{"id":1833,"date":"2017-10-04T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finalwakeupcall.info\/en\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:58:16","slug":"what-is-real-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finalwakeupcall.info\/en\/2017\/10\/04\/what-is-real-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Real Wealth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wealth is founded on Trust<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Currency versus Money:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most people think currency is money. If someone gives you cash, presumably it is thought of as money. It is not<\/em>. Cash is simply a currency, a medium of exchange that is used to purchase something that has value, namely an asset or service. The word currency is derived from the word current \u2013 electricity – a current must move or else it will die. A currency does not store value in itself. Rather, it is a medium to transfer value from one asset to another.<\/p>\n

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Money has, unlike currency, value within itself. Money is always a currency in that it can be used to purchase other items that have value, however currency is not always money as explained above; it doesn\u2019t have intrinsic value. The basic definition of money is; income-energy received for energy given.<\/p>\n

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The following statement illustrates this definition. The rectangle of paper representing a one-hundred-euro bill is \"\"<\/a>not worth one hundred euros! The piece of paper represents the value of one hundred euros that is stored somewhere else, waiting to be purchased; the fact that a rectangle of paper, or currency, represents value in and of itself, was true only <\/em>in the past, when the world was on a gold standard. Today every bill is backed by nothing<\/em> other than air<\/em> or what commonly is called \u2018good faith\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and the credit worthiness of the \u2018issuer\u2019 the Central Bank. In other words, authorities have the ability to create money at will without anything to back it up, in plain language money-printing or counterfeiting<\/em>, but governments call it fiscal policy<\/em>, and this together is called \u2018fiat currency\u2019<\/em>, which is not money<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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So, money is not what people think it is. Nowadays money is \u2018currency\u2019 invented and created by Governments or for that matter, the Central Banks, to steal from the people, by taxation without approval of parliament, by means of inflating the currency and consequently reducing people\u2019s purchasing power by lowering the nominated \u2018intrinsic\u2019 value.<\/p>\n

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Money has value of its own, <\/strong>Currency doesn\u2019t:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abstract viewpoint is; Currency is a metaphysical technology that facilitates the development of trust, which in essence is what money is.<\/p>\n

Trust that exists between two or more individuals is the true source of all wealth, allowing everyone to create on his\/her own and naturally transpiring through the environment.<\/p>\n

In other words; Wealth, in all its forms, is something of value created by people in unison with nature.<\/p>\n

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Currency, in this sense, is a social lubricant that enables two or more people to work together on some project, objective, or agenda. The objective might not be intrinsically valuable to the people involved \u2014 they might not be willing to cooperate merely to accomplish the purpose alone \u2014 but the motivation arises by offering them money, which gives them a valuable stake in the business. Generally speaking, people tend to participate in things they find valuable, which is money, as an effective motivator.<\/p>\n

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Thus, even with respect to debt-based money, which is money “printed out of thin air” it is people\u2019s faith and trust that gives any monetary system power. If people don\u2019t derive some kind of value from the use of money, they won’t use it.<\/p>\n

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But what makes a society benevolent is that the people within it have a genuine interest in placing their trust solely in honourable projects. On the flipside of the coin, when morality, ethics, and justice are lost, people can be bribed into malevolence through the promise of money. And this is essentially where the world is today. The powers that be, the elite, use us like cogs in a wheel to keep the systems of control alive, which we willingly participate in, mainly through the use of their created money.<\/p>\n

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Wealth is by nature valuable:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personal wealth is by nature valuable for an individual and potentially for others. For example, a musician plays a piece of music that is inherently valuable to the musician but also valuable to others who listen to it, because in some way it is beautiful, inspiring, or expressive.<\/p>\n

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In nature, wealth needs to be tamed or refined, often through the collective works of individuals. When a group of people mutually agree that they value something, like farming food for their community, they can work together to bring that value into existence. The formal process for creating a mutually agreed model of value is called trust.<\/p>\n

Money is a symbol of trust; <\/strong>people in a nation trust in the money the nation employs, enabling them to exchange these symbols amongst themselves. Because money is a symbol of value that can be traded for other things, people can be encouraged into group projects by offering them money. If someone doesn’t see the value of doing something innately, simply for the act of doing so, they can nevertheless be motivated to participate and “rewarded” for their efforts with money.<\/p>\n

Value <\/strong>is measured by what people really want and freely choose, it will not make the world poorer.<\/p>\n

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5,000 years ago gold was introduced as a money. It is money people could trust<\/em>. Not a promise <\/em>by someone, as it is today. This \u201cgold money\u201d was something very different. It was something people could count on. It made it easy to settle a transaction right on the spot. No need to remember who owed what to whom. No need to speak the same language or worship the same religion. This \u201cgold money\u201d was worth something in itself; intrinsically.<\/p>\n

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Gold is<\/strong> true global money:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gold, as opposed to paper currency, is a proven form of sound money. People have bought and sold goods and services with it for thousands of years. It has survived every kind of financial crisis. And it has survived countless paper currencies. Gold\u2019s value and by the same token silver\u2019s value are stable. They are not going to plunge 25% or more over the course of a few days.\u00a0There also\u00a0isn\u2019t a central authority in the world that controls PHYSICAL GOLD\u2019S price or its supply. It\u2019s a truly global currency. That\u2019s why gold is still the best way to protect yourself from reckless governments and central banksters.<\/p>\n

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What is real wealth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Money, right? Currency, gold, silver, you name it.\u00a0Money is only real wealth because you can use it to buy whatever you want. Money in any form is in actual fact only the\u00a0means to acquire real wealth. It is\u00a0the instrument for opportunity and time to pursue your goal.<\/p>\n

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The conventional view that\u00a0wealth is money and leisure\u00a0is upside down.\u00a0Let\u2019s imagine the owner of a vault has conventional treasures: jewels, gold coins, etc. If the \u201cwealth\u201d stays in the vault, what\u2019s the point of owning this \u201cwealth\u201d? The secret satisfaction of being \u201cwealthy\u201d?<\/p>\n

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If \u201cwealth\u201d is only an internal state, then let\u2019s measure friendship and being needed\/wanted with the metrics of \u201cwealth.\u201d\u00a0Do you see the point; if \u201cwealth\u201d is merely an internal state of satisfaction, then a vault full of \u201cmoney\u201d is a poor metric.<\/p>\n

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What money buys is what real wealth truly is, which is freedom and the control over one\u2019s life.\u00a0This control over one\u2019s life is called\u00a0action. Action is defined as \u201cthe capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.\u201d This may not seem like a profound concept, but another way to describe action is that\u00a0action is the opposite of helplessness.<\/p>\n

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Forms of wealth:<\/strong><\/p>\n

People with activity or drive define themselves and their identity. They shape the world they inhabit, rather than passively awaiting whatever circumstances may be delivered.<\/p>\n

In the real world, people with drive are driven. They move on when things no longer work for them in a particular situation.<\/p>\n

Action is not just the opposite of of helplessness; it\u2019s also the opposite of\u00a0victimhood, i.e. the state of being in which others are held responsible for all of one\u2019s trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n

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Action and auto responsibility are two sides of the same coin: each manifests the other.<\/p>\n

Opportunity is a form of wealth \u2014 and so is the ability to take opportunities that arise.\u00a0Though there is a random element to opportunity \u2013 i.e. getting lucky. However, the ability to take the opportunity is not a matter of luck. It requires a specific appetite for risk, perseverance, the ability to discern how best to use the opportunity, and access to the capital required to exploit the opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Capital is a type of wealth that isn\u2019t limited to \u201cmoney\u201d:\u00a0Character traits are capital, social networks are capital, experience is capital, knowledge is capital. All of these forms of capital are often more important than \u201cmoney\u201d capital.<\/p>\n

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As for \u201cmoney\u201d buying leisure; Leisure in abundance is a disaster for the vast majority of people.\u00a0Humans are designed to be needed by others, to be part of something greater than themselves, and to gain dignity and pride by doing useful work \u2013 whether they are paid \u201cmoney\u201d for this work or not.<\/p>\n

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This is why so many of those with the \u201cmoney\u201d to have endless leisure are miserable. Their lives are an endless treadmill of frivolous consumerism, neurotic pettiness, hypochondria, expressing their infinite heartaches to counsellors, and saddest of all, medications in abundance to relieve the ennui and the deadweight of their purposeless existence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMoney\u201d is only useful if it is a means to acquire real wealth, which is\u00a0the activity, opportunity and time to pursue your ideals.<\/p>\n

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There are many people who can spend $600,000 a year on various things, i.e. their \u201clifestyle\u201d, who don\u2019t feel \u201cwealthy\u201d \u2013 and if they don\u2019t have activity and time for work which is meaningful to them, they aren\u2019t wealthy: they\u2019re as impoverished as the person earning a fraction of their income.<\/p>\n

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Real wealth doesn\u2019t need much money:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Real wealth doesn\u2019t actually require a vast horde of \u201cmoney.\u201d\u00a0It requires some money, but how much depends on the cost of activity, opportunity and time. For those with few needs and the right priorities, the cost is minimal.<\/p>\n

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As for acquiring capital \u2013 the most important types of capital don\u2019t require much money;\u00a0determination, self-discipline, organisation, a voracious appetite for knowledge and work, an insatiable curiosity, a generous heart, a knack for friendship, the purposeful pursuit of goals \u2013 these are the tools to acquiring real wealth.<\/p>\n

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Money can’t solve the core problems of humanity:<\/strong><\/p>\n

People, through no direct fault of their own, accept the mistrust of the government as an unchangeable fact; “This is just the way things work!” It is assumed that governments can be nothing but corrupt, and as such, people don’t realise they can be forces of change to address this problem of trust. As each one takes on the burden of self-education in law and trust, they become a single unit of honesty that can one day unite with others to form a truly honest and fair society.<\/p>\n

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In short, just because human history has been plagued by tyrannies and corrupt governments this doesn’t in the least prevent us from forming truly benevolent governments. Such a benevolent body, should be built from the ground up, it should be anarchically founded on a population of educated and vigilant people, who know how to form trusting relationships as individuals and as a collective.<\/p>\n

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Our world is plagued by dishonesty, unfairness, and wholesale rejection of the truth; the founding principle of life.<\/p>\n

In our world today Might is right, it\u2019s the order of the day; lawlessness; where the law of the jungle and survival of the “fittest” are the primary criteria for oppression and success. And yet, despite the poverty stricken status of the human realms of trust, there is nothing stopping us from turning the ship of civilisation around and righting our course toward prosperity and abundance.<\/p>\n

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All the money in the world can’t solve the core problem humanity faces; the destruction of social trust and the capacity for individuals to restore the greater human family.<\/p>\n

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Restore the Trust:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cabal, for all their power through technology, their abundance of monetary wealth, and their seemingly limitless capacity to pollute and distort the minds of humans are practically powerless without the trust of their subordinates. Even they, in their ivory towers of splendour and opulence, need a population of trusting serfs \u2013 puppets – to act as pawns for their games of domination and control.<\/p>\n

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The powers that should not be know that trust is the blood that flows through the veins of the entire social enterprise and as a result, they have worked tirelessly to ensure that we, the people never restore trust amongst ourselves. Since we cannot trust each other, we end up placing our trust in the corrupt power structure, growing increasingly dependent on the very people who have destroyed our trust.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This is why history has been marked by the endless divisive movements, religions, creeds, sexuality and wars, all designed to destroy the human family and social trust. The most dangerous thing to these morally void fools who have managed to climb the pillars of egocentric personal power, is an awakened individual and their potential to restore honour, relationship, and trust with others of like mind.<\/p>\n

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One of the best weapons against tyranny is the love of truth, <\/em><\/p>\n

and the willingness to work in trust with others.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trust, honour, and respect are what make all relationships work. In this sense, good faith is what money really is. If trust is broken with someone, they likely won\u2019t want to work with them in the future. Humanity, on the whole, betrays trust, acts dishonourably and is pathologically disrespectful, making cooperation very difficult. To solve this problem, a false form of trust is needed, a kind of forced cooperation, otherwise known as debt. That is why all money today is debt-based. Restore trust, honour, and respect, and credit-based \u2018money\u2019 can return; otherwise known as the love of faith in one\u2019s fellowman.<\/p>\n

From Stillness in the Storm.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The consequences of scarcity are all around us.<\/p>\n

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