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.

[slapper]

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.

If we take a look at the life of some early men, the ones who paid the prices for us to have a lot of useful economic tools, technology and so on, we will see that they were basically the type that didn't give up on their dreams.

Just because something seems difficult to archive, doesn'tesn it can't.. have you given it a try? Have you tried it and failed a countless number of time? These kind of questions should motivate you to try better.

As the world ages, things might not seem easy like it used to. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't put our brains to work. The goal is to survive and to do that you must be ready to go to any length.

You're right that folks that did make things didn't quit. But those people also had doors that can actually open. They pushed, the door moved. Maybe slowly, maybe after a hundred tries but it moved. What happens if the door doesn't go? Not because you are not pushing hard enough. But because it's locked. And the key costs you money you don't have. I see this all the time. People working two jobs, learning skills on the side, doing everything "right" and still getting nowhere because the system they're trying to get into has a price-tag they can't reach. No amount of trying harder changes that. The variable isn't effort. It's capital.

And I think we do people a disservice when we pretend that we don't do that. When we behave as if all problems are resolvable with sufficient grit. And some problems are possible with grit. Others can be solved with money. And if you don't have the money, well you're just stuck.

The current situation is indeed much more difficult than before. I'm also considering finding a new job that could better support my survival in this day and age, where income doesn't even cover monthly expenses. It's difficult to save with the minimum wage workers currently earn. I've tried being a content creator, but I failed on many platforms. Perhaps due to a lack of consistency and a half-hearted approach to this industry, I'm honest: building a business is incredibly difficult these days, amidst the onslaught of large companies directly entering the market to capture consumers.

We need to create new innovations that meet the needs of modern people.

We're all supposed to act like we have infinite energy to implement side hustles when you're really just trying to not drown. I tried the content thing as well for a while. Different reasons, same results. The problem I think is that those platforms are intended for people who already have momentum. Big companies eating everything is real but also. They're not good at anything but the obvious stuff. The mass market things. There's still weird corners they can't touch because it doesn't scale for them, doesn't make sense on a spreadsheet. That's where I think individuals still have space but it contributes to finding something so specific that only a few people need it. Which is hard to do when you need money now, not in six months after you figure out the niche.

What were you content were making about? Sometimes the format is incorrect even if the idea is not. Or the platform. Or just the timing was right and it had nothing to do with you at all.

The innovation thing that you said, I think that's true but also maybe too big a frame? Like innovation sounds like you have to invent something new when really most of the people making money are just doing old things slightly different or for a different group of people. Less pressure that way.

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. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

Can't help but feel the same. Back then you can start a family, and just grow into the responsibilities. It felt like mistakes were much more forgiving. Now it feels like doing the same thing is no longer possible, and that you must have everything prepared beforehand. The same goes for career, it feels significantly harder to land a stable job nowadays (at least from my experience).

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.

I think the most important thing to build is knowledge. As the elderly always say in my country, it's the only thing that can't be truly taken away from us by anyone else. If I can go back, I would invest more time learning valuable skills, and trying to improve my understanding of finance.

The forgiving past thing which you mentioned. Was it actually more forgiving or just gave the impression of having more forgiveness as consequences took longer to manifest? You could mess up and still have time to recover because the world was slower. Jobs lasted decades. Housing was cheaper in proportion to income. You had breathing room. Now everything goes faster and the margin for error is just Gone. One lousy decision and you're out for years.

The part about needing everything prepared beforehand is the suffocating part right? Because how do you prepare for the unknown? You can't. Learning to be able to move fast when things change rather than trying to guess what's coming.

I agree with your elders about knowledge but I'd add something. It's not just that knowledge can't be taken away it's that knowledge gives you options. When you know how things work you stop being dependent on people who do. You can see things that other people can't. You have the ability to create value where others see problems.

[Josefjix]

That had been the nature of the economy from the beginning of time, things had never remained the same, and that price of goods and services rises everyday in every generation in the past and the ones to come. The rise in demand of getting to stabilize oneself is really really costly, time consuming and bulky to get through also.

Saying this because, there is a new course I am enrolling this year that will at least boost my income level, this course really took the whole lot of me, my time, my focus, my concentration and my data and even more to go through it, it's really bulky.

[Oluwa-btc]

These questions can help people who struggle in their lives because they live in areas where everything is very limited, but they still need help from outside parties, even though there are those who can finally live better without outside help but the percentage is smaller than those who continue to struggle.
However, humans must continue to strive because expecting outside help will only make us lazy and use it as an excuse not to develop ourselves.

The topic is more like an excuse, it's an excuse disguised as patience.Growth is commonly inconvenient,you need to stretch yourself for better opportunities and improvements to reach you.Nobody makes it in life postponing responsibility they ought to take for their growth.People who win didn’t wait for the storm to pass;they learned how to move in the rain.Start small,start messy,start scared.But just start.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

The hidden facts, the title may seem laughable, but no doubt on the truth, to succeed in any thing individual must be able to think outside the box, apply other workable means to succeed despite that hard work don't determine how successful one can be but using things will get better and relax and continue to be patient with trying other alternative is ignorant of what life entails for success to come through.
Life generally need smartness that is what usher individual success even more that hard work, while one has place some investment more work is required either in gathering more information to improve and achieve the very investment or try other means in case of necessity. Using things will get better and refused to try or push further is a thought and mindset of failure.

[El_Tammy]

Given that this is the reality now, what do I need to learn?

There are people that have been able to identify what they need to learn, but they have just been plagued by some factors of laziness, then there are others lacking resources to pursue what they need to learn because it is cost demanding. The reality is not easy for many people at times, but the thing remains that for things to get better, you need to make an effort, and then the effort you are trying to face will face obstacles. So prepare for obstacles as you make plans to be better, and prepare to always find a way through to make it, challenge yourself.

You've made a really valid point my colleague, talking about the obstacles faced by men who decide to take the bull my the horn in life today. It is well known that life itself is so daring in a way that it requires those with strong wills to make decisions concerning it. You cannot just say I have figured this out and I want to go it like this without having that strong mindset which can withstand the trials that comes with it.

Then also, the issue of resources is also one that affects a lot of people currently in making life decisions. To identify what you need to do isn't really the problem or the main factor currently but rather how much resources do you have whether financially or human resources to put what you have in mind into action. Some people know what they want and even how to do them but the factors required to carry whatever it is out is the problem that leads to procrastination. I believe if there is availability of resources, alot of people will actualize their dreams or plans concerning life.

[rachael9385]

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. It's neither good nor bad necessarily. It's just different from the way it used to be.

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. 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. It's like the baseline level of financial literacy and self-reliance that you need to just live a stable life has gone up.

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.

Things might not actually get better the more we progress and advance as a society we might actually have more problems to deal with later on, a lot of people have waited for things to get better few years ago till date but they can't really say that situations improved. The world isn't going to adapt to us we are the ones that are supposed to level up and learn to rely on themselves to survive

[Stablexcoin]

Things might not actually get better the more we progress and advance as a society we might actually have more problems to deal with later on, a lot of people have waited for things to get better few years ago till date but they can't really say that situations improved. The world isn't going to adapt to us we are the ones that are supposed to level up and learn to rely on themselves to survive

The world isn't getting better, whether we like to hear the truth or not. The urge for power is getting wild, people are ready to do what it takes to hold power. The political system is getting more corrupt, the world seems to be moving from worse to worse, the better we understand that only personal improvement will make life beautiful, until then, we start taking personal development seriously.

[Rabata]

Things might not actually get better the more we progress and advance as a society we might actually have more problems to deal with later on, a lot of people have waited for things to get better few years ago till date but they can't really say that situations improved. The world isn't going to adapt to us we are the ones that are supposed to level up and learn to rely on themselves to survive

The world isn't getting better, whether we like to hear the truth or not. The urge for power is getting wild, people are ready to do what it takes to hold power. The political system is getting more corrupt, the world seems to be moving from worse to worse, the better we understand that only personal improvement will make life beautiful, until then, we start taking personal development seriously.

People are now very desperate to get power. There is no minimum decency among them. Even knowing the lie, everyone is praising that lie. Justice is disappearing from the world. Whoever has power is exercising that power. In this situation, people naturally cannot expect anything good and it is also difficult to believe that these corruption, injustice will stop. If people want to change themselves and improve themselves, then that is only possible., but it does not seem to be happening anymore.

[libert19]

I'm glad I learned about crypto, especially BTC, because it gives me a little more security, but the cost of always having to work harder, find new sources of income, change your field, etc. is physical and mental exhaustion, and I see little talk about that

This. I am having lack of energy as of late even for the day-to-day stuff, and when I see stuff like mentioned in op, I am like, 'you guys have energy to do all that?'.

Certainly, I don't say, adding new stuff to one's repertoire won't help, but it ought to be exhausting.

[puloweh555]

Things might not actually get better the more we progress and advance as a society we might actually have more problems to deal with later on, a lot of people have waited for things to get better few years ago till date but they can't really say that situations improved. The world isn't going to adapt to us we are the ones that are supposed to level up and learn to rely on themselves to survive

The world isn't getting better, whether we like to hear the truth or not. The urge for power is getting wild, people are ready to do what it takes to hold power. The political system is getting more corrupt, the world seems to be moving from worse to worse, the better we understand that only personal improvement will make life beautiful, until then, we start taking personal development seriously.

This is good advice my friend. The point is the world won't adapt to you, but you must adapt to this ever-evolving world. Waiting for things to improve is the wrong choice. In fact regardless of the circumstances you must be able to find opportunities this is what will make you successful in the future.

If you don't want to try or start something no matter the circumstances you won't know your own limits or the limits of your abilities. So just start don't give up before you start. Don't have a mindset that you can't do it before you even start. There's never a right time to start but there's no harm in starting. Hesitation only stops you from taking steps without stopping time.

[YOSHIE]

Waiting For Things To Get Better Is Not A Strategy

If the direction of your discussion is one goal of the global economy and life, of course we cannot wait for the world economic situation to stabilize, that will take a long time, perhaps we will no longer exist in this world. The global economy will actually be even worse than the current situation.

My principle is to focus on reality and what is, saving a little is better in the current situation, inflation has killed many people, so live life as it is, don't look too high, see those who live at the poverty line, their daily lives sleep under bridges, eat once a day, it is very worrying.

Many countries are currently carrying out pagan improvement programs with the aim of not panicking when the technological system situation is no longer stable, at least people are used to living and not being dependent.