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Y&R Discussion Group
This is going to be a quick post, not an essay. The book has alot of great ideas, and right off the bat it can save you loads of time.. the other half of what it advocates, though, is the harder part. But that aside, this is the problem.
If you are working only a few hours a week, then who the hell is doing the rest of the absolutely essential work required to keep this planet running while you read your email every Monday morning for one hour as you "polish off your dark roast" like some smug jerk who thinks he's actually intelligent just because he can make money?
The book says it's not out to change the world, and boy is it right. Not to say that the author isn't about doing good things, etc. but what kind of world are we going to have when the end goal is always to make money? The answer is the kind we have now - one where some are very rich, and others are sinking further into miserable poverty.
After reading this, and seeing for myself the extent to which so many things are calculated and not inspired, no wonder things are going down. I have one question for those who champion this book: If you don't want to work for $4-$10 as a virtual assistant (like the ones you use who got an MBA at a university in India) then why the hell should they? Quite obviously, only X number of people could work 4 hours a week otherwise there would be no one to serve the public. It's not a sustainable system, as far as I can see - it's only a way that the author got rich and won't work for alot of people, since for one thing, the economy is dying (why else would he write this?) This book is an example of the truth that the desire to be rich is really a desire for others to be poor, so that you can be the beneficiary.. because if everyone was rich, no one would be. The existence of one polarity demands the existence of the other.
Shhhhh! Cordero, you're gonna be accused of indulging in class warfare.
But that's not to say you don't bring up valid issues. It's a variation on a theme of Mark Twain's, "Nobody ever made a million dollars honestly."
The only thing I would add to Mr. Twain's observation, "...honestly and on the backs of others' efforts." And allowing for inflation, maybe "million" should be "billion".
They talk about entitlements. The hubris of the rich knows no bounds.
I've been in the office for 12 1/2 hours so far today because work has to be done.
What's your point ?
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