Heard this quote this morning and was trying to verify it:
According to the Social Security administration, if you take any 100 people at the start of their working careers and follow them for the next 40 years until they reach retirement age, you’ll find only one will be wealthy, 4 will be financially secure, 5 will continue working not because they want to but because they have to pay their bills, 36 will be dead and 54 will be broke and dependent on their friends, family, and the government to take care of them. Which means that only 5% of the population will ever succeed in creating a life of financial freedom and the rest of them, the other 95% will struggle their entire lives.
When looking up the entire quote I found an attribution that it was from this book.
Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM
However I’ve also found people attributing similar quotes to self help/ finance books written as far back as 1948.
So take this with a grain of salt. #DontTrustVerify Taking a break from finding the origins of this quote. I am very interested in finding the origins of the quote and its spread over the years vs the financial statistical reality for Americans over time. (It’s so far only been quoted as USA specific.)
It’s 2024 and time we do this. nostr:note1y3aam5advtr300ykzr6l5wpj0wldqcydhum6maelcplj7v8ncdjq6xfhrh
Hard no. States with large city populations would have more power than states with more rural areas. Our rural areas and farmers are just as important as our urban centers. People frequently don’t fully understand the issues facing people in different circumstances. The electoral college helps maintain equal representation on a federal level. Discontinuing the electoral college seems like as bad of an idea as the legislature ceding power to the executive branch because Congress couldn’t pass what they wanted passed. Each party has done it while their guy was in office. Now we’re stuck with an unbalanced triangle of power.
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If you’re gonna paint brick, make it art. 
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Accidentally trained my dog to allow me to work on my laptop for 50 minutes with a 10 minute break for playing fetch. She only does it with my laptop and not my iPad. It’s like the pupster pomodoro technique.
#hippoappreciationclub #moodeng
It’s from the US presidential debate. Donald Trump went off on a tangent about migrants eating cats. There’s a body cam video in question where a woman is being arrested and there’s a dead cat on the sidewalk and neighbors say she was eating it. Turns out she’s not a migrant but a local. Don’t know the full story. Saw the video and was like how was she eating a cat that’s not skinned or prepared in anyway and yet she’s somehow not covered in blood and fur. I dunno. 🤡🌎
This wall gets full sun for most of the afternoon. It will be downright reflective. 😎
Try rooibos if you’d like something similar to black tea but herbal before bedtime!
You know how we criticized previous generations for covering beautiful hardwoods with carpet. One day future generations will criticize us for painting all the wood and brick white or light gray. Don’t do it Becky! 
Tomorrow might be busy. Unknown variables at the moment. Next Wednesday on would work better for me.
This is your sign to take a nap or go to bed early.
Happy to chat!
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I think voting with your wallet is more powerful than voting at the polls. I choose to do both.