I am fascinated by the world we live in today, America in particular…
What was once the shining beacon of hope, leadership, and freedom around the world, is fast becoming a wasteland divided – with looters on one side, and the sheeple who willingly trade-in their pride, their dreams, and their honor as men – in exchange for hand-outs like social security, unemployment, and food stamps, referred to as “benefits” by the looters.
The Land of the Free, and the Home of The Brave, has become the “Land of the Slaves and Home of The Victims”.
I see this every day, as pleads for deals and freebies flood my inbox from moochers who name every excuse under the sun, as to why I should give my knowledge and my expertise to them from free, because “I owe them”, just like the government owes them, their boss owes them, and their spouse owes them.
They blame money, and those who have it, for the problems of the world. They call money the root of all evil.
Is that the case?
Well today I’d like to share with you some of the most profound words I’ve ever experienced, which will stay with me for the rest of my life. If we’re to hold onto the freedom, the ideas, and values they stand for, they represent the last great hope for our country, and our shrinking world…
And as for you… How you feel about the following story will determine your financial fate, and your life.
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Page 410 – “Atlas Shrugged”
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“Standing unnoticed on the edge of a group, Rearden heard a woman, who had large diamond earrings and a flabby, nervous face, ask tensely, “Senior d’Anconia, what do you think is going to happen to the world?”
“Just exactly what it deserves.”
“Oh how cruel!”
Don’t you believe in the operation of moral law, madame?” Francisco asked gravely.
“I do.”
Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, “Don’t let him distrub you. You know, money is the root of all evil – and he’s the typical product of money.”
Rearden did not think that Francisco could have heard it, but he saw Francisco turning to them with a gravely courteous smile.
“So you think that money is the root of all evil? Said Francisco d’ Anconia.
Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them.
Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade, and give value for value.
Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is that what you consider evil?
When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into bread you will need to survive tomorrow.
Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor – your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is that what you consider evil?
Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time.
Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of a man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it?
Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made – before it can be looted or mooched – made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability.
- An honest man is the one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
To trade by means of money is the code of men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more.
Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss – the recognition that they are not beats of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery – that you must offer them values, not wounds – that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find.
And when men live by trade – with reason, not force, as their final arbiter- it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability – and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward.
This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is that what you consider evil? But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
It will give you the means for satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of men who attempt to reverse the law of causality – the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors.
The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth – the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him.
Did it?
Or did he corrupt his money?
Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason you call it evil?
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.
If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy.
Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?
Or did you say that it’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil?
To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It’s the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is the loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money – and he has good reason to hate it.
The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil.
That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another – their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich – will not remain rich for long.
They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt – and his life, as he deserves.
Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard – the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money – the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statues are written to protect you against them.
But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law – men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims – then money becomes its creator’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them.
But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money.
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.
Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half loot.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave it to its owners in a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. 
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: Account overdrawn.
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘who is destroying the world?’ You are.
You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it’s crumbling around you, while you’re damning its life-blood – money.
You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor.
That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves – slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody’s mind and left unimproved for centuries.
So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little con conquer. Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers – as industrialists.
To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money – and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement.
For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being – the self-made man – the American Industrialist.
Until you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction.
When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips, and guns – or dollars.
Take your choice – there is no other – and your time is running out.”
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Ayn Rand – “Atlas Shrugged” : Pg 410 –>
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My fellow entrepreneurs…
We are the producers.
We are the blood of our nation.
We are the noblest representation of man-kind in the world.
This is the value I offer to you and the world, which you will buy not because you must – but because it will improve your life.
To our future…
Mike Dillard
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January 9th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
A very long winded and rather childishly written piece on the age old self evident truth that it is the love of money that is the root of all evil.
January 9th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Mike- Money is fungible and the lubricant that makes the wheels of economies turn. The problem is not Money per se but rather the excesses that extremes always create. Moderation, balance and plain old integrity combined with long term planning rather than short term instant gratification are the guidelines that we have to strive to return to…….Our Washington representatives could go a long way in modifying their back room behavior in favor of the promised “open” transparency that our Republic deserves.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Mike, you’ve chosen a great way to explain what money is to many people who are confused and I think Lawton Brown’s depth of perspicacity is refreshing. I can’t see him being related to the idiot – pardon me, if I’m wrong – who sits at No.10 right now.
Money isn’t evil, of course, nor is the love of a system that facilitates fair exchange. As with any form of power, it can be twisted. The current economic climate is here because certain people sought to profit from exactly the sort of situations that Senior d’Anconia (careful never to say anything with a guy like that around, you could be there a while
) railed against. That and ignorance on the part of >90% of the world’s population, spanning decades – perhaps longer.
People will always need goods and services of some sort. The person who finds a way to get it for them at a price they can afford, cannot lose.
Of course, the people we should really be angry at are those that seek to indulge in even more lying, begging, stealing and extortion today, than they have, historically. We know who they are by their actions; “Tell you what old chap, as you seem to have made a bit of a mess of things, I’ll give you money I’ve screwed millions of punters out of, for years – still do, then you lend it back to me – with serious interest. It isn’t mine, so I don’t care. You make and so do I. We can’t lose!!”
Well, they won’t, unless enough of the flock get a sniff of it and become upset enough to make some drastic changes… Seem familiar?
January 9th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Good story, but there are two sides to every story.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
January 9th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
The root of all evil is man, not money, and the knowledge of this is the root of all good. Money is material not human.
January 9th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Yes, I’d like to hear more about that kind of stuff.
Most certainly I want to learn from the folks you are learning from Mike.
I think it’s important that we learn, do, then teach this great and important information to all who will listen.
I have already started to push what I am learning towards my 12 and 10 year old kids.I’ve got them opening up to reading Kiyosaki since they are both readers.
My son who is the 12 year old in grade 7 wants this stuff and has a goal of 6 figures by the end of High School.
He is also starting to read your info here and there without me mentioning it.
I’m excited about this since I was a socialist until I was 36 when I saw the Amway plan in 1992.
They see me winning finally while working at home.They’ve watched my struggle…but more important they see me keep going even in times of doubt which where many.
No one would hire me after 50 years of age so I stopped looking and learned your stuff Mike.
There are several folks I learn from and these folks like you know what the sheeple don’t yet know or admit that the way we all do business and work is changing rapaidly and having your own home business is where it’s going to be at in years to come more than ever.
Yea I’m 54 in 2 weeks and more excited than I’ve been in 10 years.
Making money weekly now does kinda help.
So I hope all of us in this industry will reach out and keep leading by example.
I think we can help the economy by helping our own economy.
January 9th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Hi Mike,
You are very true in the words you are sharing here. Money is not the root of all evil. Money is just a thing. A tool that buys you products or services of others to make your life more enjoyable.
The love of money is the root of all evil. A person must know the difference.
If you had all the money in the world what would you do? Would you help others? Take vacations world wide? Purchase property?
Contribute to charities?
This is a very important question. If a person is here reading your material Mike I believe they want to make more money and that is a good thing. Our Creator helps those that help themselves.
I want to know also how to generate more income. Also I want to be able to show others just how I have made that income and help them to change their lives for the better.
Keep the great information flowing Mike!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Mike:
This article is AMAZING! All of Congress and the Prez and his cronies need to read it! Keep telling the truth! YOU and your message and leadership are needed!
Thanks for giving of yourself for the betterment of others!
God Bless you!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
The lack of proper education about money is destroying the world. The lies of the organised religions of the world are complicating matters. Country leaders also do not speak the truth hence reality is obscured. Good article and will like to join your WMI from Nigeria. Kindly advise of procedures. Thanks
January 9th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Mike,
Thanks for the thought provoking quote.
Oh so true, evil is not money.
Acquiring it with any means other than integrity
THAT IS EVIL!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I think the letter gets to the heart of money, and it relationship to man and the contest that bring out the best in some and the worst in others Mike. chose is key here, but up bring is more important. We most expect that the evil is your on doing. Be it by nature or chose,your up bring will determine our out come. education is key we most pretest revisiting our motive from time to times. this will give us a better understanding of making, asking,and excepting a faster pace life stile, with those who are just getting started. I”ll be looking for my check in the mail check out my free art http://www.lulu.com/content/ebook/artdream-works/8062597 : )
January 9th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
I have just read over about 100 responses. We all have pretty much the same thoughts. The question is what do we do about it? My answer to the problem is to invite these people into your organations. All of us know or no of people out of work. They may not be responsive to our initiative, but we must try. The world is changing and with out our help they will be left behind. People like to feel good about what they are doing. http://WWW.LIVING-LIFE-BETTER.COM is a place to start. The products are for the betterment of those who buy as well as those selling. Its a career opportunity to those who want A NEW CAREER. Those who want to start breathing clean healthy indoor air to feel better, is helping them. We who have need to help those who don’t, will benifit from doing so. By teaching them to follow in our pathes will change the world.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Pecuniary values are under the radar. Truth is that when Obama gave the money to start GREEN JOBS the Bureau of Indian Affairs saw their jobs ending so they are holding on to this money and prolonging the depression. Why, ask about Vanity and pride and change which the republicans are fighting. As this continues, the United States could be part of China in the not so distant future. It is amazing that we are more interested in celebrities than the betterment of ourselves. There is no mention of the 14.4 billion dollar settlement of Corbell because we all hate the truth which is not money but ourselves who stop the use of Oil Analysis Programs to cut waste oil and save money, vertical axis wind turbines which are legislated against because of windmill stereotype, and it is not about money. We do not want to change.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
what GOD has blessed, the increase will contenue to grow and grow.thank you Mike for the wisdom of this comentary.
January 9th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Hi Mike, I like to think of money as a tool to use to accomplish what we want to in life. It’s just like a hammer, shovel, etc that are only tools to use to accomplish what we’re doing, but that doesn’t make them evil. It’s what we do with them that determines whether something is good or evil. It’s a choice we all have
January 9th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Or another way to say it: “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” Money doesn’t “…” People do.
January 9th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
I should have read more; “What do we do about it?” Simple, use the thing we are all born with – our conscience. No point getting clever – we all know when something is right, or not.
January 9th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Hi Mike, I commented much almost immediately after you posted this article. This morning I had well over 100 forwarded comments by people who had just recently posted. WOW the range of understanding is amazing.
Those who think that money has to be earned by the sweat of the brow are living in an era gone by. JOBS are no longer the stepping stone to success. It is stupid for an owner to rely upon human labor when 24/7 animation and robotics is available; zero fringe benefits; no health benefits, no retirement funds, no vacation, no worker’s compensation insurance. I can hear the screams now! You heartless #@$#@.
No,I’m not heartless. I’ll show you how to turn $100 into
a life-long passive income that will set you financially free for the rest of your life.
Heck, I’ll give it to you free. It is called the Power of Seven Pay It Forward Strategy; you can learn about it with zero obligations. Take a look and don’t let skepticism ruin your visit. Go to http://www.homebusiness123pro.com.
If you understand the principles illustrated here your only challenge a year from now will be how you use money ethically. God’s Prosperity Blessings to You. Glenn
January 9th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
i got all the information related to network marketing n even more than that in this updated world.thanks to mike n his team
i want to do some thing more in astronomy n genetics field so if there is any help link is possible please give response.than u lot
January 9th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
thanks for the constant follow-up and the love you have shown towards me, it has clearly shown the you want me to become what u want me to become based on my acceptance, but the problem is so many company like yours collected money from me through the registration process and they never deliver – that is the reason why i am afraid, i am sorry to have written like this to u, but i don’t have a choice than to let u know why i have not register.
I understand all what u mean and all the strategies which u have clearly stated to tackle our present economic system and the piece of advice which u have given me even though i haven’t register yet but u have taken me as one of u, i appreciate and i want to use this opportunity to thank u very much for the care and the love.
Believe me if their is one thing i wish ;is work on-line and network so many people together. i am not writing u for u to have sympathy, but i am only telling u what i went through, but if can make it easier for me. note: i don’t mean for free . thanks for the constant follow-up.
January 9th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Mike,
I really enjoy the straight marketing information and training materials you supply. I like hearing about other ways of looking at the economy and other opportunities for investment.
I know Randy Gage and others celebrate Ayn Rand, but she was no prize when it comes to humanity and ethics, and expounding on her virtues does little to promote a more mainstream acceptance of our business, because…
It’s tough to reconcile a business model of abundance and expanding opportunity when you tout one of the premier proponents of the zero-sum game.
I’m not sure your recommendations of small arms are that helpful, either. When one of my relatives in Texas asked for my recommendation about what kind of pistol to have around the house, I recommended a dog. When they persisted, I suggested a twelve gauge pump loaded with rock salt and that they put glow rings around their children’s necks; because frankly, they were to dumb to be firing any kind of lethal weapon in the dark, and too lazy to learn how to use them properly.
I enjoy your newsletters, but when half or more of an edition is dedicated to this kind of screed, it undercuts your value proposition, and value is what leaders need to be all about.
Gregg
January 10th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Completely agree with you. Money cannot and should not be attributed adjectives like “evil” or “good” or “honest”. Money is just a means to trade what we need, with what we’ve produced; money just is. What people do with money can be attributed these adjectives. If you’re good, honest, kind, then you can do good, honest, kind things with money. If you, on the other hand, are not, then the things you do with yor money (or the one you’ve “mooched” or “looted) won’t be either.
January 10th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Money is not destroying the world, only people can. Money has no life in it. It is and always will be the people who have the control of money that determines what that money will do. Money in the hands of an evil person will be used for evil purposes and on the other hand, money in the hand of a moral person with integrity and a value for life will do useful and productive things with it. Money makes a lousy god and to anyone who worships it will be highly disappointed. It cannot give life, nor heal you when you are dying. Money is a resource.
January 10th, 2010 at 2:09 am
The truth is that the 80 percent of the humanity makes money and only less than 20% produce to diner, or by that reason thinks that the money is the root of all evils, when the reality the lack of money is the root of the bad thing, but in short, the continuous life and very few people create the opposite
January 10th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Even outlaws need money to buy guns and bullets initially. This game requires a huge arsenal of weaponry, unethical strategy and a cold hearted ruthless attitude. The product only has to appear attractive to create a sale and the truth needs to be carefully convoluted to blind the minds of the unbelievers. The rich get richer by conning and deceiving the poor.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:18 am
I have all kinds of problems with this. But I’ll just say that if you’re going to quote Jesus, get him right! Money is NOT the root of all evil. What he said was: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” Perhaps the distinction is lost on the author, which is too mad because it’s a critic l difference.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:37 am
Mike, I’ve been following you for a while now. But, NEVER have you spoken about something so dear to my heart. I’m 68 (don’t look it YIPPEE!), and I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 18 and AGAIN at 26 ~ a TOTALLY different book, and, because of all the economic upheaval VOW to read it again some 42 years later. I’m a force for “what’s right”! So many are NOT, I find. Very disturbing, because, the way I see it, unless, we “do unto others … ” we have NO chance. I moved out of D.C. as a person in my 20’s because Congress nauseated me! My father-in-law was a big wig in the C.I.A. and I met them all at his home. There were a couple of exceptions, but mostly, even though I was young, I saw, as “shams”. And, alas, they STILL ARE! It’s so, so, sad.
Thanks for being so, so outspoken. Someone needs to say the things that need to be said!
Carolyn
http://www.GetThreeAndYoursIsFree.com
carolynbryce1@mac.com
January 10th, 2010 at 6:39 am
And, by the way, Magnetic Sponsoring is the best book I’ve ever bought for knowledge of internet marketing …. and that is not just “kissing your anything” …… it’s absolutely true. And thanks. And thanks for the checks when I recommended it to others. C.B.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Hey Mike,
You really have been studying. It sounds like you know about the Creature from Jekyll Island (created by the looters) and how this monetary system really works. We can do something about it, we are creators and that cannot be taken from us. We are creating the world we want alongside the one that’s “crashing”. It’s all about personal responsibility on all levels which is not easy to do…you have to be willing to go inside and face what’s there. It’s easier to be a victim.
I invested in myself and bought everything you have and am building my business. Thank you for putting this out there. It’s important…and time for people to make some choices.
I choose freedom…and I will have it.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:50 am
Oh and I forgot to add…I love money!
January 10th, 2010 at 9:07 am
If we go back – how did people survive before we had the money?
They did – by helping each other, changing “products” with each other. What was evil in that world? What was the value in life? And most important – what can we learn from this?
/Eva
January 10th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Hi Mike,
I like your approach to money destroying people. I think people prefer to blame money or any other thing that they consider difficult to make/have……. while the people who have mastered the art of making and keeping money have been able to see it as what it is i.e a tool…..
January 10th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Hey come on! Hand-outs like social security, unemployment, and food stamps don’t mean that the “sheeple” willingly trade-in their pride, their dreams, and their honor as men! It’s exactly like money, it all depends on what people are doing with it. Some really need it because of a handicap, a disease…
Be brave and free as long and as much as you can, but remember that we are all living on one planet, now. If everyone was to live on an American standard, seven planets would hardly be enough. So what? It’s time to raise our consciousness and be altruist. And if you help others to help themselves, you’re adding real value to this world! Happy trails…
January 10th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I totally agree with you Mike and would like to note that L Ron Hubbard, yes the founder of Dianetics and Scientology, laid all of this out in very great detail about 50 years ago, that is the subject of exchange, those who are very out exchange (moochers, freeloaders, and actually identified 4 levels of exchange. He also in great detailed exlained how this imbalance of exchange effects the individual, children and the society in general and weakens it trememdously and he placed great value on individula production and productiveness.
Patrick
January 10th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Very insightful!
January 10th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Thanks Mike, this should be basic reading material in high schools! -By the way, some of these comments contain links to
quite incredible looking business opportunities. For example, I guess the one by Glenn will appeal to many.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:12 am
business is in hong shu principle of secrecy to move in the area with least defended to entrap the opponent. Also in organization of a definite structure.
notice this not about money but people.
January 11th, 2010 at 1:21 am
I would appreciate any info. you can send me.
Thanks Theresa
January 11th, 2010 at 2:54 am
Money as per say is not problem, it’s the values you are raised with and the
values your parents instill in you when you grow. You learn a lot from
Society and the News Media, TV, and it is if you are a follower on how you
take it. You are constantly being bombarded with the fact that money is
everything but they don’t tell what good it is if you are sick or dying.
The Point is if you fall into the scenario of blaming everything on Money
and the Root Cause is I will Blame you instead of myself for what is going
on. We as People need to take responsibly for what goes on in this World
and take measures to correct it.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
i couldn’t have said it better myself Mike!
as always, great content & value.
brian
mlmleadsystempro co-founder
January 11th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Money is not the cause of evil.It is mans evil desires behind money spoiled its picture.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I think this piece did well at explaining the psychology of money, and how human fallacies cause ultimate societal upheaval. Unfortuantely, I think this goes over most people’s heads. Anestimate 80% of Americans have not read a book in the past five years…. speaking of the root of all evil:
IGNORANCE
Peace!
-Tiemen
January 11th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Good subject Mike and one we just talked about on our last conference call.
A person who drinks too much alcohol, becomes drunk.
An evil person who drinks too much alcohol, becomes an evil drunk.
Same way with money.
If a person is evil, having more money only will make them a rich evil person. The money has nothing to do with being the root of their evil, that was already there at the beginning.
Bob
January 12th, 2010 at 1:44 am
I am really inspired and agree that money is not the root of all evils but it is the way how people used money is evil.We in the island countries are really affected in our system of government.We need leaders with intergrity and have compassion to boost the financial status of our country.
Concerned citizen
Solomon Islands.
January 12th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
It’s truly sad when I hear or experience some poor ignorant know-it-all preaching the whole “Money is evil” bit. Some people are just doomed to live in the foggy world of “half-truth ignorance”. I’ve had many failed attempts at reasoning with them in an effort to “rescue” them until a learned my lesson; that more times than not, it’s just a waste of time.
Thanks for sharing Mike, as always. You da man!
January 12th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Wow, Mike, thank you for sharing that with your readers…
I too love money, and I’m passionate about having the freedom from tyranny which would limit my ability to amass my own fortune! I’m a Capitalist, I believe in the power of Free Enterprise, and am very concerned about the beliefs which have been propagated over the past decades, eroding the very systems which made America great.
The current romance with a “one world” concept is very dangerous to our freedom. It is not really one world. Just as Entrepreneurs aren’t like other people, America is not like other countries – nor should it ever be. Our differences are what have made us stronger and greater. And yes, we are stronger and greater.
But we’re under attack. It’s a fierce cultural attack on our hearts and minds, convincing us that there’s something broken about America, and we must fight one another. Television and the press are in the hands of those who want us to believe we are in dire trouble, and believing that, to think we must look to them for the solution.
It truly is Orwell’s 1984 – and then some – isn’t it?
America is not to blame for the world’s ills, as we’ve been told again and again. We’re not the greedy, money- and power-grubbing nation we’ve been portrayed as. And, ironically, it is only our generous nature that would believe this untruth – and then take responsibility for righting the imaginary wrong!
It’s not money that’s to blame, just as you’re saying, Mike, what’s to blame is our willingness to believe something outside ourselves is responsible for our reality.
As Americans we’ve fallen asleep, and our negligence in maintaining the integrity of our foundational systems has allowed the formation of the monster now looming on our horizon.
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” -Aristotle
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” -Aristotle
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” -Ayn Rand
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” -George Washington
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” -Oscar Wilde
Here are some facts to consider: We currently live in the most peaceful period of our world’s history. There is no lack anywhere except for the illusion of scarcity which is created by people. We are the Earth’s stewards, but Nature doesn’t really need much of our help.
You won’t hear those things on the News, which has done its level-best to drag people down into worry and despair. Why would anyone want to wallow in that?
The truth is uplifting, not degrading.
One person’s gaining wealth does not take away from another’s in any way. Think about it. The world needs our example of what it is to be happy, successful and free. Inspiration is the most precious gift each one of us can give to another.
And, finally, Love People/Use Money (not the other way around).
Cheers!
January 13th, 2010 at 3:52 am
Hello Mike,
After reading your message in the Inner Circle and again here, I can see your great interest in the issue of “Money”.
You may be interested in reading Andrew Jackson’s remarks about this issue here.http://www.kitco.com/ind/Rubino/printerfriendly/jan112010.html.
President Jackson was adament about the central bank’s existence because he new what the bankers would do. The above site will read as though what happened then is in the present tense.
Thank you for your interest in this subject that so few really understand.
May you continue to educate who ever is open to listening, but I can tell you that 30 years of attempting to spread this message has not been very successful.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Hi Mike ,
Is money destroying the world , Please lets change the record ,Check out the magnetic autoresponder, The needle must have stuck ?, Anyway talking about the so called root of all evil (MONEY) ,Well the onley problem i have with it is i never seem to have enough , There always seems to be some one wanting to take it away from me one way or another,But as they say there are no free meal tickets in this world ,
So when i become a million hair the onley thing i will have to watch is that the (MONEY) dosn’t distroy me from being a good person, God Bless You All,
To your success Always,
Roy.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Hi Mike,
You are quiet right,
Money has nothing to do with the destruction of the world, but a person’s evil thought and intend is the main course of evil destruction.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Thank You Mike,
That is perfect wisdom eloquently put.
Michael