This morning I got to think about money. Ha, we all think about it surely more than we think about our health or indeed, the love we have in our lives. Humans invented money hundreds of years ago, and nothing was the same ever since.Well, I do not have a rich person's mentality when it comes to money, for the obvious reason. You either need to be born rich, or be a hustler to own that mentality. The hustlers are essentially the new rich, ambitious and adaptable to change, able to prove you don't have to be born rich to make it. They follow the money no matter what. More and more people are driven by the money in highly materialistic world, and I have moments when I wish I was too, but I m quite a misfit. I strive to be content and healthy, with or without a financial bonus. At the same time, I do share and admire the "I can do it" attitude, I just won't sell my soul to it.
But I do also believe that what you have is not who you are. The job you have is not who you are.
Money do not smell, and so we prefer not to ask where they come from, once we get our hands on it. Its the main reason for the rich getting reacher, but thats the only way for the poor to get poorer. We strive for equality but we created a deeply flawed unequal world. We say: spend more to have more. Similar to the property bubble in Ireland, this consumerism is doomed to burst. Too little of what we manufacture and use its ever recycled. "Every time you spend money,your casting a vote for the kind of world you want" There are long term repercussions to this, and the economic one is just one of them.
"The problem, of course, is that people who don’t have enough money to buy food (and more than one billion people earn less than $1.00 a day), simply don’t count in the food equation.
In other words, if you don’t have the money to buy food, no one is going to grow it for you.
Put yet another way, you would not expect The Gap to manufacture clothes, Adidas to manufacture sneakers, or IBM to provide computers for those people earning $1.00 a day or less; likewise, you would not expect ADM (“Supermarket to the World”) to produce food for them.
What this means is that ending hunger requires doing away with poverty, or, at the very least, ensuring that people have enough money or the means to acquire it, to buy, and hence create a market demand for food"
In other words, if you don’t have the money to buy food, no one is going to grow it for you.
Put yet another way, you would not expect The Gap to manufacture clothes, Adidas to manufacture sneakers, or IBM to provide computers for those people earning $1.00 a day or less; likewise, you would not expect ADM (“Supermarket to the World”) to produce food for them.
What this means is that ending hunger requires doing away with poverty, or, at the very least, ensuring that people have enough money or the means to acquire it, to buy, and hence create a market demand for food"
I wasn't born rich. My grandparents weren't either. I only seen huge houses on TV, I never been in one. My mum had nothing much to give me when I started in life, except for a good heart and a healthy body. They can never be bought or replaced. The way I see it, I can only go from rags to riches, and not the other way around. Thats how I see myself blessed. And I know- and thats enough for me- that I could have it all, if I want it. I was proven so many times I can do whatever I want to do. Its amazing how much you get from life every day, is up to you to go for it. I believe in small steps to freedom, in making a living, not a "killing" I do not obsess over how rich people did it. I just follow my own path and at any given time in my life, family is most important to me. Both rich and poor have one life only. When you die, whatever you leave behind certainly is no use to you. The houses and the cars won't weight much if I m to go to hell.
the title is an Italian proverb, the quotes are by Anne Lappe , and of course, Unknown
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