I’m amazed that so many folks have a hard time admitting they like money. I love money. In fact, I believe the guy who first translated I Timothy 6:10 needed glasses: I’m sure it should have read, “The LACK of money is the root of all evil.”
If money is evil, time is evil … freedom is evil … your very life is evil. Because all money is, is a physical manifestation of time.
You’ve got two choices of how to spend each day. You can spend it doing what you want to do, or doing what someone else – a client, for example – wants you to do.
So when you work, you’re selling your scarcest resource: Chunks of your life. You only have so many minutes on this planet and you’ve agreed to trade some of them in return for money.
Now, you can sell your life for peanuts if you want. Me? I’m looking for the highest bidder. That means making sure every minute I spend working brings me the maximum number of simoleans possible.
That lets me provide a great life for my wife, kids and grandkids. It lets me donate to charity. It lets me BUY BACK chunks of my life later on and have the freedom to do whatever I please. It means when I’m 96 years old and pooping in a diaper, I won’t be a burden to anyone.
Awesome! Genius!
Oh, before anybody goes off on me, let me include his next paragraph:
So my goal list has only one item on it: Make more money. So long as I’m not violating a personal ethic, or a law, or a regulation, or hurting someone else, I’m going for the moolah.
Kinda reminds me of "...And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
I'm really looking forward to that lightening bolt, aren't I?
2 comments:
“The LACK of money is the root of all evil.”
I've been saying that forever; what % of rich people commit crimes compared to the % of poor ones that do?
Crime and poverty stem from the same root: ignorance about how to gain and keep wealth.
That's what they're not teaching in our schools. Franklin's The Way to Wealth would go a long way toward fixing that problem.
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