The latest money man that social media forces on me is Mark Tilbury who boasts loudly of being a millionaire. Mate, nearly everyone down my street is a millionaire... That's just London house prices and inflation. He's not even a £ millionaire just a $ one. Mark made his money selling model helicopters and diversified to being an eBay seller and his general advice is to start a side hustle and invest in the FTSE 100. Within his content there's various plugs for crypto and share platforms but he is fairly honest about these cross promotions. Still, it's tacky. Like all the others Mike's miserly advice is never to spend any money because the cost is "the future". He reminds me of parable in the Bible about the man who stores up riches then snuffs it... "you do not know the hour". Even in the 21st century in the UK there's still about a 3% chance of not making 50.
Mark seems to faintly admit that there may be something geopolitically wrong in a world where everyone has to have multiple jobs and income streams in order to just stand still but his solution rather than political action is just to run faster on the hamster wheel. Got a hobby? Find away to monetise it! Got savings? Risk them on the share market. On it goes... The trouble with Mark's advice is if you followed it (ignoring the risk factors) it'd devour all your time... And time is priceless.
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