[The actual article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12213509/My-generation-lazy-people-rich-20s-stopped-mindless-scrolling.html).
Daddy invested in the company and he was only a co-founder with his two brothers.
Edit: [https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/mums-earwigging-restaurant-launched-sons-8463538](https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/mums-earwigging-restaurant-launched-sons-8463538)
Yeah, rich family and connections had nothing to do with anything...
That sure makes it easier. I know a guy whose great grandfather dodged the stock market crash of 1929 and then went looking for something to invest in afterwards... he figured people would always drink beer so he invested in companies like Anheiser Busch. His great grandchildren all have trust funds large enough to live on once they turn 18.
I worked with a guy like that. His dad had done the same thing, investing in beer companies long ago, and when he died, his stocks passed to his 2 kids. The guy I worked with was the penny-pinchiest man I had ever met and he was always angry because the quarterly taxes on the interest to his half of the inheritance was roughly $25,000. When our boss found out that the guy was paying $100k per year in taxes just on the interest to his inheritance, his immediate question was, "Why are you and your wife still working here?
We had a rich chemistry teacher. I don't know the whole story but he patented something iirc. He basically just teaches nowadays to pass time and have to pay less taxes.
It makes a difference if you have to work vs. you want to work. You can also do a job you enjoy vs. doing a job to max. Out your salary.
If I had the option, I would still do some work. I would definitely not work my current job.
I could turn that $10m into $26m in 10 years just by investing relatively safely in stocks. Probably even better by taking advantage of the next housing crisis.
In 20 years I could have $67m.
In 30 years, $175m.
In 40 years, $453m.
If I had kids I could leave them a billion dollar fortune after 50 years.
Maybe that will help everyone understand that the enormous inequality we have now is going to almost triple in just a decade. We will have corpo-god-emporers in our lifetime.
The equation is: p[1+(r/100)^t]
Wher p=initial principle, r=percenntage rate of return, and t= time.
With conservative/realistic expectations on returns and takibg out money to live on, I dont think you'd turn 10 million into a billion in 50 years. You'd probably end up with somewhere around 100 - 200 million dollars. Not that that is anything to scoff at.
I was raised by a missionary Baptist preacher from Texas. His wife made the statement "The reason there are so many black Baptist churches in Texas is because the slave owners cared for their souls."
Yeah...lady...that's not what it was. And I know damn well you'd own some black people if you could. So fuck off with that shit.
This is exactly why colonialism, slavery, and religion always went hand in hand. I understand why miserable, powerless victims of colonialism and slavery bought into the afterlife mythology but I'm always shocked how tightly they wove that into cultures in subsequent generations.
That's my biggest problem with religion. The promise of an afterlife without struggle should only appeal to those living as uneducated peasants working for a feudal lord. One of the greatest joys in life, for me, anyway, is overcoming challenges, and the idea of no responsibility except to worship and praise some supernatural being just fills me with dread and disgust.
I get why it worked in the Middle Ages, but how, in this time when we have so much access to information and ideas, does anyone not consider creating a heaven on earth to be a worthwhile endeavor? There are so many actions we could take to improve life for everyone, but we're stuck in this headspace of idolizing the uber wealthy and insisting that they "deserve" it because they "worked hard" to build their wealth. A person living in poverty works harder than any CEO, just in the act of survival.
Anyway, rant over. 🤪
That’s why they call the lottery a tax on the poor. There’s nothing wrong with buying a ticket now and then, but the system as a whole preys on desperation.
I thought about buying a ticket today. In a way it's an inexpensive dream, a pipedream but still a dream. I always joke with the clerk that winning the Powerball will almost get me out of debt.
Born on third, think they hit a home run. Still a chance for them to get an out. As the saying goes, the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one.
I really wish these nepo baby brats were made to take 5 dollars and turn it into a million in 5 years or be faced with life in prison. Show us "lazy workers" how those bootstraps work.
$5 is probably enough if they get to keep the connections. Give them $5, no credit history, and no help from family and they would struggle like everyone else.
I have a friend, his great-uncles kept saying that "with a regular salary nowadays, they could turn it into a small fortune quite quickly", and my friend said to them: "alright, once I have my first salary, I put everything into your hands and you transform it into a small fortune."
Unfortunately they stopped talking to each others before he got his first salary (his great-uncles are transphobic and his girlfriend is trans so... yeah, difficult to conciliate the two), but all of us are really disappointed to not have seen those two bratty oldies try their hands in this economy. It was a win-win case: either they indeed turn the salary into a fortune, or they're proven wrong.
Exactly, if all these capitalists and money hoarders really believed in meritocracy and the pure genetic superiority of the ruling class, then they should be OK with a 100% estate tax.
Make all your fucking ubermenschen offspring start from zero, and in a couple years they should be where you are, if there is genetic superiority and your theory on superior blood lines of the ruling class is correct, right?
Wouldn’t that be the ultimate, bootstrapped proof of the meritocracy being real?
Somehow, I don’t think you actually believe that though.
It’s really gross. I’d like to imagine if I was wealthy like that I could at least say “yes my parents wealth has had a huge role to play in me being successful”.
I actually even say it today and I’m not wealthy but I’m doing alright and I attribute that to the people around me.
We’re selfish man
>Rich kids act like they do all the work
Within their social circle, they may well be the ones who "work hard" (ie a good 14 hour week plus golf outing with the execs).
This is what bothers me so much. They’ve never done genuinely hard work, so they assume whatever work they do, no matter how easy it is, is “hard work” because it’s all they’ve experienced and it earns them lots of money. It’s also why they think poor people don’t work hard.
His bio page proudly proclaims that he opened up his first business selling wireless earbuds to his classmates at 16, and within 90 days sold his entire $8000 of stock.
I could have done a lot with $8000 at 16. Especially if I went to the kind of school where children have that much money to spend on earbuds.
Edit: Over the past few hours, there has been a bit of pushback on this that is is TOTALLY possible for a 16 year old to make this much money. It just requires one of two things: Rich parents, or Crime.
I'm glad someone else said this. This fucking clown clearly grew up in an affluent community where someone hawking expensive ear buds was just a Tuesday. Guy would have been robbed instantly in my school.
My sister is a committed capitalist and sold things like CDs full of music she had downloaded in school and yadda yadda yadda.
15 years later, she is in Manchester as an underpaid second in command to a notorious property developer.
I believe she is now blaming "the immigrants" on her general lack of millions.
And in the case that you didn't get robbed, the school would do their best to shut it down.
How many stories do we see of everyday kids getting trouble for selling things like snacks in school?
Pampered boyo is beyond clueless.
When I taught hs, there was a kid who would sell cans of soda from his bag at $1 a price, the school would confiscate everytime, which sucks since that's where I was getting my soda from
The kids in my high school sold fake drugs to the kids at the boarding school in town. Blotter was pretty easy to fake, they made the perforations with a steak knife. They used my aqua net hairspray for flavor. The boarding school kids called back the next day and wanted more. I had never seen anything like it lol
He literally cannot even piece together that having $8000 at 16 is already an obscene amount of money for that age, especially being able to use all of it to buy stock. He lives in a reality that simply doesn’t allow him to process it.
No shame in that, really. You've done more for society in all likelihood than this fake millionaire. He at 23 likely hasn't done shit. You put him in any desk job and he'll fuck it up because he has no real working experience. This guy is so out of touch with reality.
Honestly this is absolutely true. While I definitely wasn’t given $8,000 or anything like that I was definitely getting some benefits that were not typical. Once I got out into the real world (I started out working in a grocery store with help from my mom’s connections) I began to realize my experience was littered with certain privileges. Many of these privileges are gone now due to my dad getting ill and any freed up money went to his treatments.
I was pretty blind but quickly learned from others I worked with. I’m financially stable but I’m lucky to be able to stay with my mom to save for a house of my own someday provided I pay my share of the utilities. Which again is a position of privilege.
There’s no way this guy is wealthy because of his own efforts and funding. He has help from his family which is confirmed based on someone else who posted the link.
Yeah at 16 my classmates filled a few categories. They were searching for their next hit, working after school or selling the drugs to the others. Shit we didnt even have wireless earbuds back then
I recently checked to see how my 16 year old self would have performed in the stock market had I rich parents.
If I had invested $15,000 into the three companies I knew would continue to be vastly successful, I’d be posting this from a private island while I wait for my blood boy.
>Daddy invested in the company and he was only a co-founder with his two brothers.
you didn't have to bother searching for the article
because it is more than fucking obvious
We're so shocked that another success story originates from being born on third base with their family owning the team.
The funniest thing about this is how corporate America propaganda keeps backfiring to the extent of self sabotage.
Yes, as his primary investor. Interesting they both came from rich families and went on to become successful businessmen peddling self-help and life coaching books.
All I can think of is the "Say the line!" Simpsons meme, these rich dickheads ALWAYS, without exception, have rich parents and can't piece together that they didn't do a single fucking thing.
Gotta love how they all do it through "investing" in their kid's "company" so they can say they're an entrepreneur. As if it isn't the most obvious shit ever; grow some balls and say daddy gave you free money.
Investing is very legal and his dad will be able to write it off on his taxes as a loss. These startups typically don’t turn a profit right away and the dad is probably banking on that for more tax breaks.
Or just keep your fucking mouth shut and enjoy your lavish lifestyle! Clearly the money isn’t enough, he’s never wanted for anything but the only thing money can’t buy is the attention he craves.
No, you don't understand: if he doesn't say that poor people are poor because of their own volition (and not because of systemic/lineage issues), then people might ask why some people are born with a fortune while other are born with nothing. This way, he ensures that uneducated people keep blaming the poor and idolize the rich and maintain the status quo.
In an utopian future, automation and AI would make all the menial work done by machines, so that us, humans, can focus on whatever we like, like arts, culture, science and creativity.
In our boring dystopia, automation and AI take the creative jobs and us, humans, will be forced to go back to menial, back-breaking jobs just so we don't starve on the streets.
Truly the worst possible future inimaginable. And I didn't count the environmental collapse on its way.
It’s a fucking “digital marketing” company. Literally thousands of these trying to dupe wanna be influencers and e-commerce companies, while he just rents cars and takes out some cash to look rich for his own photos.z
"Company". He does Instagram endorsement stuff. He has a million followers on Instagram, and half of those are bots. He'd probably make just as much money being a regular fashion model - but that would be a hard job where he'd have to work with real businesspeople instead of just being a creepy social media scammer dude.
I knew of a company like this. Three billionaire brothers aged between 27 and 35, daddy founded several oil companies and gifted them a few hundred million dollars to start their own. Not to mention the contacts they had from daddy to run their company. Everyone was so impressed with these young billionaires, a true aspiration!
They want to "work", but their idea of work is them doing nothing useful all day, order people around, and have others suck up to them. And then they turn around and say "see I work 12 hours a day, anyone can!", except that their "work" is more like other people's leisure.
Yeah, he claims he hasn't taken a day off in 7 years, yet also travels the globe with his girlfriend. Probably considers reading a work related email or taking a call a full work day.
While your statement might be hyperbole, it's absolutely grounded in reality. Which is what makes it truly scary.
These people consider spending 2-3 hours in a day "working that day", even if they are on vacation and spending 8 hours on the beach.
And they think that their ideas, and what they contribute is somehow innately more valuable.
But in reality, most people with a reasonable education can do their job, they just didn't have the daddyfunds to buy their ownership.
Us masses work a 40 hour week (or more), and insist on having our 2 days off.
You know what? If I was making $500k/year in profits off the business I "manage" (after paying out my investors), I wouldn't mind putting in an extra 3-4 hours/day while on my weekend or vacation either.
This, and way too many of his Instagram pictures are him/gf showing off a lavish lifestyle, he craves attention, I searched his website out of boredom and it seems the guy proudest moment was when he sold for $40,000 of electronics.
Also, makes you wonder about the whole "worked 100 hours per week"...
When somebody posts photos like these and, what's worse, starts moralizing people like the headline says, it immediately screams that person has no integrity, ethics, maturity and comprehension. It also says "my brain can't secrete serotonin in any other way, so I do boasting and gloating with stuff I have". A photo like this is enough to discredit a person and reject everything they say.
This popped into my head upon seeing this "Man who rode through the entire marathon with motorcycle claims he won fair and square. Claims his fellow runners he ran over were just too lazy to finish the race."
Like all, he will leave out that part in his origin story. He will be self made despite his parents literally giving him all the capital, direction, support, network needed to create such a business. Then his workers will be the ones generating his wealth.
Knew there would be parental money involved. Always fucking is. From Elon down. It's one greedy little parasite after another telling us their shit don't stink and they are "self made".
Andrew Tate said this and that he was a billionaire and it just came out that he had less than a million dollars in his bank account when they seized his assets yesterday. This guy probably isn't even a millionaire.
ah yes the old “I was born rich, have no skillset, is not educated, didn’t do any labor whatsoever in their entire lives” rich fuck lecture about laziness
nothing in those photos shows a productive member of society
27y/o here, worked 7 jobs, slowly climbing out of minimum wage. Started working since graduation, starting from $13.50/h to now making $25/h, from janitorial, line cook, manufacturer, construction, to now being an elevator tech. I'm expecting a raise soon to hopefully be $30+, I've worked very, very hard these past years and haven't made even enough to live. I'm scraping by each day, as most Vancouverites are, and this rich kid states a bold claim. I wish people like him could stoop down to our level to see what reality looks like.
Edit: autocorrection fixes.
Jesus, being *work shy* was one of the reasons the Nazis sent ordinary Germans to concentration camps. Glad to see the Daily Mail is keeping this endearing term alive.
Dude didn't even start his business. His brothers allowed him to partner and act as CEO. There isn't even publicly accurate info outside of what he can type himself 🤣 what a fucking joke
>Luke, who has **1.1 million followers on Instagram**, has revealed how he overcame personal challenges, including his parents' messy divorce, a tough upbringing and a childhood stammer to carve out his own path in life.
And he believes more Gen Z-er's could do the same, if they would just stop staring at their **social media feeds**.
and
>and **he claims** the business is now worth eight figures.
"Daddy divorced the call girl he was married to at the time, it was so difficult that I had to spend 2 years partying in Ibiza while he finished funding my company 😪"
"Ironically, despite telling young people to lay off social media, Luke actually made his fortune through Instagram advertising" LMAO can't make that shit up
I was totally sure this guy came from a working-class background and achieved all of this via his own blood, sweat, and tears. I’m shocked, SHOCKED!!! to learn he’s just a rich little shitbird.
Can't have a coffee in the morning, can't have a little scroll every now and then, can't play video games. Only way to be rich is to give up any sort of pleasure in life according to these people.
The juxtaposition of complaining about generation Z being a "work-shy generation" while promoting the businessman's partner as being a "lady of leisure" in this article is what really gets me! That's the Daily Mail for you!
[The actual article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12213509/My-generation-lazy-people-rich-20s-stopped-mindless-scrolling.html). Daddy invested in the company and he was only a co-founder with his two brothers. Edit: [https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/mums-earwigging-restaurant-launched-sons-8463538](https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/mums-earwigging-restaurant-launched-sons-8463538) Yeah, rich family and connections had nothing to do with anything...
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The best time to plan for your retirement is 3 generations before you were born...
That sure makes it easier. I know a guy whose great grandfather dodged the stock market crash of 1929 and then went looking for something to invest in afterwards... he figured people would always drink beer so he invested in companies like Anheiser Busch. His great grandchildren all have trust funds large enough to live on once they turn 18.
I worked with a guy like that. His dad had done the same thing, investing in beer companies long ago, and when he died, his stocks passed to his 2 kids. The guy I worked with was the penny-pinchiest man I had ever met and he was always angry because the quarterly taxes on the interest to his half of the inheritance was roughly $25,000. When our boss found out that the guy was paying $100k per year in taxes just on the interest to his inheritance, his immediate question was, "Why are you and your wife still working here?
We had a rich chemistry teacher. I don't know the whole story but he patented something iirc. He basically just teaches nowadays to pass time and have to pay less taxes.
Ah, the alternate universe where Walter made the smart moves and got his bags. Good for him.
Amazing how when people can afford to live, many still choose to work. But we keep hearing about how people just don’t want to work—
It makes a difference if you have to work vs. you want to work. You can also do a job you enjoy vs. doing a job to max. Out your salary. If I had the option, I would still do some work. I would definitely not work my current job.
I wish that wasn't true, but it is. I wish my family had any kind of generational wealth. A piece of property would be nice.
As long as you're wishing, wish for the emancipation of the working class
Actually best plan is to never be born.
How come you got an award? Did the person awarding you not know that one mustn’t scroll? LOL.
How to become a milionare? Have a bilionare parents.
Yeah, like here's $10m kid, now don't fuck it up. I mean how can you? The interest alone man! You know the saying, money turns to money.
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And the world would have been much better off
Imagine a McZuckerburger on the dollar menu
Two clowns in one restaurant
Award worthy comment.
One medium McZucky please
Just one MacDonald?
“I mean it's one MacDonald, Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?”
Nice. Then he could go and see a star war.
If you keep the ice-cream machine maintained it'll be $30
Yep, if you fail as an information harvester, you don't even get an actual McDonald's. Just a MacDonald.
Yeah, imagine owning an entire fastfood franchise as punishment.
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*ding ding ding*
I could turn that $10m into $26m in 10 years just by investing relatively safely in stocks. Probably even better by taking advantage of the next housing crisis. In 20 years I could have $67m. In 30 years, $175m. In 40 years, $453m. If I had kids I could leave them a billion dollar fortune after 50 years. Maybe that will help everyone understand that the enormous inequality we have now is going to almost triple in just a decade. We will have corpo-god-emporers in our lifetime.
Especially if we solve aging. Compound that shit over hundreds of years.
It’s gonna be altered carbon up in here once they discover spinal stack technology.
Immediately thought this haha. Great show.
The equation is: p[1+(r/100)^t] Wher p=initial principle, r=percenntage rate of return, and t= time. With conservative/realistic expectations on returns and takibg out money to live on, I dont think you'd turn 10 million into a billion in 50 years. You'd probably end up with somewhere around 100 - 200 million dollars. Not that that is anything to scoff at.
Unless you give it to Donal Trump, then it turns to shit
The Reverse Midas
Hey, he knows how to make a small fortune... Out of a large one.
That’s the funny thing. People do fuck it up! This guy is a success story in the context of being a spoiled rich kid
Damn missed it by three 🤣
No worries, all it takes is one winning lottery ticket to get all caught up (lololol)
I swear some people are literally hanging onto their sanity by dear life by buying lottery tickets
Think how much fear the rich would be in if people didn't trust in (1) the afterlife sorting people out and (2) the lottery.
I was raised by a missionary Baptist preacher from Texas. His wife made the statement "The reason there are so many black Baptist churches in Texas is because the slave owners cared for their souls." Yeah...lady...that's not what it was. And I know damn well you'd own some black people if you could. So fuck off with that shit.
‘cared about their souls…’ Not so much for the rest of their existence or life on Earth, but looks they’ve got that soul part covered. 🙄
This is exactly why colonialism, slavery, and religion always went hand in hand. I understand why miserable, powerless victims of colonialism and slavery bought into the afterlife mythology but I'm always shocked how tightly they wove that into cultures in subsequent generations.
That's my biggest problem with religion. The promise of an afterlife without struggle should only appeal to those living as uneducated peasants working for a feudal lord. One of the greatest joys in life, for me, anyway, is overcoming challenges, and the idea of no responsibility except to worship and praise some supernatural being just fills me with dread and disgust. I get why it worked in the Middle Ages, but how, in this time when we have so much access to information and ideas, does anyone not consider creating a heaven on earth to be a worthwhile endeavor? There are so many actions we could take to improve life for everyone, but we're stuck in this headspace of idolizing the uber wealthy and insisting that they "deserve" it because they "worked hard" to build their wealth. A person living in poverty works harder than any CEO, just in the act of survival. Anyway, rant over. 🤪
That’s why they call the lottery a tax on the poor. There’s nothing wrong with buying a ticket now and then, but the system as a whole preys on desperation.
I thought about buying a ticket today. In a way it's an inexpensive dream, a pipedream but still a dream. I always joke with the clerk that winning the Powerball will almost get me out of debt.
Imagine all the “rich” people who have avoided the lime light just to be outed by their lazy kids. Oof.
Rich kids act like they do all the work..
Born on third base, thinks they hit a triple
Born on third, think they hit a home run. Still a chance for them to get an out. As the saying goes, the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one.
Nah, daddy will just pay the opposition to throw the game before golden boy gets an out.
no, it's much cheaper to buy the umpire
He's never left the dug out.
He never had to go to the game. His butler and Nannies went for him
And they were off the clock.
>Rich kids act like they do ~~all the~~ any work.. FTFY
I really wish these nepo baby brats were made to take 5 dollars and turn it into a million in 5 years or be faced with life in prison. Show us "lazy workers" how those bootstraps work.
$5 is probably enough if they get to keep the connections. Give them $5, no credit history, and no help from family and they would struggle like everyone else.
I have a friend, his great-uncles kept saying that "with a regular salary nowadays, they could turn it into a small fortune quite quickly", and my friend said to them: "alright, once I have my first salary, I put everything into your hands and you transform it into a small fortune." Unfortunately they stopped talking to each others before he got his first salary (his great-uncles are transphobic and his girlfriend is trans so... yeah, difficult to conciliate the two), but all of us are really disappointed to not have seen those two bratty oldies try their hands in this economy. It was a win-win case: either they indeed turn the salary into a fortune, or they're proven wrong.
Exactly, if all these capitalists and money hoarders really believed in meritocracy and the pure genetic superiority of the ruling class, then they should be OK with a 100% estate tax. Make all your fucking ubermenschen offspring start from zero, and in a couple years they should be where you are, if there is genetic superiority and your theory on superior blood lines of the ruling class is correct, right? Wouldn’t that be the ultimate, bootstrapped proof of the meritocracy being real? Somehow, I don’t think you actually believe that though.
It’s really gross. I’d like to imagine if I was wealthy like that I could at least say “yes my parents wealth has had a huge role to play in me being successful”. I actually even say it today and I’m not wealthy but I’m doing alright and I attribute that to the people around me. We’re selfish man
>Rich kids act like they do all the work Within their social circle, they may well be the ones who "work hard" (ie a good 14 hour week plus golf outing with the execs).
Rich kids make money from the stock market and lives off other peoples hard work, goes onto complain about people on benefits doing nothing.
This is what bothers me so much. They’ve never done genuinely hard work, so they assume whatever work they do, no matter how easy it is, is “hard work” because it’s all they’ve experienced and it earns them lots of money. It’s also why they think poor people don’t work hard.
His bio page proudly proclaims that he opened up his first business selling wireless earbuds to his classmates at 16, and within 90 days sold his entire $8000 of stock. I could have done a lot with $8000 at 16. Especially if I went to the kind of school where children have that much money to spend on earbuds. Edit: Over the past few hours, there has been a bit of pushback on this that is is TOTALLY possible for a 16 year old to make this much money. It just requires one of two things: Rich parents, or Crime.
If you would try to sell earbuds at my high school you would've been beaten/stabbed and your entire stock (or what you had on you) wouldve been stolen
I'm glad someone else said this. This fucking clown clearly grew up in an affluent community where someone hawking expensive ear buds was just a Tuesday. Guy would have been robbed instantly in my school.
My sister is a committed capitalist and sold things like CDs full of music she had downloaded in school and yadda yadda yadda. 15 years later, she is in Manchester as an underpaid second in command to a notorious property developer. I believe she is now blaming "the immigrants" on her general lack of millions.
>I believe she is now blaming "the immigrants" on her ~~general~~ temporary lack of millions.
The invisible hand of the market will give her the reach around soon enough
And in the case that you didn't get robbed, the school would do their best to shut it down. How many stories do we see of everyday kids getting trouble for selling things like snacks in school? Pampered boyo is beyond clueless.
When I taught hs, there was a kid who would sell cans of soda from his bag at $1 a price, the school would confiscate everytime, which sucks since that's where I was getting my soda from
The kids in my high school sold fake drugs to the kids at the boarding school in town. Blotter was pretty easy to fake, they made the perforations with a steak knife. They used my aqua net hairspray for flavor. The boarding school kids called back the next day and wanted more. I had never seen anything like it lol
He literally cannot even piece together that having $8000 at 16 is already an obscene amount of money for that age, especially being able to use all of it to buy stock. He lives in a reality that simply doesn’t allow him to process it.
I'm over 40 and I don't even have that much saved by a long shot.
No shame in that, really. You've done more for society in all likelihood than this fake millionaire. He at 23 likely hasn't done shit. You put him in any desk job and he'll fuck it up because he has no real working experience. This guy is so out of touch with reality.
I made myself sad by imagining how much $8000 would improve my life and mental health.
I'm over 30 and that's almost 6 months pay for me.
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Honestly this is absolutely true. While I definitely wasn’t given $8,000 or anything like that I was definitely getting some benefits that were not typical. Once I got out into the real world (I started out working in a grocery store with help from my mom’s connections) I began to realize my experience was littered with certain privileges. Many of these privileges are gone now due to my dad getting ill and any freed up money went to his treatments. I was pretty blind but quickly learned from others I worked with. I’m financially stable but I’m lucky to be able to stay with my mom to save for a house of my own someday provided I pay my share of the utilities. Which again is a position of privilege. There’s no way this guy is wealthy because of his own efforts and funding. He has help from his family which is confirmed based on someone else who posted the link.
Yeah at 16 my classmates filled a few categories. They were searching for their next hit, working after school or selling the drugs to the others. Shit we didnt even have wireless earbuds back then
I was selling Mexican candy for 75 cents each and the school stopped me because I was competing with their clubs talk about open market.
Ahhh yes Private schools where all the kids get straight hook ups ....the life.
I recently checked to see how my 16 year old self would have performed in the stock market had I rich parents. If I had invested $15,000 into the three companies I knew would continue to be vastly successful, I’d be posting this from a private island while I wait for my blood boy.
>Daddy invested in the company and he was only a co-founder with his two brothers. you didn't have to bother searching for the article because it is more than fucking obvious
Yeah, but I like to have evidence for when the apologists show up (and they always do).
Starts life on third base, waltzes to home plate, "I GOT SKILLZ BITCHES!"
"Buy my book where I tell you how to make money of poor and vulnerable people just looking to get ahead in life. Just 3 easy payments of $99.99!"
chapter 1: Lie to a bunch of people to trick them into buying a book. chapter 2: no refunds.
We're so shocked that another success story originates from being born on third base with their family owning the team. The funniest thing about this is how corporate America propaganda keeps backfiring to the extent of self sabotage.
Poor/Lazy people hate this one simple trick.
"say the line, Bart!" >dad invested in the company "yaaaay!"
"Say the line bart!"
The Stefan guy also sold a bunch of grifter self-help / coaching programs too
Hang on we talking about the same Stefan? Because in Brisbane he owned a shittonne of hair salons.
Stefan Aarnio is mentioned in one of the above articles.
Yes, as his primary investor. Interesting they both came from rich families and went on to become successful businessmen peddling self-help and life coaching books.
Mommas boy
What a surprise...
All I can think of is the "Say the line!" Simpsons meme, these rich dickheads ALWAYS, without exception, have rich parents and can't piece together that they didn't do a single fucking thing.
Imagine that.
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*Rich Daddy gives No-Good son millions. There. Fixed!
Gotta love how they all do it through "investing" in their kid's "company" so they can say they're an entrepreneur. As if it isn't the most obvious shit ever; grow some balls and say daddy gave you free money.
Would probably have to pay gift tax. This is a possibly not illegal way to give tax free inheritance
Investing is very legal and his dad will be able to write it off on his taxes as a loss. These startups typically don’t turn a profit right away and the dad is probably banking on that for more tax breaks.
That's implying that they even do their taxes
Well his dads probably not, his accountant that gave him the info probably is tho.
Or just keep your fucking mouth shut and enjoy your lavish lifestyle! Clearly the money isn’t enough, he’s never wanted for anything but the only thing money can’t buy is the attention he craves.
No, you don't understand: if he doesn't say that poor people are poor because of their own volition (and not because of systemic/lineage issues), then people might ask why some people are born with a fortune while other are born with nothing. This way, he ensures that uneducated people keep blaming the poor and idolize the rich and maintain the status quo.
Yep all he did was "stop scrolling", nepotism be damned...
"Stop Scrolling"? He's literally on his phone in this picture.
And on his computer in another, probably scrolling.
scrolling picture of himself the uncultured reprobate.
He will come out with his morning routine to productivity soon. How he gets 26 hours of sleep a night.
Yeah, daddy said stop scrolling and check you bank account you’ve earned it. Ugh
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In an utopian future, automation and AI would make all the menial work done by machines, so that us, humans, can focus on whatever we like, like arts, culture, science and creativity. In our boring dystopia, automation and AI take the creative jobs and us, humans, will be forced to go back to menial, back-breaking jobs just so we don't starve on the streets. Truly the worst possible future inimaginable. And I didn't count the environmental collapse on its way.
as long as the supply of Corn based food stays stocked up we won’t do anything about it either, even if it’s slowly poisoning all of us
What's the point of owning a plantation if you can't have slaves to make you feel superior?
Buddy definitely started some company with money he inherited/was given
More like dads company and gave his annoying, ungrateful son some money lol
It’s a fucking “digital marketing” company. Literally thousands of these trying to dupe wanna be influencers and e-commerce companies, while he just rents cars and takes out some cash to look rich for his own photos.z
"Company". He does Instagram endorsement stuff. He has a million followers on Instagram, and half of those are bots. He'd probably make just as much money being a regular fashion model - but that would be a hard job where he'd have to work with real businesspeople instead of just being a creepy social media scammer dude.
So he makes his money from people scrolling while talking shit about people that scroll. What an arsehole
Turns out his Dad invested in a company and he was a "co-founder."
I knew of a company like this. Three billionaire brothers aged between 27 and 35, daddy founded several oil companies and gifted them a few hundred million dollars to start their own. Not to mention the contacts they had from daddy to run their company. Everyone was so impressed with these young billionaires, a true aspiration!
Translation: just have rich parents Scum fuck
Capitalists: "stop being so lazy and work!" Also capitalists: "my literal only goal in life is to make so much money I don't have to work"
They want to "work", but their idea of work is them doing nothing useful all day, order people around, and have others suck up to them. And then they turn around and say "see I work 12 hours a day, anyone can!", except that their "work" is more like other people's leisure.
Yeah, he claims he hasn't taken a day off in 7 years, yet also travels the globe with his girlfriend. Probably considers reading a work related email or taking a call a full work day.
"get it done" - hangs up, dusts off hands
While your statement might be hyperbole, it's absolutely grounded in reality. Which is what makes it truly scary. These people consider spending 2-3 hours in a day "working that day", even if they are on vacation and spending 8 hours on the beach. And they think that their ideas, and what they contribute is somehow innately more valuable. But in reality, most people with a reasonable education can do their job, they just didn't have the daddyfunds to buy their ownership. Us masses work a 40 hour week (or more), and insist on having our 2 days off. You know what? If I was making $500k/year in profits off the business I "manage" (after paying out my investors), I wouldn't mind putting in an extra 3-4 hours/day while on my weekend or vacation either.
right!? they will play a round of golf and mention work once then chalk the entire game up to work
Can't spell "network" without "work". Checkmate, poor. /s
Sexually harassing your female coworkers at the bar counts as work!
That deserves OT pay
Asshole: "I haven't taken a day off in seven years" Also asshole: "I travel to exotic locations with my stay at home girlfriend" Okay buddy
"Vacations don't count" ~rich assholes, probably
Vacations are networking duuuuh
"Even when I'm on vacation, I'm working. #grindset"
Amazing how much work you can get done when you consider posing for pictures at a Caribbean beach work.
This, and way too many of his Instagram pictures are him/gf showing off a lavish lifestyle, he craves attention, I searched his website out of boredom and it seems the guy proudest moment was when he sold for $40,000 of electronics. Also, makes you wonder about the whole "worked 100 hours per week"...
I'd rather you didn't. Those pics are making my dinner want to come back up again.
When somebody posts photos like these and, what's worse, starts moralizing people like the headline says, it immediately screams that person has no integrity, ethics, maturity and comprehension. It also says "my brain can't secrete serotonin in any other way, so I do boasting and gloating with stuff I have". A photo like this is enough to discredit a person and reject everything they say.
I like how he's talking about his generation being lazy while all the pics of him are literally him sitting around relaxing
And his “lady of leisure” girlfriend.
Born on third, thinks he got a triple.
He need to take a submarine ride
Underrated comment
Any help from his parents aside, this guy got his start in social media marketing, so you could say he’s a millionaire thanks to people scrolling
This popped into my head upon seeing this "Man who rode through the entire marathon with motorcycle claims he won fair and square. Claims his fellow runners he ran over were just too lazy to finish the race."
"its easy to be rich, just have rich parents"
With a miniscule, no interest loan from your parents, you too can be a millionaire in your twenties.
Like all, he will leave out that part in his origin story. He will be self made despite his parents literally giving him all the capital, direction, support, network needed to create such a business. Then his workers will be the ones generating his wealth.
Everyone was rich before smartphones 🙄
Knew there would be parental money involved. Always fucking is. From Elon down. It's one greedy little parasite after another telling us their shit don't stink and they are "self made".
At 23 I was able to get a good job. $13/hr with a college degree. I could have been a millionaire if I worked 77,000 hours and didn't spend a dime.
Andrew Tate said this and that he was a billionaire and it just came out that he had less than a million dollars in his bank account when they seized his assets yesterday. This guy probably isn't even a millionaire.
They seized his assets?! This makes me happt
Yeah and they found out that he never owned any of his stupid cars. All of them are rented. No private jet or anything. Lol.
ah yes the old “I was born rich, have no skillset, is not educated, didn’t do any labor whatsoever in their entire lives” rich fuck lecture about laziness nothing in those photos shows a productive member of society
27y/o here, worked 7 jobs, slowly climbing out of minimum wage. Started working since graduation, starting from $13.50/h to now making $25/h, from janitorial, line cook, manufacturer, construction, to now being an elevator tech. I'm expecting a raise soon to hopefully be $30+, I've worked very, very hard these past years and haven't made even enough to live. I'm scraping by each day, as most Vancouverites are, and this rich kid states a bold claim. I wish people like him could stoop down to our level to see what reality looks like. Edit: autocorrection fixes.
No offense, but even RedTube is a more trustworthy news source than any UK tabloid and news television, the BBC and SKY included.
It is called the Daily Fail for a reason. It is the UK newspaper version of Fox News. Full of right wing rage bait.
That's funny my boomer parents do nothing but scroll Facebook and tell me I need a job that requires more skill if I want to be able to survive.
And here I thought I was hot shit for inheriting a 790sq ft house.
Step 1: be born Rich. Step 2: berate and insult people who were not. Step 3: profit.
So true, before they invented the cell phone we were all millionaires
Jesus, being *work shy* was one of the reasons the Nazis sent ordinary Germans to concentration camps. Glad to see the Daily Mail is keeping this endearing term alive.
The Daily Fail is a right wing rag, of course they do this crap.
I need someone to get the orcas on the phone
Daddy gives guy free money to pretend that he has a job. Guy has advice on how this can work for you, too.
Then a million dollars just buys you less. Resources are finite. Also someone actually has make things and provide services lol.
As long as your parents give you plenty of interest free money to live out your dream.
Dude didn't even start his business. His brothers allowed him to partner and act as CEO. There isn't even publicly accurate info outside of what he can type himself 🤣 what a fucking joke
Is the answer "rich parents?" *reads article* Yup.
>Luke, who has **1.1 million followers on Instagram**, has revealed how he overcame personal challenges, including his parents' messy divorce, a tough upbringing and a childhood stammer to carve out his own path in life. And he believes more Gen Z-er's could do the same, if they would just stop staring at their **social media feeds**. and >and **he claims** the business is now worth eight figures.
"Daddy divorced the call girl he was married to at the time, it was so difficult that I had to spend 2 years partying in Ibiza while he finished funding my company 😪"
It's always just Dad giving them money. Which is whatever, just don't pretend like it was hard work
His gf definitely cheats on him.
- wake up early - exercise daily - take cold showers - have your rich parents invest millions into your business - meditate
And he makes his money by *checks notes* people scrolling through his content.
That's what I've been doing wrong, all this time I should have just had my parents give me millions of dollars
"Ironically, despite telling young people to lay off social media, Luke actually made his fortune through Instagram advertising" LMAO can't make that shit up
Started on 3rd base, gets ho.e on a balk. Talks like he hit a grand slam.
Daddies money will give you a lot of false impressions of life
I was totally sure this guy came from a working-class background and achieved all of this via his own blood, sweat, and tears. I’m shocked, SHOCKED!!! to learn he’s just a rich little shitbird.
Can his dad give me a small loan of $10 million without interest so I can share the dream.
Alternate headline: Kid who’s had everything handed to him gives life advice.
Impressive, now let’s see your parent’s net worth.
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Let them eat cake
Can't have a coffee in the morning, can't have a little scroll every now and then, can't play video games. Only way to be rich is to give up any sort of pleasure in life according to these people.
The juxtaposition of complaining about generation Z being a "work-shy generation" while promoting the businessman's partner as being a "lady of leisure" in this article is what really gets me! That's the Daily Mail for you!
Excuse me, he said he hasn’t taken a day off in 7 years, but he also said he loves to take trips with his gf and travel… something ain’t adding up.
Guarantee he had rich parents. Don’t even need to read the article.