We Shouldn’t Trade Our Lives For Mere Survival!

Everyone should have equity and true freedom

We’ve been living this way forever so I know it's hard to see something so “normal” as inherently not right but please hear me out a second.

Renting a home is part of America’s economic apartheid system.

If you are working paycheck to paycheck as most American workers are today, you are building equity for your employer And equity for your landlord and what you get out of it is “survival”.

And yes, not being a worker-owner is also economic apartheid.

If you’re investing the valuable few healthy working years you have in your life in a job so you can make the rent & other debts while not building equity & wealth you are not really free. You are a type of indentured servant of the ownership class.

One cannot truly be free in this country without accruing wealth that is savings beyond your expenses. I heard a “financial literacy” expert on TV say we should have 3 to 6 but even better 12 months of living expenses saved up just in case. Who is she talking about? I mean…really?

What doesn’t she get about “paycheck to paycheck”?

We are working for survival, not for a life. There’s a big difference. And we’ve been told…