Building Real Wealth

For When the Dollar Doesn't Matter

There has been a great deal of back and forth between

Dave Greene

,

Alexandru Constantin

, and

Walt Bismarck

on the subject of material things such as making money.

Walt seems to be of the opinion that Money is Power, and young men should pursue money and women, we should appeal to those things, and tell them how to do so. That, by doing so, we will attract as many bodies, get lots of power, and be able to influence society and the world to our wildest dreams.

Dave and Alex, on the other hand, seem to think there are better, higher things in life. Family, home, a wife and children. The things that men have always looked to for comfort, for meaning, for living.

While acknowledging Walt’s basic, most base premise - that some amount of money is necessary for living - I disagree that at this point in our history we are at a stage where it is the most important thing for men to pursue.

You see, we are watching the Empire of the USSA collapse in real time. While we may not have a dramatized, published piece of it - we’re likely near the sinking of the Spanish Armada with these Carrier groups that have already been hit and needed to pull back for repairs by substate actors.

In addition, some of the highest holders of the USSA’s debt (Japan) are furiously defending their own currency. China could dump it’s debt at any time, turn it’s currency to gold backed because it’s been buying at historical levels (and been keeping everything it’s been pulling out of the ground and not reporting levels on) and probably be fine. Rocky, but fine.

And state actors, such as China, could have Chinese actors that hold US stocks blow up our private sector at the same time.

And they don’t do so because our domestic situation is so bad that they don’t want to give us a reason for us to hit the big red button. They’re rather just let us swirl the toilet, quietly go down under our own weight in a couple years, and break up from the inevitably crushing debt and domestic strife they see.

So, in such a gloriously awful situation as I’ve described, why would someone chase and max out dollars at all!? Such behavior seems insane and self defeating; to say nothing of the arguments against it even in a time of normalcy.

Your actions have to be congruent - you have to chose a path towards the ends, the telos, you desire. You pick a path towards the lifestyle you want. That lifestyle will attract the type of woman you want. That will fit in the type of community you want to live in. That will fit in the type of Polity you want to build. That will work with the type of Religion you follow. That will support the type of family you want to build. Or, if you don’t, the whole thing breaks, and usually the pressure comes down on you, as a man, and breaks you or your family. If you just max dollars, you miss the rest, and in your unthinking pursuit you’ll break when you settle down to do the real work of life.

And, when you take into account where we are in the breakdown - there are more important things, as mentioned. You should be building skills, and networking with those that have them. Relationships built on love of neighbor, love of God, love of life, Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.

Because, if it breaks down, and the dollar means nothing…

Or if it doesn’t, and it keeps meaning something…

You still win!

Because these are the things that money can’t buy.

Friends and neighbors that will be there, and you can call in emergencies to help with children. To call in the middle of the night when you have to run to the hospital. Or to help you with skills you don’t have on car repairs. Or to borrow tools or vehicles. To help you in so many ways, in so many blessings, that they will literally help you build houses, have weddings, to help you bury your dead. All of human existence, I’m telling you, you can find people that are human, will treat you as a human, and take care of those human needs of living, from birth to death.

And there’s no price of money on that.

Nothing you do, no matter how many jobs you stack, will get you that.

Only slowing down, finding some place to call your own, and caring, loving, for the people around you will. Having the time, making the sacrifices, and being human will do that.

Those are my thoughts on the matter, for what they’re worth.