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RE: Jobs vs Wealth (Part 1) - Indian Transport Minster vows to ban self driving cars to save jobs

in #politics8 years ago (edited)

The problem isn't that wealth isn't plentiful. Wealth in how I think about it is your assets minus your liabilities. Your assets is whatever you own, your knowledge, your body, your mind, your productive assets such as businesses, your stocks, or whatever it is.

The wealth is in these assets and the jobs get created as almost a byproduct or side effect of property ownership. For example if you own a home (real estate) then you can charge rent, and using the money from being a landlord you can create "jobs" for people to help you build house #2. It all starts in my opinion with property ownership, the legal ability to own yourself and then the ability to rent what you own.

A person who has a lot of knowledge can sell that knowledge or rent the service. A person who only has time can rent their time. A person who is physically beautiful can use their body and rent or license their image.

So I guess the first thing to do if a person is unemployed is to work on themselves to improve their intrinsic (natural wealth). This could be reading books, getting an education, getting fit and in shape, developing a sense of humor, so as long as a person is on a consistent path of improvement I do think the natural wealth can increase.

The problem though is there isn't a lot of opportunities, or they aren't easy to find if they do exist, and people who have wealth aren't always matched with money. In many cases there is exploitation and corruption, where people who have the wealth never get paid for it for whatever reason.

So I would say it's not about the job but about building the wealth. A job is just renting something out in exchange for money. This could be writing code for a programmer, or driving an Uber, or if a person is physically fit making videos on Youtube and personal training others. But I think the video is correct, there is no career paths and most people are fooled into thinking there is.

There are just opportunities and risks, being prepared or unprepared, and becoming the best version of yourself or not. Best version of yourself includes every aspect of yourself which you can improve.

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No one is actually good at everything or good at something when they start to do it , with time you learn from your mistakes , yes there are points where you want to give up , but without the skills we acquired , what's the point of backing off then?

Everyone is unique in their own ways giving them the ability to find their "wealth" you can use yourself in different days , physically mentally or any other ways . People need to stop giving up and try because if they don't actually get out there and try something without saying it's not possible , how is that just ?