I use to make comparisons between people and ladders because I generally believe we're all climbers in life. One of the biggest heights we mostly aim to climb is the finance and social ladder. Some people are born into wealth, and because they were, sometimes it blinds them to the rat race out there, making them generally underestimate the struggle of the common man.
However these people might not need to climb but maintain their position because wealth, in my opinion, isn't a destination, it's a race against time, inflation, innovations, and sophistication. New money comes with age and time, this means that new millionaires are being made every day, hence the old millionaires will likely give way one way or another, however, let's come back to the issue at hand
How Can Wealth Be Uninspiring?
Even people born into wealth will need to maintain the wealth and this is even harder than someone who has to start chasing the bag from ground zero. I've met a few millionaire kids and they're the most uninspiring people to talk to. The ones who try so hard to be different, still find it difficult to be different. Their life is somehow tailored, premeditated, and predestined. This isn't necessarily a bad thing,
why is this?
Life doesn't have to be uncertain, I mean, wouldn't you like to know the age at which you'll inherit a multimillion business or what your career path would certainly be like after college? I mean, some people are screwing nuts and bolts in college, without even a clear path of the job they'll do when they graduate, I mean who wouldn't trade that for a promised life of comfort?
The Rich Kid's Predestined Life
Nevertheless, I wouldn't entirely say all rich kids are drab. Some seem innovative and have a clearer sense of what their future should be like, but they cannot follow this path. This is because most rich parents have a strict definition of responsibility. A rich man would prefer their kids to take over their business, rather than having them join the army, this is because wealth to them has to be translational.
I mean, they try to make sure that their children are worthy of the wealth they're transferring to them, but then, kids who are used to wealth often seek the freedom of having nothing, to enable them to see poverty from a third person point of view.
Breaking Away From The "Wealth" Monotony
However, this isn't to say rich kids shouldn't seek to break away from the monotony of wealth they were born into, sometimes by doing this they tend to underappreciate the efforts of their wealthy parents who probably started with nothing, and hustled all through to give them the life they're currently enjoying. The narrative can be complicated because sometimes I feel that we truly value the sacrifice of others if we have been in a position of lack before.
This is different from what it seems like down the ladder. People who never had the opportunity to have rich parents have to climb ladders, compete, fight, in some instances, do questionable things they might not even be comfortable with. Because we're all climbers, we need others to co-climb if that's even a word.
Financial breakthrough is what most people set out their lives to attain and the frustration of not getting them is why we have people who have unpure intentions.
Symbiotics is an art of co-climbing but a lot of people would rather sacrifice the position of others so that they can climb even higher than they were supposed to. It's funny, but life's a competition. When it comes to survival, people would trash their moral values and standards because life's competitive and we have others who do not want to play by the rules.
I think it's an individual decision to choose people we want to co-climb with because when people do not compliment you it's hard for you to grow with them without them pulling you down and vice versa. In reality, we all chase growth especially if we're born into comfort and accomplishment.
Small & Big Fishes: Who Are You?
Our lives would differ from those who were. I believe that average people are small fishes in a big ocean, while the few wealthy people need only a small portion of themselves, small fishes empowering themselves can create something vast and distinctive. This is to say we do not need wealthy people to strive in life, especially if we can build like-minded people who are aiming for the same goal.
People are the money you're aiming to have, this seems contradictory but true, hence avoid unions that does not carry a symbiotic feature. As for wealthy people, they have their challenges, just like people who aren't, (I'll talk about this in another post) and money isn't the end of all problems but the beginning of new problems. Some problems are only activated when one's financial status changes for the better.
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