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@selea fair argument.. if your gonna work 90 hour weeks just make sure your investing in YOUR future and not someone elses.
There is an element of luck to it as well, I wouldnt say all that.. But short of having some really bad luck that drained your money, then yea, if your working 90 hour weeks for a long time you should be fairly wealthy unless your doing something wrong.
@freemo @selea I've had friends admit to me they quit coming around because of my bad luck rubbing off on them. I have notoriously shit luck. I have no "education" to speak of and I have worked 20-60 hours a week for the last 10 years. I'm 38, own my home outright and have a little debt just for credit purposes. Living beyond your means is how you stay poor. If I can do it anybody can.
While luck is certainly a factor as you point out its not usually the dominant one.. I mean you say you have shit luck, but one accident in just the right way can put a person 100K in debt whether its from law suits or health insurance not covering something or whatever.
You can minimize the chance luck will bite you in the ass. But you cant eliminate it as a factor.. the fact that you are thriving means even if you had bad luck, your luck could have been far far worse.
Im not sure people who work 90 hours have too much more or less of a risk factor of being suied over a random accident than anyone else. But I agree, winding up in 100K + of debt due to an accident is one example that is fairly rare, but we are talking about luck, luck implies chance and at the extreme ends of that the gain/loss will be extreme.
Again not saying luck is typically the dominate factor, but it is a factor and for the few people who are unlucky it can be rather devastating.
@freemo @selea How many people who work 90 hours a week get sued for 100k and screw up their marriage? Less than 1%. Luck is almost a non issue here. Sure it happens but the original statement was "work 90 hours - others get rich"
If you work 90 hours a week and someone else is making all the money than you are simply a moron. A vast majority of people actually in the position stated in the og post are idiots.