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Wealth Pyramid: The 8 Different Levels Of Wealth!


so what we're going to be talking about
in this video today is the pyramid of
wealth and this is not any Illuminati
confirmed style video here guys I know
when you throw pyramids up people
usually think it's the Illuminati is
coming for them but the pyramid of
wealth is actually a video I talked
about probably two years ago on this
channel and it was one that people were
super interested in but I definitely
want to make a couple of points before I
get into the main video so first of all
what I have found about making money as
I have earned more and more money and
climbed this pyramid of wealth is that
you may think that money is like the
ticket to happiness and the more money
you earn the happier you become and to a
certain extent that is true but when you
reach a certain point you don't become
exponentially happier with the
exponential growth of your money and so
what I want to say about money is this
not having money can be everything to
you because if you don't have money and
you're you know down here in this level
of this pyramid it can really suck
because all you think about is money or
the lack of money you're working like a
dog and you're struggling to make ends
meet and that's all you can possibly
focus on but once you leave that level
of this pyramid and you're no longer
struggling or fighting for every dollar
that you're earning and maybe once
you're up in some of these higher levels
where money isn't really your main focus
that is when you realize that money is
not everything and there's so much more
out there that you have to find in order
to be fulfilled and happy but not having
money can be everything because it
becomes your primary focus now the other
point I want to make here is why is it
important to understand the pyramid of
wealth and the reason is because of
something called your circle of
influence and there's been many
different variations of this said the
best way that I can say it is you tend
to become the fifth version of all the
four people you surround yourself with
and so if you are surrounding yourself
with people that are in the lower level
here of the pyramid of wealth the odds
are you're going to become the fifth
version of that person and so regardless
of your circumstances where you are
right now in your life you want to find
people that are higher up in the pyramid
of wealth just to have a different
circle of influence and have people
sharing
different ideas with you and you may
look at me now you thinking that I'm
bragging about possibly being higher up
in this pyramid of wealth but I I'm
telling you guys right now that is not
where I started and I will tell you as
we go through this where I started and
where I would consider myself to be
right now so first of all at the very
bottom of this pyramid is what we call
the public dole this is people who
literally have zero dollars of income
from any other means other than Social
Security or welfare or some kind of
government assistance it is not a great
place to be it is not a good living I
know a lot of people say people on
welfare live better than us it's totally
I've seen it firsthand and some
of my other jobs that I've had have in
the past and I'm telling you it is not a
desirable life but that is the very
bottom of the pyramid is when you're
solely living on public dole and you
have no income other than what you're
getting from government assistance or
disability or something of that nature
now one step above that we have low
income plus public assistance that is
people who are earning a very small
amount of money and then they qualify
for food stamps or they qualify for WIC
or different types of government
assistance they do have some income of
their own but it's not enough for a good
living and so they are getting
assistance from the government that's
actually where I started when I was 16
years old my mom had food stamps and
that was where we were low income plus
public assistance and so I've been able
to climb my way up this pyramid and you
know I feel like I have gotten detached
from that a little bit over the last
couple of years with what I've
experienced with the growth of my
business and a lot of people think that
you know I was fed from a silver spoon
and this that and the other and the
truth is that is not the case at all
because that is where I was you know 15
or 16 years old clipping coupons helping
my mom out and making the most of the
food stamps and trying to stretch every
dollar that we could so as far as income
goes obviously being on public dole
means you have about zero dollars of
your own income and being in this low
income plus public assistance category
in most cases that's like twenty five
thousand dollars or less of earnings per
year qualifies you for some
of government assistance level number
three is where a lot of people fall and
I'm just gonna call this the debt level
of the pyramid this is when you do not
qualify for public assistance but you
still do not have enough income to pay
for your basic living expenses and you
end up putting living expenses on your
credit card and I'm not talking about
clothing I'm not talking about perfume
and discretionary spending items I mean
you have to put gas on your credit card
and you have to put groceries on your
credit card because you literally do not
have enough money for your basic living
expenses one step above that we have
paycheck to paycheck and I would say
this is where the majority of people are
that I know and that I see today and
this is people that at the end of the
week they are pretty much out of money
and they won't have any more money until
the next week when they get their
paycheck and basically any major expense
that comes up of maybe $500 to $1,000
that's going on a credit card because
they don't have an emergency fund and
they are living paycheck to paycheck
moving up the pyramid now we have the
zero dollar line and the zero dollar
line is honestly as sad as it is a
really good place to be that means you
have no debt and you have a value or net
worth of zero dollars and as sad as that
may sound that's actually a good goal
for a lot of people when it comes to
their consumer debt or their student
loans and all these different debts they
have to pay back but the zero dollar
line is basically where you oh nothing
and you own very little or you own
nothing giving you basically a zero
dollar net worth and so that's pretty
much where I was when I was around 20
years old graduated college I went to
Community College thankfully didn't have
to take out any student loans because my
grandfather helped me out with that so I
started off in my 20s at that zero
dollar line where I had basically no
assets but no liabilities either so
moving up now one more level on the
pyramid we have this level which is
where money is not the primary deciding
factor in your decisions and what I mean
by that is where you go on vacation
where you go for dinner
you know the clothing that you wear on
your back the deciding factor is not how
much money it cost
and the way you can test this out for
yourself is this right here and maybe
you're just frugal so that's okay if
you're just frugal because that's how I
am but when you walk into a department
store are you looking at the clothing
themselves or you're looking at the
price tags because if you shop by price
tag you are not in this category you're
still shopping by price and that is your
number one deciding factor when making a
purchase now there's nothing wrong with
that because a lot of people spend way
too much money on clothes and random
crap like that so being frugal and being
in this category is totally possible but
if you know that you always make your
choices for dining for entertainment
based on price then you haven't made it
to this level but at that level you will
find that you know convenience is often
the deciding factor not necessarily
money so convenience or experience and
then moving up here one step higher we
have the financially independent
category and the way I describe
financial independence is that what you
do with your time is not based on money
and what I mean by that is you don't go
to a job if you don't want to or you
don't work when you don't want to
because you have created financial
independence for yourself now this could
be accomplished basically in two
different ways number one if you figure
out how to make money without your
activity without actively involving your
time or number two having so much money
saved up or invested that you don't
actually have to work for money so
myself personally it's the latter there
it's the fact that I've built passive
income streams and I have people working
underneath me that allow me to earn
money in a very passive way and I would
say personally I fall somewhere between
these two levels now of money not being
my primary deciding factor and being
somewhat financially independent so if I
wanted to take a week off and go on a
vacation or just take a week to think or
hang out with my cats or anything like
that I have the ability to do that
because of these systems that I have in
place now personally I really enjoy
working and I work when I want to but
there are times that I really don't want
to work and because I have reached that
level that is a luxury that I have is
the ability to say you know I'm going to
not work today and I don't have to worry
about the money still coming in
and then at the very top of the pyramid
here we have the GW or generational
wealth category and this is essentially
when you have so much money you could
never spend it in an entire lifetime you
don't work for the money it's all just
basically you know interest income or
dividend income or money giving off more
money in terms of the growth of your
money and you're living off of that
interest or growth and it's more money
than you could ever spend in your
lifetime and it's going to go forward
for future generations now this is a
major misconception a lot of people have
they think that generational wealth is
like the only way to become rich you're
either born rich or you're never gonna
be rich and I can promise you guys that
is not the case I am walking living
proof of somebody who started off in the
low-income public assistance category
and I've worked my way up eventually to
the zero dollar line graduating college
with basically a zero dollar net worth
and then have moved myself up to
somewhere between you know the
financially independent category and not
having the primary deciding factor be
the cost of something so that is the
pyramid of wealth guys if you want to
let me know in the comment section below
where you started and where you are
today and you want to pay attention to
this and understand the pyramid of
wealth because you want to know where
your circle of influence falls because
you're probably going to become the
fifth version of whoever you surround
yourself with so thank you guys so much
for watching this video I hope you
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