First of all, obviously, I agree, that on the Internet right now a lot of promises of impressive amounts of money in impressively short amounts of time are rather questionable.
The problem is that we tend to simplify everything by just slapping this "It's a get rich quick scheme" label on any new opportunity that promises more than what we are earning right now.
It just shows that we've been conditioned to believe that becoming wealthy has to be hard, that normal situation is that you have to spend about 40 hours per week working in order to barely break even, barely make enough money to cover all your expenses. We define ourselves by what line of work we are in, because by default we think that we have to work full time. Not enjoy what ever we like doing, not traveling, not helping somebody, not spending time with friends or family, but work. What we like we can do in our "spare time", time that we have left after spending the entire day working!
It just indicates that we willingly reduced our productivity to the level where our full time work generates only barely enough money for us to get by, we would actually feel weird if the amount of money that is required to cover our monthly expenses could be achieved within just a few ours each month. We wouldn't know what to do with all this "free" time, we would feel like we are doing something wrong and "wasting" time instead of dedicating it to hard work.
What does it actually mean, "Get rich quick"? What is the dollar value of this "rich"-thing and how quick is this "quick"-thing in order for us to be suspicious?
For somebody who is making $12,000.00 per year anything above $12,000.00 in less than 12 month will, probably, fall into the "get rich quick" category. It will be completely different for somebody who is making $12,000.00 per month.
I spent a few years "flipping" houses and the fastest and easiest "flip" took me about a month and generated about $20,000.00. If I approached anybody from the same street before I purchased the house and told them that I can show them how to make easy $20,000.00 within a couple of month, how many of them would want to deal with me? Or, how many of them would tell me that it's a "get rich quick" scheme? Would "all of them" be the correct answer?
How many people would qualify $20,000.00 in a month as a "get rich quick?"
There is nothing wrong with increasing ones earnings and efficiency! That should be the goal, actually. That's why we left in the past individual self-sufficiency and attempted to become professionals in particular fields.
Again, I do not deny the existence of the "get rich quick scheme", but we should, probably, employ more sophisticated tools to evaluate new business opportunities than just a worn out slap-on label.
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