If you are the first in your family to venture into the stock market, funds, futures, or crypto assets, in the eyes of your elders, you are almost seen as: unambitious + wanting to take shortcuts + destined to be unlucky.
Their mindset is straightforward: go to work.
8 to 6, punch the clock monthly for a paycheck, live a life of obedience, and eventually drop dead in the office.
This is the worldview of the previous generation:
Not working = no security; Fiddling with money = not respectable; Leaving the job = wasting life.
But they simply refuse to face a more painful, more realistic problem:
Working is just to keep you alive. Capital is the way out.
The essence of labor? Using time to exchange for money, using your body to fight inflation, betting your entire life that you will never be laid off.
And capital? It’s having a safety net to fall back on when you’re tired or annoyed, so you can still have a meal.
When you start watching the markets, reviewing returns, and studying market cycles, they naturally become anxious. Not because they fear you losing everything, but because they’re afraid you won’t be so obedient anymore, won’t be bound to the only path they understand and can control.
They will advise you: "All this is just a scam." "Stop messing around." "Just focus on working, that’s the real way."
Translated, it means: This is the only way I know in my life, don’t even think about breaking out.
What’s more ironic is that this "only working" logic has directly caused marriages to collapse.
Once a man’s job becomes unstable, he is immediately labeled: "Good-for-nothing."
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GateUser-e19e9c10
· 01-05 16:30
Haha, that hits hard. That's just how my family is. My mom still asks me when I will "work properly," and she just can't listen.
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MeltdownSurvivalist
· 01-03 12:50
To be honest, this generation gap is quite something... The look my mom gave me when I opened a position was like she was watching me gamble.
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RiddleMaster
· 01-03 12:36
That's a really sharp point; this is the cognitive gap between generations. My parents are the same way, insisting I take the civil service exam. Only when I start earning more in a year than their entire salary do they finally shut up.
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PumpSpreeLive
· 01-03 12:30
HODL Tight 💪
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ImpermanentSage
· 01-03 12:21
Sell, sell, sell. That's a bit too straightforward, haha.
#数字资产动态追踪 Have you noticed?
If you are the first in your family to venture into the stock market, funds, futures, or crypto assets, in the eyes of your elders, you are almost seen as: unambitious + wanting to take shortcuts + destined to be unlucky.
Their mindset is straightforward: go to work.
8 to 6, punch the clock monthly for a paycheck, live a life of obedience, and eventually drop dead in the office.
This is the worldview of the previous generation:
Not working = no security;
Fiddling with money = not respectable;
Leaving the job = wasting life.
But they simply refuse to face a more painful, more realistic problem:
Working is just to keep you alive.
Capital is the way out.
The essence of labor? Using time to exchange for money, using your body to fight inflation, betting your entire life that you will never be laid off.
And capital? It’s having a safety net to fall back on when you’re tired or annoyed, so you can still have a meal.
When you start watching the markets, reviewing returns, and studying market cycles, they naturally become anxious. Not because they fear you losing everything, but because they’re afraid you won’t be so obedient anymore, won’t be bound to the only path they understand and can control.
They will advise you:
"All this is just a scam."
"Stop messing around."
"Just focus on working, that’s the real way."
Translated, it means:
This is the only way I know in my life, don’t even think about breaking out.
What’s more ironic is that this "only working" logic has directly caused marriages to collapse.
Once a man’s job becomes unstable, he is immediately labeled: "Good-for-nothing."