Freedom & Integrity

Now that I have achieved my goal of personal freedom, I want to contribute and help other people achieve the same.

I know what its like to suffer for years as a wage slave– always yearning for freedom.   I understand the horrible emotional toll it takes on those who long to live free.

At an intimate level, I have already helped one friend start a business and gain financial freedom–  and am in the process of partnering with my best friend and her boyfriend in order to help them also gain financial freedom.    Our joint venture business launches at the end of next week.

I’m very excited for them.  I feel incredibly happy whenever someone gains their freedom and leaves wage slavery!   (Of course I do have a selfish motivation–   I want more of my friends to have the time and resources to play with me

At a public level, I hope to use this blog to help people gain their freedom.  Its more difficult, because I can’t be there to guide you step by step.   Since I can’t do that, I try to motivate and inspire– because if you have strong enough reasons and strong enough motivation, you’ll succeed.  I also hope to point you to the sources I used to learn how to gain my own freedom.

The greatest resource you can develop is your knowledge.   You must learn voraciously–  in all fields of life– including finances and money.

One problem a lot of bohemians & hobopoets have is that they choose to remain willfully ignorant of finances and the way they work.   I understand.  I hate the big corporate capitalist system and what its done to our society and planet.

On the other hand, I’m not stupid and I don’t believe in denial.   Closing your eyes and refusing to learn how things actually work is stupid.   Ignoring your finances is stupid.

Refusing to start your own business is likewise stupid.  I laugh every time I hear of a self-styled hipster who cynically criticizes the idea of starting a business (ie. business = evil).  Yet this same fool thinks nothing of being a wage slave to other people’s businesses-  often other people who are totally amoral (or worse).

Slavery isn’t noble.  Working for peanuts for another person’s business doesn’t make you an anti-capitalist. Even if you work for a non-profit (as I did for many years) you are still perpetuating systems of control and authority in most cases– and you yourself are still a dependent, child-like wage slave.

Starting your own business means taking responsibility for your life, your principles, your actions.  It means being TOTALLY responsible– being the decision maker and accepting the consequences.

It also means FREEDOM…. including the freedom to make a stand based on principle.   As a wage slave, you labor for a company which reflects another person’s values (which, in most cases, is driven mostly by greed).

As a business owner, you can:  promote favorite causes with your profits, give any percentage you want to charities or political organizations,  and make decisions with integrity.

As a dependent wage slave, you usually (be honest):   deny responsibility for the company’s evils,  complain but do nothing,  or sheepishly do nothing because “you need the paycheck”.

Stop being a child.   Stop being a slave.  Stop making excuses.

Take responsibility– full responsibility– for your life.   Stop pretending that your financial life can be segregated off from the rest of your life.  It can’t.   How you make money is as important to your spirit as which religious rituals you observe.

Will you choose it–  or remain passive?

For you, is it freedom….   or is it dependence and slavery?