The New Rules of Getting Ahead in 2026
570: Adapt To The Changing Game
Good morning.
Going to be a stormy day in the Northeast, so a good day for me to drop a new post on how you can pull ahead of the herd. You didn’t subscribe here to learn how to be average did you?
A post I made on X this weekend went mildly viral to my surprise.
Some of the people in the comments were pissed or didn’t seem to understand what I was getting at here.
I could have said $1M is nothing anymore, and that would be mostly true. In fact, $1 million today has roughly the same purchasing power as just $116,000 did in 1970.
Pretty absurd.
I picked $2M because that would roughly assume you might have a home paid off and $1 to $1.2M invested or in cash. At any other point in human history you would be pretty much set for life with $2M.
Decades of inflation have quietly eroded purchasing power, while the cost of housing, healthcare, education, and countless other necessities has continued climbing. And despite years of aggressive interest rate hikes, inflation still hasn't fully returned to the Federal Reserve's 2% target. In fact, prediction markets on Polymarket currently expect July's CPI report to come in around 3.4% year-over-year, suggesting price pressures remain stubbornly elevated.
The simple point I was trying to convey here, is that if you have 556,850 people with $30M how many do you have at $20M? At $10M? At $5M?
Millions. A good estimate is 5–7 million people worldwide.
That’s a lot of people.
Critics in the comments said “DO yOU kNoW How ManY pEOpLE ThEre ARe On EArth?!” And my response is, do you really want to be like the billions of other people on earth?
I sure don’t.
Especially not today when everything’s expensive as hell and those with wealth are able to afford better everything: homes, healthcare, neighborhoods, schools, food, etc.
I’m making a pretty simple assumption about ALL OF YOU as well. I am assuming all of you want to be wealthy. That you want to be winners and to try to come out on top. No shame if not, but that’s how I have always been programmed. I’m not concerned with the opinions of people who are content living a below average, average, or uninspiring life. For those of us who want more, we have to come to terms with a major realization:
The world has become exponentially more competitive.
Most people are still playing by rules that worked in 1985 and on top of that they don’t realize that wealth isn't the only story anymore, competition is.
You make $80,000 on your $1,000,000 invested (that you made with this guide)?
That’s great but the person with $30 million just made $2.4 million without working any harder than you did. That difference isn’t just a bigger number on a brokerage statement. It’s another house, another business acquisition, another angel investment, another private equity fund, another rental property, another opportunity that most people will never even see. And next year those assets compound again.
This is why it feels like you’re running on a treadmill while others seem to be riding an escalator with a jet fuel propulsion system.
Making matters worse, there is simply more money chasing assets than at any point in history.
Governments have created trillions of dollars over the past decade. Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, family offices, private equity firms, and corporations are all competing for the same stocks, real estate, businesses, and scarce assets.
Today for our paid subs we will review:
All assets I hold (and believe will be strong winners in the coming years)
How to think about asset accumulation and ownership
Normie behaviors to avoid
Market signs reinforcing what may be coming sooner than most think
Today I want to explain to you how to stop competing with the average person, and start thinking like the tiny fraction of people who have consistently been able to pull away from the pack.
You have less time than you think and financial markets have confirmed a few trends that can grant you some serious opportunities if you know where to focus.
"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."
— William Gibson