The Key Pillars Of Wealth-Building That School Doesn't Teach Us: Do You Know Them? | Dave Rubin
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I had the great privilege of being interviewed by Dave Rubin on his popular platform, The Rubin Report.
We had a wide-ranging discussion about the fundamentals of wealth-building that our education system fails to teach us.
For a great overview for how to retire as a millionaire (fyi: this is a great interview to share with your kids), watch this video.
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0:00 Intro
4:35 Why financial literacy is still so weak
5:41 Adam’s origin story and why Thoughtful Money exists
6:23 Schools teach “get ahead,” not how money works
7:40 The three muscles: earn, save, invest
8:55 Compounding, and why we think linearly
10:12 Spreadsheet: $5,000 a year to a million
11:53 Compounding in reverse: credit card debt
13:14 Productive vs. unproductive debt
14:03 Inflation, the silent tax, and the real job of investing
15:31 Money, capitalism, envy, and the wealth gap
18:24 Capuchin monkeys and why unfairness feels personal
20:01 Asset owners got the upside; everyone else got the prices
22:42 Hero mindset vs. victim mindset
24:50 Brown, the PC-to-woke pipeline, and “rich bad, poor good”
26:09 Can captured schools actually be fixed?
29:41 College as plan B, trades, and knowing who you are
32:49 AI: long-term boom, near-term job shock
35:05 Where do 40 million service workers go?
37:14 Keynes, displacement speed, phones, and UBI
40:47 DIY vs. a financial quarterback
44:10 A possible lost decade, and who should manage risk
47:07 The economy and the stock market are not the same
48:12 Wrap-up, advisers, and the fall conference
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