I beg to differ
Posted on 08/08/2006 7:11:51 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
I guess it's your definition of rich...I'm 47, my husband is 67...I decided to take several years off and have a "retirement" with my husband as by the time I'm of retirement age, he may not be as "energetic" as he is now. Being busy working to accumulate money is fine...but it's not everything. I know we all know this, but after an article like this, I just felt it appropriate to mention again.
I'd gladly live my life in a mud hut if the only alternative were to be a loser like the author of this piece.
I beg to differ
It's not everyone's goal in life to become rich. There are other priorities....
Psssst.... you make some good points, but I bet you spend an awful lot of time looking at yourself in the mirror practicing looking cool, don't you? ;)
LOL! :)
Most of what this guy wrote, not only that part, was complete crap IMO.
ping
Just kidding. Well...
2) This is social Darwinism.
3) This is not always a truism. Robert Heinlein once noted that 99% of all human advancement is based on finding a lazier way of doing something. Driving a car is "lazier" than riding a horse, but it gets you there faster. Fertilizer and a combine might be termed "lazier" than raising food with a hand hoe, but in the end, it gets you a hundredfold greater yield.
Thank you good friend.
I've been tweaking the sloth / wealth balance for some time now.
I call it the "Zig Ziglar Method." Ziglar, author of "Network Marketing for Dummies," prostituted himself out to MLMs before Kiyosaki...would have been an absolute nobody if he hadn't aligned himself with Mary Kay. The funny thing is that about five years ago, Ziglar set up his own MLM to sell his products. Failed miserably.
It is more than just being lazy, you find many very energetic, hard working people in Christian pursuits, to hobby pursuits, to obsessions like the military ( good example do you think a man that devotes his whole career to being a $50.00.00 a year Special Forces soldier is just too lazy to do something else?).
To make great wealth one has to desire it.
A common question of the non rich about the rich is, why do they keep working after they are rich?
Calling people lazy because they don't put their energies into what you do, is small minded.
"It's not fair. I think the government should confiscate money from ambitious, hard-working rich people and give it over to lazy poor people." - - typical Democrat
If that's what Heinlein said I would say he is full of crap too. Driving a car instead of riding a horse, or using fertilizer and a combine instead of a hand hoe have nothing to do with being lazy. It is called being more efficient with your time so you can move onto something else.
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