loosecannon
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- May 7, 2007
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Again what you're basically saying is that we should all just sit on our asses and hope the luck fairy lands on us. Who we are and what we become has nothing to do with the choices we make? Talk about the ultimate cop out for an underachiever.
Indeed it is a lousy cop out, but it is also your opinion, I said nothing like that.
No there is no correlation between hard work and wealth. How many times do I have to say it? You need to change how you think about money if you want o accumulate wealth. Attaining wealth is not about how many hours of work you put in. If financial independence is a goal, I would at least hope you would be smart enough to figure out that you probably aren't going to get wealthy working for someone else.
So what you are basically saying is that you never stopped beating your wife.
What I am saying is that 90% of what determines your outcome in life has nothing at all to do with your choices, efforts, ideas. It is gifted to you by nature and society.
The other 10% is only weakly causative, and it isn't all about planning, effort, ideas, a plan, who you work for....it is also about how good looking you are, who you marry, who you know, how your parents raised you, ethics, culture, and of course dumb luck either good or bad among other factors.
Only old money has the luxury of formulas for success.
Your rhetoric sounds like an AmWay sales pitch.