Tagged: Wealth
Money and power tend to amplify who a person really is underneath. So a generous person who becomes wealthy will be a philanthropist...
Wealth Creation vs. Transfer of Wealth
Right now there are whole industries dedicated to making money off people's misery and insecurities. There are also industries that make money by helping people gain happiness and prosperity.
Should Workers Be Paid Based on Value?
Over and over I hear competing arguments about whether people should be paid a living wage (and implementing a minimum wage to ensure that) or whether people should be paid what the market will bear and if people want to make more money, they should get a better education and job skills. Both sides have…
Fundamental Law of Capitalism
The fundamental law of capitalism must be: If workers have more money, businesses have more customers. Which makes middle-class consumers, not rich business people, the true job creators...
The Pitchforks are Coming
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for [the rich]. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is...
The Real Struggle
If we take a deep look at history, it's never really been a struggle about races or colors or creeds; it's always been a struggle between the powerful and the powerless, the rich and the poor, the old and the new...
From Nothing to Wealthy
I've seen people go from nothing to wealthy due to hard word, persistence and ingenuity. They didn't become evil and malicious when they became rich; instead they were generous and good to people, probably because...
Wealth is All Relative
Interesting how everything is relative. The American middle class doesn't like the fact they're losing ground to the rich. The American poor look at the middle class and ask why...