Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more

Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by HenryBemis on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:27AM (#17506305)

For anyone who hasn’t already, I would strongly suggest that you read/listen the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. It speaks of the “Rat Race”, where once you increase your income by a fraction, you almost immediately and subconsciously adjust your needs to absorb that increase.

I think this is one of the books that everyone over the age of 15-17 should read as it gives a crash-course on the fine art of making money.

This book, together with the minimalists’ work influenced me to change my work style and other habits and now I feel more focused, clutter free, and with significantly more €$£¥ in my pocket.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by dwater on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:25AM (#17506641)

I have read this book and I would recommend as an alternative "The Richest Man In Babylon." It is more clearly a book of parables about building wealth and less about the route one person took to financial success.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by pnut on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:46AM (#17506411)

I'm not saying there isn't usable advice in that book, which I have read, but in full disclosure, the book's author, Robert Kiyosaki, fictionalised most of the anecdotes contained within it.

Additionally, he operates a real estate "investing" school that advocates and instructs semi-legal, morally questionable predatory practices.

It is openly modelled after Trump University, Trump being Kiyosaki's business mentor and aspirational avatar. They have authored at least one book together.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by taneq on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:01AM (#17506491)

> Additionally, he operates a real estate "investing" school that advocates and instructs semi-legal, morally questionable predatory practices.

Yeah, it's 90% trivial platitudes about "buy low, sell high" and "invest your money wisely", and then a few pages about how he actually made his money (if that part is true, anyway): Haunt foreclosure auctions to flip the houses. Skeezy.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:10AM (#17507518)

So he says to buy low and sell high, and he made his money by buying real estate cheap and then selling it higher? I have absolutely no background on the guy, but that doesn't sound "skeezy" or even inconsistent; what am I missing?

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by JamesBarney on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:28PM (#17511745)

No he made his money selling books explaining to people how to become rich. To my knowledge he wasn't wealthy before his book.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @07:52PM (#17511171)

Why is that skeezy? If the house is at a foreclosure auction, it's being sold whether he buys it or not. If he buys it, he's paying more than anyone else was willing to.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:50AM (#17506433)

I assume anybody reading that book understands that "Rich Dad" is mostly literary device, probably loosely based on an actual figure(s) and a few key events or experiences.

Nobody remembers conversations they had word for word an hour afterward, let alone decades.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:46AM (#17506412)

It's definitely an insight that has given me a lot of insight into the ways people make themselves suffer around me.

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Re:Employers will do almost anything to find workers except ... by niyikiza on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:50AM (#17506830)

Any good books or articles on minimalism you'd recommend?

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