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   H. A. Copington (h_a_copington@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:41:13 JST H. A. Copington
   whitepapersinstitute.substack.com/p/michigan-the-midwest-and-the-forgotten
   
   It really does blow my mind sometimes that there was an era of such prosperity that a family of working class plebs could afford multiple cars, a house, and a boat.
   
   The wealth of the boomer generation honestly amazes me. I hear all the time about old people just casually buying and selling 300k plots of land in the States. The fucking killdozer guy constantly bought and sold land around his town for 30-50k just because he fucking could, with money he got from running a business out of a rural area. I'm sat here wondering what their secret was to this incredible wealth and the honest answer is that it's just the time period and demographics. I'm at the point where I doubt I could achieve any independence from the rentoid system with just my 9-5.
   
   My only desire is to live in a place that I can't get kicked out from at any moment, or a place where I'm not at the mercy of some idiot in the building leaving a stove on or plugging something into an outlet wrong and burning everything down.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:42:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @H_A_Copington yes, many of them were born into a world where young men were encoraged to try things out and learn from failures. Nowadays young men are afraid to do anything because any failure can be life ending.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:02:16 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     There's also all of the added regulations that make market entry impossible.
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     Zettour (zettour@gearlandia.haus)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:02:18 JST Zettour

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     @H_A_Copington There are generally two avenues to wealth: Sell overpriced products to the wealthy or sell vast quantities of cheap junk to many people. Second option generally requires massive startup capital, unless you're doing something computer related.
     
     The "Small Business" is dying due to giant corporations doing everything cheaper and faster (not necessarily better), so the opportunities for becoming wealthy from nothing are fewer. Then there's the simple fact that if you double population you're going to have prices of scarce goods (land) go up.