Sunday, August 24, 2014

Subtle shifts

Sitting thinking back on my life to this point and it's amazing where god has taken me. I feel like I've been living the American dream. I'm 34 married to my best friend, have been together for 20 years, have two radiant children, nice house, nice vehicles, that are paid for, kids are in private school, owned my own business for five years, have built so many relationships, both in business and personally, I know who I am, I've been shown my vision... I could go on and on. Only now I want something more and I want it for my fellow man as well. For some reason it's just no longer acceptable to me that we have so few with so much and so many with so little. Of course there's always those who will say but why the hell should I give you some of my money if I earned it? These same people don't earn over a million dollars a year. Because if they did... They wouldn't care. The uber rich that control and own this country have trillions. In the late 1950's the amount of money that they were distributing annually to this select few was 300 billion dollars. In 1950's dollars not 2014 dollars!! Today it would be $2,962,487,288,135.59
What on earth can you buy for a billion dollars? A company? Shares of stock?  Nothing that's truly tangible. That stops way back in the millions. I mean even if you wanted to buy Aristotle Onasis' island Skorpios it's highest value was 200 million. Sadly, most people don't know what you can buy with a million, hundred thousand, ten thousand or even one thousand dollars. So back to my question the simple answer is not a lot. So why stockpile it? Why withhold that from others simply because you're scared to lose it? People who inherit rather than take risks to earn don't understand the hunt. (But that's a whole nother post haha!) If they (private owners of the United States federal reserve) redistributed the interest they earned in 1950 in today's dollars. Which is 3 trillion dollars. And there are 300 million people in America. Every person would get roughly $10,000
Even if you earned more than a million a year. Everyone would benefit. That's some stimulation to the economy for that ass! It's not a racial issue that we have in America. It's a socioeconomic imbalance that with the current state of technology will be dismantled by the have nots. And the have's which have inherited and never worked or understood the true meaning of work to eat will have to let go of some of their control. Great wealth that is inherited is always vulnerable in the transitionary period. Everything is changing with the internet. They never planned for this. It really is the Wild West again. #static