Milking the poor to make the rich.. richer.

[TJC1]

As I said at the beginning of my post Cyclone, they'd have to be operating a "business" that they love. Nobody ever got rich working for the man now did they.

 

Im with you, people get rich from creating a business they love and often as a consequence not because they wanted to create wealth.

[Cyclone]

But we can't all be on Job Seekers Allowance!

 

I was thinking about teachers, research scientists and people in similar careers who love what they do.

 

Facebook did start off by talking about business, but his summary just said this

 

Spend the majority of your day doing what you love = RICH.

Spend the majority of your day doing what you hate = POOR.

 

If what you love doing isn't running a business then doing what you love isn't going to make you rich.

[FACEBOOK]

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[Cyclone]

I know people in research who really do love what they do, they love the subject, that's why they're researching it. It's unlikely to ever make them rich though.

Loving something alone is not enough for it to be a profitable endeavour.

[FACEBOOK]

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[Ms Macbeth]

Don't you just love the little people on this website?

 

I certainly don't dislike them. I just think its sad there is so much bitterness around. Equality has been tried under different names and different regimes, but human nature always rears its head, and so inequalities develop. It usually just means another group are in power. Is that what the people who clamour loudest for change really want?

 

Perhaps think about what's happened in China since the communists took power: China's Communist Party came to power promising to end the country's traditional class structure. As it turned out, it turned the class structure on its head. Scholars, landowners and merchants, the former privileged classes, were stripped of their rights, and sometimes of their lives. Villagers and workers were, for a time, elevated, in status and opportunity.

 

More than 60 years on, farmers and workers are again at the bottom of the heap, and while there's a growing middle class, China has one of the world's biggest and fastest-growing rates of income disparity.

 

China's national anthem may exhort the downtrodden, "arise, those who refuse to be slaves," but these days, those who want to get rich join the Party, and the Party wants the rich to join it. That way, wealth stays concentrated in the hands of its members, who have little incentive to change the system.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18120921

[neepsendlane]

I've known some incredibly wealthy people and I've known some incredibly poor people, and there is an interesting difference.

 

Every wealthy person I've EVER known spends the majority of their day operating a business they own and they LOVE what they do. Their work isn't a chore.

 

Every poor person I've EVER known spends the majority of their day going through the motions, like a robot, employed doing a job they mostly HATE to do.

 

The reason why the lottery winners isn't a good example is when someone poor wins a lot of money without knowing what it is they love to do, they usually blow it all trying to find out what that something is.

 

Spend the majority of your day doing what you love = RICH.

Spend the majority of your day doing what you hate = POOR.

 

If you don't know what you love to do, it might be a good idea to invest some time and find out.

 

 

and then

 

 

build a HUGE BTL portfolio

As a bricklayer I spent my working days creating walls , stone work, pavings, and furnaces etc.

I loved that work and when I walk around Sheffield and see some Thing I helped create I feel proud .

At the end of all this I got arthritic joints in wrists Knees, and back. I never considered my self a robot and neither did the majority of building workers who I had the pleasure to meet on my journey through life even though many are today skint.

No the people I feel sorry for are the silver spoon brigade who do not and never will know what life is really like, when ones back is against the wall[pun].

They must go through life thinking that they are some kind of Superior beings when in fact they have never experienced life as it is in the real World.

[Mister M]

Many people in all professions say that they love their jobs, but they don't actually "love" their jobs, it's just what they do, probably can't imagine doing anything else. Love doesn't come into it. Maybe like at best. You can't have a mediocre return if you operate a business you love.

 

If people are poor and unhappy, they are just simply spending their days doing the wrong things. It's as simple as that.

 

There are lots of people in professions which have a vocational calling (medicine, nursing, social work) which sometimes transcend the 9-5 drudgery that some people complain about, I doubt whether some very talented people who work in these fields would continue to do so, if they did not 'love' (perhaps not the right word), but certainly feel some affinity for their clients/patients.

But then lots of people who work do so as a means to an end i.e. money, which enables them to pursue what ever it is gives meaning to their life (family, money for holidays etc.)

 

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Take for example someone that's unemployed. Those that really want to work probably feel frustration, anger, sadness, lots of negative emotions. But really, they are actually in a better position than someone in an average job. The person in an average job probably wouldn't dare quit to start a business of their own, that god forbid, they actually loved getting up in the morning to do, lots of reasons why this would be such a "stupid" idea. No way the wife or husband would allow it, bills to pay, kids to feed all that stuff. Locking the average person into a job for "life" if they're "lucky" enough to keep it for that long, maybe a nice pension too, that could be reduced to nothing like has happened to so many.

 

The able bodied unemployed person has already had this decision taken away from them. No years of procrastination then regret for this guy, he's already at home able to work 18 hours a day on a business he loves if he CHOOSES to. Instead of earning the LEAST amount possible an employer can get away with paying him, he now gets to keep ALL THE PROFIT his company can generate.

 

Rarely do I say this to unemployed people because then starts the excuses...

 

"you're not allowed to start a business while your on jobseekers"

"I've got no money to start a business"

"I don't have the skill to start a business"

the list of excuses is endless.

 

Some of the biggest companies on the planet were started with less than $500 and a telephone. Imagine being out of work when you have access to billions of consumers at the click of a button.

 

The rich are not milking the poor. In most cases, the poor just don't want to work or improve themselves unless it's handed to them on a plate for free, which of course is never going to happen. You hear the phrase that companies that go under don't move with the times, same for people, if you don't move with the times, improve your understanding of the vast and constant shift of opportunities that surround us all regardless of class, you go under.

 

That's what the papers encourage us to believe, experience tells me that lots of people are desperate to change their situation but life, personal circumstances get in the way. We very rarely hear about those people and their circumstances - things are often presented in a very simplistic black/white - good/bad way. Life as the majority of people live it is shades of grey. It is for me & my peer group anyway.

[FACEBOOK]

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[Mister M]

Ok, take the life's work of a doctor, a GP, most people would consider that to be a great achievement, a wonderful job / career, well paid and worthwhile. But is that the reality for the doctor? Most of these poor saps are stuck in pretty grim hum drum tiny offices in tired buildings, and like "robots" they spend the day working their conveyor belt of patients, doing their best to appear caring whilst having to do their utmost to get the patient in and out within 10 minutes to meet whatever the guidelines are.

 

Imagine having to do that day in day out, mostly the same minor ailments, mostly the same patients and remember, these are gp's, "general" practitioners, nobody ever achieved anything "great" by being general at anything. Anything that's remotely interesting which comes their way, they have to refer out. And so it follows that nobody could ever "love" doing a general job, because general means, "nothing special" ordinary.

 

They may start out believing it's their vocation, but after a few months of the same drudgery, I wouldn't believe anyone in those professions really "loved" what they do. Jobs by their very nature are repetitive so will be boring. It's not possible to love a job longterm. Because jobs are the same every day, you're paid to do a specific task. Airline pilot, heart surgeon, you name it, I bet they're all bored out of their minds long term.

 

With a mindset of 'glass half empty', you could even make the job of a great actor sound humdrum!

Sure the daily grind can wear people down, but one of the joys of general practice (I would of thought) is building relationships with people, to put into practice your particular area of interest, and see people at their worst times of their lives - but come through the other side.