See! You’re not THAT poor. Just give it another few decades!

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    Article: https://archive.md/Gr6qG

    Basically: got to buy a house early as opposed to most of us ( probably with parents’ help), got lucky on the stock market (because he wasn’t spending everything on rent), and works as a CFO somewhere.

    Definitely not in everyone’s reach here.

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      and their examples are absurd;

      brent royer got a 40% raise when he left one job for another, which is not a common occurence

      and andy holmes basically moved back home and got a $90,000 home and flipped it to be worth $300,000 while investing in the stock market.

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      But maybe that could happen to YOU, so don’t pay too much attention to how much you’re getting screwed, because you’ll totally be a CFO in just a few more years of work!

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        Hell, I might be a CFO now and I’ve failed to notice! Hold on, let me check… No… No, I’ve just managed to burn a microwave dinner again.

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        Yup we just need to travel back in time, attend a select private university, have parents who can give us a living space until we save up for a house, and get a job directly into the C-Suite off the networking from that private university. It could totally happen! We don’t need any workers, everyone can be in the boardroom!