This “meme” illustrates fixed-pie thinking wherein in order for anyone to be rich, someone else has to be poor… or some many elses. This is simply untrue.
It’s not only possible, but very common, for people to work productively and create wealth. This is infinite-pie thinking. If I work hard and create wealth, it does not make other people poor. It simply creates wealth for me. If I invest my time in cutting down a tree and carving a shaft of wood into a long-bow and putting together the sinew for the string… I have created something from nothing. That long bow is my wealth. If someone pays me for it, awesome. Now I have money serving as a proxy for the wealth I created. The poor guy sitting on the sidelines sees my money and shouts “gib me dat.” That poor guy had nothing to do with my creation of the long bow, nothing to do with my creation of wealth, but now that we can measure his zero dollars and my three hundred dollars, suddenly I am rich and owe the poor guy a living.
No thanks. I’ll be productive, create wealth and buy all the toys I can afford before I die.
You said this much more eloquently than I could have.
Poverty doesn't exist because we can't feed the poor, it exists because the poor cannot feed themselves. And I'm not necessarily blaming the poor for that, we live in an economic system where it's difficult to get out of poverty. It didn't used to be that way.
Government both disincentivizes the general population from helping them, and also squanders the money they steal from us in the name of "helping" the poor.
To my point.. It becomes for many a status issue rather that a way to take care of our needs and to help others.. and hence totally seeped in Comparisons !!
Capitalism rules. Get as rich as you can and enjoy life while you've got it. There's no amount of broke that can save the world. Make money. Lots of money. Do good. Lots of good.
“...is the root of many evils.”
Thank you for that clarification :) My observation tells me it’s a Very Powerful Root for creating MANY evil results ..
This “meme” illustrates fixed-pie thinking wherein in order for anyone to be rich, someone else has to be poor… or some many elses. This is simply untrue.
It’s not only possible, but very common, for people to work productively and create wealth. This is infinite-pie thinking. If I work hard and create wealth, it does not make other people poor. It simply creates wealth for me. If I invest my time in cutting down a tree and carving a shaft of wood into a long-bow and putting together the sinew for the string… I have created something from nothing. That long bow is my wealth. If someone pays me for it, awesome. Now I have money serving as a proxy for the wealth I created. The poor guy sitting on the sidelines sees my money and shouts “gib me dat.” That poor guy had nothing to do with my creation of the long bow, nothing to do with my creation of wealth, but now that we can measure his zero dollars and my three hundred dollars, suddenly I am rich and owe the poor guy a living.
No thanks. I’ll be productive, create wealth and buy all the toys I can afford before I die.
You said this much more eloquently than I could have.
Poverty doesn't exist because we can't feed the poor, it exists because the poor cannot feed themselves. And I'm not necessarily blaming the poor for that, we live in an economic system where it's difficult to get out of poverty. It didn't used to be that way.
Government both disincentivizes the general population from helping them, and also squanders the money they steal from us in the name of "helping" the poor.
Fuk the hedgies and banks,buy and hold your favorite stonk.
That’s just a way to protect your “wealth” from dollar inflation.
It's the only way to crash the whole thing. It's how the cabal launders many billions of dollars.
"Rich" means something different to all people. For most of the world, everyone in America is rich.
To my point.. It becomes for many a status issue rather that a way to take care of our needs and to help others.. and hence totally seeped in Comparisons !!
Capitalism rules. Get as rich as you can and enjoy life while you've got it. There's no amount of broke that can save the world. Make money. Lots of money. Do good. Lots of good.
I just want my tendies.