There is a key to success. I figured it out years ago, when I was pondering the great Plebian question of life.
In order to be a "have", you must be willing to create and keep "have nots".
It does not change for situation. Regardless of who you are. If you have money, the only way to keep having money is by not letting other people have your money.
And it's a far cry from the dream they sell to you in school or on TV. The dream where you work really hard and someday, when you're about 30, you'll get rewarded with millions of dollars and everything is going to be fine.
But we can't tell everyone that it's not true when they're younger, or they're not going to want to work. And the people who have already figured out my message have already started to abuse welfare, because they can eat and clothe themselves and their children. Any calls to force such people to work are met with arguments of assumed racism.
But being a have not isn't all bad.
We work hard for our possesions, but we can sleep at night.
My food tastes better, knowing that it didn't come at the price of someone else's.
Life is ok, but we need to stop living in some dream, before it becomes a nightmare. And I will happily work every day for the rest of my life.
Because there are countries where the dream is different.
Where if you work really hard, you might be able to eat tonight.
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