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The NT$300,000 'Savings' From Buying a Used Car Can Wipe You Out

Financial gurus keep telling you that used cars are the smart buy. We tear apart the hidden math of the lemon market, the 15% loan shark rates from in-house financing, and the repair money pit — then run the real compound-interest numbers to show why your 'savings' can cost you NT$2.6 million in lost wealth.

2026.06.22 9 min

Wealth Awakening

Scratch-Off Lottery Exposed: NT$1.8M Spent Chasing an Illusion of Escape

Scratch cards aren't harmless fun — they're a precision-engineered harvesting system. NT$500 a day for ten years (NT$1.8M total) buys not a lifeline out of poverty, but a brutal poverty tax. The "so close" effect that hooks working-class players was designed by elite psychologists to keep you addicted. We expose how cheap dopamine destroys your ability to climb the income ladder — and show you the positive-expected-value systems that actually build wealth.

2026.06.22 9 min