Want to get rich quick? i’m not particularly interested in it, but i know a lot of people who are.
Well i have discovered a way to legitimately become rich and it is a lot simpler than anything you might have imagined.
Don’t be nervous. It’s not a pyramid scheme or a get-rich-quick internet scandal or anything like that.
In fact this is a lot simpler and quicker than either of those.
i can see you’re skeptical. Which is good. People tend not to be cautious enough when it comes to quick ways of having a lot of wealth and many get into trouble that way. So definitely enter into this with both eyes firmly open.
i actually discovered this a couple of years ago, but it was recently brought to my attention again and i thought this time i really had to share it with everyone because it’s not fair to keep it to myself.
HOW TO GET RICH IN ONE EASY STEP
There is a website called the Global Rich List which you can get to by clicking over here. So do that first, before reading any more here – all you have to do is enter in your projected income for the year and then scroll down and read the different comparisons it gives to you.
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[time passes]
…and Welcome back!
How was that?
Sobering at all to read that it will take a worker in Indonesia 44 years to earn what you earn in a year? Or was yours worse?
Or the two minutes it takes for me to earn a Coke translating to an hour for a Zimbabwean.
And so on, you get the point.
THE PEOPLE ON THE HILL
A year ago i was the speaker on a camp for a bunch of largely rich kids in Americaland and one of the leaders was a lady whose idea of God’s blessing was that God allowed her to keep her one sports car when “He gave her another one”.
i’d been gentle with them for three days and figured we needed to end on a strong note. So i asked them to close their eyes and said:
“Imagine if you were in the top 50% of wealthy people in the world. Who thinks this is a true?”
[Bunch of hands raised but certainly not everyone and maybe close to half the group of 40 or so]
i continue: “Imagine that you were in the top 25% of wealthy people in the world” and the double sports car lady loudly exclaims “I wish!”
Buckle your seat lady, this is going to be a bumpy ride for you…
i imagine when i got to the end and told them all they are definitely in the top 3% of wealthiest people in the world but more likely the top 1%
i have no doubt that most of them didn’t believe me – car lady was still picking up pieces of her exploded mind from all over the floor after we left 25% territory.
Back to the Global Rich List – how did you score? What percentage were you?
Leave your name and number in the comments and maybe a response to that.
But back to my original question. What is the quickest way to get rich?
Find out that you already are.
What you do with that? Well, that’s completely the rest of this story for sure… But hopefully not nothing.
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0.2 percent. But why should we all be equally poor? That’s what will happen if it were balanced out. So not sure your point? What’s the alternative?
Michelle, I don’t think it’s about equal “poorness”. it’s about appreciating the wealth you’ve so obviously been blessed with. the comfort that you can live your life in, not having to worry about the things you probably take for granted such as running water or warmth. im not qualified enough to say whether real financial equality will ever be a reality, but being truly grateful for what you have been given and giving it back in some way or form will help move us in that direction, for sure.
Well if it were equalized then why would anyone bother to get out of bed to work? I mean if you get it for free that is then why work. Is that what you saying or am I misunderstanding you?
I think we do all give back. It’s called taxes, rates and even our electricity and water subsidizes the poor. They not dying so their needs are met at least on a basic level. Hot water is a luxury. You won’t die if you don’t have it. I agree basic needs must be met and we all pay for this, water, shelter, clothing for them, and some electricity but there will come a time when people might not have anything more to pay as prices just keep going up and salaries hardly.
The earning is market related. Labor will always pay less. But a laborer can actually afford hot water so not sure what you mean. Are you talking about unemployed? Well obviously they have there needs met as they still with us. If they must have jot water too then our taxes must go up and then where does it stop? I won’t bother working if I must eat pap and have cold showers. I’ll just rely on the SA dole.
So can’t really see it working. Great to dream but nobody will give more as we all really stretched.
Thanks for stopping by Michelle. I imagine a statement like “Hot water is a luxury. You won’t die if you don’t have it” is an easy statement for the person with hot water [that’s not going anywhere] to say… but would you be up to swapping your situation with someone who doesn’t have hot water for a month and then revisit the statement? The purpose of this post and the global rich list is to open the eyes of most of us who wouldn’t say we are rich at all [because there is always someone with a lot more money we can point to] and realise that we exist in the top 3% of all people – and there are billions of people – we are doing pretty well. So to start by being grateful but then to question how we deal with money – the excesses we spend on and indulge ourselves with – the fact that the money system the world has clearly is not a fair one. i am not so much speaking of equity for everyone in the sense that everyone has R100 000 or whatever but suggesting for sure that one person having R100 000 and one person having R10 doesn’t seem good if the R100 000 person is throwing food away and the R10 person is having to steal just to get a meal. So maybe there’s a way of the R100 000 dropping to R10 000 and still being more than alright and suddenly 9000 other people have now moved from R10 to R100 or 900 people have moved from R100 to R1000. The person at the top will hardly notice it and yet it will be life changing to those below.
Perhaps it is the person at the top saying that i won’t have a holiday to Europe costing thousands of rands but rather put that money into a school in a marginalised area [especially one that was created during apartheid] and see countless lives changed.
It was meant to be a perspective changer – the how of how we move forwards is tricky but that we need to seems like an obvious one… [unless you’re the one holding tightly to your money and hot water of course]
Sorry, what do you mean by “financial equity”? Can you please explain to me.
Hi Brett,
Your math is a bit wrong. If one person is earning R100 000 and they drop to R10 000, then that makes R90 000 available. This R90 000 divided by 900 is R100. So the 900 people will not be going up from R100 to R1000, but rather to R200. The one about the 9000 people, that would be R10 each, so they would move from R10 to R20. This is where the problem lies if you do the math incorrectly. It will not help as much as you incorrectly calcuated it.
I hear what you’re saying, but what you’re advocating here is a kind of socialism – i.e. a safety net for all. The problem with this is that there are too many people who are abusing the system – many will simply not work, and they will sit at home making babies to receive extra grants (which does happen). Why would someone who is earning R100k a month want to go down to R10k? They will have to drop all their insurance, car, house bond and more. Its totally unrealistic.
You either have these three options I think:
1. Eliminate money
2. An equation for how much one should earn – very difficult to determing but something along the lines of:
Earning = (AGE*X) + (Experience*Y) + work hours etc… But that would be very hard to determine and who polices that?
3. The system we have but eliminate taxes and boost more of those gofunme, kickstarter type things where us the peopel who are much more educated than our sleeping government can get involved.
I’d opt for 3.
Regards,
Johan
Ah Johan, you got me on the maths – thank you – dangers of rattling off a comment too quickly but the main point i was making still stands [albeit with different figures and so maybe less people helped!] – that said i find your “too many people abusing the system” comment a little offensive because the system is being abused on all sides [rich and poor] and yet your comment alludes to specifically black people and it is way too complex a thing than just “sitting at home and making babies” and the idea that many will simply not work i’m not sure is valid having seen okes sit at the side of the road waiting for the hope of work for days just for manual labour and really committing to the task – whereas in largely white work environments [this was particularly true when i was in England, flip don’t know how they survive] there were offices where so many people got away with doing so little actual work [smoke break into internet break into gossip break into…] that i think the abuse thing covers all people an our general tendency towards laziness and getting away with doing less [something i have to fight against in myself for sure]…
i don’t think it’s about someone with R100K a month [which to me is obscene] wanting to drop down to R10K but rather seeing that their excess means that someone else [and a bunch of someone else’s] are living with less than enough and that for me feels like an easy moral stance [not in a greedy all-about-me capitalistic society that we are brought up thinking is the way which it is not necessarily – it is just the current way] and so i don’t really want to put labels on it but more people having enough and less people having excess, if that’s socialism then yes let’s do that – or some form of that because maybe the world hasn’t yet discovered the best way to do that system. But i firmly believe that capitalism is not a healthy system for the masses, just for the elite. And that is not related to hard work but a lot of the time to privilege, opportunity, inheritance, context…
It is so completely complex and i’m not saying i have a way forward but just pointing to my belief that the present way is not good enough and that maybe we can all look together for a better way. And it would totally help if we had leadership from government which largely seems lacking or ineffectual at the moment. i’d be all for a system [not sure how possible or realistic it is at all] that eliminates speed boats and luxurious cruises and skiing trips for the rich in place of food on the table for the poor… job opportunities, skills, better education, all of that…
No worries on the math. I did not mean to offend – not sure why you’re offended. What I mean is that some abuse the grant system or dole system in the UK. It happens all over the world. Its just that in SA, we are in the unique situation where there are actually more people on the grant than are working. I don’t mind the grant going to disabled people, the elderly, but get a bit irritated when I see well dressed people in the queue at the Pick n Pay collecting about R2000 the one day with a SASSA card. I asked the lady at the til and she said it was actually about twice that and it was for 3 kids and a disabled kid and a foster kid. I looked it up and you various amounts for foster kids, disabled kids… It seems like once you’re in that system, you would not easily get out of it so you’d tend to have more kids as you get paid to have them. So the system itself is flawed as there should be learning programs, training, education, part time work things in place to get them out of that system.
Yes the rich abuse the system too – but not the grant system. The rich have ways of buying houses, waiting, selling them, and so on – to make so much money. They also know about tax havens and all these complicated structures to not pay any tax or minimize it. I just work and pay the tax and get on with it.
You cannot adjust the rand income of the people like this as it would not work – it would need to be a worldwide thing. Even then, there is the carrot and the stick. The carrot is the big screen tv, the houses, holidays. The stick is hunger, cold, bad health, dirt, uncomfortable. With no stick or carrot, only a few would really put in the extra time – I wouldn’t. I’d spend more time with family.
I think you must try to also understand the mindset of the rich. I get that you care for the poor and understand them, but its time to try to understand the wealthy too. What drives them? Is it only desire for the latest biggest things, holidays? Maybe they feel that in the few hours they have of the day, that they need to have the fast car, tv and holidays to make up or to somehow amplify the life experience they spend working. If you can understand both sides and what drives them then maybe you’ll find us a solution. I’m all ears.
All the best,
Johan
One more thing. If you and I are both in the top 3 percent then if we were to go with your idea of stretching the money over all of us, we’d both be living in very small one room RDP houses with everyone else. We’d eat only basics like tinned beans.
I know its frustrating and I feel for the people who have nothing and help them. Especially people who’s family members are ill or sick and need help and they have no money. We need to come up with solutions and fast. I wrack my brain about it all the time trust me. But I still don’t know exactly what to do but just help where I can.
I enjoy cigars and a box of 10 can easily cost R20k for authentic Havana made. We all have our vices and this is one I enjoy every Thursday and Sunday evening.
Whatever money we have, we’ll find ways to justify spending it. The animal kingdom is also survival of the fittest. Why would it be different with humans? The prettiest girls get the richest guys or most handsome. It’s not just about wealth, but also looks, penis size, build, boobs and similar… Intelligence and more. Why not even the playing fields in all departments and give a brown bag for the pretty or plastic surgery to make us all the same?
Well Dorus, i guess one person’s “vice” is another person’s abomination. The idea that you can blow in a few minutes twice a week what is more than thousands of people live on a week just makes me sick.
Justify it all you want, but one day you will stand before someone who will hold you accountable for your actions…
Whaaaat a sobering thought. Nothing like seeing a selfish, greedy monster in the mirror and holding that stare for a while even though it’s so so hard. I guess I am humbled and I’m grateful that it didn’t take something devastating to humble me… God is awesome but wow, I am totally the rich ruler and that is disgusting cuz I always thought if I was in his shoes I would of course choose Jesus over everything. Naive. I am feeling incredibly uncomfortable 🙁