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The article doesn't pull any punches from the start.
It's clear what the problem is and its long-term effects, but there is a silver lining.
There are solutions for this.
@yasminekho 5000 BC: Make the best copper spears, corner the salt market, invest hard into agriculture, and invent writing systems.
3000 BC: Forge the best bronze swords, corner the tin market (necessary for bronze), create the fastest chariots, and have the most popular religion.
5000 BC: Make the best copper spears, corner the salt market, invest hard into agriculture, and invent writing systems.
3000 BC: Forge the best bronze swords, corner the tin market (necessary for bronze), create the fastest chariots, and have the most popular religion.
Every generation had a different way to get rich.
1700s: Land and colonization
→ Kings, empires, and merchants. Wealth was inherited or taken.
1800s: Steel, railroads, and oil
→ Vanderbilt. Rockefeller. Carnegie. Wealth came from infrastructure.
Early 1900s: Banking, war, and industry
→ J.P. Morgan. Henry Ford. The rich were industrialists and financiers.
Mid-1900s: Television, real estate, and manufacturing
→ Suburbs. Malls. Advertising empires. This was Mad Men meets Midwest.
Late 1990s: The Internet 1.0 boom
→ Gates, Bezos, and early e-com billionaires. Domain names were the new land.
2010s: Social, mobile, and SaaS
→ Zuck, Musk, Airbnb, Uber, Shopify. Wealth came from platforms, code, and scale.
2020s: Audience + influence + ownership
→ Mr Beast, Garyvee & Alex Hormozi. Today’s leverage lives in distribution.
We’re living in the era of visibility.
You don’t need a factory. You need a following.
You don’t need a product. You need permissionless trust.
You don’t even need money. Just momentum, documented in public.
The new frontier isn’t steel or software.
It's a signal.
And in a world where everyone is online, the people who win will be the ones who:
- Own their narrative
- Attract inbound energy
- Build demand before they ever launch
So if you’re waiting to be discovered…
If you're keeping your ideas in drafts…
If you think you're "not ready yet"
You’re already behind.
The rules have changed.
The bar is lower.
And the opportunity is infinite.
The next wave of quietly wealthy people will be the ones who publish early, stay consistent, and build proof in public, one post, one idea, one aligned audience at a time.
This is the era of personal brand.
And no one’s coming to hand you one.
Build it now.
Before everyone else catches on.
@GoshawkTrades Such insane yearly records are an extreme case. One should revert to what Buffett says and look into your inner scorecard as the ruler to measure yourself.
Even Caesar wept at the statue of Alexander the Great.
@sidecarcap The AI boom is real.
The cash flows still need to prove it.
Read my latest market analysis exclusive on @SeekingAlpha
https://t.co/6bMsnIUgLQ
Charlie Munger is one of those rare thinkers who, despite achieving massive success in a very specialized field (Value Investing), also has some pretty great insights on life.
A great work-life balance.
https://t.co/4UXM6kH6Vo
This video is a game-changer.
"If you don't make time NOW to learn how to succeed, that time will be made for you, later through failure."
@DrJustinSung
Books that will change your life:
📚Your Money or Your Life
📚Poor Charlie's Almanack
📚Snowball
📚Education of a Value Investor
📚Margin of Safety
📚The Intelligent Investor
📚Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits
What book would you add?
14/14
Pepe Mujica isn’t just a man—he’s a mirror.
He reflects back what truly matters:
Simplicity. Dignity. Community.
In a noisy world, his voice still whispers what we forget:
Live humbly. Think deeply. Love fiercely.
1/14
Pepe Mujica: the poorest president in the world, yet the richest in wisdom.
A man who gave away 90% of his salary, lived on a farm, and governed a country.
Here’s a thread of his most timeless insights and quotes that still shake the soul.
13/14
“We came into this world to be happy, not to be slaves of the market.”
Mujica reminds us: we weren’t born to optimize KPIs, get in debt, consume and die.