“Diversify your portfolio.” Lol. Lmao.
What’s the worst you’ve heard? Why does it suck?
395 sats \ 5 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei 6 Aug 2023
"You need to go to college, right now, at age 18. If you delay it, even for a moment, your brain will wither and you will be unsuccessful forever"
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117 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 6 Aug 2023
/r/studentloans is a sad place.. so many non-physician/lawyer/engineers in such a big hole because of school industrial complex
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @orthzar 6 Aug 2023
I was told something similar: "go to college or you'll be poor forever."
My parents regretted not finishing college, so they tried to vicariously relieve their regret by making me get a college degree. They even had the gaul to make me pay for the debt. Joke's on them: I never got a college degree and now I tell people that college is a scam.
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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @mudbloodvonfrei 7 Aug 2023
I'm not sure college is a scam, but it is a bubble and provides a horrible ROI for most people. I ended up going, majoring in engineering it sounded cool, and flunked out because I had no motivation. I eventually got a different degree at a smaller, cheaper school and $25k in student loans as a constant reminder to apply critical thinking to major life decisions.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 8 Aug 2023
My reasonsing for college being a scam:
- College is sold as a means to getting a job, despite the fact that the skills/knowledge required to do most jobs are taught by the employer or can be learned on your own.
- College is very expensive considering it checks a box for many jobs that don't actually need a degree.
- Colleges never tell you "hey, this is gonna be expensive, so maybe you should consider whether you actually need it," because they get the money up-front, and lenders are guaranteed by the US Federal government to be repayed.
- Few jobs actually require the sort of training that a college provides (e.g. engineering, academia, lawyering, etc).
- Most of the knowledge that a college degree provides can be learned by simply reading books, which are inexpensive.
- Most of the skills you'd need for a job can be learned without any formal instruction by reading books, watching YouTube, and practising at home (e.g. welding, programming, vehicle repair, cooking, tailoring, etc).
- Some professors will let you sit in the classroom and listen to their lectures for free, because so few students care about what is said in lectures and a curious student is a breath of fresh air to those professors.
College might have been useful for most students 50 years ago, but today it is a scam perpetuated by at the very least the US Federal government.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chrono 7 Aug 2023
Going to college is always a good decision. Where most people fail is going to a school they can't afford.
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162 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 6 Aug 2023
“You should stay in a union job. If you don’t, the union can’t protect you anymore”.
Terrible advice from a union rep many years ago after I got hired to a management position. I ended up tripling my salary within 5 years after leaving the union position and then started my own adjacent business that I eventually built up to 2M/yr revenue.
If I stayed in the union job I would be making $45k a year right now.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @chrono 7 Aug 2023
How's your work-life balance?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 8 Aug 2023
Great. I sold my business last year and I am semi-retired now. I did work my ass off for 15 years to get to this point though.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 6 Aug 2023
👑
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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @brianh 6 Aug 2023
"Sell your Bitcoin." - Jim Cramer
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61 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6 Aug 2023
"Trust the experts"
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 6 Aug 2023
it's seriously amazing, there are many people out there who've been subconsciously trained to not trust their own instincts. They delegate all individual critical thinking to "those who know best"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RdioActiv 7 Aug 2023
Trust, but verify.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerrywilliampolley 6 Aug 2023
True, but it’s deeper then that, every thing we know about our world cums from textbooks, word of mouth, internet. Here is the truth, if we have not seen it directly with our own eyes, then there is a good chance it isnt true. Teachers get paychecks, everything on the internet if for profit or keeping the system that created the lies in the first place alive. We need to forget everything and start over with instinct at the center of our learning process, and not place worth on knowledge!!! Never take anyones word for it not even mine, people are bought!!
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53 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo 6 Aug 2023
Get a real job.
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 6 Aug 2023
Just be yourself.
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46 sats \ 3 replies \ @nemo 6 Aug 2023
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Aug 2023
I always viewed it as a way to get easy sats
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184 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 6 Aug 2023
consider that maybe bitcoiner plebs have a lot of valuable insight to share, if you simply ask
maybe that's valuable to some people
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Aug 2023
It certainly starts some interesting discussions. I didn’t mean to imply that the posts are with negative intent :)
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 6 Aug 2023
You need to go to university and get a degree...
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatoshisSkeleton 7 Aug 2023
I win. After my girl friend died a counselor said "you shouldn't cry". Lmao. Bizarre.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @SatoshisSkeleton 7 Aug 2023
I think it's obvious why this is literally insane advice. Esp since she was pregnant at the time. 1st trimester.
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55 sats \ 4 replies \ @iguano 6 Aug 2023
From my father, he told me "dont buy this bitcoin thing. its a scam".
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 6 Aug 2023
many such cases
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @iguano 6 Aug 2023
Sadly for him, I invested in bitcoin years after.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 OP 6 Aug 2023
your chance now to bring him aboard!
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @iguano 6 Aug 2023
I brought my brother with me :D
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71 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 6 Aug 2023
"Wear a mask to protect the others."
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 6 Aug 2023
if that is the worst advice, you r lucky:)
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8 sats \ 2 replies \ @pillar 7 Aug 2023
Never get in debt.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @chrono 7 Aug 2023
How is that bad advice?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pillar 7 Aug 2023
Because success in the fiat system largely depends on being able to secure debt on the best possible conditions and put the principal to work in smart ways.
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 7 Aug 2023
lol all investment advice i've ever gotten
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @oppongankrah 7 Aug 2023
Date as many women as possible, you never know when one might dump you
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @proeu 7 Aug 2023
"If you have sex with a condom, it doesn't really count."
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsCats 7 Aug 2023
ETH will flip BTC :D
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerrywilliampolley 6 Aug 2023
Trust the science!!!!
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8 sats \ 0 replies \ @bataroot 6 Aug 2023
Trust THE science™
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 7 Aug 2023
go to college
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 7 Aug 2023
To trust my faith and follow christ. To doubt my sinful mind when I have doubts that arise from things like reading my science textbooks. To never read books that aren’t written by Christian’s. Especially to never read books written by atheists. And to pray harder when I have doubts because god will sPeAk tO mE.
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6 Aug 2023
"Buy a house with a bunch of features you don't value, for the resale value."
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @cstack 6 Aug 2023
"self-fund" books.com two years before amazon.com launched.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ceife 6 Aug 2023
Why did the investor go to the comedy show?
To learn that putting all your money in one joke is as risky as putting it in one stock! Remember, diversify your portfolio for a happier and safer investment journey! 😄📈
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