Money & Wealth

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Money & Wealth
“Her: he's been acting weird all week Him: time is money, bitcoin is money, then bitcoin is time. what if we…” (14 June 2018)
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Money, in GritCult's posts, runs from Bitcoin and the history of money to late-bloomer fortunes and the power of delusional self-belief, with occasional swipes at a guru whose backstory he heard was invented and at a rich streamer laughing at people who had lost their businesses. Underneath is a simple thesis about not waiting for permission to go and get it.

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He has no patience for manufactured mythology. He passed on the claim that Robert Kiyosaki made up the entire rich-dad-poor-dad backstory, with no rich dad and no two dads, and gave it a one-word verdict: wild ^[1]. The same contempt turns on what he calls the face of modern leftism: a multimillionaire streamer, nephew of a news mogul, laughing from an LA mansion at hard-working people who had lost their businesses ^[2].

His reading of what people actually select for is blunt to the point of biology: height first, money second, love last, in order of priority, with revealed preferences always telling of biological imperatives ^[3]. The excuse-demolition is direct too. People say they're waiting to make money before having children ^[4], the same deferral logic he despises everywhere else: comfort dressed up as prudence.

The permission structure he wants dismantled is simple: the money is already printed, and the only task is to go out and grab it ^[5]. Whether that's a meme coin redistributing wealth in real time ^[6] or a straightforward hustle, the sin isn't wanting money; it's waiting for someone else to hand over the right to want it.

Recurring themes

• scepticism of guru origin stories
• contempt for rich critics of hard-working people
• revealed preference over stated virtue
• waiting-to-afford-life as another comfort trap
• wealth as something taken, not granted

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 543 retweets:

Selected posts

The 120 most retweeted of 1,871 posts in the archive about Money & Wealth. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
1 November 2025	543	9,199	You are never too old for a total rebrand. Before the age of 30. Osama Bin Laden was a womanising billionaire playboy heir of a massive conglomerate fortune who hung out in bars and supported arsenal football club. Wasn’t even religious.		View
4 November 2022	257	2,911	Apparently Robert kiyosaki totally made up the story behind rich dad poor dad and he didn’t have a rich dad or two dads or anything like that. He simply lied about his entire story. Wild.		View
19 February 2026	251	1,386	Nikola Tesla died broke in a hotel room with a pigeon as his only companion. Thomas Edison died a celebrated millionaire. Edison won the business war. But Tesla won the actual war. AC power runs the entire planet. Edisons DC lost. The man who died broke literally powers…		View
7 March 2026	220	1,945	Colonel Sanders started KFC at 62. Genghis Khan was a slave at 16 and didnt build his empire until his 40s. Charlie Munger buried his son, went bankrupt, got divorced at 30, and didnt become a billionaire until he was 69. youre 27 its never over. its barely even started		View
26 January 2026	199	1,792	Be delusional Run like you’re training for the impossible. Build businesses like you’re going to be a billionaire. Make movies like you’re Tarantino Be convinced everything will work out You get one shot Waste it being reasonable or spend it being delusional		View
14 June 2018	145	618	Her: he's been acting weird all week Him: time is money, bitcoin is money, then bitcoin is time. what if we become an interplanetary species, could we piggyback the consensus of time onto bitcoin blockchain between planets, thus creating a verifiable point in immutable spacetime		View
1 June 2023	121	1,655	In order of priority: Height first. Money second. Love last. Revealed preferences always telling of biological imperatives.		View
1 June 2021	85	292	WHAT ARE NFTs? WHY ARE ALL THE BILLIONAIRES SO BULLISH ON NFTs? WHY ARE MOST PEOPLE WRONG ABOUT NFTs? WHAT IS THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF NFTs? FIND OUT MORE IN THIS THREAD BELOW : 0/THREAD		View
6 June 2025	81	1,505	Over his entire life this guy has raised 13.3 BILLION. None of his companies has ever made a profit. He became a billionaire at 39. Study the power of delusional self belief. Study Adam Neumann.		View
17 January 2023	75	791	Serious question If the government prints money. Why are you paying tax?		View
4 November 2024	66	788	I’ve come to the realisation that I don’t care about goals anymore. I care about vibes. My aspirations and ambitions are now vibe based. Aesthetic living that excites me. A beautiful family. Self sovereignty. Athleticism. Health and wealth. intense playfulness vibe.		View
3 March 2021	59	215	THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY BITCOIN WAS INEVITABLE. READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MONEY... /\ ///🧵\\\ /// THREAD \\\ (a long one...)		View
21 May 2025	57	889	Being retarded will change your life for the better. Guy got a lobotomy and improved every aspect of his life. Made more money. Got laid more. Started smoking.		View
11 August 2018	53	223	broke : we should teach toddlers about potential entropy death of the universe woke: myths are myths bespoke: myths and fables are a memetic emergent phenomena of culture to embed mental models into younger members next in chain, an abstraction of reality, to help guide them		View
10 March 2024	47	622	the other variant of this is: "im waiting to make money to have children."		View
27 July 2024	47	475	Never plateau. There's always more to do, achieve, become. Don't cap your potential. Stronger. Richer. Smarter. It's all there for you. The secret? Shed your skin. Step into your fears. That's where true growth lives. Keep pushing. Keep evolving.		View
14 March 2024	46	247	you are witnessing the greatest redistribution of wealth in the form of meme coins take a chance on yourself. bet more.		View
1 April 2024	37	231	Look. The money is already printed. You just gotta go out there n grab it.		View
17 December 2020	35	274	i am realising that making money, keeping money and growing money are 3 separate skills.		View
30 May 2021	33	205	want to be rich and happy? study this		View
14 April 2026	32	995	One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor. Dude makes 50k/day. Has a basic car, invests it all. I once asked him: “bro, why do you never flex?” He laughed, smiled, and said: “Because I know who I am.” Major lesson here		View
30 September 2025	32	840	Imagine you spend all day on social media and don’t even try to build a following or make money from it.		View
6 December 2022	32	482	A question I have been asking myself is if I am so smart, why am I not rich yet?		View
15 October 2021	32	35	got some spots opening up in my crypto groupchat with some crypto millionaires. rt this to be considered to be part of it		View
14 April 2021	30	237	YOU CAN BECOME A MILLIONAIRE IF YOU JUST KNOW HOW TO GOOGLE		View
17 April 2021	30	158	doing some macro analysis... countries that print a lot of money usually face repercussions 1-2 years later. so the usa will see huge effects of hyperinflations in around 2022		View
25 May 2026	29	427	if youre reading this and youre broke, alone, and feel like youve wasted years. good. you now have clarity most people spend their whole lives avoiding. you know exactly what doesnt work. now go build.		View
20 December 2024	28	362	Doomerism/athiesm/inceldom/blackpill Are all low class coded worldviews and ideologies. If you’re rich and handsome or have experienced social mobility. You will be optimistic		View
19 August 2018	28	185	broke : The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. woke : The Neolithic Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.		View
18 February 2026	27	336	the man who reads one book a month for 10 years will be unrecognisable. not because of any single book. but because he chose to never stop being curious. curiosity compounds harder than money. most people stop learning the day they leave school. and then they wonder why nothing…		View
4 October 2022	27	199	imagine paying taxes... and it being used to undermine everything you stand for and money going towards things you have no interest in supporting.		View
26 July 2021	26	174	The richest guys I know all respond pretty much within a day or two. Or they’ll apologise if they’re late. If a person doesn’t respond to you. They’re not busy. No one is that busy. They just don’t care about you. You’re not a priority for them.		View
20 August 2022	24	206	Richest guys I know love to gamble. Poorest guys I know love to gamble.		View
18 December 2022	24	145	the future will not be rich vs poor it will be those who can focus vs those who are distracted.		View
22 February 2021	24	129	BROKE: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES HAVE BEEN A DISASTER FOR THE HUMAN RACE. WOKE: THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES HAVE BEEN A DISASTER FOR THE HUMAN RACE. THREAD...		View
13 September 2021	24	127	MOST PEOPLE WHO STRIVE FOR FINANCIAL FREEDOM DO SO MAINLY BECAUSE THEY FUCKING HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO		View
4 August 2023	24	93	we need to build. There is a huge problem in web3 and crypto that is not talked about enough, and is stopping people from building. Royalty fees are the old meta, onchain organisations need a new way to make money and a way to have a sustainable revenue stream. If you are…		View
3 June 2025	23	709	kids wanting to be a streamer is extremely logical. - low barrier to entry - high convex exponential pay off - clout - fixes the loneliness pandemic - no real hard work required - can make a lot of money & sponsorships - talk about your interests all day - not boring		View
20 December 2024	23	323	gn, its all gonna work out in the end inshallah we are all gonna be handsome rich millionaire playboys on yachts by the time this bull run ends		View
12 November 2022	23	309	Me on the way to the Bahamas to get money out of FTX.		View
23 May 2023	22	361	reading old school wall st playboys, alex becker and now hormozi all give the same advice re. starting out get high paying job cut expenses low as possible calculate burn rate save enough money that you can live off of for 2 years quit job start biz take risks for 2 years		View
22 July 2023	22	186	The richest guys I know all respond pretty much within a day or two. Or they’ll apologise if they’re late. The most productive people no matter the will respond asap and expect responses asap.		View
4 May 2025	21	261	To do anything. You have to risk something. You either risk money or you risk your reputation or you risk your mental sanity or your comfort. There is always something. You HAVE TO RISK. It’s funny how it works.		View
15 August 2024	21	223	PUSH SOME BUTTONS AND MAKE SOME FUCKING MONEY WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MAGIC		View
18 November 2019	21	101	Broke : pattern recognition. Woke : pattern creation.		View
24 May 2021	21	98	WE DONT GET MAD. WE GET MONEY		View
16 January 2022	21	82	One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor. Dude makes 50k/day. Has a basic car, invests it all. I once asked him: “bro, why do you never flex?” He laughed, smiled, and said: “Because I know who I am.” Major lesson here		View
17 January 2025	20	354	funny how there is life changing money inside these screens we stare at all day all you have to do is press the right keys in the right order at the right time.		View
10 June 2025	20	187	i think the people who truly understand money on a philosophical level are those whove gained and lost large amounts of it multiple times		View
9 September 2022	20	166	A lot of guys on twitter are always trying to convince you how nice their life is or how good the stuff they buy is. In reality. It’s all cope. Richest guys I know. Never want the attention. Very humble hard working dudes. Brings a lot of spiritual envy.		View
20 July 2025	19	315	There should be 0% income tax. The government already prints money. They make you pay tax as a form of a humiliation ritual.		View
9 December 2025	19	240	While you think about it. A dumber person already did it. While you're waiting for signs for the perfect moment. Someone else is fixing their mistakes in real time. The poor want certainty before action. The rich know certainty comes FROM action.		View
19 August 2018	19	118	broke : inspirational twitter woke : me posting depressing facts, stats and trends so you internalise a level of relative stoicism making you more antifragile in real life, thus benefiting from new insights you have come to through via your own socratic dialogue		View
9 October 2023	18	395	twitter has gone to shit, but one guy has managed to troll an entire world and make money from it, this guy, he is the only one who wins. spreads misinformation daily, doesnt remove it, calls himself journalists spends all day reposting random videos for clickbait		View
24 May 2023	18	341	If you don’t become a millionaire in your 20s. It is literally over.		View
19 March 2023	18	338	richest trader i know just sent me this.		View
24 April 2021	18	186	MOST PEOPLE WHO STRIVE FOR FINANCIAL FREEDOM DO SO MAINLY BECAUSE THEY FUCKING HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO		View
18 October 2023	18	130	imagine paying taxes... and it being used to undermine everything you stand for and money going towards things you have no interest in supporting.		View
20 April 2022	18	89	Fuck you money > politics.		View
4 January 2026	17	1,003	Being broke at 20 is much better than being a billionaire at 80.		View
19 March 2024	17	148	Wyatt Earp would love crypto. The old west. Everyone was a degenerate gambler. Travelling from boom town to boom town tryna get rich quick. Gold rush. Live fast. In the trenches. Locked in. Pure market capitalist Americana. Study tradition.		View
24 May 2021	17	107	"Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do." - jp Morgan		View
16 June 2019	17	63	Through work, salvation. Through discipline, fortune. Through conversation, knowledge. Through stark observation, practicality. Through responsibility, respect. Not the most loving father. But a self made millionaire immigrant.		View
8 January 2023	16	541	One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor.		View
19 February 2025	16	404	Broke: Ai will replace programmers. Woke: Ai will replace therapists.		View
10 December 2022	16	156	Making money. Gym. Sex. Don’t wanna focus or think about anything else.		View
15 October 2020	16	134	being rich but time broke means you optimised for the wrong thing.		View
28 July 2023	16	62	THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY BITCOIN WAS INEVITABLE. READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF MONEY... /\ ///🧵\\\ /// THREAD \\\ (a long one...)		View
25 October 2021	16	37	"Your life's currency is time. It's the only coin you have, and you're the only one who can decide how you'll use it. Be wary about allowing others to spend your money on your behalf." "If we don't dream first, nothing happens."		View
7 July 2025	15	320	every successful, rich, happy person ive ever met told me one thing universally and unequivocally get married young, have kids young. the one piece of advice theyve all shared		View
8 March 2019	15	83	you dont hate money, you hate competition		View
5 March 2018	15	63	Polygamy favours high status men and low status women. Monogamy favours low status men and high status women. Monogamy also favours those with economic incentive. Youd rather pass on your accumulated wealth to your biological offspring than be "cucked"		View
28 May 2026	14	459	spending money to improve life roi, some of the next big purchases im thinking about: - nice car - porsche, old 911 or 718 - appreciates in value - fun - looks good - better sleep; sleep8 + silk - 1/3 of my day is sleeping need to optimise it to highest minmax roi possible -…		View
17 December 2024	14	229	Everything at ATH. Health. Wealth. Relationships. But I feel like I can go 100x harder.		View
14 February 2021	14	165	IVE MET PEOPLE ON TWITTER WHO IVE SEEN GO FROM BROKE TO MULTI MILLIONAIRE. I KNOW FOR A FACT THE NEXT 5 YEARS MANY OTHER PEOPLE I AM MUTUALS WITH ARE GONNA BE MULTI MILLIONAIRES		View
28 June 2021	14	132	5 year plan to financial freedom. - get remote working tech job - relocate to 3rd world country - outsource my job - buy drug plantation for nootropics - become warlord in 3rd world country.		View
12 September 2021	14	104	"Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do." - jp Morgan		View
1 May 2022	14	92	Remember on the big short just before the financial crash and they interviewed all those stupid people who were making lots of money through questionable business practices. Yeah we are currently in the part of the movie.		View
18 August 2018	14	47	"History is inflationary money is the last thing a wise man would hoard." William Durant [The Lessons of History]		View
20 May 2023	13	190	It’s crazy how many guys from “money twitter” have rich parents.		View
17 April 2024	13	132	One of the worst beliefs that modern religion teaches you is that being rich and successful is somehow evil and bad for you spiritually. And somehow being a weak miserable peasant is like being enlightened? Feels like a psy op.		View
18 October 2023	13	125	TRUE WEALTH: Worriless sleeping		View
6 November 2020	13	112	Repeat after me: I am healthy. I am wealthy. I am at peace. I am everything I need.		View
8 August 2023	13	106	being a millionaire is the new middle class.		View
13 August 2023	13	98	Richest empire in human history but nothing being done to stop or reverse this. It’s just accepted as city living. Ludicrous. These people need to be locked up in a facility so they get the help they need		View
7 July 2019	13	88	"Wealth is the slave of the wise man, master of the fool." seneca the younger.		View
7 March 2024	13	68	Question for 2024. “How does this make me money?”		View
30 November 2022	13	65	MONEY FOR REVENGE, THATS HARDLY AN EXPENSE		View
28 September 2018	13	55	broke : 48 laws of power woke : 10 crack commandments		View
24 April 2019	13	54	The downfall of intellectuals is due to the inability to make money or throw a punch.		View
17 August 2018	13	27	Iceland got teens to say no to drugs Retort to : "Let people do what they want, despite social costs which may further damage underdeveloped brains" “People can get addicted to drink, cars, money, sex, calories, cocaine—whatever,” promote eudaimonia		View
31 July 2022	12	145	The more money I make. The more I like tipping people.		View
11 May 2018	12	69	the concentration of wealth is natural & inevitable, & is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth & recirculation		View
29 September 2019	12	68	Read more books tbh Watch more films Do more activities Every year I am astonished at how much wealth of knowledge there is out there. I shall remain eternally a humble student.		View
2 October 2018	12	40	"Information proliferation = scarcity of what it consumes Consumes:attention of recipients Hence wealth of information => poverty of attention & a need to allocate that attention efficiently among overabundance of information sources that might consume it" (Simon 197)		View
15 March 2020	12	36	people who hate me always turn out to be morally corrupt, insidious characters.. my friends are light hearted cuties, who are spiritually wealthy by all measures... funny how that is...		View
19 June 2025	11	205	Financial freedom isn’t having a lot of money. I know a lot of rich people who aren’t free. Being free is not caring or knowing you can lose it all and make it all back.		View
30 April 2023	11	159	Smartest kids I know from school all still at uni 5 years later. Or working in middle management in consulting at some random auditing firm. The richest guys I know all started their own business. Most athletic guys didn’t do well either And gym freaks ended up in footlocker		View
10 September 2021	11	136	outfits i would wear if i become a crypto billionaire		View
10 December 2022	11	111	Towards the end of Ancient Rome. Birth rates plummeted. The poor couldn’t afford them as opportunities dwindled. The rich hated kids as they saw them as a burden. As Rome declined. Anal sex grew in popularity, it was seen as natural birth control.		View
13 January 2024	11	111	how tf is a teenager who missed school a multi millionaire.		View
25 July 2023	11	102	FOR ME, MONEY HAS NEVER BEEN AN END GOAL, ITS A TOOL FOR MY DREAMS.		View
5 June 2020	11	101	5 year plan to financial freedom. - get remote working tech job - relocate to 3rd world country - outsource my job - buy drug plantation for nootropics - become warlord in 3rd world country.		View
2 March 2023	11	80	YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CREATES YOUR SUCCESS, THAT YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CREATES YOUR MEDIOCRITY, AND THAT YOU ARE THE ONE CREATING YOUR STRUGGLE AROUND MONEY AND SUCCESS. - T. HARV EKER		View
23 March 2021	11	76	YOU NEED TO PROTECT YOUR ENERGY MORE THAN YOU NEED TO PROTECT YOUR MONEY BAD VAMPIRE ENERGY WILL INFECT YOU		View
5 June 2018	11	71	bitcoin 3d printers 21st Century farming techniques making my own clothes making my own money using renewable energy family businesses community based projects online marketplaces cheaper cost of travel dematerialisation. its all possible, the future is decentralised		View
27 April 2023	11	41	how games make money		View
18 November 2021	11	36	"A WEALTH OF INFORMATION CREATES A POVERTY OF ATTENTION." - HERBERT A. SIMON		View
27 November 2022	10	237	IVE MET PEOPLE ON TWITTER WHO IVE SEEN GO FROM BROKE TO MULTI MILLIONAIRE. I KNOW FOR A FACT THE NEXT 5 YEARS MANY OTHER PEOPLE I AM MUTUALS WITH ARE GONNA BE MULTI MILLIONAIRES ARE YOU NEXT?		View
4 January 2026	10	226	“Learning to tell a story is critically important because that’s how the money works. The money flows as a function of the stories.” - Don Valentine		View
18 November 2025	10	211	“ChatGPT make me rich handsome famous billionaire”		View
28 December 2022	10	148	Very very underrated productivity tip used by CEOs and millionaires and billionaires. Scheduling everything single thing into a calendar/diary Every task you have that cannot be done in 2 mins Write it down and schedule in time for it Focus solely on that task. Sinple.		View
2 October 2024	10	143	Someone once told me. You make money when you buy. Few.		View
26 November 2023	10	133	One of wealthiest guys I know tells everyone he’s a janitor. Dude makes 50k/day. Has a basic car, invests it all. I once asked him: “bro, why do you never flex?” He laughed, smiled, and said: “Because I know who I am.” Major lesson here		View
1 October 2021	10	93	Every time I've met a hardcore con artist or a liar, within 15 minutes of meeting them, they've mentioned how much money they make. No true king will ever proclaim themselves to be the king.		View
24 April 2023	10	71	The ones who keep giving their 2 cents tend to run out of money.		View
28 March 2021	10	53	YOU WANT SOVEREIGNTY GET WEALTH, GET OUT OF THE SYSTEM EXIT		View
28 July 2018	10	52	Lorenz curve for Tinder economy lower than curve for US economy. inequality in Tinder wealth distribution is larger than inequality of income in US cite:		View
9 September 2021	10	42	want to be rich and happy? study this		View
30 December 2020	10	28	it is easier to become a millionaire than it is to climb mount everest. 500k become millionaires, 4k climb the tallest mountain in the world per year.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Money & Wealth on 6 January 2018, and most recently on 31 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 1,871 times, most often in 2018 (485 posts).

See also

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References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (4 November 2022). Apparently Robert kiyosaki totally made up the story behind rich dad poor dad and he didn't have a rich dad or two dads or anything like that. He simply lied about his entire story. Wild. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 August 2023). The face of modern leftism is a multimillionaire streamer nephew of a news mogul sitting in his LA mansion eating some fried takeaway, laughing and critiquing actual hard working people. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (1 June 2023). In order of priority: Height first. Money second. Love last. Revealed preferences always telling of biological imperatives. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 March 2024). the other variant of this is: "im waiting to make money to have children.". X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (1 April 2024). Look. The money is already printed. You just gotta go out there n grab it. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (14 March 2024). you are witnessing the greatest redistribution of wealth in the form of meme coins... take a chance on yourself. bet more. X.

Further reading

• Luck Is a Skill Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
• You Must Pay the Tax: A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
• Short Airbnb, Long Hotels, an essay by GritCult

External links

• Posts about Money & Wealth by GRITCULT on X
• Money & Wealth on Wikipedia