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How to Get Rich in America

Kyla Scanlon · 13 Aug 2026

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  1. The economy increasingly rewards ownership over effort, which has created some... problems.
  2. This is prospect theory at a generational scale: when normal life pulls out of reach, lottery-like bets (crypto, meme stocks, options trading, Gary Vee NFTs) start looking pretty rational.
  3. high home prices ensure retirement, which means that home prices, functionally, can never go down

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