• snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No, he needs your money, otherwise he has to spend his money on what he wants, and that would mean he would have less money. It’s always easier using other people’s money.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Is there not a saying about this, I forget the direct one…

    How would you push back against these, I know many working class people are born hearing them, as well as people starting their own businesses…

    Here are some similar ones though:

    “Never use your own money when you can spend someone else’s.”

    — Ken Follett

    Kenneth Martin Follett, is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.

    [Picture below says: ‘First Rule of Money: Never use your own.’]

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        3 months ago

        That may be true, but that is the logic that is pushed on us since our birth as well as by the ‘job creators’.

        It seems to be the norm or also known as the status quo thinking, so that we may achieve the ‘American dream’.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Counting loans collateralized on capital assets as income, either all the time or at a loan interest rate below federal interest rates (IE, not going to beat inflation and therefore throwing money away)

    There’d be exceptions for stuff like a primary home mortgage or primary car auto-loan, but this sneaky sneaky shit they try to pull where they get to just have unlimited money without ever paying the toll for “making” that much needs to be closed off.

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    3 months ago

    Billionaires don’t become (or stay) billionaires by spending their own money.

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    3 months ago

    The “billionairre” “needs” your money in order for the “billionairre” to “have more money.” QED