Getting Jealous of Fake Millionaires Who CAN'T Back Up Their Claims?

Not everyone can be rich but at most, you don't retire broke. I really found this hilarious video on Youtube. It made me laugh harder than viewing a comedy movie. There are so many animations used and it's becoming ridiculous. I wrote about financial gurus who have claims that are too good to be true. In the world of investment, if the claim's too good to be true then you ought to reject it outright. It's like how cryptocurrency billionaires may just be paid to promote a scam after all. They might just be out there in some vicious networking scheme where scammers join in to scam others.

This reminds me of childhood stupidity. I guess it's very easy to fall for unbelievable stories as a child. I remembered how a classmate of mine (who now has a good career) once stupidly said, "So and so is richer because he has more nice stuff." Thankfully, his thinking patterns changed. Such wasn't the case with another person (with the name first name) who bragged he was rich because he had a lot of nice stuff. I remembered feeling poor because my parents didn't give me everything the cooler kids had. I felt outclassed and kept falling into fits of rage.

In the social media age, it's very easy to make up a story, right? I usually keep my Instagram private. I still like to use Instagram. Sadly, some people want to make it look like their lives are so much better than they are. It's very easy to set up a fake identity these days. It's very easy to say, "Oh I got so rich! Take a look at the photos!" Some pictures are easily edited. Photo edits can be easy to spot. What can't be so easy to spot is when a person starts becoming that irritating and very arrogant fake influencer.

I guess they never outgrew the bragging stage as a child. It's very easy to brag you live in a palace as a child. It's very easy to make up toys that never exist. I can rant on and on about how, we, as children lied over and over, just for fun. Sadly, some adults do the same thing and then hypocritically punish their children for lying to them. These days, you can get a lot of fake millionaires. It already almost reminds me of that Cebuano sitcom called Milyonaryong Mini or Fake Millionnaire.

I'll give an example of a stupid stunt I could do. I remembered I had a classmate who bragged he had PHP one million last Christmas and that his uncle was a co-owner of Duty-Free. However, it was far from the truth. Today, I could really start lying that I own Museo Sugbo which I don't own. I could go there, take pictures, have myself pictured, and say that it was all funded by me. Maybe, people who hardly know me can say, "Oh look! He's so rich!" I could then take a picture of somebody's Mercedes and say it's mine. I could then take a picture of somebody's building and say it's mine. It's very easy to pull that stunt to look believable, right?

I could remember lectures from some people on how someone's wealth isn't determined by their lifestyle but by how much money they saved and earned. I could have a lot of expensive stuff and be buried in debt. There's even the saying don't buy an expensive bag with no money in it. Buy a cheap bag and have a lot of money in it. Some people may have luxurious lifestyles but they're practically buried in debt. Someone I know who lived a luxurious lifestyle got abandoned by potential partners. Some people who are poor remain poor because they just want to impress others.

What can happen is that the fake millionaire can get exposed sooner or later. The fake millionaire got fired from the job for claiming they owned their workplace. People who invested in this fake millionaire are soon bound to want their money back. People who claim to have gotten rich so fast may have very little money in reality. They may start hosting seminars but the only money they got was through scamming others. They can even get defensive or make up fanciful stories if I demand for evidence of their so-called wealth.

Then I realized that real life must be silent. I should keep quiet about how much money I really have. Right now, I'm not exactly comfortably retired. I wish schools taught us how to invest. It's a good thing though that I'm invested and still investing. I should be quiet regardless of how much money I have. I have no intention to retire comfortably but I have no intention to be broke either.

Has Passing Down Hatred for Singapore (Because of Flor Contemplacion) Economically Helped the Philippines?

PEH.ph It was on March 17, 1995, when Flor Contemplacion was executed in Singapore. I've noticed that I've been addressing her as the late many times, even if the late is a statement that may be ony appropriate if the person has been recently deceased within 10 years. It's about to become 30 years since Flor was hanged in Singapore. However, generational hatred would've been passed down from 1995 up to 2025. Some people are still tagging #JusticeFor Flor. These traits may be passed down from the Batang 1990s to their children in this generation. It may also be passed down from parent to child, even if the child was born in the 2000s to 2010s. Somebody born in 2000s and beyond might even say, "Papa and mama told me about Flor Contemplacion! That's why I hate Singapore!" Talk about a child born in 2004 who's probably angry with Singapore, because his parents kept telling him about how Flor was supposedly "unjustly treated" over there. Some tim...

It's A Myth: First World Countries Self-Industrialized and Only Opened to FDI, After They Succeeded

The Straits Times As the battle for economic charter change goes on, another lie often spread: "First world countries, first industrialized by themselves, before they opened their economy to FDI." I'm seeing it ironically on Facebook. I tell them, "If you hate foreigners so much, why don't you get out of the Internet?" Some of them give replies like, "We're not hypocrites for badmouthing FDI on Facebook. We're simply forced to use imported equipment because foreigners unfairly own the means of production (read rebuttal here )." When I ask for their sources, they give sources like people from Bayan Muna (Nation First), the League of Filipino Students, the IBON Foundation, Kabataan Partylist (Youth Partylist), the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), and maybe even the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Most of these sources (not all) are the favorite sources of those going against badly needed economic cha-cha. I...

Why FDIs are Choosing COMMUNIST Vietnam Over DEMOCRATIC Philippines

China Daily HK Tomorrow is Ho Chi Minh's birthday. I would like to raise another FDI issue between democratic Philippines and Communist Vietnam. I remember with a certain woman I'll call Miss Clueless, to respect her privacy. Miss Clueless probably never saw a map, called FDI as Favored Duterte-China Investments, and I told her the bigger problem with the constitutional restrictions. Miss Clueless kept talking about that the late Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino III made us a tiger economy, regardless. However, I wrote that relying too much on Noynoy's economic legacy, is pretty much landing into the same fatal mistake that Nokia did . Relying on past successes is a surefire recipe for failure. As Miss Clueless blamed former president Rodrigo R. Duterte, the person still believes that people must change first before systems. I asked her, "Why are people choosing Communist Vietnam over the Philippines." The reason I heard from Miss Clueless was something...

Is Jollibee "Invading" South Korea Now as It's About to Acquire 70% of Shabu All Day?

I must confess that I find this new rather hilarious . It's because the word shabu is often associated with drugs. All the while, shabu shabu is a Korean delicacy! Well, I'm going to say that Jollibee Foods Corporation has now become a multinational buyer . Jollibee acquired 70% of Compost Coffee back in 2024 . This year, Jollibee as a multinational corporation is now acquiring Shabu All Day for PHP 5.1 billion pesos. Is Jollibee checkmating South Korea or is the Philippines conquering South Korea not just by OFWs but als through Jollibee? The answer is still no. From GMA News , we can read this article by Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas: Under the deal, Shabu All Day will be consolidated into Jollibee Foods Corp.’s (JFC) financial statements immediately upon completion of the acquisition for a total consideration equivalent to KRW127 billion. Completion of the transaction is subject to closing and financing conditions. The acquisition is expected to lead to a 2% jump in revenues, incre...

Helping Others is Good But Not to One's Own Expense

I advocate for helping others. I believe in helping others but there were times I overdid it. One time, I gave up so much that I had to be stopped. I was told, "If you gave everything now, how can you help others later?" I would donate some sums here and there, without thinking much. I'm not going to write them all. Some of them left me good while others left a bad taste (and a bad record) for me to endure. Sure, I want to help people but I tend to overlook the consequences. Some of the bad habits I had in the name of helping others are like: Being too generous with buying with credit. Eventually, I lost a lot of money which was never recovered . Some seasoned entrepreneurs may admit their own falls including the credit trap pitfall. Being too willing to give a discount without thinking about how it'd affect profits. Sure, a cheap price can draw people near. However, there are times when the prices of goods and services need to be raised to keep a business running. I ...

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