Imagine two workers with two different financial situations.
Worker One managed to cash-flow his bachelor’s degree, owns his house outright, has no consumer debt, surpassed the quarter-million-dollar mark in his Roth IRA, and is blessed with an emergency fund that can cover a year-long stretch of unemployment.
Worker Two still owes over $20K to Sallie Mae, recently signed a two-year apartment lease, has a $700 car note, no retirement savings, and his emergency fund, if you can call it that, is “bursting” with nearly $1,500.
Now a question: Which worker is more likely to take a lot of shit from his boss, coworkers, and clients?
If you said Worker Two, go straight to the head of the class.
The best protection any worker can have is to not be dependent on his job. Once you need a particular job at a particular salary, you’re cooked. You will have no choice but to eat all manner of shit—from keylogging and cheesy team-building activities to quiet promotions and DEI training.
If you’re not building wealth with every paycheck, you’re metaphorically showing up to work with a neon “kick me” sign affixed to your back. If you’re voting for politicians whose only solution to America’s cost-of-living crisis is to promise you more welfare while simultaneously undermining your bargaining power with your employer (hello outsourcing, open borders, and H-1B visas), you’re metaphorically resigning yourself to a steady diet of shit burgers, shit fries, and shit shakes.
Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.
The most concerning and depressing thing about this post is that it still needs to be posted.
There is a basic adversarial financial relationship between management and labor. People think they will be taken care of and too often, in the end, they are just “Taken care of”.
Don’t forget to GOYA as it is boot the captured opposition time of year. Three down and so many left to go.
Well said, my friend. Liberty is not for the passive. GOYA!