Working for someone else is quite silly
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Allow me to be the first one in history to say out loud what everybody is thinking and but is not saying: "This business of working for a living is the stupidest idea ever invented by man!"
I realized this in June 2000 and have never, since then, stepped foot in an office again. I actually had an office for my marketing communications company, but only came in to meet clients in the conference room. There was a total of 3 meetings over the course of several months.
Anyway, my point is that everybody KNOWS that it's quite silly to spend 40 years working for somebody else. The question is, Why do we submit to that economic dictatorship?
Sure, some people may say, "Well, Peter, not everybody is cut out to be an entrepreneur. Being a slave worker might be a bad idea, but we don't really have a choice!"
Something similar was probably said by serfs during the feudal age, as they worked hard and strained all their muscles every day in order to cultivate the land. The rulers (or managers) during those days were knights, who had the force, skill and weapons to subdue the serfs and force everybody into obedience. Like today's managers, those knights did not own the land since all lands belong to the king.
My point is that today, there are so many tools for people to channel their creativity in order to create new products that THEY own (not the employer). Once you own a product, you can sell it to the entire world and enormous profits over and over again.
I just watched on TV just now a documentary about a Chinese lady who became a multimillionaire by manufacturing nothing but socks. 100,000 pairs of socks every year! Half goes to the Chinese market, the other half goes to foreign markets like Europe, the U.S. and Japan.
Socks! There's nothing less imaginative than socks! Yet, she's making millions! And she doesn't even own a cell phone or a computer, she runs the company using nothing but paper and notebooks!
It's really quite simple if you want to become rich and achieve financial freedom: don't look for a job, look for a product you can create. Any job you will get, will never belong to you. Any product you create, belongs to you forever (if you own the copyright or patent, your children will even benefit after you die!).
I'm not saying that creating a product is easy. If it were, all your friends would have a product and a business to run in order to make money from it.
But trust me, once you switch your mindset to asking questions like "What can I create that would serve a need out there?" or "What is a problem people have that I can solve?" etc. and stop thinking in terms of "jobs", then your financial future will begin to look very, very promising.
I say that because in truth, capitalism is a system that really, really favors people who have products. Capitalism CRUSHES people who have jobs, because the capitalistic system is DESIGNED to help, allow, drive and encourage capitalists to EXPLOIT workers. Whether you're a junior professional, a seasoned manager or a high-level executive, there is one constant that links all these jobs -- the relentless focus of the employing organization to exploit your "human resource" as much as possible for the highest return possible.
However, if you have a product, then capitalism works for you. You can learn a bit of business in order to run a one-product company and make a lot of money from it.
Allow me to be the first one in history to say out loud what everybody is thinking and but is not saying: "This business of working for a living is the stupidest idea ever invented by man!"
I realized this in June 2000 and have never, since then, stepped foot in an office again. I actually had an office for my marketing communications company, but only came in to meet clients in the conference room. There was a total of 3 meetings over the course of several months.
Anyway, my point is that everybody KNOWS that it's quite silly to spend 40 years working for somebody else. The question is, Why do we submit to that economic dictatorship?
Sure, some people may say, "Well, Peter, not everybody is cut out to be an entrepreneur. Being a slave worker might be a bad idea, but we don't really have a choice!"
Something similar was probably said by serfs during the feudal age, as they worked hard and strained all their muscles every day in order to cultivate the land. The rulers (or managers) during those days were knights, who had the force, skill and weapons to subdue the serfs and force everybody into obedience. Like today's managers, those knights did not own the land since all lands belong to the king.
My point is that today, there are so many tools for people to channel their creativity in order to create new products that THEY own (not the employer). Once you own a product, you can sell it to the entire world and enormous profits over and over again.
I just watched on TV just now a documentary about a Chinese lady who became a multimillionaire by manufacturing nothing but socks. 100,000 pairs of socks every year! Half goes to the Chinese market, the other half goes to foreign markets like Europe, the U.S. and Japan.
Socks! There's nothing less imaginative than socks! Yet, she's making millions! And she doesn't even own a cell phone or a computer, she runs the company using nothing but paper and notebooks!
It's really quite simple if you want to become rich and achieve financial freedom: don't look for a job, look for a product you can create. Any job you will get, will never belong to you. Any product you create, belongs to you forever (if you own the copyright or patent, your children will even benefit after you die!).
I'm not saying that creating a product is easy. If it were, all your friends would have a product and a business to run in order to make money from it.
But trust me, once you switch your mindset to asking questions like "What can I create that would serve a need out there?" or "What is a problem people have that I can solve?" etc. and stop thinking in terms of "jobs", then your financial future will begin to look very, very promising.
I say that because in truth, capitalism is a system that really, really favors people who have products. Capitalism CRUSHES people who have jobs, because the capitalistic system is DESIGNED to help, allow, drive and encourage capitalists to EXPLOIT workers. Whether you're a junior professional, a seasoned manager or a high-level executive, there is one constant that links all these jobs -- the relentless focus of the employing organization to exploit your "human resource" as much as possible for the highest return possible.
However, if you have a product, then capitalism works for you. You can learn a bit of business in order to run a one-product company and make a lot of money from it.
posted by Super Peter at 12:26 AM
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