So my grandpa

He retired in his mid 40s

Had an ocean front beach house in Florida

His primary residence has like 17 bedrooms….

As a kid growing up I never really thought about any of this

But talking with him now as an adult

Trying to get advice

He’s old and can barely use a flip phone rn

So I wouldn’t even waste my time trying to talk to him about bitcoin, a little background then I’ll tell u something he told me.

So he had like 15 brothers and sisters

Grew up milking cows on the farm before daylight type shit

He didn’t have a toothbrush till he was like a teenager

Lot of land in the family

Hundreds of acres (if not a thousand)

He hitchhiked and walked putting himself through engineering school at the university of Alabama

He Got a kick ass job at NASA

He was making good money

But then quit one day out of the blue.

Said he was starting his own company

Something fabricators inc… idk

Working with steel and welding and stuff

So all his friends and family members laughed at him

Ridiculing him

Saying how it was a stupid idea and he would never be successful

Well he ended up hiring almost of these people that didn’t believe him… giving them all jobs

He didn’t look so stupid anymore

Anyways so he had this fabrication business and it was going good but. But he had to pay a ton for shipping and receiving

He ended up buying an 18 wheeler. Then another before you know it he was running a trucking company and this fabrication business

That was 2 companies he started

Then he had all this land passed down through the family

So he started strip mining coal on his own property

That turned into a business

Then he started getting more and more cattle and that turned into a business

So now he had like 4 companies at this point and wanted to build a house for his mother

My great grandmother

He was so good at the home building process that he started a construction company too

So he ended up with like 5 or 6 companies and then was able to retire in his mid 40s

So a few years ago I was talking with him about all this

And he was like yea back then

Back in his day it was a lot easier to do business, start a business, etc

You didn’t have all the regulations, and taxes, and bull shit

He was like shit nowadays you’re doing good working at Home Depot with a 600 pound lesbian boss.

Just a different era

Fiat ruined everything