Share The Wealth: An Ethical Alternative To Getting Rich Quick

In our last blog, I talked about how true happiness and lasting success comes from helping others. I also made it clear that we would not want to help them until they joined a higher power. Because? Because the super-intelligence that runs the universe uses an operating system based on cooperation rather than competition. It is automatic and permanent. For example, our body contains 10,000 unique types of microbes, with a total of more than 30 trillion cells. Surprisingly, they connect with each other 24/7 and even support each other. If they can do it, so can we.

I had to hit rock bottom before I stopped beating God, surrendered to a higher power, and started reaping the great benefits of humility personally and professionally, including a huge boost to my bottom line. In our book , The Success Paradox, my co-author Will T. Wilkinson and I talk about how it all happened. In this blog, I want to present a very different view of "wealth".

The pandemic has created unprecedented hardships for many of us, especially financially. But not for the super rich. "The world's ten richest people increased their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion (an average of $15 billion per second or $1.3 billion per day), slashing 99% of human income in the first two years of the pandemic, and over 160 people million people fell into poverty.

"If these ten people lost 99.999% of their wealth tomorrow, they would be richer than 99% of all people on the planet," said Gabriela Bucher, Oxfam's International Executive Director.

Many super rich funds have been created and given money. But they themselves were still financially inflated and often profited from their "investments". Meanwhile, there are many responsible and worthy projects that could literally change society if they had the funds.

Imagine if 1% of the cells in our body have resources like the rich? we will be sick Well, society is sick , the epidemic of mental illness is just a terrible indicator.

According to a January 2023 CBS News article by Aimee Picchi, "Over the past decade, the richest 1% of Americans saw their wealth grow 19 times faster than the bottom half of the population. In dollar terms, that's $37 for every $100. The top 1 %, and the bottom 50% earned $2... There are 64,500 people in America with a net worth of more than $50 million and about $728 million..."

If the super rich don't want to share more of their wealth, maybe we can. Some of us have extra cash lying around. What about an organization like Kiva.org, a leader in microlending? They have lent more than $1.6 billion to 1.7 million borrowers in 77 countries with a 96% repayment rate. These microloans are given by ordinary people mainly not to earn money, but to create social wealth.

The sanctity of profit is often justified by referring to Adam Smith, the father of laissez faire capitalism. But Smith was fundamentally misunderstood. As Deborah Boukoyannis, an associate professor at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, explains: “Smith believes that high profits indicate economic pathology. Profit rates, he said, "were always highest in the countries that collapsed the fastest." "

Profit is essential to personal, corporate and cultural growth and health. But accumulation is not the ultimate measure of true success. True wealth, I discovered, involves more than money, such as a loving family, personal health, and a sense of meaning and purpose in fulfilling my calling in life.

Let us share the wealth not because we are "good people" or because we think we should, but because we begin to do what Life does everywhere but civilized society. In a cosmos of immeasurable complexity and in our bodies filled with billions of microorganisms, the free exchange of resources is order and order (success). Let's go to the show!

Vanguard just said THIS (doesn't look good!)