Below is a copy of original content of above title [by this/same author] shared at (1) Hindsight: 2020 or Transformation? | LinkedIn , dressed up from a FB response to recent events :
One social media profile has become a curated news feed on issues that affect everyone, peppered with opportunities, business, marketing, and financial resources. Politics are only inserted from an objective perspective not influenced by any conscious 'confirmation bias'.
When a person or family has enough real wealth, who's in office doesn't matter. I know how some policies can affect 'the rich', therefore they have 'political opinions' as to what affects them personally, not others. That's a mark of greed, ego, or scarcity mindset, even of those considered 'rich', by others.
The "rich" can have a poverty mindset: more for them, less for others. Many are obsessed with status or ego driven. The 'wealthy' have an abundance mindset: they more they give, the more they get, without putting conditions on the giving, because a candle lighting another creates more light, not less.
The two camps with money, 'the rich' and 'the wealthy', also have different definitions of 'socialism', a very controversial topic of late, because 'the rich' actually fear being 'robbed', one reason being the indoctrination equating socialism with communism. If they were the same they would not have different terms, or not made synonymous with each other, such as a thesaurus making them the same. They're not. 'Rich' is also not synonymous with 'educated', as we know.
The wealthy understand their own definitions of what is more known as a "healthy socialism", or "conscious capitalism", both terms being not fully accurate. This is not a dissertation on what those terms actually mean, untainted from any political agenda.
In the most literal sense, 'socialism' is what's for the good of the whole, not 'taking from the haves and giving to the have-nots who've done nothing to earn what they're given'. It's rooted in being socially responsible, not unlike or even equated with creating legacies.
When an enterprise created provides a living for teams beyond their lifetimes, when millionaires are created to equal or surpass the net worth of a founder during or after a founder's lifetime (as adults can learn to manage some investments better than others, or founders can choose how assets are allocated differently), it's both conscious wealth creation, socialistic, and a legacy in service to others by providing solutions others will pay for, when paying for such solutions adds to qualities of life, as opposed to causing spending that may not lead to better outcomes. This isn't a straight line.
#ProsperityEnvironmentsCatalysts create environments where such skills can be learned in safe and consistently supportive environments. Students can be from 8-80+. Common factors are willingness to learn, discipline, and vision: the ability to reverse engineer from an end result and calculate or continuously act toward a vision, of which several can happen over a lifetime, if begun earlier in life.
We must ask ourselves: is what I'm doing today going to take me to what I know I can do? Are we betraying ourselves by not investing our time in what will lead to a deep want we think is only a dream? Is it a dream or a desire, the difference being a desire is a deeper 'want' that can actually happen. Some dreams are desires that can manifest when certain factors exist. Other dreams are unrealistic. We usually know the difference. Support or mentorship can clarify a number of conundrums in these areas, because we often can't see ourselves as others do.
An obligation of wealth that the truly wealthy have as a primary objective is to be able to mentor and lead for others to experience the rewards of discipline and vision, and to assist in putting wealth within the reach of others. Don't hate the wealthy. Know the difference between 'the wealthy' and the 'mere rich'.
Added income only makes one more of what they already are; it will magnify core character: a reflection of a positive or negative environment. When someone says they give and have less because they attract takers, thus affecting their ability to trust, it's not their fault in the moment. It's an environment issue. They still have to want to seek better environments, and believe those environments exist.
An unwillingness or inability to change or see the world from the same lens based on past experiences stunts growth on a spiritual level, not in a religious sense. Transformation can happen when certain factors exist between the wealthy, the willing, timing, and environment. It's not magic; it's alignment, and determination to see a vision through by combining forces, always for good.
Transformation can be negative as well. Children are born brilliant and perfect; corrupt or imperfect environments limit potential. Hostage situations by mental or literal imprisonment affects DNA, even in 'adults'. No great thing is accomplished alone. We must be open to change, first with ourselves, willing to see the world from others' eyes.
There is no scarcity. No one human can save the world. There is not one perfect soul mate on the planet. There are several at any given time, not with whom to procreate necessarily, or even to spend the rest of one's life with.
The creation of family is who can take us all forward positively with minimal damage & maximum joy, so that we may enjoy watching grandchildren not suffer unnecessarily, even those that aren't ours.
