Most guys spend decades optimizing for the wrong fucking metric. They grind to six figures, then seven, stacking cash while their calendar fills with obligations they can't escape. Golden handcuffs. They call it success because that's what they were told to chase. But here's what nobody explains when you're climbing: once you hit around $75K-$100K (depending on your location and lifestyle), additional income stops buying freedom and starts buying complexity. More overhead. More people depending on your time. More meetings about meetings. More obligations you can't walk away from without blowing up the whole structure. I know guys pulling $300K who have less autonomy than I did at $80K. They can't take three weeks off. Can't ignore their phone for a day. Can't turn down projects they hate because their burn rate requires constant feeding. Here's the actual metric that matters: How many hours per week do you HAVE to work to cover your fixed costs? Not your income or net worth. Your required working hours. If that number is above 15-20 hours, you're not building wealth. You're building a job with better pay. And every dollar you add to your lifestyle that increases that number is making you poorer in the only currency that actually matters. Calculate it right now. Take your monthly fixed costs (mortgage/rent, utilities, insurance, minimum food, transportation). Divide by your effective hourly rate. That's your freedom number. Everything above that is optional leverage. The guys who get this right are structuring their income around assets and systems that don't scale linearly with their time. Rental properties generating mailbox money for minimal oversight. Digital products that sell while they sleep. Equity positions that pay regardless of hours logged. Service businesses where they're not the primary deliverable. Dividend portfolios covering baseline costs so they never have to be a W-2 slave again. I'm not talking about the FIRE crowd retiring to Thailand on $30K/year eating rice and beans. I'm saying build enough fuck you money that your baseline survival doesn't require trading 40+ hours every week.

Discuss. What do you do? how much are you making etc.

I want a advice that i got into a fight two weeks ago and I got beat up and I got my confidence downgraded and i feel like a loser myself I was not able to keep up with the fight what should i do ?

When I was 18 years old I am thinking to myself I will be able to make to college by graduating high school having girlfriend getting married staring a family in an American society in Freedom and Liberty. At least that is what my younger self was thinking! Then Covid 19 started to wreak havoc and it shutdown the world that is where my story begins. Once The Pandemic begin I ask myself how long would I have to stay home and do online classes, zoom classes with teachers as a senior in high school. Then I found out that the virus was worse than expected there would be no more in person sports events etc except for essential businesses which are stupid in my opinion looking back on it. Fast forward to High School Graduation located outside I was the only one that was clean shaven bald everyone else in my 2020 class did not get a haircut or went to it because everything was shut down until months later. Let me tell it was a weird world at that time once I entered college it begin to open up with mask mandates and eventually vaccines mandates. Sadly I was forced against my own beliefs and values by my family and workplace to get the covid vaccine twice no boosters Thank Goodness which I was not happy about to be forced to do it. Soon after this my pursuit of trying to date women was starting to become an un winnable battle the more I try to do it at a Christian college with an infected toxicity. The more I realize that it has become a breeding ground of lies and deceit. Unfortunately Kara Young The one woman I truly believe was the match for the rest of my life broke my heart in July 2022. That is where my trust in the old ways started to break for the first time ever that is where I lost everything and blackpilled. There have been times that I went on online dating on Facebook and that was at my darkest moment of my life. My previous 2nd debit card was hacked just by talking and sending Via Cash App to this woman named Shannon Williams which turns out was a fake woman.

I got a email from an organization called Grassroots America and it says "we're aligning ourselves with George Soros." I don't even know how to comment about this but here it is