Waiting For Things To Get Better Is Not A Strategy

[gibrab16]

In fact, most people, instead of living, are busy surviving. For some reason, it is believed that this is normality. Not really. A person should not spin like a squirrel on a wheel, constantly changing the type of activity. Not only is this generally an extremely inefficient application of his education, it is ineffective on a societal scale. Wasted years and a lot of money on the education of millions of people.

Therefore, it is important not to adapt to circumstances, but to understand the causes, as well as who creates these circumstances. Find the culprits and point them out. Every new era begins with this. In this case, everything is on the surface. The culprit is financial capital, which does not create any socially useful product at all, but is like an echinococcus attached to the economy.

I agree that many people are stuck in survival mode rather than truly living, and it’s often presented as if that’s somehow “normal.” However, I think the issue is more complex than pointing to a single culprit. Constant adaptation and job-hopping are often symptoms of deeper structural problems, not personal failures.

[Agathamay]

Things will never get better unless we set things right for ourselves. There's always mood for which we should always know what's coming for us. I know it have never been an easy path to follow but knowing what we know now, we ought to be winning and staying put.

What we gotta do? Other than putting in the work and ensuring we sealed every aspect of success. We set up strategy that would become beneficial for us and not some random setup that will ruined things. Lastly we tend to do what works for us and completely not the other way round.

[junder]

Waiting for things to change back and keep trying is the thing that you can do. You are not just waiting to change but you are also trying what you can. You don't give up but do something while you wait for the situation to be better.

It needs awareness to realize what you need to do in the current situation. You don't have to wait for help but you want to change the worst situation. We don't know when the help will come and if we don't do something, we will not change the situation and perhaps it may get worse.

Basically, if we experience a problem we have to solve it, and also if a bad situation occurs we also have to try to find a way out, even though maybe waiting for something better can happen, there is no harm in trying to make the situation better with our own efforts.

We shouldn't depend on luck, because in my opinion waiting for things to get better is like waiting for luck. It's true what you said, this requires awareness so don't expect help.

[KiaKia]

I understand OP perfectly but we all know that this world has it's way of playing with us, jumping from one place to another, in work or other daily things that brings growth might not always work as we want.

It's like trying to prove that you have worked so hard and you have nothing to show for it, how stupid will it be to call a man lazy in 2026? Because there is none, every man who sleeps all day will go hungry, you don't need to tell your fellow man to struggle for themselves, the world isn't smiling on anyone.

You can do everything, struggle for long, to the world it makes no difference, all they want to see is result, which is why I believe that knowing how to struggle or work very hard isn't everything, someone who lifted a single finger can do better than someone who have lifted 10 fingers.

[pawanjain]

This changes the way we need to think about our own lives. If the world is becoming more expensive to navigate, then the appropriate skills are changing as well.

You have already identified the major problem and the solution is quite simple.
As you have mentioned that the skills are changing, the solution is that you need to acquire those skills to stay relevant to the market.
Only if you keep your skills upgrading then you will be able to sustain in the market.
This is not only the financial market or job industry but almost everything you do in your daily life.
Keep learning from others and keep improvising and you won't have to struggle for the basic necessities.

[Hamza2424]

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything. Things don't normally change back. What appears to matter more is asking this question: Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn? What do I need to build? How do I make myself less dependent on systems that will not work the way I need them to? Those seem like more useful questions than wondering why things are the way they are.

It depends on the situation either it will change back or not, but if we are talking about family disputes, financial situation, and any other kind of thing that has changed and we want it to be back and we wait and wait and we do nothing in the hope everything will be normal again that's not going to happen and I agree with you bro on this.

For example it is family disputes, they are to be talk out by discussing and giving time properly and be present, and be humble to solve the issue otherwise it won't work out on its own, same goes for financial problems, if you someone is finding it hard to get some jobs, then try harder is the only way, learning new skill is the alternative, otherwise waiting at home, sitting in front of laptop is not going to bring more jobs.

[slapper]

It's true that the cost of things is always heading up, which can happen in stutters and spurts. I personally like to live by the philosophy of taking every opportunity as it presents itself, because you never know if it will be around tomorrow, but understand that such a viewpoint comes only with age and experience - missed plenty of chances for good deals when I was younger. There are still plenty of possibilities out there and easy money on show, but you have to be prepared to seek it out and hustle relentlessly, otherwise you'll miss out. You should definitely try to balance it with a healthy lifestyle - keep fit, see the world, eat well, but be prepared to jump in when good things present themselves or you might end up regretting a lot of missed chances otherwise.

But then how do you know which of the opportunities are worth the hustle and which are merely a distraction? Because the world right now feel like it's full of things requiring for attention. Every single investment, every single side hustle, every "limited time" offer. And the price of being wrong in something is time you don't get back. I think about the people who were doing all this hustling in the wrong direction that ended up burnt out with nothing to show for it. The hustle itself isn't always the solution if it's directed at the wrong target.

You said being sorry for the opportunities you missed when you were younger. Do you believe those were really missed opportunities, or were they just things that were important at the time that were not important now? I'm trying to figure out if regret is a useful teacher or if it's a way to torture yourself about things that you couldn't have known. Sometimes the deal that seemed good back five years ago would have killed you. Sometimes not getting it was the real victory.

Everything has more steps now, more fees,

On the part of fees, the amount of fees we need to pay to process a Bitcoin transaction these days are far less than a couple of years ago. Even with the increase in Bitcoin price, the fee rate is low and it doesn’t mean there are no congestions but, it got better lately.

Being able to save money is more important. Having various income streams is more important. Understanding the way systems work so you can get through them efficiently is more important.

Having various income streams is definitely a way to go but savings doesn’t help very much for an economy that is constantly on the rise with inflation ravaging every aspect of our very existence. Saved money can easily come without worth but, when you invest it, make a stream of income out of it, you keep getting values off it.

I don't believe this is about blaming anybody or waiting for things to change back or anything.

Blaming others is just an excuse for failure and the only place waiting can prove to be of advantage is in hodling, if you aren’t hodling then you shouldn’t wait.

Fair point on the BTC fees I'll give you that one. Network's been smoother running lately and that's actually proof decentralized systems can scale better than bureaucratic ones, when they're built right. About the inflation vs savings thing, I think there's a nuance here. Yeah, holding cash is financial suicide when inflation is running heat. No argument. But "invest it" is one of those things that seems obvious until you try doing it. Invest in what, exactly? Because most people don't have the knowledge/capital to invest in anything and could actually beat inflation after fees/taxes/risk.

Everything has more steps now, more fees, more requirements. The price of participating in the world continues to increase. Not just prices, but the cost of doing normal things, like moving someplace new, starting over, bringing family together, changing careers.

I doubt this is really the case. What makes people think that "everything is becoming more expensive" is mainly the housing cost. But this cost is mainly rising in large cities. In rural areas, in many countries, the housing prices are stable or only rise with inflation. There may be countries with high population increase rate where almost everywhere properties and rents seems to rise. But even in the US you have phenomenons like urban blight, which are caused by the supply exceeding demand in certain areas so much that the market collapses.

So the housing crisis is mostly the result of people concentrating in large cities (and in some countries like the US, in addition, bad urban planning).

"More fees, more requirements" - here I would also like to see examples. In most areas I don't see that many changes. Besides of housing, the only example I can really think of is health, particular retirement homes.

Regarding Bitcoin and crypto, what changed in the last years is mainly the maturing of the market. This means there are less "fast and good opportunities" to make money, like airdrops or easy to exploit business niches. In 2015 you could still have become rich if you catched a single good airdrop or started a single crypto service business. Arbitrage, trading, lending ... everything has been professionalized. But that happens in all mature markets. So if someone makes their living with Bitcoin, it has definitely become harder, but that always has to be expected.

Awesome counter-argument. I will take your own examples to illustrate my point.

You cited the case of urban blight in the US with supply surpassing demand and collapsing markets That's exactly the problem. The economy is bifurcating. Some places have too much demand and the price goes crazy. Other places there is no demand and everything dies. There's no middle anymore. You either pay a fortune to be where opportunity exists or living cheaply in a place that's economically dying. Both situations are costly in their own ways. One costs money. The other costs future potential.

Housing is the most visible symptom, but it's not the illness. The disease is that economic opportunity is becoming geographically and structurally concentrated. Unless you happen to be in the right city, right industry, right network, you are priced out.  It is what I mean by expensive. It's not just rent. It's the whole cost of being in a position to actually build something.

Crypto is indeed matured. But maturation means the people who got in early won and everyone else now needs capital to compete. Now you need money to make money like any other mature market. That's not wrong, but it does mean, crypto stopped being the escape hatch it used to be for people who didn't have capital. It became another system where whoever has the resources already, gets rewarded.

So when I say things are getting expensive, I don't mean just prices. I mean cost of entry to anything that counts.

You can still find cheap rent in a dying town. But what's the point if there's nothing to do there? The real cost could be what you give up to afford participation.

[MinMan]

To address these issues, the simple solution will be to become self-sufficient to we don't have to rely on the system. Still, it will be much difficult to become fully independent because some or the other place we will have to depend on the system and this is where we can get crushed. Waiting for the systems to change should never be an option but instead we can adapt accordingly and can make our own strategies to adjust with the current flow. Waiting for the things to change will just make us loose opportunities and we will keep waiting thinking things will go our way.

Even though the world is becoming more expensive, there are opportunities for us to cope up and maximize our earnings so we can cope up with the rising expenses. Inflation will always be there. We have to find ways to fight inflation and keep the revenue inflating as well.

[barbara44]

I understand OP perfectly but we all know that this world has it's way of playing with us, jumping from one place to another, in work or other daily things that brings growth might not always work as we want.

It's like trying to prove that you have worked so hard and you have nothing to show for it, how stupid will it be to call a man lazy in 2026? Because there is none, every man who sleeps all day will go hungry, you don't need to tell your fellow man to struggle for themselves, the world isn't smiling on anyone.

You can do everything, struggle for long, to the world it makes no difference, all they want to see is result, which is why I believe that knowing how to struggle or work very hard isn't everything, someone who lifted a single finger can do better than someone who have lifted 10 fingers.

It's not always about working hard. People who work hard usually get lesser salaries than those sitting in offices and moving around just a few fingers on the computers. Working smart is something which will make us adapt the increasing prices all around. Hard workers mostly are surviving on minimum wages, and they continue to do so because a single day gap can ruin their financials for the next day. So, they have no other option but to keep working and earning the minimum wages. It is really difficult for these people to survive in the rising economy.

Everyone works in order to survive. Survival is no more about being the fittest but being the smartest. A smart person can find ways to maximize their revenue which will not only help them fight inflation but also can make their future financially stable so their offsprings don't have to worry about money at least.