Wealthy people do not have your best interests at heart.
- The well-to-do feel deserving of their riches and see no need to excuse themselves for having such material wealth—which gives them a sense of being exceptional and entitled, disconnected from ordinary people.
- The goal of the well-off is to keep their money and grow it. You are not part of that formulation because you are not necessary to achieve their goal.
- If you earn income that places you in the middle class or lower, you will not improve your circumstances by aligning yourself with the rich, including voting the way they may vote and thinking the way they think.
- If you earn income that places you in the middle class or lower, you will not improve your circumstances by aligning yourself with the rich, including voting the way they may vote and thinking the way they think.
- Although you may be told that "you, too, can be rich some day," it most likely will not happen. That is why the rich make up less than two percent of the U.S. population.
- Fortune 500 companies have determined they can achieve their goals by using labor from all over the world. In fact, they prefer to pay a fraction of what an American wage earner expects, so they employ workers in third-world countries. Consequently, you are meaningless to them as a worker.
- The economic system in America is designed to keep your wages and earnings adequate enough to buy the goods and services that corporations want you to. However, you will never earn sufficient money from your employer to rise into the top economic tiers.
- If you support tax cuts for the rich because it’s only "fair," no worry. The wealthiest Americans, including corporations, have legions of accounting experts to rely on so they experience little or no tax burden anyway. By the way, it’s the middle class which pays the bulk of income tax to the states and the federal government.
- Since your time in the cradle, you’ve been trained to want the things corporations want you to desire. Eventually, you may find that you cannot afford those items and you will feel badly about yourself—like a failure and a loser. You’re supposed to feel that way.
- You’ve grown up with myths: "American is the land of opportunity." "Anyone can make it in America." "There’s still something called ‘The American Dream.’" It’s effective propaganda, but it has nothing to do with the real world and your real life. Best option is to step over the bull**** and forge your own way.