That's a pretty serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to back that up?
If you actually ready any of the things we wrote, I think you're going to find it really hard to find any suggestion that "getting rich" is easy, fast, or common.
A kinder - but not, I think, less accurate - phrase might be, "selling pickaxes to gold miners".
To my eyes, this "accusation" is more like stating the plain facts of the matter. There's often more reliable money in selling people advice or tools, that they use to do something, than there is in actually doing that thing. When people are trying to sell you advice, or tools, or what have you, it's worth bearing in mind that their interests are not automatically aligned with yours.
This is general-purpose advice, given apropos of very little.
I can't figure out how you think that's "kinder" instead of "a compliment." What's so noble about gold mining, exactly? Or with a long-term impact?
If I help 10 students build $100k/yr+ businesses, that's a $1 m/year impact I've made… which will continue to improve their lives, have an impact on their families and their communities and naturally themselves, and anyone they tutor, too. And the first of my students are reaching that goalpost, 2-3 years later.
Freckle, too, is designed to help my customers earn more & build a better business. And I have over a thousand paying customers there.
How's that less valuable or less honorable than creating some kind of social startup I hope to sell for a couple million dollars? (Or investing in somebody who does?)
There aren't a lot of gold miners who have created lasting wealth, or lasting impact.
That's a pretty serious accusation. Do you have any evidence to back that up?
If you actually ready any of the things we wrote, I think you're going to find it really hard to find any suggestion that "getting rich" is easy, fast, or common.