You might unknowingly fall to lower class

If you agree with most of the following behaviors, you are destined for a mediocre life, becoming a worker ant, working for others, barely scraping by, and living for others.

Most importantly, you will become a pawn, relegated to the lowest rung of society, only able to be used, drifting with the tide without even realizing it. And, you might unknowingly fall to lower class

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Embrace mainstream values

Study hard to get into a good university so you can find a good job and qualify for marriage and children. Ideally, you should become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer—a coveted, highly sought-after profession; only then can your family boast to relatives and friends, and you dare to compare yourself at class reunions.
After entering the workforce, work diligently and conscientiously, working overtime day and night to demonstrate your value to avoid being replaced. Carefully navigate the path to promotion and salary increases, climbing to the top of the company. Ultimately, you will use every means to achieve success and climb to a high position, and nothing will matter. You will become the kind of person you despised in your youth.
Buy ample insurance, plan ahead; insurance companies employ a group of legal professionals who, when issuing a policy, will do everything in their power to make things difficult for policyholders when they experience a claim. Then the insurance company takes your money, invests it for huge profits with no initial investment, builds houses to rent to you, sells you various financial products, and pays you returns only slightly better than a fixed deposit.
Pressuring from parents, partners, and family, you grit your teeth, scrape together the down payment, and even with a 30-year mortgage, try to buy a house beyond your financial means. Then you spend your life as a slave to the bank, a corporate slave, enduring unreasonable demands and exploitation from your company; at best, you only get a shelter to live after retirement.
Entering the workforce, you aspire to high salaries, luxury cars, designer bags, mansions, and ideally, frequent upscale restaurants and high-society events, breaking into the elite circle.

Most people believe that a high salary, impressive education, luxury cars, successful children, regular family trips abroad, and stable jobs make you a winner in life. This might have been true fifty years ago, even thirty years ago, but if you still think this way today, you’re either naive or an ostrich.

Celebrity Admiration

Constantly following celebrity social media activity, their inner desire is to become one of these celebrities, to one day be part of the celebrity circle so they can boast about it.
They adorn themselves with designer brands, flaunt luxury cars and bags, eat lavish meals, and live in mansions; because without these things, they are nothing. In other words, the only difference between these people and the homeless people at Taipei Main Station is these same things.
Then, they thank you for being a group of willingly worshipping fans; you are their “leeks” (a metaphor for exploitation). Have you ever thought about how they became celebrities? It’s because of countless people like you.

Fear of Being Alone

They are grateful that their opinions align with the majority, using this as a basis for self-verification, believing themselves to be mainstream, safe, and destined for success.
They are accustomed to conforming to the majority opinion within a group, afraid of being different, and terrified of the price they must pay for being in the minority.
Most of the time, their opinions align with the most mainstream opinions in most opinion polls.
They believe the media, chase hot news, and are keen on gossiping about celebrity privacy.

Seeking solace

Narrow-minded, like a frog in a well, with an inflated sense of self-importance; always viewing the world through the lens of Taiwan.
Partisan and lacking in independent thought, they become trolls everywhere.
Spending their days with highly similar individuals, listening only to what pleases them, seeking solace in each other’s company.
Always finding excuses for failure. Blaming everything and everyone but oneself. Resentment towards the rich, misanthropy, and a desire for easy money.
Borrowing money, buying lottery tickets, gambling; fantasizing about getting rich overnight and changing one’s life.

Blindly believing in authority and officials

Believing in the authoritative opinions of professors, experts, celebrities, bosses, and prominent politicians; disregarding one’s own ignorance and lack of judgment.
You believe that the boss is always right, the supervisor is definitely more capable than you, and the policies they make are for the benefit of the employees.
Believe listed companies strive to protect shareholder interests.
Blindly believing official pronouncements.

Lack of critical thinking

Too lazy to think, lacking the ability to think independently.
Takes what others consider wrong as right, accumulating falsehoods into truth, and believing that everything they say about a deer is correct.
Instead of standing up for what is right, they only kick someone when they’re down.
Unaware that they are manipulated by the media, polls, supervisors, and those in power, lacking the ability to think independently, they become mere lackeys waving flags and shouting slogans, yet they are complacent about it.

Everyone does it this way

Queuing for freebies, crowding into luxury stores, buying limited-edition items, believing that Singles’ Day or e-commerce promotions will lead to massive purchases, and that discounts or sales tactics will influence purchasing behavior.
Believing in investment geniuses, overnight riches, investment secrets, technical indicators, stock price formulas; any story of getting rich overnight or turning one’s life around with a stroke of genius. The key is believing that one day they can do the same.
Believing that someone can outperform Buffett’s 19.9% annualized return over sixty years with the same amount of capital.
Always buying the hottest, most traded, and universally favored stocks, fearing missing out on the get-rich-quick scheme.
Rejecting negative opinions, chasing insider tips, seeking insider information, and subscribing to popular financial programs
Have you ever considered this? A group of people obsessed with getting rich quick are watching, listening to, and subscribing to these programs, wasting countless hours and energy every day. Do you really gain any useful information from them?
Thinking only in the short term, unaware of the future.

John Templeton reminds investors:

“If you buy the same securities as other people, you will have the same results as other people.”

Closing words

The biggest sign is that people just follow the crowd! Whether you fall to lower class is not determined by whether you have a good job, a nice house, or a nice car.

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