Why is it easy to make money in the USA?

Take the gig economy: Uber and DoorDash turned "side hustles" into a dystopian grind where you can "earn" $15/hour before gas and taxes. A friend in Austin quit his teaching job to drive for Lyft, only to realize he made more money selling course about driving for Lyft on TikTok. I find it hilarious how the American Dream now means monetizing your burnout.

In my opinion, America’s wealth engine runs on three things: cheap debt, a cult of entrepreneurship, and a regulatory sandbox for tech bros. Want a loan to start a taco truck? Here’s $50K at 6% APR. Want to exploit gig workers while scaling a "disruptive" app? The SEC will high-five you. From my experience in tech, the U.S. is like a casino where the house always wins—unless you’re the house.

Funny how "land of opportunity" really means "land of opportunists." When’s the last time a Walmart cashier retired early?

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

But I should warn you: For every Musk, there are 10,000 bankrupt food trucks. The "easy" money? It’s a rigged game—unless you’re born rich, connected, or willing to meme-stock your life savings into crypto.

The U.S. makes it "easy" to make money because it’s a capitalist gladiator arena with unlimited credit, deregulated hustle culture, and a fetish for rewarding narcissists—but only if you’re born on third base or willing to sell your soul to Silicon Valley.

Real-life example? A 19-year-old in Miami dropshipping neon pool floats from Alibaba to TikTok teens. Zero overhead, pure markup, and Uncle Sam only takes 15% if you call it a "small business." To be honest, America’s "ease" of making money is just a pyramid scheme where the top 1% profit from the 99%’s FOMO.

Is TikTok a creation of the porn industry? To make porn more normalized and accepted? So the porn industry doesn’t lose customers?

Here’s the kicker: The U.S. rewards scale, not smarts. Dropout Zuckerberg gets billions for stealing a "hot or not" idea, while a genius fixing HVAC systems in Ohio barely cracks $60K. I must admit, the real money isn’t in working—it’s in owning. Buy a rental property in a tax-break haven like Texas, leverage Airbnb’s algorithm, and watch renters fund your Porsche.