I am keen to read this article since these are probably the six most likely ways I could get rich.

AirForceVet: I would have thought inheriting your wealth from dead relatives would have been the lamest.

This. "Inheriting it" conspicuously absent from list.

Also, raping the economy with shady financial shenanigans is also pretty lame.

What about the guy who invented the pet rock?

Is this the thread where I get to brag about the very impressive way in which I'm poor?

AirForceVet: I would have thought inheriting your wealth from dead relatives would have been the lamest.

Dammit. You beat me to it.

\Fall out of the right vagina, and you're set for life.

If only there was a way to get rich by being envious of other peoples good fortune.

1) I don't think joining and sticking with a silicon valley start up at the right time, especially if you do it with skills that are easily transferable if it doesn't pay off, is anywhere near the least impressive way to get rich.

2) Ms. Serial Lottery Winner has some inside help. I don't buy for a second there is no way to identify the top winning scratch off.

Is this about Romney?

Domain squatters.... And that guy who rented out ad space for pixels on his website.

Off to look at the list!

BowtoMogul: What about the guy who invented the pet rock?

Magnificent bastard.

AirForceVet: I would have thought inheriting your wealth from dead relatives would have been the lamest.

Well most of those people actually did something to get rich or their relatives did, and contrary to popular belief most of those people arent just lying around drinking beer all day.

SharkTrager: 1) I don't think joining and sticking with a silicon valley start up at the right time, especially if you do it with skills that are easily transferable if it doesn't pay off, is anywhere near the least impressive way to get rich.

2) Ms. Serial Lottery Winner has some inside help. I don't buy for a second there is no way to identify the top winning scratch off.

Yeah, the guy was a worker in the cafeteria if Im not mistaken and sure its transferable, to a chilis or applebees.

And I have seen interviews with the multiple lottery winning lady, shes too dumb to think up a plan like that and after the first couple of times she was watched closely.

#7: Posting articles on two pages that could reasonably be one page

Setting up a social website and selling everyones personal info conspicuously absent.

Huskadoodle: If only there was a way to get rich by being envious of other peoples good fortune.

Been done...

A few of these are pretty unimpressive.

A few of them are also good ideas that people put into successful motion. Sure, wearing a t-shirt for money sounds lame, but no one else had figured it out.

steamingpile: Yeah, the guy was a worker in the cafeteria if Im not mistaken and sure its transferable, to a chilis or applebees.

And I have seen interviews with the multiple lottery winning lady, shes too dumb to think up a plan like that and after the first couple of times she was watched closely.

He was a cook. He had nothing to lose and changing industries was going to have no effect on his future marketability, The same can't be said of everyone who had dot com dreams.

And she's a math professor with a degree from Stanford.

Don Bradman [think: Babe Ruth, but without the drinking problem] got rich in very dubious circumstances.

A stockbroker he either knew or worked for got chucked in jail. And Bradman actually mighta helped with the investigation. And then lo and behold! He's suddenly got this jailed guy's whole client list.

Also xXtra dubious because apparently there was a gentleman's agreement that if anyone died, went bankrupt, went to jail his client list would be shared equally. And Bradman was all "Screw you lot! It's all MINE!!!"

Back in the day when the population was so small you could have these types of arrangements.
Back in the day when a gentleman's agreement actually meant something.

As a kid you were never taught what a c#nt he was, just taught his amazing batting average.

How come any useless invention anybody made (or just the general category of useless inventions) isn't/aren't on the list?

Leskay: Don Bradman [think: Babe Ruth, but without the drinking problem] got rich in very dubious circumstances.

A stockbroker he either knew or worked for got chucked in jail. And Bradman actually mighta helped with the investigation. And then lo and behold! He's suddenly got this jailed guy's whole client list.

Also xXtra dubious because apparently there was a gentleman's agreement that if anyone died, went bankrupt, went to jail his client list would be shared equally. And Bradman was all "Screw you lot! It's all MINE!!!"

Back in the day when the population was so small you could have these types of arrangements.
Back in the day when a gentleman's agreement actually meant something.

As a kid you were never taught what a c#nt he was, just taught his amazing batting average.
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Now I'm off to Wiki it to see which bits I misremembered....

By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

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No mention of Tucker Max, where it was be an ass, and then write about it

*cough* http://www.twittens.ca/ *cough*

BeSerious: Teen Wolf Blitzer: By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

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Like I said, it's not very popular. People may even label you a troll, and score your "troll attempt" if you dare suggest such an opinion.

up here in canadian this guy figured out a system to win at scratch-offs, he repeatedly advised the OLG to fix the problem to make the game fair, but apparently the problem still exists

href="http://www.thestar.com/news/article/933200--toronto-man-cracked- the-code-to-scratch-lottery-tickets?bn=1">Link (new window)

Link

sorry about the previous link

fracas: Is this the thread where I get to brag about the very impressive way in which I'm poor?


Awww, man. You were poor in an impressive way? I had to share my poor with three brothers.

SharkTrager: And she's a math professor with a degree from Stanford.

Well I didnt read professor or the stanford part, the woman I saw was a teacher and the kicker was she didnt live in the state any longer just goes back to visit her father.

I just think some people have dumb luck, she could be a complete biatch but I would rather a teacher win it than some moron.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: BeSerious: Teen Wolf Blitzer: By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

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Like I said, it's not very popular. People may even label you a troll, and score your "troll attempt" if you dare suggest such an opinion.
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Well said. I've lived in a dirt poor suburb, and sheeet.... the amount of one-toothed families that just sit around outside all day. Can't even tidy their own front lawn.

Glowing at passers-by. That's all they do. That's their entire purpose in life. Jeez I used to love my walks to the shops. Being glowered at by a bunch of idiots every 5th house.

Then you get the OK smart people who have kinda given up on life and don't really want too work hard. Boiled frog theory. They jumped out. And good on 'em for making that decision.

I met lots of different types, but by and large... either dumb... lazy... or dumb&lazy.

Teen Wolf Blitzer is 100% correct. Note he says "by and large" which is kinda like saying "on average." He's not saying "ALL."

Getting rich by wearing a shirt or selling pixels is extremely farking impressive. Haters gonna hate

//and Zynga are even bigger assholes then I thought? Color me shocked

them see me trollin': Link

sorry about the previous link

Yep. He was also featured in a Wired article (new window).

A long time ago, one of my courses involved meeting a gentleman who used to work for the lotteries in Canada.

One of his stories involved a call from a person who said they figured out how to pick winners for certain types of tickets. This was in the late 70s or early 80s. The tickets used to be sealed in a foil wrapping - this guy identified the marks that was used by the machine that sealed the winning tickets. The lottery people were incredulous because they KNEW that they all went through the same machine.

So, they brought this guy in and, with 100% accuracy, he picked out the winners from a whole bunch of random sealed tickets that they had laid in front of him. The first thing they did was check to see if there were any patterns for winners - nobody else had apparently had picked up on this.

Turns out the factory that made the tickets did have a separate machine for sealing the winners. The problem was promptly corrected.

Funny thing is that, when I was a kid, I remember looking at these foil packs and noticed the marks on the edges of the wrapping. At that time I wondered if they meant something. If I was an adult with money to spend, maybe I would have experimented and bought a few. Oh, well.

Leskay: Teen Wolf Blitzer: BeSerious: Teen Wolf Blitzer: By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

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Like I said, it's not very popular. People may even label you a troll, and score your "troll attempt" if you dare suggest such an opinion.
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Well said. I've lived in a dirt poor suburb, and sheeet.... the amount of one-toothed families that just sit around outside all day. Can't even tidy their own front lawn.

Glowing at passers-by. That's all they do. That's their entire purpose in life. Jeez I used to love my walks to the shops. Being glowered at by a bunch of idiots every 5th house.

Then you get the OK smart people who have kinda given up on life and don't really want too work hard. Boiled frog theory. They jumped out. And good on 'em for making that decision.

I met lots of different types, but by and large... either dumb... lazy... or dumb&lazy.

Teen Wolf Blitzer is 100% correct. Note he says "by and large" which is kinda like saying "on average." He's not saying "ALL."

It's not a correlation. It's hopelessness. Making an honest living is hard to do without a decent job. If you don't have an education, you can't get a decent job (it's hard to get a decent job WITH an education these days). If you're broke, you can't get an education, so you can't get out of the situation you are in. It breaks people's spirits, so they stop trying because it seems pointless. Repeat this cycle a couple of times and it starts to feel like it's always been that way.

In many ways being poor is better than being middle class, because there is all kinds of help out there for people who can't or won't do for themselves, but if you're barely scraping by, no one will look at you twice.

Daddy's Big Pink Man-Squirrel: Is Drew rich yet?

I hope so.

BowtoMogul: What about the guy who invented the pet rock?

You know, I had an idea like that once...

SharkTrager: 1) I don't think joining and sticking with a silicon valley start up at the right time, especially if you do it with skills that are easily transferable if it doesn't pay off, is anywhere near the least impressive way to get rich.

2) Ms. Serial Lottery Winner has some inside help. I don't buy for a second there is no way to identify the top winning scratch off.

I read an article about her. Turns out that, idiotically enough, the Texas lottery doesn't distribute scratch tickets randomly. Instead they use a system where an area that hasn't had a jackpot recently is more likely to get one. So it seems she mapped the jackpots, drove to the part of the state that had had the fewest and bought tickets.

Totally within the rules - the problem is with the lottery.

hosting megaupload?




/ awww yeah i be pimpin baybee

kevinboehm: If you're broke, you can't get an education

In what country? I was broke as hell in the United States and got a really good one.

Leskay: Teen Wolf Blitzer is 100% correct.

He's not even remotely correct. Look at fields where intelligence can be displayed, like literature or the sciences, and you'll find very few, if any, rich people excelling.

I think he's probably talking about sociopathic ambition. Some people just aren't 'smart' enough to screw over everyone else for their benefit.

Ricardo Klement: SharkTrager: 1) I don't think joining and sticking with a silicon valley start up at the right time, especially if you do it with skills that are easily transferable if it doesn't pay off, is anywhere near the least impressive way to get rich.

2) Ms. Serial Lottery Winner has some inside help. I don't buy for a second there is no way to identify the top winning scratch off.

Someone recently proved that you can cheat at scratch-offs. When I got to the point where it said she was a math professor, I knew she was cheating.

Exactly. No way this is coincidence. Except it's probably not cheating: it's just figuring out which items to scratch off due to a poor game design. She may have figured it out well enough to pay and scratch until she hit a big one.

A piss-poor #1, it's actually impressive.

#1 goes to getting rich the old fashioned way, inheritance.

Skirl Hutsenreiter: I read an article about her. Turns out that, idiotically enough, the Texas lottery doesn't distribute scratch tickets randomly. Instead they use a system where an area that hasn't had a jackpot recently is more likely to get one. So it seems she mapped the jackpots, drove to the part of the state that had had the fewest and bought tickets.

Except she went to the same town to see her father.

kevinboehm: Leskay: Teen Wolf Blitzer: BeSerious: Teen Wolf Blitzer: By and large, poor people are less intelligent and less hard-working than affluent people. It's not a popular sentiment, but it's true.

It breaks people's spirits, so they stop trying because it seems pointless. Repeat this cycle a couple of times and it starts to feel like it's always been that way.

So they became less hard working? Just Like Mr Teen Blitzer said? And you mention lack of education so this would make them less intelligent, non?

You've pretty much agreed with his post, but you've attached a sob story to it.

On re-reading, I would change Teen Wolf Blitzer's post from:

are less intelligent and less hard-working

to:

are less intelligent and/or less hard-working