Technically this has been updated. So I’m not really sure it falls into a lie, more like outdated information.
I personally think Canada’s updated one is the most accurate. The protein quarter includes dairy, cheese, tofu, etc
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I’m pretty sure I said right decisions as part of it.
This is just the reality right now. I only have so much time in a day. Weekends are my days to catch up and get ahead for the week. A full time masters program is already taking a lot of my time. CFA exams require 300 hours of study at least and had a less than 50% pass rate.
The business is moving faster than I can keep up in the initial 2 months. It’s just me and my gf doing it on our own so we have to handle everything.
No. We were quite poor. We moved in 2000-2001. He manufactured LEDs. LEDs didn’t start being a thing people used until the early 2000s in a boom. It was not a very successful business before that.
I’m just saying that as a general rule. Some people obviously work like crazy because they want to or need to, and they become successful. But there’s no rule that says you have to work 60+ hours/week or you can’t be successful.
No. But you have to put in the necessary time and work. It’s just what I have to do with now. There two paths ahead of me, maybe 3.
My business takes off and I can continue on that full time.
The business fails and I go into finance. Probably slaving at a bank 60-80 hour weeks.
I go into some financial service or banking job and my business is doing just good enough to be a side gig and a extra income stream.
I would prefer to be self employed, so I’m giving this a real go to see if I can make it happen.
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Good luck. You’re doing what you think is necessary in your situation and going for it. That’s 
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It is easier than other countries. Immigrants are consistently the highest earners in the US across all races.
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Y’all might be interested in this. The statistics are easy to manipulate (or rather, it’s possible to portray them as meaning what vested interests want them to mean) because most people don’t really understand how the figures are derived. Raised-in-America Americans tend to be more entitled and less motivated, as a motley group, than immigrants. Unsurprisingly, they often don’t have very successful lives.
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Or they’re collecting the wrong data to make that conclusion. Looking at @Gain chart. How can France have better social mobility when youth unemployment is 20%? How is Italy just below the US when their youth unemployment 50% and young people would kill to live in the US? Doesnt make sense. Youth Italians are leaving in huge numbers, many to the UK for example.
The UK is socially mobile? It’s one of the more class base societies I’ve been in. People look down on your accent if it’s not the posh Queens English. People take classes to get rid of their accents here. I was pulled aside once because “no brown in town” is still a rule in London’s high society and banking/business sector. People will know you don’t belong if you wear brown shoes…
Probably because inequality is much worse in America?
That’s dumb. I guess social mobility is similar in Italy because everyone is doing poorly and taxed out their asses.
The US has more new millionaires each year than all the places ahead of it.
I think you are seeing this from an Asian-American point of view, so it seems easier as Asians tend to move to the US having that ambition in mind. Taiwanese-Americans are the wealthiest ethnicity in America after all. At least top 3.
I doubt the Latinx community would share your sentiment. They are the largest immigrant community in the US after all, by far.
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What are the Latinx community doing wrong compared to Asian-Americans?
True.
I think latino Americans have their own set of challenges. Perhaps some of that is cultural. Although I would argue many of them do end up doing really well second generation in. First generation in is always tougher.
It’s common of Asian families to push their children into STEM and financial services or accounting. These are well paying jobs in the US. Many start off 6 figures with the right education and right firm that hires.
I don’t see this pressure put into them in the latino community. At least not usually.
Yeah, I know. I was being flippant. The reasons East Asians are successful are obvious
I don’t know if you can say doing wrong. Wealth isn’t the only measure of success. If someone wants to be a social worker, good for them. Perhaps the argument is that social workers don’t make enough in a wealthy society like the US for example.
But certain fields in the US definitely are pathways to high income earning.
Yea I see too many latinos working at Walmart and have zero desire to move up from there. They would say they can’t afford college or don’t have the brains for STEM.
But you don’t have to get into Ivy or public Ivies to succeed. Going to community college could work too.
I think what happens is too many of them listen to their hormones, so they end up with all the vices like teen pregnancy, drugs, violence, etc.