Starting a business doesn’t have to mean sky-high rent, coastal chaos, or a cutthroat market. Some of the most entrepreneur-friendly states are also the ones quietly building momentum—with low taxes, streamlined regulations, and communities that actually support local ventures.
Millennials inherited economic wreckage, soaring debt, and endless lectures about avocado toast. But behind the noise, they’ve been reshaping how money works, builds, and moves. The hustle isn’t always loud—but it’s persistent, digital, and increasingly powerful.
They aren’t trying to rebuild their parents’ dream. They’re hacking their way to a new one. While boomers hang on to board seats and Gen Z grabs attention, millennials are quietly stacking wins in ways no one saw coming.
Jensen Huang wasn’t born into prestige, fortune, or a tidy blueprint for success. His journey wasn’t a straight shot to the top but a long, jagged scramble that should’ve stopped a dozen times along the way. And yet, against the chaos of the tech world and the weight of his own story, he built NVIDIA into the first $4 trillion company.
His rise wasn’t inevitable. It was improbable, messy, and often overlooked—until it changed everything about how the modern world thinks, computes, and creates.
AI can code, analyze data, and even write a halfway decent cover letter. But when it comes to preparing a human to handle a messy, unpredictable workplace, higher education still holds a few irreplaceable cards. It’s not just about the degree—it’s about the subtle, difficult-to-automate skills that unfold between lectures, late-night group projects, and awkward presentation days.
The job market’s shifting fast, but college still has ways of shaping people that no chatbot or video tutorial can fully replicate.
The 2025 GOP tax overhaul didn’t just slip a few lines into the fine print—it cracked open the middle class piggy bank in several states that were already barely holding it together. Families earning a modest income found themselves footing the bill for cuts that look great in a press release but gut key services and safety nets in practice.
In some states, it’s the cap on deductions. In others, it’s the slashed federal funds for healthcare and food assistance. But across the board, these changes are creating a slow leak in middle-class stability—especially in states where costs were already sky-high. If you live in one of these places, chances are your paycheck isn’t stretching the way it used to.
Most people aren’t asking for yachts or private islands. They just want to be able to afford a doctor’s visit without anxiety, take a vacation once in a while, or send their kids to college without being buried in debt. But for decades, the tax code has favored those with extreme wealth, letting billionaires stash fortunes while everyday people scrape by. If they paid even a reasonable share, the impact on middle-class life could be massive—and deeply practical.
We’re not talking about fantasy spending or wild luxury. We’re talking about realistic upgrades to daily life that would give millions of people more breathing room, more stability, and more time to enjoy the things they already work hard for. These aren’t handouts—they’re investments in a stronger, more balanced society. The kind of upgrades that could change everything, if the richest people on Earth simply chipped in the way the rest of us already do.
Becoming rich isn’t just about smarter investing or building better habits—it’s about mastering the art of dealing with your future self. Most of us sabotage our potential wealth without even realizing it. We delay decisions, skip compound opportunities, and make trades that feel good now but steal from the person we’ll be in ten years. Your future self is the ultimate business partner, and if you don’t get them on board early, they’ll pay the price for your short-term impulses.
Think of negotiating with your future self as a powerful tool for long-term wealth. It’s not about willpower or being perfect. It’s about setting up systems, rules, and boundaries that trick your present self into doing what your future self will thank you for. When you treat your future self like a real person with real needs—and even imagine the conversation you’d have—you change the way you act right now. And that shift could be worth millions. Here are ten techniques to start using today that your future self will look back on as the smartest deals you ever made.
There’s a certain kind of economic theory that resurfaces every few years like a bad rash—dressed up with fresh slogans and slick charts, but still rooted in the same flawed assumptions. “Voodoo economics” was the term once used to mock the idea that slashing taxes for the wealthy would magically lift everyone else. It didn’t work then, and yet somehow, the pitch is making a comeback in 2025—just with newer buzzwords and better PR.
This time, it’s cloaked in language about “incentives,” “growth engines,” and “liberating markets.” But behind the jargon, it’s the same old playbook: cutting taxes for corporations and high earners, gutting public programs, and hoping that somehow the benefits will trickle down. You don’t need an economics degree to know when something doesn’t smell right—you just need to recognize the patterns. These signs point to a growing revival of the same discredited economic ideas that have left ordinary people behind while enriching the few at the top.