WHY did we start this group? Because we are part of the first generation in the history of the United States who do not believe that their lives will be better than their parents. Before, everyone believed that their house would always go up in value. In 2007-2010 (around when many of us were born) they found out otherwise. Now inflation is as high as it has been since before our parents were born. (Our savings are becoming worth less.) Wages are not increasing nearly as fast. (We do not make as much as our parents did, no matter how hard we work.) College costs many times as much as it did for our parents and grandparents. (And degrees definitely do not guarantee us good jobs.) All this and we are STILL taught to Get good grades. Go to college. Get a job. Work hard. Save money (actually currency.) Invest in a 401K (even if stocks are crashing.) And our parents and the traditional school system wonder why we can’t get ahead.

Our parents taught us (Deven & Ethan) that education is very important. And it frequently does not come from school. You must work hard, but only working hard while you are working smart will get you ahead. They thought that working for 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year for 40 years of your life to retire on half as much as you made when you were working was insanity. That is why we learned to start investing at a very early age (5 years old.) My brother and I both started our 1st business when we were seven. Now we own millions of dollars of real estate, gold, silver, cryptocurrency and oil wells. We have done this without any money from our parents.