I never wanted to be rich

Wealth never moved me. I have no attachment to money whatsoever. I had a comfy life, never really had big luxury's but I had every basic need more than fulfilled. My parents always took care of me. I did my deeds. I was a somewhat successful student. Have a degree in engineering in the best school of the country. I did it fairly easily and never missed a year.

And then I started working and I started noticed how completely fucked up our generation is. I have nothing but respect for my elders but the system truly fucked us in favor of them. Waking up early, putting yourself over a fucking packed shitty public transportation or in the middle of the abysmal traffic just to get to work. Spend endless hours doing bullshit for some corporate heads only to make a measly wage. They eat my time, they eat my money and they eat my soul. Money to buy a house? Ayy lmao. Money to rent it? Sure, but what the fuck is left? To eat my food? To pay my fucking transportation to actually go to work?

I did this for a while (3 years) until I decided it wasn't for me. I then started doing my phd and started to do research in a more comfortable environment. I live a idiotic comfy "student" life. I dont even have a salary but a grant. But this is not what I want to do (and I still wake up early....which I hate), mostly cause I also fucking hate the whole academia bullshit, outside of meeting 18-22 year olds every year.

That's why crypto is my salvation. I don't want to be fucking rich, I dont want to have a extravagant life. I just want the same opportunities the others had. To form a stable family. To have a job that pays me fairly well. To have time to fucking do something else. To actually be able to buy shit. At the end of the day, crypto is nothing more than getting away from wagecucking, not cause of laziness but the opportunity to live.

And I'm not fucking spoiled and know people worked their ass off in the past . But its also not too much to presume younger generations have different expectations growing up in fucking developed countries and societies.

I'm probably a bit older than most biz (31) but fuck I can't help but think we are not in just for the lambos but for a comfort everyone expected one day to have only to discover its almost unattainable.

Exactly the same here, user. I truly hope you make it, you got the right mindset.
Idk where you live but in this shit third world country the prices of food and shit like that skyrocket every single month. And as you said, you work to eat, take a shit and maybe watch some tv... and then back to work. Crypto is my last chance.

You get it user, this is our ticket to freedom from the shackles of wagecucking

tks man. im from a poor country (portugal) but i luckily have the chance to travel a bit cause of work (conferences) and, even if in different magnitues, its similar in other countries (spain, france, italy for instance i met several people with similar complaints). lets not even talk about eastern europe.
tks man

No. These kinds of posts are the fucking indicators that NONE OF US will make it. Crypto is being propped up by a bunch of fucking weirdos who don't want to work. How does that create a stable economy? None of the companies have a product with real world application let alone revenue, and yet they all have market caps of $200MM+ and you all somehow think you're going to get rich on this shit. How are you kids serious?

IBM's market cap is like the same as fucking Bitcoin. Yet one of them is a stable business that has been operating profitably for decades, makes computers and computer parts which you use, etc. And the other is fake Internet money without a dedicated staff and with a founder who isn't even fucking real.

Think about that. Even if some of these companies wind up finding real world adoption, for it to be valued higher than it currently is is very unlikely. Most companies never see anything close to these valuations. Will LINK, REQ, NEO, etc. be the LARGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD within the next few years? NO, NO FUCKING CHANCE. And yet you somehow think they're all going to 1000x and make you multi-millionaires.

While there's a privilege to live in a first world country and to have a safe desk job, you have to be lucky to find an office which doesn't slowly erode your soul through petty office politics and bureaucracy. If crypto doesn't work out for me enough to escape this, I'm going to find something where I can work outside.

about to turn 30, over here.
i can relate to you so much, friend.
everything you wrote is pretty much identical to my life.

>crypto is nothing more than getting away from wagecucking, not cause of laziness but the opportunity to live
i'm listening to francisco tarrega right now, as i've taking a liking to his ballads, as of lately and this line literally brougt tears into my eyes...

love yourself, anons. the restlessness inside you, the constant negging in the back of your head.
that's GREATNESS, trying to find any, ANY AT ALL, channel to seep into this reality

i love you all

drinking red wine, as i write
i raise the glass to you all

keep your heads straight, and you shall make it

You don't understand crypto yet. It will be revealed to you in time.

>Portugal

>weirdos who don't want to work

Pmsl. Imagine being forced to do a meaningless, unfulfilling job everyday day of your life. All for a shit wage, knowing you'll always only be able to rent. Knowing you can never pursue your life goals and desires. Getting home everyday, too tired to spend any time focusing on bettering yourself. 21st work is the greatest scam we have ever seen, paying the debt of the old as we waste our best years of our lives. But yeah, who wouldn't want to work.

I don't give a shit about being rich either, but how can I avoid wagecucking without having money?

I understand it perfectly well since I've been invested since 2013. I already made it, and now I play the markets for fun.

Yet you're here thinking we're going to have some world revolution happening within the next few years. Five years ago the people buying in like me thought the same thing. I now realize this will take 20+ years to fully adopt. You're going to just not work until then? Hope the company you bought into 10-15 years previously still exists? Good luck.

27, sit in about 2.5 hours of traffic every day, have a $600K portfolio. Not sure why I haven't quit my job yet but each day is worse than the last. It's not about making it so I can fuck hookers and do drugs, it's about finally starting a life worth a shit.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but a measly wage for a graduate of the best school of the country ? Can't help but feel you messed up somewhere

Same. 750k now, just want enough to buy my own house, start a family and live a good life.

BTC is about to crash hard, bringing the whole market down with it. From its ashes will rise the coins with actual real use. BCH for sure. LINK probably. And several others. Blockchain technology is here to stay. it will take over society in the coming years like the Internet has done in the past. There is tremendous potential to make money still as long as you invest in the few really promising coins, ideally at the bottom at the end of the coming crash, and then wait. More risky is buying the shitcoins and pumps and dumps, most of which will have disappeared a few months or years from now, and it's less intellectually rewarding making money on shitcoins solely propped up on hype and shilling and fomo.

Governments and top companies are going to embrace distributed ledger technologies (blockchain), this hasn't even started.

i would work my ass off if it would pay off desu, but 80% wealth is heritage

Lol you have more than enough for that.
I own my own house, but have a 3k portfolio
Just cash out before its too late

IBM is a shitty boomer stock, the company is done in 20 years.

If you have IBM in your retirement account you're literally cucking yourself.

Same here OP couldn't of said it better myself all I have ever wanted was to live my life comfortably and give a life to my kids that I never had. To a lot of us including me this our last chance at some sort of financial freedom and so I genuinely hope to see some of you /biz bros on the moon.

Can confirm.

I want you to understand two things:

1) "Blockchain" is not new technology. In fact, it's very old and simple technology and has been used for years. Decentralized blockchains are the "new" part of this. Decentralization is the new "technology", not blockchains.

2) The Internet took about 20 years to see global adoption. It didn't happen overnight. And some parts of the world are still without it. We are now about 5 years into decentralization as a wave. Based on your own Internet analogy, in another 15 years we might see global adoption. Which is what I said to begin with. Will LINK even exist in 15 years? Maybe. Maybe not.

It's not that I don't want you guys to all get rich. It's that it saddens me to know you guys seem to settled into a depression where you're banking on your only way out being getting rich off crypto. The odds are NOT in your favor. Find other outs, and if the crypto thing happens too then even better.

You just want to sit on your ass and do nothing all day because you're too lazy to get up early in the morning and work. Don't try to glorify what it really is.

this is true but apple valuation is bigger than italy gdp or three times mexico, and no way they are more beneficial to society than those states.
the worst thing is seeing my colleagues (who are now 40) that went through this. its fucking scary.

tks man

:)

you can't. sorry. you will need to at least to go through a bit of it. at least you might meet nice people in the process.

with 600k i would be set eheh. and how many hours you sit at office? even more? thats sometimes even more numbing than traffic.

dude, i know a director of big central bodies who makes here 2.2k€ per month after tax. a dude who have millions and millions under his responsability. imagine the ones underneath.
if you want to make it big here, you either have a shitload of connections or go live somewhere else (which I don't want). its not like we have crazy companies making a shitload of money.

no man. its just the lack of reward for doing it.
just look at the development in the last 50 years

im a stinky linkie also lol

Buying a house is cheaper than renting. Buy a duplex and rent out one unit and live rent and mortgage free. What country are you in?

I'm from Portugal.

Maybe I will do that when I have enough money. Can't right now.

Blockchain is distributed ledger by definition, you're focusing on semantics as if that was an argument.

Internet needed a global infrastructure to see global adoption, the global infrastructure for DLTs is already there, for it is the Internet itself. It will take a couple more years for widespread adoption of a cryptocurrency that scales (BTC would already have widespread adoption if it hadn't been prevented to scale over the last few years)

You just want to believe you made it and those that come after you won't, you want to feel special, but time will prove you wrong, and you will miss out on a lot.

>I want you to understand two things

t. Salty no coiner who will work until he is 80, at which point he will rot in a state care home sitting in his own shit as lashawnda films him for the vine

same my bizbro. i've resigned myself to the fact that a decent first world life with a family is pretty much unaffordable. i make more money than 95% of my peers (software engineer in a big city), but it all gets sucked up by rent and cost of living, more and more year after year. that, compounded with the knowledge that capital has been winning - the landlord sucking up my rent is just living an unproductive life off the fat of my labor and gains. im gonna just drop out of the system. it also feels pretty bad to know what you can make more money by capital alone. labor doesnt mean jack. the work hard meme has been sold to me my whole life, and has turned out thus far to be a lie

>It's not that I don't want you guys to all get rich. It's that it saddens me to know you guys seem to settled into a depression where you're banking on your only way out being getting rich off crypto. The odds are NOT in your favor. Find other outs, and if the crypto thing happens too then even better.

You're right man. But its still fucking hopeful. I still work. I still do everything I did. My expectations today are a bit different though cause of crypto. Obviously this might end up biting me in the ass and leading me to an even more negative state. That's certainly a possibility.

Oh, don't know how well this strategy works over there but here in the states it worked for me. My buddy did it and clued me in on the idea. Been happy with it. Also you get equity, which you don't get if you rent.

thats the crazy shit. you certanly make way more than me but end up also having way more expenses for basic needs, truly fucking everything and everyone everywhere. Sometimes I just thought, well my country is just shit from an economical point of view (and it is, but lovely in other departments) but then I talk with someone from SF and dudes who make a lot still live like shit.

Same here user. 29 years old, looking for that opportunity I've been promised but never offered.

Was in academia as well, got into chemistry, quite good at it but I could see the future I had and it was nothing but indentured service, producing massive value for people who's sole motivation was to keep me paid enough to live but never enough to rise above my lot in life.

Our generation needs to make this work because this destructive change will be our way out of their system, and they will have to buy into our system instead of us being forced to buy into theirs.

People like you talking abou cashing out makes me nervous. Don’t do it, stay invested in the vision, otherwise you’ll be chasing a “good life”.

You sound like a weird ass fag. I want to get fucking rich.

Prepay a year of rent in a cheap apartment(700-1300 usd/mo) and trade lol

Dad makes a million per year. Still never satisfied nor feel accomplished thanks to high taxes.

bitcoin is digital gold. period. go f yourself

When did you guys start? I got in halfway through the dip not knowing what the fuck I was doing with 2k and now have 1.5, I can't even understand how people have created $500+ portfolios.

>Have a degree in engineering in the best school of the country

You better be talking about FEUP

absolutely. and there's a fucking petiness in academia. like everyone wants to kill the other so they can become an associate or some shit lol. its such a weird toxic environemnt. so fucking chilly in some days, and fucked up in others.

and contrary to many people, and this is something I've noticed here on biz, i don't believe our entire generation is basically just waiting for this opportunity. no matter how mainstream this shit is in the news, i still dont know that many people who invest.
I'm from portugal so i went to the web summit which is basically the biggest technological conference in europe and blockchain technology, development and investors were...not that many. I'm always scared this will end up but actually going there and seeing with my eyes such conservationism from the technological industry gave me more confidence we are still far from whatever the end bubble will be.

You have to take a profit at some point or else what does it matter?

ahaha. i dont want to make this a contest. i actually did some part time teaching there last year :)

but off course its ist. feup is an amazing school too.

Bought ETH @ $9

Nothing wrong with profiting off this if it can get me to leave my boring office job.

btw, confirm to biz that even good students in decent positions, we still get fucked. the system is rigged and we are all used to be paid like cucks.

Once BTC hits 50k, the world will sing a different tune.

I moved to Ireland, making 4 times what I did in Portugal and have the rent paid for by my company. Socialists ruined our country, there's no future for young people in it.

The fucking system only allows you so much power and 'success' as you contribute to maintain it. Fuck this shit and fuck you all cucks, If I'll make it I am bringing a new communist revolution again. Not because it would work or whatever, but to see all you greedy 'hard working' fucks impaled.

yeah but you had to leave. that's still a fucked solution.

and i dont' want to dwell on the political discussion. i see the same problems in countries with vastly different political spectrums.

The worst part is that by the time we get older we won't even be able to leech off the younger generation like the 40+ scum do now. We need to get serious about taking wealth back, we're getting fucked no Vaseline

oh shit you're exactly me

That and every fucking supervisor is either a complete saint or the biggest possible asshole (most of the time the latter). I don't even understand why - virtually every other grad student I've met is horrified by their supervisor because they constantly antagonise their students. What's there to be so cranky about all the time?

neat blog faggot

Nice blogpost, now fuck back to your parent's house, you manchild.

>I never struggled in life all through finishing my studies, by my own admission
>at the sight of what all people go through, i fill my diaper and need to run away.

Your weak OP

>its such a weird toxic environemnt. so fucking chilly in some days, and fucked up in others.

Man, I know what you are talking about, I bought in into the PhD bullshit, afterwards a post-doc at a great University. Everyone talks how great it is, but people have literally breakdowns, because they do not know if they find a position afterwards. I know people who are working they ass off, do absolutely almost nothing else beside working on their career. I know professors who are bitter, many of them have mental issues because of the process they went thought to get a professorship. Academia is fucked up.

I am also disabled, the whole "diversity" bullshit is completely nonsense, nobody helps you, it is harder to find a job.

I hope we all will make it.

>mexico
>beneficial

you know, if they were just a part of the US, they would be better off

Work to live or life to work.

the manta of the upper-middle class

it can be a shithole, the point is just how fucked up the technological valuation is and nobody seems to be concerned about it. why would it change with blockchain?

yeah they are fucked up. probably bitter cause they ended up doing jack shit in their lives lol also its repetitive as fuck and you end up basically excelling in one very specific area. it can be quite numbing, even to our minds.

i dont run away. i have a "normal" life. that's why im complaining about it.

Come see me in NYC.
We could rob a bank or something

If you dont enjoy that money you can give some to me it dont have to be for free you can offer me some kind of job or anything. If i had this troubles like you i would give alot to charity , buy stuff for local school, go to grocery and buy alot stuff for the honeless man outside. Contact me here : [email protected]
Thanks have nice day user

100% bang on OP
I live in a socialist hellhole that has among the highest taxes in europe. Just read an article today that they pay some nigger refugee 7.000 euro a month and he gets a houe to live with his 2 wives and 6 children.
meanwhile they take everythig I earn away from me. its impossible to make any money.
I moved to SEA a couple of years ago and worked my ass off to build up some meagre online income. then got depressed and homesick and moved back home. now I owe tens of thousands in taxes because some weird tax law says I still have to pay even though I wasnt in the country. plus Im gonna have to work twice as much to make the same money I made before.
what the fuck am I supposed to do here? I can move out again but I want to stay in my homeland. or I can quit working but I want to do something with my life. this is so fucked up and crypto is my only hope at this point. I just want to be able to buy my own house and maybe start a family some day. these fucking kikes are bleeding us dry here.

You should go to a tax lawyer or something and get that figured out, they're likely just trying to fuck you

already went to a lawyer and thats what he told me

Fucking KEK!!! You're 31 and only worked 3 years in your life?!?!?!
Pahahahah tell me how much you suffered user!!! Please elucidate us on the crappy life you lead being a white european in one of the most beautiful countries with a degree in engineering from a top university!!! HOLY FUCK YOU'RE ENTITLED!!!!

just fuck off you piece of shit
white people are getting financially raped and our homelands are destroyed all over the world
and when you complain about it all you get is "muh privilege"
kys

Your weakness builds me.