TOPIC: no bs money making advice

I agree with most of these points. I feel like financial success is not something that everyone can achieve just like dunking on Lebron James or winning an Oscar or outrapping Eminem is not something everyone can achieve. If everyone became rich it would destabilize the economy. Capitalism works because they are people at the top whose success slowly trickles down to reach some people at the bottom. There is a heirarchy, it exists in the animal kingdom and you best believe it exists among humans as well. I think most people not only do not possess the ability/IQ/whatever internal magic to become successful, but, most, even among those that do, do not possess the wisdom/will/discipline to manage that success once attained. Many have been broken by their own success.

If you're an alcoholic with twenty dollars to your name, you have to stop drinking pretty soon. If you're a millionaire you can drink yourself into the grave. Same goes for other things.

Most people can only handle the responsibilities of a regular job and some can't even handle that much.

I think the whole mainstream start your own business ideas are highly inapplicable to most people because they don't possess the mental/emotional discipline/stability to apply the principles day in and day out for years until they succeed.

On top of that there is success, and then there is the illusion of success. Plenty of men will bust their asses chasing money with the primary motivation of getting women or respect only to end up miserable workaholics in shitty relationships with their woman fucking other guys behind their backs. Hey, but at least they got that money! lol

Lastly, there's the issue of catharsis. Just like there's success and then the illusion of success, there also exists work and then the illusion of work. Example, guy goes to the gym because he's fat and wants to get in shape in order to attract girls. He works out five days a week but his efforts are low and his program is inefficient, his brain still tells him 'at least you're working out.' Subjectively he's a hard working guy that is working towards his goals, objectively he's just going through the motions and wasting his time.

A lot of people try to turn hobbies into careers or try to pick up new skills/arts/career paths to which they aren't genetically of psychologically suited and then they spend years spinning their wheels all because their efforts feel like work, feel like their making progress, feel like they will become successful if they just don't quit and keep going, but in reality they're just wasting their efforts digging themselves into an ever deepening hole that is becoming increasingly difficult to climb out of.

Sometimes it's best to put the shovel down and start climbing, even if it is just towards a regular nine to five.