Rich People Share 45 Ways To Make Money That Are Often Overlooked

During depressing times, one might wonder if the world was a better place before we all started passing around bills or coins to buy goods and services. The reality is that one could very easily be in debt before money had ever been invented. Many people know about early barter systems, but most overlook the fact that these systems often facilitated and commonly allowed one to trade future items or labor as a form of debt.

The result is that someone can actually be fully in debt in a society where no one actually uses or has ever heard about currency. This, somehow, seems like it would be worse than many modern forms of debt where one can at least sell something to get by. 

Of course, many of the people in this thread gave similar advice. Don’t spend more than you have is common sense, but the advent of credit cards and “easy” credit, in general, has caused many a bankruptcy (and even a whole financial crisis) as people underestimate risk and overestimate their own income. 

Sometimes, one can be overexposed to money and money-related topics throughout the day. There is really no way of getting away from it in this day and age. It’s a topic so ubiquitous that some activists have formed a “Free Money Day” where participants literally give random people on the street some bills or coins. The money given away is not life-changing, but the idea is to stimulate discussions about the role of money in society. 

Of course, “stimulating discussions” don’t pay the bills, as most people can guess. Hence the question to people with money is, how does one get it? While it makes sense to “go to the source,” these days, more and more money is inherited, not necessarily earned. While a person living off family money is by no means automatically less intelligent than someone else, they might not be the best source of information for how to get there from zero. 

This trend is more and more present if one digs around enough, to the degree that some journalists have labeled these people “nepo babies.” Many famous actors, actresses, musicians, and other creatives, it turns out, have parents in the industry or are just wealthy enough to buy their way in. But in the pre-modern era, nearly all wealth was inherited, so don’t give up.