I have been studying the art of being beneficial as a hobby and a profession. Like being a writer this process brings in little financial security unless a system is adopted by real people in real situations. For instance solar energy is a very popular way of using sunlight, which is free at the present, in order to power the necessities of life. However, this process costs up front as does building your very own geodesic grow dome, though the beneficial qualities should be available for many years after paying for these costs. Obviously these options are not new and moreover they come from the ideals of a simpler time when monoculture and monopoly-type companies had not existed. I dream of these times coming full circle. It seems to be coming true, but not without you!
Problem is that even if these beneficial options work and benefit the client most do not have the means to pay such costs up front. And research done by said companies creating such monocultures breaks down the supportive grouping of individuals and government stipends or grants. Or perhaps these things exist and are simply hidden between the lines of our daily lives.
I do not support the art of credit nor do I think that it is beneficial to buy something one cannot afford, and maybe I am bias because I do not mind my own credit. It simply seems like something that I cannot afford to take on as my life does not support a yearly payment plan. I am not predictable that way. I have never purchased a new car nor do I think cars are in the long run beneficial. Like shoes, cars are material somethings we have become used to and it seems foolish to go without. Lets face it, today we live by the ticking of the clock and get payed the same way. Funnier even is the fact that we eBay-purchase things in this manner.
If I had a million dollars…
Of course we can all say this and be the best or worst of ourselves, but we cannot all have a million dollars because for that to happen 1) we would all have to be equal canceling out a class system and 2) we would then all have to have the same job, same car, house, wife, garden etc. Finally, we cannot over look the fact that people with a whole lot of money confess to have earned it over those of us who work ourselves toward retirement and end up with nothing. I agree some jobs are worthy of more pay than others, but why? I think that it is due to our fear of the perfect doom that is surely a result of all being equal. Some people might burn the world with a million dollars, others might dowse the flames with their million. That is true equality that we are not given the same desires and gifts, but we are balanced by those other people we share the world with and what they have to offer.
