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00:00:30.620 | - Welcome to Radical Personal Finance,
00:00:31.820 | a show dedicated to providing you
00:00:32.920 | with the knowledge, skills, insight,
00:00:34.560 | and encouragement you need to live a rich
00:00:36.400 | and meaningful life now,
00:00:37.940 | while building a plan for freedom in 10 years or less.
00:00:42.940 | My name is Josh Rasheeds.
00:00:44.380 | Today on the show, I want to share with you
00:00:46.380 | a simple and yet I believe under-discussed truth.
00:00:51.380 | This is a truth that I myself have resisted quite vigorously.
00:00:57.520 | This is a truth that I have never wanted
00:01:00.560 | to acknowledge as true.
00:01:02.260 | This is a truth that I wish were not true.
00:01:05.160 | And yet at this point in my life,
00:01:07.560 | I have to concede that I believe this is true.
00:01:12.560 | I believe that this is an enduring truth
00:01:15.940 | that has really probably never really changed.
00:01:18.840 | And at this point in time,
00:01:20.340 | I don't think it has much chance of changing.
00:01:26.440 | Here is the truth.
00:01:27.720 | If you desire to live a lifestyle of freedom,
00:01:34.080 | to have the highest levels of personal freedom,
00:01:40.080 | the highest levels of personal choice,
00:01:41.780 | to be able to do the things that you wish to do,
00:01:44.840 | to live in the way that you believe is right,
00:01:48.300 | if that is your desire,
00:01:49.960 | then you have virtually no option
00:01:55.600 | other than to dedicate yourself to becoming rich,
00:02:00.600 | to dedicate yourself to becoming financially wealthy.
00:02:05.000 | Now, hear me clearly, I do not like that that is true.
00:02:08.000 | I long for a world in which that's not true.
00:02:11.660 | I wish for systems of community and culture and government
00:02:17.600 | to be dedicated to justice, equal justice for all
00:02:22.040 | so that all are equal before the law.
00:02:23.880 | I wish for systems that acknowledge individual sovereignty
00:02:27.360 | and individual rights.
00:02:28.560 | I wish for a society that supports that.
00:02:32.540 | I have, like many people,
00:02:36.160 | engaged in the pursuit of those societies
00:02:39.720 | and arguments about how, yes, they really do exist
00:02:42.760 | or they really should exist
00:02:43.920 | or here's how we can make them to exist.
00:02:46.400 | What I haven't observed is,
00:02:50.680 | while I am not without hope that perhaps one day
00:02:54.520 | a society like that might exist,
00:02:57.640 | in fact, I genuinely believe that one day
00:02:59.960 | in the fullness of time it will exist,
00:03:02.640 | however, at this point in time, it does not seem to exist.
00:03:10.160 | But along the way, when you analyze most of the choices
00:03:16.080 | that you want to make,
00:03:17.160 | what you will see is that if you are wealthy,
00:03:20.580 | you have vastly higher levels of personal freedom of choice.
00:03:25.580 | I wanna give some examples to drive this home to you
00:03:33.540 | and indicate to you that,
00:03:35.980 | while I'm intentionally using words like wealthy,
00:03:38.160 | that this is a sliding scale of freedom.
00:03:41.840 | If you're a little bit more wealthy
00:03:43.540 | than you were previously, you have a few more choices.
00:03:47.360 | If you are infinitely more wealthy than you were previously,
00:03:49.960 | you have abundantly more choices.
00:03:52.060 | But I believe that it's important that you acknowledge
00:03:56.980 | that building financial wealth is an integral part
00:04:01.980 | of your pursuing personal freedom.
00:04:06.700 | It's not optional.
00:04:07.860 | There are good arguments to be made in the opposite.
00:04:12.540 | For example, I myself have done shows.
00:04:15.620 | I did a show one time
00:04:17.220 | talking about the famous philosophical saying
00:04:20.000 | where there's the king's servant,
00:04:25.000 | two of the king's philosopher's servants
00:04:27.000 | are talking to each other.
00:04:28.580 | And one of the servants sees the other servant
00:04:31.380 | eating a simple bowl of lentils for his meal.
00:04:34.580 | And he says, "Listen, if you would just learn
00:04:36.960 | "to please the king,
00:04:39.000 | "then you wouldn't have to live on lentils."
00:04:42.520 | To which the second philosopher's servant responds,
00:04:45.780 | "If you would learn to live on lentils,
00:04:48.320 | "you wouldn't have to please the king."
00:04:50.720 | There's a whole show on that.
00:04:54.360 | I believe that's true, right?
00:04:56.580 | The man who has the simplest of desires in some cases
00:04:59.740 | can be freer than the man in many cases is simply freer
00:05:03.420 | because he has simpler desires
00:05:05.640 | and thus he's able to take more risks.
00:05:09.420 | I think a lot of times we like to wax poetic
00:05:12.220 | about the lifestyle of those who don't have anything.
00:05:16.460 | I often do find myself admiring those people.
00:05:19.580 | I enjoy admiring people who can do well on little.
00:05:24.200 | But when you actually get down to it,
00:05:26.480 | you don't have more freedom just because you have little.
00:05:31.100 | You do have more freedom when your desires are less,
00:05:34.280 | but you have more freedom when you have resources.
00:05:37.340 | You have more freedom when you have options.
00:05:40.300 | Give an example.
00:05:41.500 | Okay.
00:05:42.340 | I am currently at the moment in the nation of France.
00:05:46.740 | I've been here for a few weeks.
00:05:48.140 | And I wanted to come to France
00:05:50.180 | because my plan had been for a significant amount of time
00:05:54.380 | to spend the summer in France,
00:05:56.020 | working on my own French skills and abilities
00:06:00.700 | and helping my children,
00:06:02.140 | collecting books and literature in French for them,
00:06:04.760 | and just having an opportunity
00:06:06.300 | to spend some time in France.
00:06:07.500 | It's such a beautiful place, lovely country,
00:06:10.480 | tremendous history, very appealing culture.
00:06:15.480 | There's just so many things that I like about France.
00:06:20.460 | So we came here.
00:06:21.420 | And of course, traveling anywhere is difficult right now.
00:06:25.860 | And that travel is often frustrating,
00:06:29.580 | but I've dealt with it.
00:06:30.880 | I've chosen places that were freer.
00:06:33.020 | And I knew coming to Europe that I was going into a place
00:06:36.380 | that was perhaps less free.
00:06:37.900 | But after studying the different laws and things,
00:06:41.040 | I decided, you know what?
00:06:42.100 | There's gonna be enough freedom.
00:06:44.100 | And there really was.
00:06:45.620 | There really was.
00:06:46.460 | We spent time on the island nation of Malta,
00:06:49.100 | spent time in Spain, spent time in Portugal, Andorra,
00:06:52.500 | significant levels of freedom.
00:06:54.860 | The coronavirus restrictions were not much of a problem.
00:06:57.220 | Obviously, we had to have the appropriate tests
00:06:59.660 | and paperwork to get in,
00:07:00.820 | but generally it wasn't a problem.
00:07:03.460 | Until that is, we got to France.
00:07:06.220 | And my wife did not want to come to France
00:07:08.860 | because she wants nothing to do with the,
00:07:12.100 | here, the pass sanitaire, the health pass
00:07:15.100 | and the COVID pass, and I want nothing to do with it.
00:07:16.980 | But I'm, honestly, I'm more easily,
00:07:19.740 | I'm more willing to put up with some of the stuff
00:07:21.860 | that she is, but I convinced her, I was like,
00:07:23.100 | well, let's do it, it'll be fine.
00:07:24.380 | It's not gonna be so bad.
00:07:26.480 | Let me tell you, it's bad.
00:07:29.620 | It is absolutely horrendous here.
00:07:34.020 | Just like in many places, it is awful.
00:07:37.040 | In order for you to go almost anywhere,
00:07:40.180 | you have to have an app on your phone with a QR code
00:07:45.500 | that is scanned at the entrance to everything.
00:07:48.260 | And I, again, I knew that coming in,
00:07:52.500 | but I thought, you know what, come on, the French, right?
00:07:54.660 | They've got this proud history of standing up
00:07:58.060 | for liberté, fraternité, égalité, right?
00:08:01.580 | This is their national motto is liberté.
00:08:03.460 | The French are known as people who loved,
00:08:05.700 | like, come on, they're not really gonna go into this.
00:08:07.700 | And I'm not gonna go to Paris.
00:08:08.780 | I'm not gonna go to a metropolitan area.
00:08:10.700 | I'm gonna stay out in the country, go to a little village.
00:08:12.620 | It's not gonna be so bad, right?
00:08:14.300 | Yeah, it's bad.
00:08:16.640 | I refuse to participate in any kind of government app
00:08:22.740 | on my personal tracking device.
00:08:24.580 | It's just, that's horrific.
00:08:26.400 | If you know the slightest thing about data security
00:08:28.520 | and whatnot, that's a horrific thing.
00:08:31.220 | So I refuse to participate on a matter of principle.
00:08:34.080 | And what that means is I can't go anywhere.
00:08:38.160 | I can't do anything.
00:08:39.580 | I can't go to the mall.
00:08:41.020 | You got people at the borders of all the malls.
00:08:43.060 | I can't go to the stores.
00:08:44.400 | Many of the stores, even ordinary stores are closed off.
00:08:47.740 | Thankfully, not a grocery store.
00:08:49.640 | Thankfully, not a grocery store.
00:08:52.700 | I can still go to a grocery store and buy food.
00:08:54.340 | I can still go to an open-air market
00:08:56.260 | and get some food there.
00:08:57.500 | I can't go to any restaurants.
00:09:01.980 | Get turned away again after again after again.
00:09:05.260 | I can't even, in many cases, even buy a coffee
00:09:07.660 | because of not having the pass, not having the QR code.
00:09:12.200 | And it's brutal.
00:09:17.720 | It's brutal.
00:09:18.900 | And I thought, oh, maybe the French were gonna protest more.
00:09:22.180 | There was these pictures online you could see
00:09:23.740 | a few weeks ago of, oh, look, all the French
00:09:26.260 | are bringing their meals and they're picnicking
00:09:29.900 | on the street in front of the restaurants
00:09:31.340 | to protest the health pass.
00:09:34.660 | Well, I can't see any evidence where I am
00:09:36.820 | of those actual protests.
00:09:39.400 | And so it's pretty awful, right?
00:09:43.660 | So I'm done, I'm leaving.
00:09:44.900 | But the point is that I have the choice to leave.
00:09:48.700 | Why?
00:09:50.140 | Well, because I'm not poor.
00:09:51.920 | I have the ability to just get up and go and to leave.
00:09:55.800 | And I don't take that for granted.
00:09:58.980 | That's something that has required
00:10:00.380 | a significant amount of work to build.
00:10:03.340 | But when you see it, you recognize,
00:10:07.220 | man, I really wish that something I could say
00:10:09.780 | or something I could do could improve things
00:10:11.580 | 'cause my heart goes out to people
00:10:12.820 | who can't just get up and leave,
00:10:14.620 | who have to live with this kind of stuff on a daily basis.
00:10:16.940 | It's all around the world, right?
00:10:18.440 | There's people who are locked in their houses
00:10:20.180 | and they're not allowed to come out of their house.
00:10:23.540 | They're not allowed to come out of their house.
00:10:25.060 | There are right now in the West,
00:10:29.220 | there are government agents who will not allow you
00:10:33.900 | to buy more than two packs of beer
00:10:38.500 | because they think you're drinking too much.
00:10:40.740 | They won't allow you to leave your house to go get it.
00:10:43.260 | You have to have it ordered in.
00:10:44.580 | And there's government agents restricting the flow
00:10:48.540 | of alcohol to your private neighborhood.
00:10:50.540 | It's insane.
00:10:54.580 | And to me, it's been somewhat shocking
00:10:56.980 | because a year and a half ago,
00:11:00.580 | I was sitting watching the news,
00:11:02.140 | following it very closely, a lot of the news from China.
00:11:05.820 | And I was watching a lot of the,
00:11:08.120 | some of the local language stuff that I could find as well.
00:11:11.100 | And I'm seeing all these pictures
00:11:12.360 | of the Chinese citizens lining up.
00:11:15.740 | And in order to ride on the public transportation,
00:11:18.880 | they had to pull out their app
00:11:21.260 | and they had to show their green check mark
00:11:23.260 | with the Bluetooth geolocation showing,
00:11:25.300 | look, yes, we're good, we don't have COVID.
00:11:27.620 | We can pass onto the train, et cetera.
00:11:29.220 | And I'm laughing, I'm like, that's awful.
00:11:31.300 | But man, I'm glad that I'm not living in China.
00:11:35.660 | And yet, here I am seeing that and worse in so many parts
00:11:42.380 | of places that I thought had more defenses against it.
00:11:45.700 | It's stunning.
00:11:50.260 | And of course, American President Joe Biden last night
00:11:53.620 | comes out with a new policy indicating that
00:11:59.260 | not only do you have various medical mandates
00:12:03.420 | for government entities,
00:12:05.600 | and not only have many large companies chosen that,
00:12:07.660 | but now the federal government
00:12:10.780 | is going to impose medical mandates
00:12:14.860 | for certain forms of medical treatment or testing
00:12:18.940 | for all companies larger than 100.
00:12:20.860 | And I keep thinking to myself, oh, come on,
00:12:25.620 | the Americans, they're more rebellious.
00:12:27.500 | They're not gonna go along with that.
00:12:29.900 | This point, I don't know, I don't know.
00:12:33.620 | I've always felt that probably the Americans
00:12:37.300 | are more rebellious and not actually gonna go along
00:12:39.500 | with that, but watching what they have gone along with
00:12:43.740 | is pretty stunning to me.
00:12:47.820 | So what's the point?
00:12:48.660 | The point is that when you tackle these problems,
00:12:52.260 | what you find is that if you are rich,
00:12:55.200 | the solutions are relatively easy.
00:12:58.920 | If you don't wanna be ruled by someone else, you just leave.
00:13:03.420 | And the rich always have a way out.
00:13:06.700 | I can leave France.
00:13:08.260 | It's not hard for me.
00:13:09.900 | Go to the airport, get on an airplane and go.
00:13:12.060 | And the world is full of countries that are far freer.
00:13:14.660 | And I can just pick one of those countries.
00:13:16.020 | I can show up, grab a house, be totally at ease.
00:13:20.460 | Everything is good.
00:13:21.460 | That's 'cause I'm not broke.
00:13:23.820 | I think about the man or the woman who has a job
00:13:30.980 | and their employers can come along and say,
00:13:33.380 | we're going to mandate that you do something.
00:13:36.820 | The person doesn't wanna do it.
00:13:38.940 | What choice do you make?
00:13:40.140 | You need a job to feed your family, you roll over.
00:13:45.020 | I appreciate that a lot of people think they wouldn't.
00:13:48.740 | I'd like to think that I wouldn't,
00:13:50.900 | but at the end of the day, you gotta feed your family.
00:13:54.660 | You gotta feed yourself.
00:13:56.140 | And so if you're not rich,
00:13:57.380 | that's a really hard decision to make.
00:13:59.820 | But if you do have a little bit of money,
00:14:01.220 | you gotta have some savings, you got some backup plans,
00:14:03.820 | that decision is a lot easier.
00:14:06.040 | So the point is that money solves
00:14:10.180 | virtually all of these problems.
00:14:13.340 | School's not how you want it to be for your children.
00:14:16.260 | Money means you pull them out, you hire a private tutor.
00:14:19.780 | Money means that you take them somewhere else.
00:14:23.340 | A city or a country is not providing you
00:14:26.340 | with an appropriate level of freedom.
00:14:28.020 | Money means that you just get up and go.
00:14:31.340 | Imagine this, imagine your country
00:14:34.300 | tells you where you can and cannot go.
00:14:37.340 | Imagine your country says,
00:14:39.960 | you can't fly into a certain country,
00:14:42.240 | you can't visit a certain country 'cause we don't like them.
00:14:45.240 | Imagine that your country says,
00:14:51.500 | you can't leave our country.
00:14:53.860 | Even though you're a citizen,
00:14:58.380 | theoretically, we say we're a free country,
00:15:00.220 | you can't leave our country.
00:15:02.660 | It's happening right now,
00:15:03.660 | without a good enough excuse that we approve.
00:15:05.900 | Well, what does a rich man do?
00:15:08.900 | He just invents the excuse and goes.
00:15:11.500 | Poor man though, doesn't have the pool to make the excuse.
00:15:14.220 | And here's what's so nasty about this truth.
00:15:17.300 | You feel dirty talking about it,
00:15:18.860 | you feel dirty acknowledging it.
00:15:22.100 | There's no question that rich people
00:15:24.420 | have tremendous amounts of personal privilege,
00:15:29.020 | privilege that many people don't have.
00:15:31.020 | There's no question about that.
00:15:32.140 | And you feel dirty because you want desperately
00:15:34.140 | for that not to be true.
00:15:36.180 | But it is true.
00:15:37.720 | And on every single issue, it's true.
00:15:40.260 | Maybe it's not travel freedom,
00:15:41.900 | maybe it's banking freedom.
00:15:44.360 | Well, rich people have options all around the world.
00:15:47.260 | They can afford to come and go
00:15:48.580 | and go where they wanna do
00:15:49.460 | and spend their money how they want to.
00:15:50.820 | Maybe it's getting access to certain things.
00:15:53.420 | Rich people can always get access to certain things.
00:15:56.460 | No matter what it is.
00:15:57.740 | Maybe you're saying, oh, I should have the freedom
00:15:59.440 | to protect myself and my family.
00:16:02.300 | Yeah, well, if you're rich, you do, right?
00:16:04.780 | Because the politicians always have the goons with the guns
00:16:08.580 | around them no matter what,
00:16:09.740 | no matter what laws they do.
00:16:10.740 | But if you're not rich, well, tough luck.
00:16:12.780 | Sucks to be you.
00:16:13.620 | So if you genuinely desire to be free,
00:16:18.060 | you genuinely care about freedom,
00:16:20.180 | you have to prioritize wealth building
00:16:22.780 | as part of that freedom plan.
00:16:24.820 | Now, there are tiers to this.
00:16:28.260 | It's not, you don't have to become worth $100 million
00:16:31.020 | before you can live freely.
00:16:33.100 | There are tiers to it.
00:16:33.940 | Go back and listen to my seven rings of freedom series.
00:16:37.260 | Many of those rings of freedom are extremely practical.
00:16:40.220 | Only one of them is total financial freedom.
00:16:43.140 | But there is no question that financial freedom
00:16:48.940 | leads to everything else.
00:16:50.940 | And in today's world, you can buy it.
00:16:53.740 | You can buy the freedom that you want.
00:16:56.100 | Your country won't let you travel.
00:16:58.580 | They won't let you go a certain place.
00:17:00.520 | Go ahead and buy yourself a citizenship in another country
00:17:04.620 | that actually cares about freedom.
00:17:05.780 | Gives you a passport and says, here you go.
00:17:07.340 | We'll leave you alone.
00:17:08.340 | It's just a simple value for value transaction.
00:17:10.260 | You give them money, they give you travel documents.
00:17:12.420 | Boom, you're done.
00:17:13.300 | You care about your freedom
00:17:15.980 | and you don't wanna submit to a certain thing,
00:17:18.780 | a certain medical mandate.
00:17:21.180 | Okay, just go somewhere else where you don't have that.
00:17:24.700 | Or simply pay somebody to give you the right paperwork.
00:17:30.100 | Pay somebody to put your name in the system.
00:17:31.740 | Pay somebody else to hold the QR code for you.
00:17:35.860 | All of these things can be bought.
00:17:37.740 | Don't like the laws restricting you
00:17:42.500 | from certain something that you want?
00:17:46.100 | Just go somewhere else.
00:17:47.420 | That's the point.
00:17:50.200 | I despise the fact that this is true.
00:17:54.460 | I have spent a lot of my life wishing and battling
00:17:59.460 | with myself, ideologically, with others,
00:18:03.260 | trying to say that this is not true.
00:18:06.940 | Shouldn't be true.
00:18:08.060 | Shouldn't be true.
00:18:11.020 | And I'm still willing to stand up
00:18:13.500 | and encourage and support others.
00:18:15.820 | But at the end of the day,
00:18:17.700 | if you want one of the fastest and most direct paths
00:18:21.900 | to personal freedom, it's often going to be found
00:18:25.900 | in financial freedom and wealth building.
00:18:31.380 | And I say that because I hope that
00:18:34.100 | if you'll think about it,
00:18:38.540 | you'll consider whether this is actually true,
00:18:40.900 | may help you to possibly save some time in your life.
00:18:44.440 | One of the things that,
00:18:46.980 | I've been doing this series of shows
00:18:48.380 | on my biggest financial mistakes.
00:18:50.140 | One of the biggest financial mistakes that I ever made
00:18:53.240 | was getting involved in ideological and political battles.
00:18:58.060 | I used to think, oh, this is not right.
00:19:00.860 | It shouldn't be this way.
00:19:01.820 | The world should be different.
00:19:02.860 | And I'm gonna get involved.
00:19:03.820 | I'm gonna vote.
00:19:04.820 | I'm gonna campaign.
00:19:05.660 | I'm gonna spend time writing long Facebook posts
00:19:08.940 | and advocating for my political solution.
00:19:12.340 | All of that stuff is just a total waste of time.
00:19:15.220 | Total waste of time.
00:19:16.060 | Unless you can figure out how to make a living on it,
00:19:18.020 | and you can figure out and say,
00:19:18.940 | hey, this is what I really wanna do,
00:19:20.980 | and I wanna become some kind of political pundit.
00:19:22.940 | Okay, fine.
00:19:24.060 | But for the average person, it's just a total waste of time.
00:19:27.460 | And if somebody had been able to persuade me,
00:19:29.740 | hey, Joshua, listen, you want freedom.
00:19:31.860 | You're never gonna find it in this way.
00:19:34.180 | You're not gonna find it by advocating for libertarianism
00:19:37.980 | or whatever you think it is.
00:19:39.780 | You're not gonna find it in that way.
00:19:42.020 | And I think it's useful to have a personal philosophy
00:19:44.720 | that makes sense.
00:19:45.560 | But if somebody just said,
00:19:46.400 | Joshua, if you want freedom, get rich.
00:19:49.940 | If I believed them,
00:19:51.380 | probably would've enjoyed a lot more freedom a lot earlier.
00:19:56.060 | And I see a lot of people who are making the same choice
00:19:59.580 | that I made, say, no, we're gonna fight for this.
00:20:02.940 | There's no point.
00:20:04.860 | There's no point.
00:20:08.100 | If you wanna be free,
00:20:09.460 | if you wanna be able to go where you wanna go,
00:20:11.200 | live how you wanna live,
00:20:12.620 | walk your way up the steps of wealth,
00:20:15.060 | you don't have to be a multimillionaire.
00:20:19.780 | First thing is save some money.
00:20:22.060 | All right, go through my Rings of Freedom series again.
00:20:25.020 | Start by saving some money.
00:20:27.300 | Build your own business.
00:20:29.180 | Withdraw your children from government schools.
00:20:32.300 | Get your family able to move around as one
00:20:34.700 | rather than being pulled in multiple competing directions.
00:20:38.620 | Build some assets.
00:20:39.940 | Build some multi-country,
00:20:43.380 | multi-continental options and solutions.
00:20:46.420 | Build some redundancy in your life.
00:20:48.420 | And get rich.
00:20:50.380 | If you do that, you'll have far more personal freedom.
00:20:54.540 | And then what I see about this is
00:20:56.460 | there's no reason in today's world
00:20:58.660 | why anybody can't do that.
00:21:00.240 | There's no reason.
00:21:02.860 | You're not stuck where you are.
00:21:04.380 | You don't have to take it.
00:21:05.540 | You can change it.
00:21:06.820 | But you gotta be practical and realistic.
00:21:08.660 | Don't spend your time wasting your time
00:21:11.060 | arguing for politics or getting involved in advocacy
00:21:14.540 | for something or fighting it out in the courts.
00:21:16.060 | Let people who are rich do that.
00:21:17.660 | You just go and get rich
00:21:20.220 | and then enjoy your personal freedom
00:21:24.060 | and then teach other people how to get rich.
00:21:26.900 | They'll enjoy their personal freedom.
00:21:28.740 | I understand how
00:21:33.860 | revolting
00:21:38.100 | this can sound.
00:21:41.420 | Really do.
00:21:42.260 | It sucks.
00:21:45.180 | But sometimes in life you have to face the ugly truth
00:21:52.580 | and then acknowledge it and say,
00:21:54.780 | hey, if this is true, I'm just gonna move forward.
00:21:58.140 | Doesn't matter whether you think
00:21:59.820 | something should be true or not.
00:22:00.940 | If something is true, there's no good to fight against it.
00:22:05.140 | So ask yourself, is it true?
00:22:07.980 | Will you enjoy high levels of personal freedom,
00:22:11.860 | higher levels of personal freedom if you are richer?
00:22:15.300 | And then is there a more efficient path
00:22:20.260 | to your achieving those higher levels of personal freedom
00:22:24.540 | than by becoming richer?
00:22:25.900 | I think in at least 80% of the cases,
00:22:30.940 | the answer is the fastest path to personal freedom
00:22:34.180 | is found in higher levels of personal productivity,
00:22:37.940 | becoming a more useful and valuable contributor to society,
00:22:41.540 | a better worker, a more skilled worker
00:22:43.500 | which leads in the fullness of time
00:22:45.300 | to higher levels of wage and income,
00:22:50.220 | high levels of wage and income
00:22:51.940 | lead to more personal financial stability.
00:22:55.500 | Take some of that money, set it aside,
00:22:57.100 | you become more and more invulnerable
00:23:00.500 | to the daily vicissitudes of life.
00:23:02.580 | As those numbers keep growing, your options get bigger.
00:23:06.740 | Maybe there is a point in time
00:23:13.300 | at which you have enough money
00:23:14.420 | that you don't need anymore in terms of freedom.
00:23:16.820 | I think it probably does exist.
00:23:18.980 | I don't know what that number is.
00:23:21.260 | What I do know is that when I look at my personal freedom,
00:23:25.260 | I enjoy massive levels of personal freedom,
00:23:29.860 | but the levels of personal freedom that I don't yet enjoy
00:23:32.940 | are due to my not yet having enough money.
00:23:35.340 | And the fastest and most direct path to that freedom
00:23:39.180 | is not to fight for it, but to make more money.
00:23:42.060 | Hats off to people who are gonna fight for it,
00:23:47.020 | hats off to those who are gonna argue and debate, et cetera.
00:23:51.620 | But I think that if you want fast results,
00:23:54.300 | you care about your personal freedom,
00:23:56.420 | freedom of yourself, freedom of your family,
00:23:58.540 | freedom of conscience,
00:24:02.500 | getting richer should be at the top of the list
00:24:07.340 | for how to achieve that.
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