Everyone wants to invest but nobody wants to work

[Anonymous]

I would have retired at 18 if I could. Take my summer job money and invest it enough ti buy a mansion, yacht, etc. it’s taking longer than I thought what with all the expenses of life.

[Anonymous]

It takes extreme frugality and discipline to save enough to retire at 30 or 35. 99% of people are not cut out for it and desire nice things that cost money even if it means they work another few decades.

[Anonymous]

In my mind the entire point of work is to gain money to live the rest of my life. If I could gain money without working, I would certainly do it and encourage my kids too as well. Why would you think otherwise?

[Anonymous]

In the big picture, these sentiments don’t make much sense. Think about it, if everyone’s not working, you’re not going to get the goods and services you want…which are produced by people working. And, if everyone makes all their money from investing, there would be no barrier for anyone to just have more money…which breeds massive inflation…which means your money doesn’t buy much. These schemes work best when some people do them to the detriment of others…billionaires, anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the big picture, these sentiments don’t make much sense. Think about it, if everyone’s not working, you’re not going to get the goods and services you want…which are produced by people working. And, if everyone makes all their money from investing, there would be no barrier for anyone to just have more money…which breeds massive inflation…which means your money doesn’t buy much. These schemes work best when some people do them to the detriment of others…billionaires, anyone?

Communism, anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It takes extreme frugality and discipline to save enough to retire at 30 or 35. 99% of people are not cut out for it and desire nice things that cost money even if it means they work another few decades.

No it takes massive salaries. You can’t frugal your way to retiring at 35 unless you take huge risky investment swings with capital from most normal people jobs. Or you pull in minimum $500k and live us normies making $159k.