Power in America depends on your status and/or occupation. Your
status and/or occupation depend on your network. Your network is shaped by
people you meet along your way through your education and opportunities. The
level of education you attain depends on your natural abilities and your unnatural
ability to pay for it, i.e. your wealth. Your opportunities depend on your access
to different groups in society, which also depends on your wealth. And what does
your wealth depend on?
Family.
No child is born clutching a trust fund in their little
fist, which developed in the womb with them. If a child is born wealthy, it is
because the child was born to parents who have accumulated wealth through their
hard work and/or the hard work of their parents before them. We acknowledge
that children are not born into equal amounts of wealth and so begin their
journey with different levels of advantage, attaining consequently, different
levels of power within their lifetime.
So, we must help increase the advantage for those who are
born into families of little wealth. I do not propose the transfer of money
from a generous individual or group to a family of less wealth. They would
almost certainly waste that money away, not because they are bad or greedy, or will
use it for bad things, but because many of them do not know how to use that
money to generate more money.
So how do you generate money?
I'm still trying to figure that one out myself.
No comments:
Post a Comment