If you think about it, the most significant difference between a poor person and a rich person in terms of finances is not their houses, cars, or money. The most crucial difference between a poor person and a rich person is how diversified their finances are.
A poor person can have a high-paying job, a big house, and a couple of cars and still be lacking because he has a lot of debt in his name and his income mainly comes from his job. And when the economy goes wrong, he goes under and suddenly loses everything he owns.
On the other hand, a rich person with a diversified income can live without worrying about the state of the economy. Even if he loses his job or fails his business, he can always get money from somewhere else.
And that is why, if you want to secure your future in these troubling times – diversifying your finances should be the first step. Start looking for other sources of income. Make yourself more liquid by acquiring investments or learning new skills and knowledge that will help you earn more money.
If you want to learn more about the topic, below is a written version of Max Av’s podcast with Peter Guerriera, which talks about rich people and how diversified their finances are.
Max: There’s always going to be a bad economy, and there’s always going to be a good economy. And there’s always going to be somewhere in the middle. It’s going to be suitable for some; it’s going to be bad for some. There are two types of people that you can generalize – people under the economy and people over the economy.
People under the economy will always be negatively affected by a bad economy. People over the economy, generally, we’ll be fine.
Peter: So for everyone listening and myself, I understand, but I’d like you to explain to me if what I’m understanding is correct.
Max: This isn’t an exact economic term. This is just something I just made for Copy speaking. For example, the most accessible people in the economy are wealthy. So, people who are rich and diversified – they’re over the economy. If something goes wrong here, something goes terrible there; since they’re over the economy, they’ll still be okay financially. And they can take advantage of a poor economy because they have more financial leverage. So those are people over the economy.
On the other hand, People under the economy are not diversified; they go down when the economy goes down. These people don’t have elite and powerful skills, and if the economy goes down, they’ll go down.
People in the economy are diversified and have a lot of liquidity. So even if something happens to their real estate, they’ll buy real estate somewhere else. Even if something happens to their insurance business, they still have their construction business. So if you want to be over the economy, you want to have a lot of liquidity.
And people who are under the economy are not diversified and have little liquidity, so those people will generally be negatively affected by a recession. So there’s always going to be other sessions. There’s going to be a recession here, and it’s going to be a recession there.
However, the Blockchain industry’s having a boom. There’s no recession in the Blockchain industry.
Peter: Yeah. Maybe for the price of crypto, there’s a minor baby setback, but it doesn’t mean that people with Blockchain jobs will ever lose themselves.
Max: Yeah. People who know AI, who understand blockchain, and who are great at advertising are doing just fine.
Peter: I want to go back to your diversification point. To many people, this will seem like a no-brainer that I’m going to say this. I don’t know how this is coming about, but I’ve read in multiple places now, and maybe I’m just clicking so many links about it. I’m interested in more diversified people and people who tend to have a little more money; there’s a general rule of thumb.
When you get into the higher net worth, they hold almost 20% of their net worth in art. Now, we all know that people buy art, expensive art.
Max: 20%? Where’d you read it?
Peter: Yeah. So I was reading this multiple times from whatever news I get, The Economist, Bloomberg, Bloomberg news, etc. So from the comments, especially on Bloomberg, they were pretty legit.
Max: Yeah. It’s legit, but Bloomberg, I think these big media companies over-generalize.
Peter: Yeah, but it wasn’t on a headline. I’m trying to make the whole point regardless of whether it’s 10 or 20%. Art investments, by the way, are almost impossible unless you have multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The average return for a piece of fine art is almost double what the stock market is. And people like me and you, where our networks are only in the potential six figures, can’t get it.
You cannot get into that market because it doesn’t exist for you. However, when you have seven and eight figures and suddenly don’t know what to do with that million dollars you have in the bank, you invest in art.
If you buy a piece of art next year, it’s worth $1.2 million. Right? And to me, I was amazed when I saw what they were saying. I was like, all right. So now I know if I ever get rich, I want to put in a portion of my money, and I just thought it was fascinating.
Max: Yeah. I know a lot of rich people. They have a lot of antiques and art. They have a lot of antiques. I mean, the rich people I know have many nontraditional assets and investments like ART and antique.
Diversify Your Finances Right Now
From the podcast, we learn that rich people are always diversified, whether their income sources or assets. The wealthy people set aside 10 – 20% of their net worth in art investments and other nontraditional assets. Thus, diversifying your finances – assets and incomes are- is the most effective and future-proof method. As if you want to secure your future, how can you do it? It all boils down to your eagerness and ability to identify and take advantage of opportunities.
