/biz/ - Business & Finance

The fact that nowadays everyone, their mothers, their mothers' minority houseworkers and those minorities dogs are invested in the market in one way or another is honestly pretty demoralizing.
Investing is no longer something you can spend some of your time studying to gain a financial edge in life.
Investing used to be a sure-fire way to get ahead of the pack and build generational wealth, even if starting from humble beginnings.
Now that almost everyone is doing, it's just become the new baseline that might barely allow you to keep your head above water.
Now it's just another thing on top of the pile of things a modern individual HAS to do just to maintain an semblance of human dignity.

Then again, I have no idea what the "new" ways to get ahead in life are, or if they even exist anymore. So maybe I'm exactly where I'm meant to be - on the way to become human cattle once I inevitably fail to keep up with the changes.

The fact that nowadays everyone, their mothers, their mothers' minority houseworkers and those minorities dogs are invested in the market in one way or another is honestly pretty demoralizing.
Investing is no longer something you can spend some of your time studying to gain a financial edge in life.
Investing used to be a sure-fire way to get ahead of the pack and build generational wealth, even if starting from humble beginnings.
Now that almost everyone is doing, it's just become the new baseline that might barely allow you to keep your head above water.
Now it's just another thing on top of the pile of things a modern individual HAS to do just to maintain an semblance of human dignity.

Then again, I have no idea what the "new" ways to get ahead in life are, or if they even exist anymore. So maybe I'm exactly where I'm meant to be - on the way to become human cattle once I inevitably fail to keep up with the changes.

The fact that nowadays everyone, their mothers, their mothers' minority houseworkers and those minorities dogs are invested in the market in one way or another is honestly pretty demoralizing.
Investing is no longer something you can spend some of your time studying to gain a financial edge in life.
Investing used to be a sure-fire way to get ahead of the pack and build generational wealth, even if starting from humble beginnings.
Now that almost everyone is doing, it's just become the new baseline that might barely allow you to keep your head above water.
Now it's just another thing on top of the pile of things a modern individual HAS to do just to maintain an semblance of human dignity.

Then again, I have no idea what the "new" ways to get ahead in life are, or if they even exist anymore. So maybe I'm exactly where I'm meant to be - on the way to become human cattle once I inevitably fail to keep up with the changes.