11/4/2022 0 Comments Is money the root of all evil![]() ![]() “Would you like the Walmart experience, but bought from home and delivered to your doorstep?” ![]() “Would you like to be able to go to one store and buy almost anything at a very low price?” And so the Walmart empire grew. “Do you want cheap heating oil, even if it takes me taking over the entire supply chain to deliver it?” Consumers said “yes,” even though the government would eventually come and shut him down. To travelers: “Want a place to crash that’s NOT a hotel?” To homeowners and renters: “Would you be willing to rent out your spare couch or bedroom?” Both said “Yes” and now AirBnB books more room nights than any hotel chain in the world. Is money the root of all evil free#He asked, through Facebook, “do you want a free place to be and talk and connect online, even if it’s financially supported by people who want to buy your attention with advertising dollars?” The market said yes, and Zuck made a mint. Whatever you think of Facebook, it’s been a resounding success. ![]() What I’m talking about are entrepreneurs.įolks who start from scratch, with an idea, and put a real solution out into the marketplace.įolks who make an offer, and succeed or fail on the voluntary decision of one or a million customers buying their wares.įolks who ask the market, “Is this solution of service to you?” and only win big when the answer is a resounding “YES!” Here I’m not talking about people who wrestled to the top of the corporate ladder… Or people who just made their fortunes by creating and trading toxic derivatives on Wall Street… Or any of the ticks and leeches who make a living sucking vast wealth off the taxpaying public by offering bloated-priced and ineffective “solutions” to government- and bureaucracy-invented problems. Most people who create massive wealth do so by being of massive service to others… There’s a fact about most wealth creators that is ignored because it doesn’t make them convenient villains for children’s fairy tales… In the last 24 hours, there was an announcement that the Justice Department will now be more active in pursuing individual convictions in cases of corporate fraud - which I think is a step in the right direction in terms of combating what is very dangerous behavior.īut there’s a clean truth that doesn’t get printed, because it doesn’t move papers… Period, end of story.Īnd there’s no doubt there’s soul-sucking debauchery, sociopathic selfishness, and other toxic greed on Wall Street, and in profit-seeking businesses all across the globe. In our “if it bleeds, it leads” brand of yellow journalism, “Wall Street greed” is presented as the sickness of wealth. This belief is ubiquitous in our culture. There’s a commonly mis-quoted Bible verse, thought by many to say, “Money is the root of all evil.” (I’ll get to what it really says in a moment.) If someone’s greedy? They must be evil…īut Disney is not the only place you’re getting these anti-wealth messages… How do we know someone is evil? Because they’re greedy. If you grew up on Disney (as just about all my readers did), it was hammered into you from a very young age. ![]() Pride, arrogance, hubris… Yes, those too. Nearly every single Disney villain is shown as being bad by what? By being greedy. Although it seems to be stronger now than it was in other eras. It’s actually an ongoing narrative among many human cultures. There seems to be a nagging belief in our society that wealth is only created through deception, cunning, manipulation, and fraud. Hey Rainmaker, I want to talk about wealth creation, greed, selfishness, and most of all, SERVICE… Is the love of money really the root of all evil? ![]()
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