Business Course Why

Hello,

I am trying to kickstart a video business course for young people, in their 20s, so that they can have some kind of chance in the waning American economy. The Reagan years saw a similar uptick in young people participating in free enterprise. I have done it successfully since I was ten years old.

I want these courses to be high production and free. I am asking for donations. Here is a written article, which I will parse down to bullet points and use to make the script for the second video.

Business Course: Why?

Before we talk about how to start or how to run a business, we should talk about why. This is much more significant than people give it credit. There is a whole mentality to running a business which I learned at a young age, and I was only taught that an opposing mentality (called “job mentality”) exists after I had worked a job and been scandalized for two years, failing to conform to the way in which W2- contract relationships work customarily.

There is an author named Robert Kiyosaki who writes extensively on this. He is a Japanese man converted to the religion of American business, and he has very successfully conquered it, just as the Japanese conquered the automobile industry in the 1970’s.

Four Ways of Making Money

He describes four ways of making money. They are:

Employment- This is a W-2 contract relationship. A man in this category, no matter his pay structure, ultimately trades his personal time for money.

Self-Employment or Small Business- This is a business which is approached in the same way as a W2 contract relationship. A man trades his time for money, but he does not do so under a specific master, only according to the general market.

Big Business- This is where it gets interesting. Kiyosaki gives a rough estimate that this type of money-making involves at least 500 employees, but he has since changed his idea of that, partly because he decided to start a network marketing company. In this category, your income is no longer tied directly to your time, but is rather tied to other people’s time.

Investment- For Kiyosaki, this is the goal. At this point, you are finally trading your money for money, as he puts it.

Time over Money

These four categories are built upon the assumption that you compete in the marketplace and cooperate with people only off of the idea of mutual advantage, which is a workable approach. Christians in the marketplace oftentimes incorporate their religion merely as a way of competing better, since people respect the Christian God and feel that they can predict the behavior He commands to His people.

The reason why you would want to run your own business is implied in these four means of making money: you value your time over your money. Most people will put a certain dollar amount on their time, such as $15 an hour, or $100,000 for a finished project, something of that nature. This allows the marketplace to order and run people like little machines, and employers push down this amount in order to maximize their profits, but ultimately even their profits operate off of this limited philosophy.

Time is a mystical and significant topic. You have a limited amount of it. The day you die is indisputable. However, every individual day and every individual hour has various value depending on how you act, speak, and think during it. And it is impossible to predict the maximum value of each hour, because there are too many factors to eliminate them all from the equation. Money, by contrast, comes and goes in an almost unpredictable, chaotic, and infinite manner. You can have $1,000,000 today and be in debt for ten times that the next day. Most men pursue W2 contract relationships because it purports to make money “stable” and “steady”, which it does for limited and unpredictable periods of time (everyone I know is an “at will employee” and, if they are not, they are still de facto because of the nature of lawsuits). Many other men have committed themselves to the mastery of money for money’s sake, but most men have found it far too difficult and repugnant morally or otherwise to pursue such a thing. You have to sacrifice nearly everything else to do it under the terms I have so far laid out.

Jobs Are Terrible

So what is the solution? It is this: We can escape this machinery that squeezes us for all we are worth until we are sterile and dead. Although the means of escape involves difficult and vague ideas such as charity, community, and justice; the first step is fairly easy to see: employment, the W2 contract relationship, must be seen as a component, a broken tool used while it is in hand, in order to emancipate oneself of the slavery of time to money. The better tools are all related to business because, after all, employment comes from business, not the other way around.

Therefore, we should take the time and possibly the money which we have and use it for business. In employment, you do a simple, repeatable task for a certain hourly rate, which is tied to production and material alone. The time and money you have are consumed. In business, you do a spiritual task in which you fulfill the needs and wants of your neighbor in exchange for a valuable reputation which then grants you money and acquaintances. The time and money you have are invested; success being variable and qualitative (you may not receive time or money as the return).

Expansion

We should, furthermore, employ all of our neighbors as best we can. The reason why the world is controlled by a small, alien, and effeminate group, is because they employ the world’s population. In remote places of nearly stone-age (not that I believe in that) countries, men are paid to do a task such as harvesting honey or opium, and the money which pays them is American and comes from corporations.

We do not have to provide for a man and his family. We can simply buy meat from our neighbor rather than the grocery store. We can ask our neighbor to come look at our truck and give him twenty bucks for doing it. We can work on our neighbor’s property rather than going to the gymnasium. These are simple examples. In the beginning, we will spend most of our spare time in recreation, because we are overworked in this economy. That is fine. Recreation is a profitable business, and your neighbors are worthy entertainers.

Community

And we ought to do everything we can to make the things we do hirable for our neighbors, as well. We lose very little this way. We can often monetize the things we are doing anyways, suffering only a little bit of mathematics and gruntwork, and building community in the process.

America rewards business. The tax code pays you for knowing the things I know. People fear business, and so they send a lot of money to the government, and they are generally robbed all day long. I want to help fix that. That will be the focus of the rest of this course.

Let’s work together: TaurusNecrus@gmail.com

Here is the introduction to the course: Introduction

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