31/07/2015
KNOWLEDGE FROM HOW TO CATCH A MONKEY.
The hunters from Africa used this technique in catching monkeys for several years. They hunter finds a tree with a small hole in the tree trunk and places fruits or nuts inside the hole. A monkey comes along,puts their fist in the hole and grabs onto the fruits or the nuts. The monkey's fist,now clenched and filled with the fruits or nuts,cannot be withdrawn from the hole,trapping the monkey. Rather than let go of the fruits or nuts,the monkey twists and turns,pull and tugs,but refuses to let go. The native returns, and at their leisure,kill or captures the monkey.
Human are similar in this regards in terms of their job. Rather than cling to fruits or nuts,human cling to job security,their possession,and money. Due to lack of financial education,lack of courage and fear. Like the trapped monkey,most people will spend their lives as wage slaves of their employers and tax slaves to the government.
Many people clung even more tightly to their Jobs when the global financial crisis began in 2007,in the hope of not being one of those who were laid off. Many cut back on their spending and save more even though the purchasing power of money has been destroyed. Inspite of all these, workers stuffed even more money into their retirement plans,even though the stock market had crashed, wiping out their prior gains. And school enrolments boomed,as more people headed back to school,even though unemployment was soaring.
Most people do not really know what to do. Most people knew there was a global crisis by 2010 but unfortunately, they do not know what to do about it. Rather than let go,most people clench their fist tighter and wait for the crisis to pass,praying that their political leaders can solve this global crisis and that happy days will return.
A few know they must make changes. Yet without a strong financial education,they do not know what to do or how to change.
Let me shock you a little. We are already in a decade of crisis, the year from 2010 to 2020,will prove to be the most volatile world-changing decade in the world history. Unfortunately,the people clinging to the relics of the past-relics such as job security,savings,a home and a retirement plan will be those who are most ravaged by the global financial storm approaching. It is so because it is end of the industrial Age already. During the industrial age,a worker could find a high-paying job for life,be protected by a labour union,and receive a retirement paycheck for life. It is the age when countries with Industrial technology,factories,great schools,and weapons ruled the world and so financial education was not important in the industrial age.
The World Wide Web was born in 1989 and the information Age began. This is the age where any job will be stolen by the technologies of this age. In the coming decade,more jobs will be replaced by technology as our factories are dismantled,shipped,and rebuilt in low wage countries. The idea of a high-paying job for life and a retirement paycheck for life is an obsolete idea.
No wonders the traffic-warders lost their job to the modern traffic light that is ready to work for 24hours and will not request for increment in salary and sick leave unlike human who requested for that often. More reason why government will prefer the service of a traffic light to human. Many of those job have also be stolen in telecommunication industry where with just a press of a button you get all your customer service related issues resolved. What then is the fate of those doing these job before? Things are really changing but human being don't really like a change but either we like it or not the change will come and meet us.
The rules of money had changed. Bank bailouts increased in size,inflation is rising and I see more poor people. In this decade we are currently,the year between 2010 to 2020,the gap between the haves and have-nots will increase. Many of the middle class will slip into poverty in the next years to come if they still embrace the old idea about making money.
The most exciting decade in the history will arrive in few years to come. For those who are financially educated,prepared,flexible,and adaptable,the next few years to come will be the best of times. And for those who are waiting for the happy days of the past to return,the next 10years will be the worst of times.
My intention is just to give you information that will allow you to make choices that are not limited by all out-dated manners. Many people are confused,they don't know what to do. This age is an opportunity age,where u can stand up to be a strong entrepreneur with little or zero capital. You only must be able to learn,be teachable and embrace the principle of personal development.
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