I'm sick of doing things the honest way. Life is too hard and I'm not getting anywhere. It's time for a scam.

about time....

No!!

What's your job?

Incel alert!

Didn't read your post OP, but do you have any particular scam in mind?

I understand your thoughts, OP. For me, I am just disgusted at the low salaries offered for positions that are pretty much the same salaries offered 20 or even 25 years ago (except certain IT positions.)

Easy now buttercup, you don't want to end up like Todd Chrisley.

Successful criminals who came from nothing often work pretty hard at it. That puts it as far out of reach as more traditional accomplishments for many personality types.

OP, while good dental care isn't out of reach here (I assume you're in America), the rest very much is: Owning an apartment or house in a nice-enough city has become an impossible dream. Food is insanely expensive now, going out for dinner every now and then is becoming an extreme luxury. It could all be so much worse, of course, and I try to remember that at least 1/3 of the population would be green with envy with my apartment, clean water, heating, etc.

But fuck, it really does feel at times like I hit a wall.

R6 again. I live in a fairly large and expensive metro area and I see job postings asking for people with Master's Degrees that pay 40K to 55K. It's just gross. How can a person ever hope to make their way ahead with those salaries. Yes, IT pays more but not everyone is cut out for that.

I totally get this OP. Look at someone like Elon Musk - a rich father that owned an emerald harvesting business. His sociopath son buys businesses and then proceeds to openly scam the stock market, torture monkeys and produce exploding cars.

Look at Theranos, WeWork, Juicero, bitcoin scams. People are millionaires/billionaires from total scams. Amazon pays no tax. Deregulation is the norm and is literally killing the planet.

Your rage is understandable. We are being scammed.

I wanna leave an instaho crying in the rain lol

I feel the class rage and world weariness too.

I tend toward fantasies of a suicide gas pod taking it all away more than scamming anyone.

Hey OP? Watch this movie -- it might give you a few ideas.

Don’t want to work your whole life for the basics. Nepotism is by far the favorite solution. Go find the wealthy people and hang with them. Yacht club in your area is a good place. Mind you they are wealthy because they are themselves the product of nepotism. What you need to do is make them more wealthy and you will get a cut. The next solution, your young, marry for money. Doctors are good and if you’re straight all you have to do is give them babies and you could be a houseboy. Outsource the babies care and bobs your uncle.

OP = James Evans…

OP don't go all Ballad of Gay Tony on us.

That’s it no more mister nice guy! 🤡

OPs boundaries have been stated.

He has none bitches.

James Evans, think of our children! You’re the man they’ve always looked up to. And don’t forget THIS father (pointing to picture of lily white Jesus) that YOU have to honor.

Damn, damn, DAMN!

R16 Who is James Evans?

Lol, r21

Melaleuca!

I’m available to beat you with a bag of oranges.

It’s unclear how that will earn you any money though.

I take it the Only Fans didn't work out?

R21 Who is he? I googled his name and only found a lawyer with no wiki page.

Find a topic so mundane and then master it to become a YouTube star. They make thousands a week!

You seem to be adept at making whining an art, OP. Maybe something in that field?

R27 Popular Twitch streamers make good money, too. All they do is play video games or, when they're bored of that, they'll just browse Reddit and YouTube trending videos.

Yes, people will watch and donate to others who are sitting on their arse browsing the internet. We live in crazy times.

YouTubers and media influencer is the updated 1850s gold rush.

[quote]I'm sick of people who are born into the right circumstances getting everything handed to them. Inheritance, nepotism connections, emotional support, good looks, good social skills.

Yet you think you will somehow come out ahead or equal to these people? By selling counterfeit merchandise? In a state of mental disarray?

The sensible thing might be to adjust your expectations. Neither a trunk loaded with fake Chanel bags nor a multilevel marketing scam is going to improve your looks, your prospects for an inheritance, your emotional support, social skills...

only fans. whore yourself out there. you're in your 30s, you're in your prime! milk it! find a sugar daddy or mama.

R31 I don't want to adjust my expectations. I'm not delusional. I know abundance would make living easier. Would I be happy? No, I'm clinically depressed, but that doesn't change the fact I need more money. I know it won't make me friends. However, it would make me better looking because I could fix minor flaws with cosmetic procedures.

Two words, OP...Mary Kay

Start a religion. OP's post is why I have some kind of admiration for Anna Delvey. A not-especially beautiful, decidedly uncharming kid swans into Manhattan and totally swindles all these smarter-than-though, richer-than-though, born-on-third-base assholes and almost got away with it. Good for her. Maybe she and OP can team up and form a religion. Since it was my idea, I want 20%.

[quote] "Successful criminals who came from nothing often work pretty hard at it. That puts it as far out of reach as more traditional accomplishments for many personality types."

This is a very good point, R8.

Virtue is its own reward.

OP what political office do you plan on running for as a Republican? Surely you aren't thinking about becoming a street criminal, white color crime is the way to go.

I have livened up my boring job by developing a thing for my boss. I did not mean for it to happen but it just did. I think she may have figured it out. I am not sure if she thinks I am joking or flirting. Do straight women state another woman is making them blush because her boss is being highly complimentary of the job being done? It was just light banter on slack.

OP arguably working a 9-5 job is the true Scam.

My suggestion is to find a way to monetize your talent for whining, OP. Maybe try becoming a Trump impersonator! You have the feeling of victimhood down pat and the small dick energy comes through. Grab some orange face paint, a cheap and ill-fitted suit, and soak your hair in some piss, and hit the comedy club circuit.

The Locust Plague scam of 1874 amuses. An ad was placed in newspapers throughout the Midwest stating "Guaranteed to kill locusts."

People who sent money for the desperately needed product received a package in the mail some weeks later. In it were two table tennis type paddles.

Printed on one paddle was "Place locust here" and on the other "Hit locust."

Somebody got rich quick and it was legal.

Yeah, legal scamming is the way to go, OP. Sit on your hands all day and contemplate the next item enough stupid Americans think they need and advertise on the Howard Stern Show.

After the constant bombardment of ads even I was beginning to wonder if we needed one.

R42, let us not forget the patent medicines of the era which promised to solve everying.

Damn you, Pure Food and Drug Act! We could make millions filling bottles with Lake Michigan water, booze and cherry syrup! I’d call it Old Faithful Impotence Tonic.

Well OP, let's see how the biggest scamsters in the country, The Trump Organization, does now that they've been convicted on all counts.

For r21 and r26….

There's a whole genre of rap now that's just about teaching you how to commit fraud and scam people. Maybe that could be helpful?

I feel you, OP.

I don't know the answer, but a mass guillotining would be refreshing.

Welfare queens?

So the KKK Thread has moved to a new establishment?

Don't forget to go after the drag queens and, you know, them kind.

This a thousand times! Everything is rigged in favor of the rich. It's time we stop overpaying for everything and start stealing, scamming, and taking what we want.

Two words; feet pics.

A lot of people feel the same.

OP I understand feeling that way and I have myself at times, but virtue is its own reward. A certain spiritual strength arises from not letting the world bring you down and letting your positivity shine out without expecting a reward for it.

Good luck to you, hon.

OP, the world doesn’t owe you anything, stop whining. Just because some people are lucky assholes and the rest of us work with our noses to the grindstone- doesn’t mean you get to defraud people with fake shit. Suck it up buttercup, the 99.9% have to work hard to get by and we’re not rich.

You sound pathetic, OP.

If you do manage to find a way to scam people— who may be struggling to make ends meet like you— I hope karma hits you hard.

Gurl, you and me both. Also know that life can still be tough even if you are good looking, have connections, and family money. Looks fade, one self sabotage and burn bridges. However, things can always get worse and you don't want things to get worse to realize things weren't so awful to begin with.

Skip-diving the bins behind Waitrose as we type!

Don't scam people, scam corporations.

How about crazy money or disability about a third of Americans are on some form of it. Just find a sympathetic psychiatrist and work it. You could end up with a thousand a month and meds. A good platform to troll the yacht clubs and golf courses from to find a highly paid spouse. Now you have a trajectory.

R59 medical negligence is another one. I am looking into a legitimate claim, albeit one from 12 years ago (the longer ago the incident, the harder it is to make a case). From an online calculator I see that if successful I could potentially be awarded a few grand in compo for chronic psychological/emotional damage due to iatrogenic neglect. You can get a lot more for obvious physical harm you may have sustained from medical treatment or procedures.

OP I vibe with you totally. I have come off the back of several years of underemployment with companies who were directly and criminally exploiting me and other employees. Now, after 18 months sabbatical out of work, I've decided I'm worth more than being treated like this, and want to find another way to make a living (and maybe even a little wealth). Idk how to do it, as I know fuck all about investment or self-employment or running scams etc., but I do not want to go back and toil at entry-level gruntwork jobs for people who will end up scamming me anyway.

R61 invest in BORING stocks, preferably in ETFs (energy, housing, nutrition, transportation). Add money to it when you can, and don't think of cashing in for at least 10 years (your last investment should be somewhere around the 8-year mark).

Crashes can happen, there are no guarantees. But stay far from "sexy" stocks, don't touch crypto. Go with steady, undervalued (google undervalued stocks), penny stocks (buy lots) and BORING.

Steal some toilet paper from the employee restroom and enjoy the frisson of proletarian revenge.

This is how deeply corrupt leadership corrupts the rest of the society over which they lord. Because the normal person looks around, realises everything above them is corrupt, and then thinks "if you can't beat them, join them".

The trouble is, OP, that it's a big club, but you're not in it. What that means is that if you go corrupt, you'll be punished to the nth degree. Just because club members get away with everything does not remotely mean you will get away with even a one small thing. If you do decide to go this route, I would proceed with extreme - extreme- caution. They love to make dramatic examples of little guys. It's part of how they protect the Big Guys.

R62, are you supposed to buy thousands in penny stocks or just hundreds?

I just want all over at this point . Tired and done here.

R65 Of course, one can buy one hundred shares for €1 or 1 share for €100.

But buyer, beware: the fundamentals remain the same whether you purchase stocks worth €1000 a share or €0,01, so be careful there and don't fuck with leverage (2x, 5x, 10x, 100x) until you know what you're doing. That said, you only really lose money when you sell. Or if you use a shady broker that has Stop Loss (avoid those!), resulting in a forced sale when the price hits X.

If you think a company could have a bright future and it's current share price is something like €0,006, e.g. Maptelligent ($MAPT) you could buy thousands of shares at a meagre price. This recent article may put you on the right track.

I've been recently hooked on a casino game called Crazy Time, particularly the Pachinko bonus round. I know gambling's addictive, but it gives me a form of escapism.

I'm not young and not old either. But I've seen enough to see that many of the very successful business owners I know are assholes who screw people over and break the laws. They cheat their friends, family etc.

The good guys who follow rules and laws finish last.

There are still non-corrupt human beings out there

R70 there really are, but unfortunately none of them are doing bits or going anywhere, because society won't let people like that advance.

Why don’t you open a fibro care home? You’d get lots of business, you could claim to treat it with homeopathy and crystals and have customers for years and years.

You can live in the Oregon coastal country deep in the fir forest in a lean to hidden from everything. Plenty of people have given up and live in the woods. No shame in any of this. The desert is another option but only for cool seasons. I’d find myself some hot springs to keep me warm. Hawaii is best in climate but crowded try the mainland. Others have thought of this. Oregon coast has a nice balance. The beaches are vast and empty. Second I would get a boat and live at anchor in the bays and estuaries of the coast waterways. This does require an investment of modest proportions.

Dagnabit, OP doesn't wanna do things Law Way!

People see that everything is rigged. They are tired of being used and taken advantage of. This PRI e gouging will cause a lot of people to stop playing by the rules.

Sarah McLachlan's lyrics to Angel pretty much sums it up - so tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn, there's vultures and thieves at your back.

Life is hard. You work your ass off and the money goes to help everyone but yourself. You're left with just enough or not even to survive on the bare minimum.

it's hard for many folks right now. with inflation and rising rents...

it's not fair. those migrants come in and straight away they get free food, medical and free housing...this ain't right.