Saturday, July 5, 2025
The rich buy things that appreciate, like real estate, stocks, startups, and bonds. They convert cash into real wealth, what’s truly valuable and desirable. The poor hold onto cash, an empty symbol of wealth, which in turn makes them poor.
Those who accumulate cash are storing empty symbols. You can’t eat a dollar, drive a dollar, live in a dollar, or create freedom with a dollar. Strawberries, fruits, and vegetables are value. Abilities are value. Ideas are value. Attention is value. Mobility is value. Freedom is value. What’s funny is that we have these valuable “things,” yet feel poor. That’s because cash is valueless, until it’s exchanged. What good would a dollar do you on a deserted island? What’s good are your skills.
Appreciate your skills – invest in them. Appreciate your body – invest in it. Appreciate your freedom – invest in mobility. Appreciate your home – spend time in it, cozy, snugly, appreciatively. Stocks and bonds appreciate because they are companies, people. Appreciate the value of what you have. Appreciate the value of who you are. Appreciate others, and wealth blows up.
Value is what’s in the shopping cart, in the service you get, and in the people you invest in. Wealth is in how easy it is to invest. Poverty is in how easy it is to hoard. What’s funny is that appreciation is free, or letting go of cash. Desirability is what appreciates the value of something. Do you depreciate what you have? Are you poor? Or do you understand the law of appreciation?
Appreciation, desirability and wealth go together. Simply put, cash isn’t desirable. It’s what cash symbolizes that’s desirable. How easy it is to be wealthy? Appreciation of what’s valuable is absolutely free, and you have that, now. Cash is worthless without the exchangeable nature of it. Why accumulate worthlessness? Wealth is so easy, it’s stupid.