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OK, I'll admit I'm not qualified enough to have a say on this, because I'm really not rich. But nevertheless, I'd like to provoke a discussion, especially since I'm from a third-world country where the job market is a lot worse than in the developed world. And I intentionally titled this thread the way it is to catch your attention.
Money is... just a piece of paper. If whatever I want can't be bought with money, then money really is useless to me. However, when someone sells what I want in exchange for money, suddenly money becomes valuable to me because I can use it to buy what I want! And I'll extrapolate this logic to 8 billion people on Earth.
You don't need money. You need the basic human needs, then you need your dream mansion, your dream car. You need comfort, safety, health and reliable healthcare, etc for you and your family. You need your dreams to come true. If all those are magically granted to you right now, would you still be motivated in your business?
The point of this post isn't to say "mOnEy Is EvIl AnD hApPiNeSs Is FoUnD iN tHe LiTtLe ThInGs". What I really want to say is wherever you live, from the impoverished slums of Burundi to the wealthiest cities of Switzerland, there's ALWAYS a way to provide value to your people and charge them for it. This is how I got rid of my mindset of "I'm from a third-world country, therefore there's no hope for me!!!"
OK maybe money isn't useless after all, maybe it does serve one and only one purpose: it's a beautiful tool that measures your contribution to your society, and hence allowing a collective societal teamwork. This is also why I believe that fiat money isn't actually fiat; it is based on SYSTEMS. Unrelated but I think bad systems are the cause of inflation. For entertainment, I bought a book about economics to learn more about this.
Can't afford a system yet? Why not help a richer person make dreams come true for other people by improving his systems? (aka freelancing!) You'll probably make him richer, and he'll thank you.
When absolute third-world brokies introduce themselves to this forum, they are advised to help business owners to increase sales. But how do you actually increase their sales? Why would customers buy from them? These are the shower thoughts that provoked me to write this post, as I was also surprised by the somewhat lack of answers for that in this forum.
What are your thoughts? Is this a good mindset or is it secretly a poison pen?
Money is... just a piece of paper. If whatever I want can't be bought with money, then money really is useless to me. However, when someone sells what I want in exchange for money, suddenly money becomes valuable to me because I can use it to buy what I want! And I'll extrapolate this logic to 8 billion people on Earth.
You don't need money. You need the basic human needs, then you need your dream mansion, your dream car. You need comfort, safety, health and reliable healthcare, etc for you and your family. You need your dreams to come true. If all those are magically granted to you right now, would you still be motivated in your business?
The point of this post isn't to say "mOnEy Is EvIl AnD hApPiNeSs Is FoUnD iN tHe LiTtLe ThInGs". What I really want to say is wherever you live, from the impoverished slums of Burundi to the wealthiest cities of Switzerland, there's ALWAYS a way to provide value to your people and charge them for it. This is how I got rid of my mindset of "I'm from a third-world country, therefore there's no hope for me!!!"
OK maybe money isn't useless after all, maybe it does serve one and only one purpose: it's a beautiful tool that measures your contribution to your society, and hence allowing a collective societal teamwork. This is also why I believe that fiat money isn't actually fiat; it is based on SYSTEMS. Unrelated but I think bad systems are the cause of inflation. For entertainment, I bought a book about economics to learn more about this.
Can't afford a system yet? Why not help a richer person make dreams come true for other people by improving his systems? (aka freelancing!) You'll probably make him richer, and he'll thank you.
When absolute third-world brokies introduce themselves to this forum, they are advised to help business owners to increase sales. But how do you actually increase their sales? Why would customers buy from them? These are the shower thoughts that provoked me to write this post, as I was also surprised by the somewhat lack of answers for that in this forum.
What are your thoughts? Is this a good mindset or is it secretly a poison pen?
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