Quote from: btcltcdigger on July 14, 2021, 10:15:01 PM

Quote from: paxmao on July 08, 2021, 09:53:19 AM

It is fairly obvious, but there are people out there that have written 200 pages self-help books and made a fortune out of them by simply stating this simple fact of life: "you can invest your savings. If you ain´t got any, you ain´t gonna invest". (I admit you could argue that you can borrow but still nobody ain´t lending ya if you ain´t gonna givvet baksh).

The basic concepts that will save you a 15 bucks book:

- you invest so that your money works for you. Even if you cannot drop your job, you can still live a bit better with extra income.
- Investing is sacrificing something today to get something tomorrow. This is just a definition. You save x today because you want 2x tomorrow or in year or whenever.
- The first step to invest is saving part of your income. No savings, no future.
- If you have credits unpaid (other than mortgages or other asset backed credits), you pay those first because they charge you a lot.

And from here we could start speaking on how are you going to save regularly, if it is going to be 10% of your income, or 5% or 50%, how are you going to learn about investing, etc...

This is correct. Many sources say exact same thing, but they also mention one fact, which you missed.
They all say you should start with this in your early 20's. That's the most fruitful time to do it, so you can enter your 40's with a nice passive income

at the age of 20 years, humans do not have many necessities of life, so they are free to work as they think. that way they will have various experiences and overcome the problems they get, so that with increasing age their psychologically matures and finally they will have financial freedom at their relatively young age.