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"Aspiring Millionaires Believe in Property Rights"
© 2003 Stuart Goldsmith
What about your property rights?
If you aspire to millionaire status, this means that you are attempting to accumulate
property and expect to retain it. What does our society have to say about your rights
in this matter?
The state holds that you do not have the right to the fruits
of your own labor. They have first claim on that; you get
what's left. So what property rights can you have, in the
face of such blatant enslavement? Why, none, of course! The
state can walk right in and confiscate anything and
everything you own. There are dozens of different laws
allowing them to do this.
There can be no individual rights without property rights.
Next, we live in a democracy. Furthermore, this is a
political system existing within a mixed economy, that is,
communism in partnership with capitalism - a ludicrous and
impossible contradiction.
There are no guiding principles in modern politics. There is
no particular direction we are heading as a country - we're
just meandering around aimlessly, drifting with the tide of
populist opinion. We have no goals, targets, principles,
ethics or direction.
So what are politicians? Simply power-brokers. Backed by
force, they extract life-values from the citizens, and then
negotiate with the long queue of lobbyists who are desperate
for free money. The politicians swap this free money for
political power. That sums-up the current political process
in our democracy.
A democracy without enshrined individual rights, is merely
gang warfare - which gang, with the loudest demands can
force their ideas upon the rest of us. Remember, a democracy
allows 51% of the people to vote to send the other 49% to
the gas chambers. Extreme, but it underlines the essential
error of believing wholeheartedly in democracy as the
perfect system. More realistically, democracy allows one
gang to force the rest of the population to slave for them.
The statists and altruists seek absolute control of your
life. The message is simple, "You are a tool of the state.
We demand that you sacrifice yourself for the good of
others. Your ambition, your talents your energy, they count
for nothing. We will confiscate all of these and give them
away so that we might retain power. Rejoice in your
sacrifice."
Finally comes the exaltation, "With rights come
responsibilities." Be very alert if you ever hear this.
Responsibilities to whom? Society? But since society is a
collection of individuals, this becomes responsibilities to
other, unknown and unspecified individuals.
What responsibilities? To feed them? To house them and
clothe their children? To provide them with jobs, cars,
telephones and holidays through the sweat of your brow?
You have no such responsibility and I proclaim it here and
now.
If I ever do such a thing, it will be as a limited
charitable gift made by me, directly to the person
concerned.
"With rights come responsibilities."
What 'rights' does the statist mean? You should already have
the three inalienable rights previously mentioned - the
right to life, liberty and property, the latter being the
right to retain the fruits of your labor. You don't need the
state's permission for these rights. They are not a 'gift'
of the state. They are yours with or without the existence
of a state, let alone their permission.
So what 'rights' do the altruists mean? The 'right' to join
the others at the trough? The 'right' for your share of the
free money? The 'right' to be looked after, coddled and
protected by a nanny state? The 'right' to have the
consequences of your errors mitigated at the expense of
other citizens? The 'right' to have ineptitude, idleness and
lack of forethought compensated for by staking a claim in
the energy and talents of others? The 'right' to waive
responsibility for your own self-imposed ill-health and have
others pick up the tab?
I have and desire no such rights and I proclaim it here and
now.
Now I sincerely hope I did not bore you with these thoughts.
The statements you have just read lie at the very core of my
belief structure and are, I believe, essential if you want
to make and keep great wealth.
In order to think and act like a millionaire you must have a
warrior's code. A 'code of ethics' if you like, although I
hesitate to use the word because it has been stolen and
distorted by the very people who are trying to grab your
life values.
The code of ethics for a warrior is simply one of rational
selfishness.
Again, the word 'selfish' has been twisted into a spitting
insult rather than a noble description of man's highest
virtue. For countless centuries we have been lied to,
mislead, cheated and abused by con-artists whose intent has
been to trick us out of our hard-earned life-values. And
they have been successful. Religions and governments have
ruthlessly suppressed the people and forced them to become
unwilling slaves to a higher good. There is no higher good,
of course, merely the desires of the con-men for power and
aggrandizement.
The concept of rational selfishness as proposed by Ayn Rand
(and others) is a big subject, and one I will not try to
explain here. However, if you are to become a happy, wealthy
and empowered human being then you must understand the
fundamentals.
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