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Most of us have had many advantages in life.

I’m 30, make $120,000, and I'm about to cross $100,000 net worth. I’m not doing quite as well as some people on here, but I’m definitely the kind of person you might look at and think, “wow, he got it together early. I wish I’d been doing that well at that age.”
But here’s the story you don’t see behind those stats:

My parents gave bought me car when I turned 18.

My parents paid for my college degree

My dad convinced me to start funding a Roth IRA when I was 21. And because my parents were paying all my expenses, it was easy to max it out on the salary from my part time job.

After I graduated college, I couldn’t get a good job in my field and decided to go back for a second degree. My grandma paid for tuition this time, and my parents let me live with them, so still no student debt.

When I graduated college the second time with a full time job lined up, I was out of money and couldn’t afford the move I needed to do. So my parents gave me $20,000 and told me to pay them back whenever. Can you imagine if I’d needed to take out an actual line of credit to finance my move?
The point I’m getting at here is that while I may be doing pretty well for myself, I also played life on easy mode.

I overcame absolutely 0 adversity to get where I am.

I’m actually not even doing that well when you take all of that into account; lots of people would be doing better than me if we’d been dealt the same hand.

So when you see anyone talking about their giant net worth, just know that they likely had a lot of help along the way.

You can’t compare yourself to other people because you haven’t come from the same place.

You should always measure your accomplishments relative to yourself, not some random person on here who’s your age but has double the net worth.

Don’t let other people discourage you; we’re all on our own paths.

Got got this!

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These are curated insider memes only meant for the highest level members of the priestly class. You're lucky to be in this thread.

Seriously consider dropping 100 onto this as a long term investment biz. What do you think? Any better suggestions? Will it still exsist in a year?