Some people will never be rich!
And no.. it’s not about where you grew up, who your parents are, your gender or the color
of your skin.
Let us explain!
Welcome to Alux.com, the place where future billionaires come to get inspired!
These 100 dots are meant to symbolize the world’s population from a quality of life
and living standard perspective.
To be rich, means that you are part of the top 20%.
To be poor, you guessed it, it’s the bottom 20%
Everyone in the middle is called the middle class which can be broken into upper and lower
middle class, but that’s not of interest to you.
You see, being rich is relative.
You are only rich compared to other people.
In order to qualify as rich, you need 80% of the comparable population to have a quality
of life lower than you do.
This applies to both a macro level and to your local community.
By simple statistics, if we agree that this top 20% rule, in terms of living standards applies, then
80% of the population will never be rich… so..
We’re done with this video right?!
Well.. there’s more to this story!
Because we judge our wealth and quality of life compared to others, the laws of basic
math simply do not allow everyone to be in the top 20%, because then it wouldn’t be
the top 20%... makes sense?!
Technically, if you compare the quality of life we enjoy today from a time perspective,
almost everyone on planet earth has a higher standard of living today than someone who
lived 100 years ago.
Here’s where the mindblowing part happens: Unless you’re in the 0.001% of the bottom
of the population, you’re enjoying a higher quality of life than most kings and queens
to ever live!
If a king in the 1600s or before, and you got sick, you basically winged it through
witchcraft and alcohol.
Life expectancy was under 40 years and most diseases would kill you because witchcraft
wasn’t that crafty.
It took 200 more years for us to begin developing medicine.
So yeah, we have been living better than kings, with our cellphones, electricity, access to water,
travel and without slavery for a while now, but you don’t feel rich, because the
top20% rule applies.
You are only rich if you’re doing better than your peers!
“But Alux.. what does it take to make it to the top 20% and why aren't more people
willing to do whatever it takes?”
We’re glad you asked that question, imaginary voice in our head..
Well… it boils down to 2 simple truths, and one of them is a lot harder to digest
than the other.
Here’s why most people don’t make the leap into the top 20% in terms of living conditions:
On a macro scale: it’s about access to resources, information, religious culture and infrastructure.
This is why everyone is Switzerland [Switzerland/GDP per capita: 86,601.56 USD (2020)] is considered
Rich compared to everyone in South Sudan [South Sudan/GDP per capita: 700 USD (2021)]
Poor People love this argument because the reason for their poverty lies -generally speaking-
outside of their control: the government is corrupt and instead of building effective
departments to better the population they’re wasting money and keeping everyone poor.
Which is factually true in most of these struggling countries.
But there’s a second truth that’s a lot harder to digest because this time it’s
not on a macro level, but it boils down to your local community.
On a micro-scale: the reason why most people don’t become locally rich is that they aren’t
willing to learn and make the sacrifices required for success.
Yep - we’re going there!
It is only a small subset of the population, usually male, who are willing to sacrifice
decades of their lives, embrace high levels of risk with a very small chance of success
to break out of the general population for financial and societal gain.
This happens both in rich countries and poor countries.
Anywhere you look you can find examples of people who came from nothing and molded themselves
into greatness.
So we know it can be done!
What most people choose to ignore is the dramatic level of sacrifice and discipline required
to make the leap.
If the biggest factor keeping you in poverty is geographical, it usually requires leaving
your roots behind in order to relocate to places with more opportunities.
It’s incredibly hard leaving your hometown, leaving the familiar space and venturing into
the unknown on your own..
And guess what… over 80% of the population is not willing to take that kind of risk.
Statistically, you will be born in the same geography as your parents were.
You will be educated there, find a partner within a 30-mile radius from where you were born,
spend the majority of your life working no further than 60 minutes from your home
and you will probably die there as well.
This is a wake-up call for you watching this video right now!
If in this equation you aren’t able to maximize the opportunity available to you regionally,
you will likely live an average life… a decent life, but nothing out of the ordinary.
The second part is finding out your physical and mental limits.
Are you able to work 8 hours a day?
10-12-14 hours a day?
Are you able to learn and willing to keep doing it over and over without any immediate
outcome?
This part relies on being able to DELAY GRATIFICATION, a concept the 80% is not familiar with.
Money, success, and fame are a delayed gratification long-term game, which relies on doing work
that compounds over time until a certain goal is achieved.
Basically, are you willing to sacrifice the present for the future?
How much sacrifice are you willing to make?
Are you willing to work when others are partying?
Are you willing to learn skills that add value instead of being entertained?
Are you willing to be ridiculed and laughed at for your efforts knowing that practice
and failure are part of the journey?
Most people are not!
Most people wouldn’t even try and out of those who do, a good portion will quit at
different stages of the process, but here’s the catch: because richness it’s a delayed
gratification game, you only win at the very end!
If you quit at 20, 50 or 80% you don’t get anything.
Wealth is the prize for bearing this sacrifice successfully and coming out on the other side.
There needs to be a reward for those creating value for everyone else.
This is how our society works and that’s how you will
There is a good portion of luck and timing involved as well and these two go hand in hand.
If you’re watching this video you already won the luck part.
If you survived until now, you are lucky.
If you don’t have a major physical or mental disability, you already won the luck part.
You have access to technology, to curated quality information and the largest marketplace
for opportunities humanity has ever seen.
Every generation gets its own unique opportunities to build wealth!
For us, it was the internet revolution.
If we were born 20 years earlier, we probably wouldn’t be able to connect with you the
way we are.
If you are born today, social media the way we know it might end up being a mammoth, and
your opportunity may lie in the gamification of the metaverse.
This is why you have to understand timing as well.
Find where the opportunities of your time are and focus your efforts there!
Gain specialized knowledge in a field where value is being generated and society will
pay you for your skills.
Most people aren’t willing to learn how to use the tools of the present, so those
who do learn how to use them have a massive competitive advantage.
Money, wealth, and success are a lot less complicated than the world make it seem.
You need to learn the rules of the money game if you want to win the game and we congratulate
you on taking the time to do so today.
The fastest way to build wealth and success in your life is to assume what is called:
asymmetric risk.
This is a concept that has fascinated us since we discovered it and it has generated the
highest amount of wealth for us personally.
Next Sunday we will do a video specifically on asymmetric risk, what it is and how you
can actionably use it to build wealth for yourself, so apart from being a subscriber,
turn on notifications so you don’t miss it!
As a reward for watching this new style of Sunday motivational video until the very end,
we’re still going to share a bonus to keep up with tradition.
Your ability to win isn’t dependent on other people!
You’re going to win based on what you do today..
Tomorrow and every day moving forward.
It doesn’t matter what others think, say or do.
You are not racing against them, you are racing against the things that make your current
life miserable and almost all of them are under your control.
Even if you don’t win big, you have the ability and the responsibility to make your
life suck less, so do it.
Go through life naively thinking everything good can happen for you and pay no attention
to the naysayers.
You’ll find yourself surrounded by opportunities they are blind to.
We got wealthy because we didn’t listen to those who said what we wanted to do couldn’t be done.
So Aluxers… are you going to live your life based on what you want out of it?
Or will you let others decide what your life should be like?
If you’re willing to bet on yourself write the word: ME in caps in the comments!
Most of those who do are on a journey to not only get in the top 20%, but make it to the very summit