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You've Got Better Chances In Monopoly than in Canada

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People have been playing Monopoly for 85 years now. The rules are simple: Roll the dice, move around the board buying real estate and railways, collecting rents. Capitalism in 40 squares.
In the game, players all start with $1,500 in brightly coloured Monopoly money. The rest is up to them. But that’s not how it works in Canada, as a report this year on family wealth from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux reminded us.

 

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People have been playing Monopoly for 85 years now. The rules are simple: Roll the dice, move around the board buying real estate and railways, collecting rents. Capitalism in 40 squares.
In the game, players all start with $1,500 in brightly coloured Monopoly money. The rest is up to them. But that’s not how it works in Canada, as a report this year on family wealth from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux reminded us.

Yep, except the real life is multi-generational game. And many people who came to America centuries ago started with the same budget but made different choices and/or got lucky. Now their children continue to play the game. All this cry is from people who are losing in the monopoly game and saying that we should start over. Imagine in a Stanley Cup playoff when one team leading 3-0 in the series, people will say that that team clearly has an advantage going forward, so, to make it fair, let's start the series over again. I am sorry, but at some point this stupid argument from the lefties are not even funny anymore.
 
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People have been playing Monopoly for 85 years now. The rules are simple: Roll the dice, move around the board buying real estate and railways, collecting rents. Capitalism in 40 squares.
In the game, players all start with $1,500 in brightly coloured Monopoly money. The rest is up to them. But that’s not how it works in Canada, as a report this year on family wealth from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux reminded us.

Making your way in the world is just like Monopoly - with loaded dice!...
 

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It's a simple process. Get an education (at least high school). Study for a career or skilled trade. Move up the employment ladder of earning promotion and pay increases for your effort. Stay out of debt. Invest in your retirement. If you're lucky you'll find someone with similar interests and share a life together.

As a simple as the process is ... it is easily derailed, usually by parents. Abuse (verbal, physical. Sexual), poor discipline and habits, dysfunctional home environment.

If you're looking for damaged kids ... look for damaging parents.

Yes, inherited wealth is a big benefit ... but so are inherited values, character, support. There aren't a lot of wealthy, spoiled kids ... most successful people followed the steps above. Many despite the poor parenting they received.
 

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That’s the key education little bit of brains hopefully no disasters good self-control you can start out with nothing and do quite well .

Inheriting money is also a big help but it depends sometimes family attachments or the strings attached to that inheritance can hamper you

Bottom line no one owes you anything get your education earn it yourself
 
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That’s the key education little bit of brains hopefully no disasters good self-control you can start out with nothing and do quite well .

Inheriting money is also a big help but it depends sometimes family attachments or the strings attached to that inheritance can hamper you

Bottom line no one owes you anything get your education earn it yourself
I should add that it is both on you and your parents. It is mostly on your parents until you are 12 y.o., it is equally between you and your parents when you are between 12 and 16, and it is mostly on you after that. So, if you did not do good in life, there are two parties to blame: you and your parents. Not the wealthy neighbours. If your father preferred to drink beer instead of teaching you math, It is not Bill Gates' fault. IMHO, the main reason why success appears to be inherited is because, when you failed to make good choices in life (both because of yourself and your parents), your kids will be handicapped because they got bad parents. The wealth and connections play little role here: most second-generation immigrants are doing very good not because their parents had money, but because their parents valued hard work and education and passed their values to their children.
 

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That’s the key education little bit of brains hopefully no disasters good self-control you can start out with nothing and do quite well .

Inheriting money is also a big help but it depends sometimes family attachments or the strings attached to that inheritance can hamper you

Bottom line no one owes you anything get your education earn it yourself
Most of the people I have worked for or with are immigrants, just like me. Most of them are very well off having arrived completely broke, even destitute to Canada. Their "secret" is uniformly boring: half a brain and tons of hard, back breaking work. No luck no privilege. Except my current CEO, second generation, but a super hard worker who leads by example and a genius when it comes to forecasting, planning and execution.
 
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Also an important factor in being somewhat successful is being good with your money

it almost does not matter how much you make if you are spending more than you earn you will end up with nothing

being smart with your money is a huge part of success
 

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It's a simple process. Get an education (at least high school). Study for a career or skilled trade. Move up the employment ladder of earning promotion and pay increases for your effort. Stay out of debt. Invest in your retirement. If you're lucky you'll find someone with similar interests and share a life together.

As a simple as the process is ... it is easily derailed, usually by parents. Abuse (verbal, physical. Sexual), poor discipline and habits, dysfunctional home environment.

If you're looking for damaged kids ... look for damaging parents.

Yes, inherited wealth is a big benefit ... but so are inherited values, character, support. There aren't a lot of wealthy, spoiled kids ... most successful people followed the steps above. Many despite the poor parenting they received.
I disagree. The reason that people moved from Europe to here is the Monopoly game is full there - or was - all the land was bought all the good jobs full. Sure get a good education and THEM MOVE. Canada is waste land if your not a minority or you have generational wealth. There are several countries in the world you can make your fortune.

Unfortunately for Canadians born here they have less options - someone born in China can work in China or move to Canada and the same is not true since China is very racist and non Chinese have a very limited options in China.

Anyway over time the Roman empire broke up partially for the monopoly game reasons - the middle class saw no reason to participate and an economy can not run without a middle class - and then we had a period of generational capitalists eventually become nobles and the rest serfs. We are seeing the rise of serfdom with the cloud and rentals - remove property from the middle class so they have to rent.

 

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Also an important factor in being somewhat successful is being good with your money

it almost does not matter how much you make if you are spending more than you earn you will end up with nothing

being smart with your money is a huge part of success
Next your going to tell me that spending cash on sp's isn't smart.
Go on....
 

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Next your going to tell me that spending cash on sp's isn't smart.
Go on....
OF course it's not smart. You losing out on Airmiles / Aeroplan points. Imagine the amount of times you can have sex in the plane with the SP instead at her place with the points.

Cash is good but not that great when there are rewards to reap.
 

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I disagree. The reason that people moved from Europe to here is the Monopoly game is full there - or was - all the land was bought all the good jobs full. Sure get a good education and THEM MOVE. Canada is waste land if your not a minority or you have generational wealth. There are several countries in the world you can make your fortune.

Thanks for the link. That solved or concluded my theory.
 

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Nothing in your post makes any sense. If you're trying to make a point, you're failing. What I glean from it is you feel there is no point ... that you can't be successful. Therefore your failure becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. "Why try when odds are stacked against me?" That's the Loser's Lament.

Everyday ordinary people succeed. Whites, blacks, Asians, middle easterns, men, women, LGBTQ and lesbian everything in between. I'm not surprised Candee Apple liked your quote. It excuses failure and enables laziness.

I disagree. The reason that people moved from Europe to here is the Monopoly game is full there - or was - all the land was bought all the good jobs full. Sure get a good education and THEM MOVE. Canada is waste land if your not a minority or you have generational wealth. There are several countries in the world you can make your fortune.

Unfortunately for Canadians born here they have less options - someone born in China can work in China or move to Canada and the same is not true since China is very racist and non Chinese have a very limited options in China.

Anyway over time the Roman empire broke up partially for the monopoly game reasons - the middle class saw no reason to participate and an economy can not run without a middle class - and then we had a period of generational capitalists eventually become nobles and the rest serfs. We are seeing the rise of serfdom with the cloud and rentals - remove property from the middle class so they have to rent.

 

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Monopoly money is worthless.

Unless you find a foreign SP on her first day in the country 😉
 

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Nothing in your post makes any sense. If you're trying to make a point, you're failing. What I glean from it is you feel there is no point ... that you can't be successful. Therefore your failure becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. "Why try when odds are stacked against me?" That's the Loser's Lament.

Everyday ordinary people succeed. Whites, blacks, Asians, middle easterns, men, women, LGBTQ and lesbian everything in between. I'm not surprised Candee Apple liked your quote. It excuses failure and enables laziness.
Lets make this clear. Lets go back a few hundred years. If your were a black person born in slavery you could stay where you where and try to move up the ranks and become an Uncle Tom - the height of slavery. The smart move however, is to escape and say become the first black mayor of some Ontario city - where you intelligence and drive can come to full ability 200 years before that the same black person could have come to North America and had the same change of success as any other European.
Your odds of success is dependent on the rules and competition you face. Starting you own company you get all the risks and benefits - staying within one you limit yourself. During a frontier stage you only have the choice to start a company (early computer age in computers ) in the middle you have both (Facebook stage) and then as the market saturates starting a company becomes harder and harder as all the easy ideas are taken (Facebook and Ebay is a few lines of copy code really compared to cyrpto currency or the development of the web in the first place which where revolutionary)
Modern example: Any average soccer player can get into the Canadian league now, and make a decent wage. In a few years from now, when they become good, international stars will raise the bar so only a handful of the best can make it. Hard work will not cut it anymore, your need talent as well.

If you can not see this any success you have achieved is by luck and brute force. To ignore obstacles as if they where not there is not the mark of talent.

A clever pretty girl at 18 can enter the sp biz and in 3 years get enough money from nothing to house flip. Say thats what she is made for and she starts earning 25% of her stake yearly. She still LOST 3 years earning her stake. Her friend born with a silver spoon with the same ability is already way ahead of her and will always be ahead of her assuming the same ability and work ethic. Admittedly poor people tend to be more talented, intelligent and driven than people born to money as they gain ambition from knowing what it is to be poor, they have to foster there talent from day one or starve and use there brains instead of sitting on there ass. Its why the 3rd generation rich usually lose there family fortunes (ie Eaton's family)

Its part of the reason tech startups do so well, they hire hungry and ambitious talent.
 

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