You Can Get Rich $$$$$$$

It is possible for anyone to become rich in America... if you want to. The size of your "well to do" is directly proportional to the size of your "want to".

The only reason that I see for there even being an earnings gap is that people just aren't willing to do the effort involved to get rich, or to even research how to. I myself want to think about it until I have an easy way of doing it, so I probably will never be rich either.

But I do know that if I went to school at any time to study for one year and got certified to be an electrician it would be easy work for good pay,and I could be rich eventually, but even that's not good enough, I need something that's even easier than that. Which is probably the same reason why no one else I know is rich either. Only because they don't want to do what it takes to actually be rich, really.

Alan Greenspan was saying the other day on Charlie Rose that there is an earnings gap that leads to unhappiness. Which is totally wrong in its concept if you understand why we chose capitalism over socialism. If you don't realize why we chose capitalism then you don't realize what the founding fathers foresaw to allow us to become the wealthiest country to ever exist. (research the definitions of capitalism/socialism and why we chose capitalism on Wikipedia)

In a nutshell, the reason why we chose capitalism is that when people own property they have the incentive to improve the property to make a profit and become rich. But the socialist opinion on that is that capitalism eventually creates monopolies over properties. Which would lead to the same thing as slavery(monopoly=slavery?). But what people don't understand is that the only way that monopolies can exist is if your government supports it(wich include the phone system and power system). Because the free market is self correcting unless government controlled, and self correcting means that if you have a monopoly, they will always fall because the market will open up for new companies to create a cheaper or better product eventually:
----------like the railroad monopolies 100 years ago were eventually taken over by other transportation technology, like the airplane and truckers----------------------------

But then you may ask, what if eventually there are no new technologies to push out the original monopoly technologies some day?----- Well, never underestimate what people will do to make a profit. they will make a whole new technology where there is opportunity or they will undercut the monopoly by making a second system that is cheaper. And the people that own the monopoly usually become complacent and don't see new technologies as real and pass up opportunities, and make bad decisions of short term profit instead of long term stability. But anyways it always self corrects.
----------And recently in the news from the lead content of Chinese merchandise and shoddy manufacturing and all of the recalls, there is now a new movement by opportunist business owners in America to put stickers on their American made merchandise that say things like "China free manufacturing". Which shows how cut throat business tactics that undercut quality standards for short term profits, to be the price leader, are always self corrected , and the nice businesses win in the end mostly----------------------------------------------------------

So there really is no earnings inequality, really. Only lucky people/ hard working people/ and lazy people. But there are also add agencies that continuously lie to trick you into buying worthless or dangerous things,(propaganda uses the same techniques that modern advertisements still use; which is pretty depressing when you look at how well it works at electing presidents). So there may need to be informative booklets to keep kids away from using credit cards, or drugs, or smoking or other scams. But if they're still stupid enough to do those things after being instructed well about not doing it, then I guess that's just too bad because there has never been another system of society that has worked as perfectly as our system does. And it may not even be improvable, except for getting rid of evil people, which takes genetic procedures... if anything at all can ever solve that.