfortunately, when I was in the right place and the right time in crypto, some special kind of fear over getting doxxed/framed/looneybinned over money kicked in. Even my memory decided to wipe away the name of the crypto forum.


Years later, I realized Bitcointalk is *the* forum I was at.

>>228786
This but bet against the US

life is full of get rich quick schemes that are basically scams. The biggest of all of them is the american dream. Look how many years you have to work on minimum wage to equal the worth of Elon Musk (oddly religious fags don't even think the universe is this old). In short, you gotta be rich to get rich.

Once you can acquire enough wealth to save (which is impossible since rent and food are structured that you can have no savings), you can try reading this book or blog.

https://thesimplepathtowealth.com/

The essential thesis is: Put all your money into a Vanguard Index Mutual Fund and don't freak out when the stock market crashes. This rest on the assumption that our wealthy will never let the US economy collapse. But right now it's the only place your money can ear a 10% interest rate. Since inflation is 4% practically putting your money anywhere else is burning it. The fucking 1% wealthy are getting so bad they're putting money into legos, jacking up the price on anything they can since they are scared of the impending economic apocalypse.

>>228895
>oddly religious fags don't even think the universe is this old

Had to get that Redditor barb in there.