You know I have seen quite a few people recently wearing T-shirts bearing the faces of prominent socialists and I find it very disturbing.
Everywhere I turn there is class envy being promoted. Finger pointing at the wealthy in our world.
I'd like to take this opportunity to express to you why I believe capitalism is the most unquestionable road to freedom that has ever been made available and just why we should do everything in our power to preserve it.
Nowhere on earth has there ever been a place such as the United States of America, where a person can come from anywhere else in the world and be free to get an education, start a business and become wealthier than perhaps they ever imagined possible.
Capitalism rewards people who work hard and smart to build a vision. The integral part of this equation is you. What do you want from your life and how hard are you willing to work and grow to make it happen?
Opponents of this theory suggest that it is elitist. They would have you believe it is some secret club open only to a few select families. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact there are more self made millionaires today than inherited millionaires.
Other arguments we get are that all the breaks are given to the top percentage of wealth. What usually doesn't surface is the fact that the top percentage of wealth also pays the most taxes and creates the most jobs.
What can be more free than being able to decide who you want to help financially? Obviously you can create more change in the world if you are wealthy enough to do so. What is more powerful, giving $50 to your favorite cause or $50,000? The difference is wealth.
Here is a simplified yet basic game plan to change your class through capitalism:
* Educate yourself on some product or service of value. (accounting, landscaping, law enforcement)
* To go from lower class to middle class you get educated in a skill that is more highly paid.
* To go from middle class to upper class, you learn to use leverage to increase the amount you get paid to the amount that the free market will bear. (Creating a product that is licensed like a book, CD, movie that is created once but pays many times or a company where you make a profit on every hour your employees work.)
* Hopefully you will also take a percentage of all you own and invest it in other companies, real estate or other asset to both help sustain the free market as well as let your money work to earn you more money.
Make the commitment to embrace capitalism, create value, sell it on the open market and build wealth so that you can shape the world around you while living the life you were destined to live.
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