Ordinary people live very hard lives. If you have no money, are paying a mortgage, and raising children, ask those around you if they are struggling. By the time you reach 40, you may have lost all your hair, turned gray, and look like a 50-year-old man. You dare not stop; you have become a modern version of a struggling person. You have been educated by the system to be someone who only knows how to be obedient and compliant. In your later years, you still feel that you are honorable, working hard, taking care of your family, and living a proper life.
But your neighbor is also working hard; he just has a different focus. He is investing in big cakes and has a job paying a few thousand yuan a month. Because he has accumulated big cakes over two cycles, after eight years, he will likely achieve financial freedom. With hundreds of thousands to millions, how can he not be free?
If big cakes can ultimately measure wealth and account for 10% of global wealth, with a market value of $27.6 trillion, then the price of a big cake would be $1.31 million. To become middle class, you need $1 million; you just need to prepare approximately one big cake to join the middle class in the future.
So regardless of whether you work full-time or part-time, for the possible happiness in your later life, it is best to prepare one big cake; one is sufficient.
