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[–] [email protected] 159 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes. How to get by without a job:

  • Fraud (false warranty claims)
  • Theft (stealing coins from vending machine)
  • Gambling (crypto)
  • Literally just self-employment (starting a drop shipping business/flipping things on eBay)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

yeah you're only allowed to do those things if you have a net worth over 25 million

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

"Lifehack: Literally just steal"

[–] [email protected] 129 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Crypto trade

There's where all the money went I guess. Gotta steal toilet paper to leverage that crypto position. (After you've already lost everything several times)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

You can make significant money by trading crypto peer-to-peer. It is incredibly risky but you can make around 6-7% profit after fees. I made around 2,000-3,000 USD monthly, moving around 40,000 USD in volume. The main risks are chargebacks and account closures.

It wasn't free money, of course. But the profit-to-effort ratio is pretty high once you figure out how to weed the good clients from the bad (scammers who will pay, receive crypto, and then dispute the payment).

Do not ask me how to do this and do not reply to anyone who comments below claiming to know how, because they're probably a scammer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Investments are not effort-to-profit. They are risk-to-profit.

There is no such a thing as risk-free investing. If there is an investment with good returns, it means it's just as easy to lose all that money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This is not investing. I did not ever hold significant amounts of cryptocurrency. People would ask me to sell them crypto and then I'd buy it on a crypto exchange and then sell it to them.

I do not believe holding cryptocurrency qualifies as "investing". It is much closer to gambling as the entire valuation is purely speculative. I get that all investing is gambling to some extent, but it's not the same as stocks, for example, because holding stocks gives you voting rights for a company's board of directors and entitles you to a portion of the company's profits in the form of dividends.

There is risk, of course, but it is not market risk.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's being a dealer, when people say trader they mean something else

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A high effort to profit ratio would mean a lot of effort for a little profit.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago (2 children)

All this put together sounds like a job

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

A less ethical, worse paid, more hours than a job.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Yeah! I can’t be bothered with all this shit, I’ll just be a wagie instead.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That seems like a lot of constant hustle to get out of having an actual job

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

it is legitimately better than having a real job though. I absolutely hate working for myself but working for somebody else is even worse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not when you make 100 times as much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Who cares for the cash, the lost time hurts most. Jobs suck ass, even if they're mildly interesting. Could've pursued 5 hobbies instead of sitting in a stupid office doing stupid things for other people

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (7 children)

This is why companies have cheap toilet paper by the way. Not because they necessarily hate their employees, but because it would get stolen and they'd need three times as much.

Also one of the reasons why the huge rolls exist like you see at airports: impractical to use at home.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I stole one of those huge rolls from college once. It dispenses just fine on the floor.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but then you're wiping floor on your ass.

[–] Worx 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is literal shit on my arse, what difference does some floor make?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Floor spice makes everything nice!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I would steal it from the train when I was homeless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Joke's on them, when I have to use cheap TP I have to use 3x as much because it's such cheap trash.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago

Anon still calls mom and dad multiple times a month for money.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I got from this is that Anon is undergoing serious financial struggles and is trying to scrape by.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Idk why op would be buying Sennheiser or Corsair peripherals if they're struggling.i just got that op is cheap af.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

is it normal to have separate wifi networks for different people in the same apartment?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

If they act like that their flatmate has every right to keep ot from them assuming they don't contribute to the bill.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You find something cheap from China, then you flip it to suckers on Etsy for 10x the cost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

More like 1.01x the cost. margins doing this are stupid thin

[–] And009 10 points 9 months ago

Storefront without stock, when you get order just pass it on to a whole seller with their shipping address.

Profit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fraud, theft, and bad spelling.

Trump?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a real need to bring your American party-politics in this thread?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sending in Sennheisers for warranty is silly. Their headphones are basically bullet proof, at least their typical wired open cans.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I have a Bluetooth headset made by Sennheiser. It's battery died in the first two years of use. So I bought a new battery, except it was bigger.

When I opened it up it turned out that they have thought about someone wanting a bigger battery and I only needed to break a couple of small plastic pieces to fit a longer battery in. The headset has worked fine since.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Indeed, same with audio technica, god I love their headphones

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anon is NEET but has a flatmate? Isn’t part of being NEET living with parents?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

not necessarily. some people get on unemployment and ride it out for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some people get on SSDI and sell magic wands on Etsy and beg for money on YouTube, shoutout to the Dark Lord KingCobraJFS, That's whats up!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

crypto and dropshipping and lock picking vending machines are all lies no homo

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