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Last month we were discussing the 'myth' of money, and the various lies
which people tell in an attempt to keep you out of the 'rich' club. Let us
continue our examination of these lies: LIE
#2
"IF YOU WORK REALLY HARD, THE MOST MONEY YOU CAN EXPECT TO EARN IS
£x PER YEAR."
This lie has people believing
that if they slave away, struggle and strive, and make it to the very top of their profession, then the most they can expect to make
is, let’s say £40,000 per year. It doesn’t matter what the real figure
‘x’ is, what matters is that it sets
an artificial ceiling to people’s aspirations. This is total and complete
nonsense!
Rich people’s most closely guarded secret is that you can: a) Make a very great deal of money indeed. b) Make this money without doing very much work at all.
In fact if you are working hard then you almost certainly are not making serious
money. (Although you may have to work hard initially, before you can get to the
serious money-making level.)
Now if this secret were generally known and believed, then millions of
working stiffs would throw down their tools and demand to do it too! This would
never do, as the rich people are very dependent upon the working stiffs to keep
them in luxury. Remember the Pharaoh principle? The weapon of LIES was used by
the Pharaohs too. They promised that anyone working themselves to death to build
a pyramid would be guaranteed a place in the Egyptian equivalent of heaven. A
downright blatant lie of course, but that, and a few good beatings kept the
slaves more or less in line.
The modern-day equivalent is the lie of the ‘artificial ceiling’.
This very effectively prevents too many Johnny Jobsworths from aspiring to large
payments for their services.
Now a strange phenomenon associated with this lie is the fact that the
amount of money represented by ‘x’ (for example £40,000), is always set at
the ‘just comfortable’ level. This means that even the very well paid are
only modestly comfortable, although they seem
super rich to the majority of sheep. Perhaps they have a slightly larger than
average house and they run two new-ish cars instead of one old battered one.
They might also have one or two children in private school, and take two decent
holidays a year, but this is not rich! They are just moderately comfortable.
They probably have money worries too, just like you, and they have to watch the
pennies - and I am talking here about the TOP ONE PERCENT of wage earners!
Yet most non-Initiates actually aspire
to this! Their greatest dream is to earn £40,000 a year (or whatever
‘x’ is). They don’t realise that
this is a pitifully low, artificially deflated amount of money. It is a
truly piddling amount. If you think it is a lot of money then you are well
conned by this lie and you have a lot of illusion-smashing to do.
The rich people WANT you to believe that £40,000 is a fortune!
Why?
Because if they can get people like you to set your sights so
pathetically low, and then have only one percent of people actually achieving
this piffling target anyway, then this ensures that very few people ever uncover
the fact that rich people can, and do, make £40,000 in ONE HOUR!
The Initiate has no artificial ceiling to his wealth-creating abilities.
He has contempt for those who struggle through life believing these lies and
selling themselves short.
Don’t forget that the principle of a really good lie is that both
parties must gain some benefits from perpetuating it and believing in it.
The advantages to the rich are obvious - the lies prevent too many poor people
from trying to become rich. The benefits to the poor are that they have a very
good excuse for not taking responsibility for their own poverty. "After
all," the argument goes, "Even
the top 1% only earn this much, so how can poor pathetic little me aspire to
half of this?"
At the end of their lives, the poor people can then look back and blame
their failure on ‘the system’. They can say that they never had a chance
because the odds were always against them.
When both parties gain such benefits from these lies, is it any wonder
that they are swallowed wholesale and passed on to successive generations as
representing eternal truth?
Here’s another lie: LIE
#3
"MOST RICH PEOPLE DIDN’T PLAY FAIR TO GET THEIR MONEY."
The implication of this lie is that rich people got their money
dishonestly, perhaps even using criminal methods. This is another total
fabrication. Yes, of course, there are a few rich people who stole their money
or got it by suspicious or illegal means, but these people are a tiny minority.
Most rich people obtained their money through hard work, enthusiasm, daring,
dedication and vision.
Although I said earlier that hard work was not required to make a lot of
money, this applies only when you have made a reasonable amount to start with.
Most rich people are hard working and dedicated people who believe in themselves
and their abilities. Some people inherit great wealth, but far more people make
it through their own efforts. Furthermore, rich and successful people are
the true wealth-creators in society; even though they are portrayed as being
parasites. Without the great captains of industry, the brilliant innovators,
designers, entrepreneurs and the like, this country and others would be nothing.
One only has to look at Eastern bloc countries to see what decades of
innovation-stifling bureaucracy can do to a country - it eats it away from the
inside, like a cancer. The
Pay-Off
Why do ordinary people believe this particular lie about lack of fair
play on the part of the wealthy? The reason is, once again, laziness. It takes
quite a bit of effort to become rich. You actually have to get up off your
backside and DO something. You might even...heaven forbid....actually have to
take some RISKS, even....horror of horrors...GAMBLE a little, dare a little, pit
your wits against the forces of society, try and be a little different.
Heady stuff isn’t it?
Most people are dull, scared, lifeless apathetic little rabbits who are
just too frightened to take any of this action, or any action at all! They
effectively sit shivering in the depths of their burrows, hardly daring to poke
their noses out! And because they are too lifeless to take FIRM ACTION in their
lives, they have to invent reasons why they never do anything about their
poverty - because, of course, they are far too dishonest to admit to themselves
that it is mainly their own fault that they are poor. One of the excuses they
can make is to use lie #3. They can effectively say: "I’m
an honest person, and I’m simply not prepared to get up to all the dirty
tricks required in order to get rich. I might be poor, but at least I got what
little money I have, fair and square." They trot out this fatuous
nonsense to anyone who is idiot enough to listen!
A slight variation of lie #3 is: "You
have to be prepared to tread on people to get to the top."
Again this is untrue, at least in its implication.
The rich and successful people I have known have all been men and women
of honesty and integrity. They are tough and single-minded, yes. Also they do
not suffer fools gladly and they will move heaven and earth to beat the
opposition, but they are rarely the fanatical, ruthless characters perpetuated
in this lie. They can’t really afford to be. Business is all about being
respected and having integrity, not about being feared and loathed. You can get
a certain way down the line using fear, but ultimately you must have loyal
people working for you, not
disgruntled and resentful people plotting against
you.
The reason that the masses believe in lie #3 is the same as for believing
many of these lies. It allows them to take the moral ‘high ground’ and
pontificate about the reasons for their poverty, saying: "I
simply wasn’t prepared to step all over people, I’m far too nice a
chap....blah, blah, blah". This then becomes their excuse for never
‘making it’. LIE
#4
"YOU HAVE TO BE LUCKY
TO GET RICH."
People who believe this lie, believe that life is like a giant roulette
wheel with ‘Lady Luck’ smiling down favourably on some punters, and ignoring
others. The two classes of rather sad people who believe this nonsense are: 1. Those who believe they just have to wait long enough
(i.e. do nothing at all) until their ‘turn’ comes up. "After all," they reason, "I MUST get lucky sometime!" 2. Those who sourly believe that the wheel is somehow
‘rigged’ and that this is the reason why their number has never come up.
These people have largely given up on life and have a totally cynical, sour and
resentful attitude towards those who have ‘made it’.
There is little to choose between these people, as they are both handsomely equipped to fail. As usual, the payoff for believing this
lie is that it gives you a great excuse to do absolutely nothing, and then whine and moan to anyone who will
listen about how UNFAIR life is and how the odds are always STACKED AGAINST YOU,
and how OTHER PEOPLE GET ALL THE LUCK AND YOU GET NONE. Of course there is
such a thing as good and bad luck. For example, it would be GOOD LUCK to
discover oil in your back garden whilst digging your carrots, and it would be
BAD LUCK to have a grand piano drop on your head from a fifth floor window
whilst you were walking along the High Street, but as far as the Initiate is
concerned the following rule applies: TO ALL PRACTICAL INTENTS AND PURPOSES THERE IS NO
SUCH THING AS GOOD OR BAD LUCK.
As an Initiate you have to
believe in this rule. To believe anything else is immensely damaging to your
wealth-creating endeavours. To believe that luck plays a statistically
significant role in your wealth accumulation (or anything else for that matter)
is to place your chances of success or failure in the hands of an illusion, a
chance, a spin of the wheel. If this were true, then you might just as well sit
at home, do nothing, and wait for your number to come up! You’d still be
sitting there, as poor as ever, in ten years time - I guarantee it!
Initiates, like all other people in society, get their fair share of both
good and bad ‘luck’ - i.e. random events which happen to
them due to circumstances beyond their control. During the course of one
lifetime, the good and bad luck tend to average-out, leaving a net effect of
zero. The difference is that the Initiate pounces upon any good ‘luck’ which
comes his way, and maximises the benefit to himself, whilst largely
shrugging-off any ‘bad luck’ and minimising the damage.
Non-Initiates do exactly the opposite. They largely ignore any good
‘luck’ (e.g. opportunities) which come their way - because this might mean
that they actually have to stop moaning and do
something with the opportunity. They are far too lazy to do this.
They also maximise the effects
of any ‘bad luck’ which comes their way. They actually seize
upon bad luck like a long-lost friend. Why? Because they can then parade their
latest piece of hard luck around and use it as a further excuse for non-action.
If they are really fortunate, they might also get lots of people to be
sympathetic towards them - even pity them! At the end of their sad lives, they
can then look back and blame everything on not
having had any luck!
I’ll leave the subject of luck with this thought: "Good
Luck is to be found at the cross-roads where PREPARATION and OPPORTUNITY
meet." LIE
#5 "THE
LIKES OF YOU AND I WILL NEVER SEE ANY REAL MONEY."
If you believe this lie, it becomes the truth! The underlying belief
behind this lie is that there is a kind of secret
elite band of people who meet behind closed doors and plot
the downfall of the masses. This hidden Cabal issue secret edicts and instructions which ensure that the masses never
make any money. They are a kind of Freemason-like society, probably
class-driven, probably operating through the ‘old-boy’ network, and
certainly excluding the common rabble!
This is largely rubbish! I have mentioned the ‘conspiracy theory’
before, and the above paragraph is a fair description of this theory. The
conspiracy theory is largely founded on good old-fashioned paranoia. I believe
that there is no such thing as a conspiracy - at least not on a grand scale. The
whole show is driven more by individual desires for wealth and power, rather
than by secret groups meeting behind closed doors, plotting the destiny of
mankind.
The problem with believing in a conspiracy theory is that you are
effectively drawing a line under your chances of wealth creation and saying: "Forget it - ‘they’ will never let me attain great wealth
because it is a closed shop, and ‘they’ don’t want the likes of me as a
member. I may as well give up now". Again, (surprise, surprise) this
offers a perfect excuse for doing absolutely nothing with your life! After all,
there is a mystic secret society
preventing you from achieving your goals! Summary
of Lies
It is worth summarising all of these excuses (lies) which the masses use
to justify their non-achievement. When you see them written down one after
another, you will hopefully see what a pathetic, whining litany of complaint
they really are! 1. "I never made it because money doesn’t make
you happy. I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable." 2. "Only the chairman gets £40,000/year, so I had
better settle for, say, 50% of this - maximum." 3. "I wanted to be rich but I simply wasn’t
prepared to tread on people to get to the top. I’m far too nice a guy/girl for
that." 4. "I failed because other people got all the good
breaks, not me. I had a lot of bad luck." 5. "I didn’t bother trying because the likes of
me never become rich - they’ll see to that."
There are far, far more lies than these five examples, but these should
give you a flavour.
Don’t forget that people
will use the WEAPON of LIES against you to stifle your wealth-creating efforts.
They do this for two main reasons: 1. Jealousy. They haven’t made anything of their own lives, and
they can’t bear to see you becoming successful in yours. Also, if they were to
admit the truth, then they would have to examine their own lives and start taking action. 2. Competition. They want to keep the money for themselves
and so would like to keep you in ignorance about how much money can really be
made.
The sheep swallow these lies because they are lazy,
scared, weak, timid, pathetic, frightened little rabbits! All of this would
be quite acceptable if they were to admit this to themselves and be happy with
their lot, but this would require strength! So instead they allow others to spin
a web of deceit and illusion around them. This web isolates them from reality
and allows them to believe the most fatuous nonsense imaginable. In particular,
this nonsense allows them to blame others when the blame should lie fairly and squarely with them.
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