A lot of financial debates are just people with different time horizons talking over each other. Few things are as valuable in the modern world as a good bullshit detector. If you don't have a good antenna for those kind of things, it's going to be very difficult to get ahead financially. And we should never pretend that everyone in that spectrum is playing the same game by the same rules.
There are only a handful of financial rules, ideas, and observations that really move the needle -- and explain the majority of what you need to know to do better with your money.
I could have narrowed this down to 10, but I had fun with this thought experiment, so here are my top 30 rules of the money game.