Finnish People Want to Get Rich, but it's Only Acceptable by Winning the Lottery

Finnish people are a strange grouping.

A recent study just came out and showed what those of us in Finland have known to be obvious since forever: Finnish people dream of getting rich, but think getting rich is a scam - except for winning the lottery.

Instead of saving and investing and working hard, Finnish people want to make it rich by winning the lottery, and the lottery is the only socially acceptable method of making lots of money.

Finnish people are so stupid that to them, such a highly complex concept as "Buy low, sell high" is simply way too out there and sounds like a scam, and people who make money that way are extremely suspicious.

Same goes for entrepreneurs who are just scamming their employees. And the otherwise hard working people are just stuck up and full of themselves and only work hard to make the lazy people look bad.

The lottery, on the other hand, is fair and equal to all. anyone can play the lottery, no matter how stupid and talentless you are, you can always buy a lottery ticket. I guess it's a thing here people consider the rules to be rigged in every other aspect of life and business, but the lottery is such a controlled environment that the same rules truly do apply to everyone, so when you win the lottery you don't take from anyone else, you just win the game by playing by the same rules as everyone else. I think?

In other venues, such as business, investing, etc. whenever you "win", it's considered to be someone else's loss, since life is viewed as a zero sum game, at least in Finland.

Obviously having an attitude like that is something that will always prevent you from making money, unless you happen to literally win the jackpot. Odds are you won't.

There was an article published by a Finnish bank on their Facebook page some few weeks back where a guy was explaining how he wants to retire young, and he's attempting to achieve it by saving and investing, while leading a very lean life otherwise. He spent no money on anything extra, and simply saved and invested most of his money.

Instead of listening to his tips, the people int he comment section called him a capitalist scam artist, greedy, this, that and the other thing. They also brought up the fact that he makes too much money from his dayjob to be inspirational, "there's no way I could do this because blah, blah and blah".

And sure, he was making good bucks from his dayjob. And yes, there's always luck involved in life. There just is. Things like looks and certain predispositions to working hard, etc. are a genetic accident, and some win the lottery while others don't.

However, if you deem every legitimate way of making money, from running a business to investing, a scam and only come up with excuses as to how the game is rigged and you can't win by playing it, then shock and awe you'll never win.

And I'm saying this as someone who could be classified as wealthy or rich, and I started from nothing. I've had the luck of being intelligent, but that's been balanced out by other unlucky traits that have caused me trouble throughout.

That's not to say I believe in any of the "Hi, I'm rich and this is how I did it, and by buying my book you can, too!" books or motivational speeches, those things are horseshit, and intelligent people realize this.

Instead of complaining that the rules are rigged, it's more productive to learn how to play by the rules. Sometimes the rules are rigged, there absolutely are rigged rules in the world. But sometimes you can also learn that they're not rigged, and that it actually takes time, effort and skill to get shit done, and to get it done better than the rest.

Still I'd say that learning an actual worthwhile talent is a better way of making money than wasting your time playing the lottery.

It's telling that of the Finnish people who most dream about making money, most of them dream about winning the lottery. So, most of the people who dream about getting rich actually do nothing about it other than play the lottery.

Spoiler: they will most likely not end up rich.

Actually, here's a business idea for someone: start a fortune telling business. It's so easy to tell the fortunes of these types of people that you'd hit it right way more often than hitting it wrong.

Much better odds than winning the lottery, by the way.