What does all this matter?
There are so many things that I have no control over in my life. I have no control over what nationality I am, to what parents I was born to, to how poor they were, to where I was born and brought up,...I could go on and on about difficult situations in my life that were unfair, unfortunate, or labeled me as poor and dumb...and thus I could whine and whine, but the truth of it all is, none of that matters.
What matters is that today, in 2018, I can make choices for myself in a free country that allows me to prosper.
I have done that, by staying out of debt, building my own houses, retiring early, and using time instead of income to build net worth. There is a host of other things, but it all boils down to doing something about my situation to change it for me in a favorable way.
Today people want to complain and compare, instead of acting.
Tired of making 20 times less then a manager? Then be a manager. It really is that easy! It is a free country. But wait, people want the money of a manager, but do not want the resposnisbilities of a manager, or in terms of farming, they want the money a middleman would get, but not do the work a middle man does...being a
cattle dealer for instance.
Or in another example, people want to escape the
city and be on a homestead, but whine and complain that they cannot afford to buy a farm. REALLY? Are these people getting off their duffs, getting out on the back roads of rural America and asking about the litany of farmhouses that are abandoned? Most are not listed, but if people approach the right people, deals can be made in private sells, financing and leases. Sure there will be 50 no's before someone says yes, but people are not willing to do the work, or fix the farmhouse up, or put up with soil that is less than 100% in PH levels and NPK. Sure a realator can find all that for you, but its an expensive (and often unobtainable way) to get there.
It is interesting that this is on the Ulcer Factory because that is just how ulcers are formed: people dwelling on issues. The antedote? Stop the dwelling and doing something about it.