Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Americans Are CRUSHED By Rising Cost Of Living | Told To "Quit Crying About It"" video.

  1. My rent was a struggle back in 2014 even at $600/month. So I moved home to the paid off massive farm I grew up on, now it pays me $1000 profit a month averaged from my row crops, soybeans this year. I expect yield enough to feed something like 10,000 people for a year from my harvest (probably in China). That totally covers all expenses for the year, food, utilities, and taxes and insurance. So I start debt free, expense free, and I work a full-time municipal job as a dept director and water treatment plant supervisor, only $40k after taxes but it's all discretionary, I invest most of it in dividend stocks, so I can retire around 50 at the same current salary in dividend income. Just gotta make sure I don't do anything stupid like fall in love or some shit and lose it all
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  2. Move to Missouri, I can show you $30k multi bedroom houses all over. Full city building lot, cleared, ready to put up a house, 8k out the door, all day every day.
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  3. The sole way I would agree with him is my own situation, actually, I have built up a skillset and license level that's in extreme demand, water treatment, BUT I'm tied to this area because I'm caring for my dad for his end of life, he's 84. I attend to him daily along with working full time. I make $22.50/hr. If I could move anywhere in the US, I'd have a $50/hr job tomorrow, and I've been offered that. If I wanted to leave the US I could make 7 figures consulting, there are entire nations overseas building new water plants for millions of new people, the next century is an industry bonanza. But I can't access those opportunities currently. If you can move and it's shatteringly more money for the same work, that DOES make sense. If I could work from home for my same salary that would be a giant raise because I have a 30 minutes one way commute, ditching that would reclaim 30 DAYS A YEAR of just eliminated driving time to and from work, and the fuel cost. Math, there's lots of it. Cost/benefit analysis should be mandatory education.
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  4. That's the sole advice zoomers get and have for years. When I was in college in 2012 the advice was you will change careers AT LEAST 10 times in your 30 years of working, even back then. Advisors advocated going job to job to job to job and trying to leverage your salary at every step of the way. NOT actually investing in an employer who invests in you as a worker and staying to leverage your earnings via your performance and improvement. It's like they think that's how you get jacked, you go from gym to gym to gym and each step is supposed to make you more jacked by virtue of another gym competing for you, no, you just have to do the work regardless of what gym it's in.
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  5. I also work 30x harder than my parents...good thing the farm they left me was paid off and has appreciated 1000x since they bought it in 1960. Was $100/acre then, today my neighbors would literally laugh at a $10k/acre offer, they're selling bare dirt for that. They might find a new gold deposit tomorrow that makes gold so plentiful it's worthless, but they're not finding new land anywhere. It's value only increases as the supply drops.
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  6. ​ @michaelcooke7123 landlords provide land. Most people need it. Just saying, if landlords are parasites, then what lower form are the people doing nothing? Less than parasites, parasite parasites. At least the landlords pay net above-zero taxes instead of consuming welfare
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  7. You think it's poverty here, wait until you see there lol
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  8. Just saying, BlackRock stock has a pretty good dividend. I've thought about buying in.
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  9. I will put my sister up as an example, she is an actuary, has her actuarial science degree, and as a freshman in college she had an INTERNSHIP full time that paid $19/hr. That's $39k/year in college, private school, full scholarship. Now she's 30, looking at house #4, a trust banker at UMB, and will probably retire before 41 year old me does lol. Pick a specialty with insane growth and start in early is the key. She was getting financial mathematics white papers published while she was in high school, and playing on multiple school and private softball teams, and for a while there she could bench 185. Some people I think are just more motivated than others.
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  10. ​ @nosocialmedia2854 where I live you can buy a house that'll pass code enforcement for $30-75k. No one does because they're too cheap and people think there's gotta be something wrong
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  11. If i would not listen to my father in his 50s or 80s, why the holy fuck would I listen to some rando dude named Patrick?
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  12. ​ @joefer5360 municipal utilities also. Can't outsource the power lines on your street or the water plant across town.
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  13. My rent is zero but I have a deed instead so...
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