If you are a smart person, you would have once asked yourself this question: Are we really supposed to come into this world, work to pay bills, work till we are about 65—retired and die a few years later?
The above is the life of most people, especially those who trade time (their existence) for hourly or monthly wages.
It has been described as the dumbest way to make money. I mean, trading your time directly for money—which is what most jobs are about. You go to work, and you are paid for the work you do or for being there.
Beyond this, you are subjected to different levels of constraints. Even if you need a day off, you would have to literally beg or complete a form and pray that your boss signs it for you. That’s the definition of contemporary slavery for some us—except that the slave masters are called Bosses and Managers. Unlike some of us who are always on CouponsMonk.com looking for the best holiday deals, most of those who trade their time directly for money do not even travel anywhere.
About 15 years ago when I was introduced to the internet, I started questioning the status-quo in relation to our human existence and earning money. Without knowing any alternative, I was sure that it’s stupid to trade valuable hours of my life for money.
More also, when the bosses wouldn’t pay you enough to eventually quit but would give you just enough each month so you keep coming back to give them your time in return for money.
And then I chanced on those who call themselves the new rich, a generation of smart thinkers—of which Mark Zuckerberg fits the class.
These people didn’t want to live the conventional boring 9-5 or 9 to 9 lifestyles. They realised the most valuable asset in life is time; when you die, time stops for you—and therefore trading that for what’s mostly peanuts makes no sense.
The new rich therefore take pride in being in charge of TIME, by creating systems to make money for them, instead of getting paid per the time they dedicate to work.
In fact, no smart millionaire actually works for another person.
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