If young people feel more comfortable with organizations, trends, and businesses that are “green” or pretend to promote the environment, health, happiness, song and dance, as opposed to conventional businesses, there is a reason.
They are easily conned by the local business owner who dresses like a hippy and pays for the junior soccer club’s uniforms.
They like Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, and Jon Stewart and sink to new depths with losers like Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg.
Perception is Reality
After all, these people “care about people and the environment”, don’t they? They don’t, actually, but perception is reality, right? Christopher Hitchens was right when he said,
“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they’ve taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all those qualities [Michael Moore].”
Among most young people, Capitalism has an image of hubris, greed, arrogance, and bullying. Yet, without Capitalism, there would be no iPods, Apple computers…
Idealism is Strong Amongst the Young
I found myself in a coffee shop in Winnipeg recently. There were bookcases stacked with socialist writings, and the hippy kids were wearing the usual anti-establishment uniform.
Next door was a bicycle store. Many young people voted the socialist Obama into office. They will pay for that choice for a long time.
Perhaps it’s time to fix Capitalism’s bad image, to enlighten people. Education can do that, and since most of the educational institutions are heavily liberal, mystical, or both, we have a difficult task ahead of us.
Getting Rich Attacking the Rich
What young people don’t see is the hard-nosed capitalism hidden behind the façade of environmentalism and mysticism.
The people selling the
- marijuana,
- blessings,
- hippy clothes,
- and organic food
- are making serious money.
Michael Moore gets rich attacking rich people. And he’s not sharing his wealth with you.
Money is the Root of All Good
The mission of my business is to help people create financial freedom. But without changing one’s philosophy to one of laissez faire capitalism, it is difficult to create and sustain real wealth.
So I write and speak and Tweet and share the message –
“Money is the root of all good.”
My books are illegally printed and sold in China and India without my permission, and of course I don’t get any royalties, but I don’t care – as long as the message is spread, I’m happy.
In fact, I give my books away as complimentary downloads from my websites, along with my podcasts.
DollarMakers continues to grow internationally, and we proudly promote Capitalism and make money in the process.
Break Free of Collectivism
But there is an easier way to spread the good news about Capitalism: I tell everyone I meet to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.
If someone is truly intelligent and sufficiently open-minded, that book tends to do the trick. If it leads someone to read “The Virtue of Selfishness”, they can break free of collectivism, and hopefully mysticism, too.
May 10th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I think you’re going to enjoy that a liberal, Obama-socialist, hippy is now following your blog. Allow me to provide some constructive criticism.
I’ll start by saying your entry reads very unprofessionally. Yeah, that’s right. A tie-dye wearing hippy is saying you’re unprofessional because all you are doing is spewing stereotypes, which makes you sound awfully ignorant. But, we know better, right?
Let’s try being less subjective and being more objective. If Capitalism needs to clean up its image, describing it as a perfect, almighty dogma and vilifying all other opinions without evidence is the wrong direction.
Capitalism was first designed to create solutions – solutions to an aristocratic-driven economy. Market-based economies and all the great technological innovation soon followed. But, now we are in the 21st century where sustainability does matter. A fair question to ask is Capitalism the model that solves the tremendous environmental concerns we face? Why or why not?
May 12th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Collin – Stereo types are usually 98% accurate, you see them all the time in films, what do you think of someone driving in a low rider, with hip hop music pumping and thick gold chains around his neck?
Obama is a socialist! FREE healthcare no one is asking where the money will come from!
Brilliant post. For years the us and all its liberal media beat up the entrepreneur like they do in all countries, people wanted the happy life, 9-5 jobs and then of course the huge credit to pretend they were rich all while their salaries crept up with inflation
well that all came to and end by the mid 80s when technology made it possible to export the workload, now the very people who were bashing capitalism are asking for money from the government.
Its always funny how 3rd world countries who have been through a communistic government so crave “capitalism” China and once rich empires hate it, like its some evil ~Britain, America and now most of Europe.
The problem is rarely capitalism, it is the governments who cause the problem by imposing taxes, minimum hourly rates etc onto small businesses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
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