Duffdog-
You make good, accurate points of what’s happening right now.
Key being: Right Now
This is where owning and investing come into play. Owners and investors take that knowledge YOU have and use it for their GAIN. That and their own knowledge and abilities as buyers and sellers.
There will always be owning and investing on some level because human nature will see to it.
People will still want to eat, live in shelter, wear clothes and then buy products. Therefore, there will always be companies created to serve those needs and those companies will have owners and likewise investors that will hold stake in them for return. Companies will always grow and change, succeed and die and move around as necessary to survive and/or give the ownership/investors what they need.
Man has an innate need to find creative ways to make money. Whether it be working for someone or employing someone to help carry on an idea that he himself created.
We can talk about social justice, sunshine and smiles, equal reward so on and so on all we want. And yes, man will always desire these things and these concepts will always be in practice and be relevant. But once these concepts get in the way of man bettering his life and prospering further, once these concepts LIMIT his capabilities beyond that which he can justify, he will then stop those ideas in favor of letting his natural inclination of living his life to his utmost potential take over again. It's a give and take.
What I hear coming from our Universities and colleges nowadays, and I went there and got a degree so I could increase my income so I know because I heard it over and over, is that what we ALL need to do is pursue lives where we have a 'trade' or 'skill' we must work at our entire lives, while occasionally going back to school of course
, and thereby keeping occupied at our desks and work stations sitting in our chairs and working toward that day in our misty future when we finally can retire and enjoy our final years on a measly pension/IRA-mutual fund/maybe Social Security and see our children and grandchildren go through the same thing over and over again.
Furthermore, we should like this existence because it's GUARANTEED and SAFE and we know we won't be on the street or going hungry or heaven forbid 'risking' anything as long as we work HARD enough for our boss (12 hour days plus weekends with no ultimate reward later on) until we get the privilege of holding a somewhat higher position that requires yet more time for yet another decade or so.
This is the BIG LIE that people buy into and I even sadly have started to participate in, though I have other plans.
This BIG LIE is that you will be happy being a drone, living your life working for someone else until your 65 (it will be 70-75 for anyone under 40 nowadays)
The hard truth is that a much lesser percent of the population actually has a passionate desire to work at a trade their entire lives. It's as if you’re FORCED now to become passionate and excited about something school oriented so that you can be excited and passionate about working at an activity everyday for most of the rest of your earthly existence.
If you are excited about being an economist, then awesome! Good for you! But there are just as many who went the same route as you who have found they don't like nearly as much as they were led to believe they would.
Man has a right to try and better his existence. And he has a right to better it so that he doesn't have to do the 9-5, 8-5 or 7-7 M-F/S/S for the rest of his life if he doesn't want to
You make good, accurate points of what’s happening right now.
Key being: Right Now
This is where owning and investing come into play. Owners and investors take that knowledge YOU have and use it for their GAIN. That and their own knowledge and abilities as buyers and sellers.
There will always be owning and investing on some level because human nature will see to it.
People will still want to eat, live in shelter, wear clothes and then buy products. Therefore, there will always be companies created to serve those needs and those companies will have owners and likewise investors that will hold stake in them for return. Companies will always grow and change, succeed and die and move around as necessary to survive and/or give the ownership/investors what they need.
Man has an innate need to find creative ways to make money. Whether it be working for someone or employing someone to help carry on an idea that he himself created.
We can talk about social justice, sunshine and smiles, equal reward so on and so on all we want. And yes, man will always desire these things and these concepts will always be in practice and be relevant. But once these concepts get in the way of man bettering his life and prospering further, once these concepts LIMIT his capabilities beyond that which he can justify, he will then stop those ideas in favor of letting his natural inclination of living his life to his utmost potential take over again. It's a give and take.
What I hear coming from our Universities and colleges nowadays, and I went there and got a degree so I could increase my income so I know because I heard it over and over, is that what we ALL need to do is pursue lives where we have a 'trade' or 'skill' we must work at our entire lives, while occasionally going back to school of course
, and thereby keeping occupied at our desks and work stations sitting in our chairs and working toward that day in our misty future when we finally can retire and enjoy our final years on a measly pension/IRA-mutual fund/maybe Social Security and see our children and grandchildren go through the same thing over and over again.Furthermore, we should like this existence because it's GUARANTEED and SAFE and we know we won't be on the street or going hungry or heaven forbid 'risking' anything as long as we work HARD enough for our boss (12 hour days plus weekends with no ultimate reward later on) until we get the privilege of holding a somewhat higher position that requires yet more time for yet another decade or so.
This is the BIG LIE that people buy into and I even sadly have started to participate in, though I have other plans.
This BIG LIE is that you will be happy being a drone, living your life working for someone else until your 65 (it will be 70-75 for anyone under 40 nowadays)
The hard truth is that a much lesser percent of the population actually has a passionate desire to work at a trade their entire lives. It's as if you’re FORCED now to become passionate and excited about something school oriented so that you can be excited and passionate about working at an activity everyday for most of the rest of your earthly existence.
If you are excited about being an economist, then awesome! Good for you! But there are just as many who went the same route as you who have found they don't like nearly as much as they were led to believe they would.
Man has a right to try and better his existence. And he has a right to better it so that he doesn't have to do the 9-5, 8-5 or 7-7 M-F/S/S for the rest of his life if he doesn't want to
