Feel free to disagree with me, but I’m just going to assume from the start that you want money. Given the two options of wanting more or less money, most people want more. That’s a lousy argument for me to use for justification, but it helps to have assumptions like this.
So, I’m asked a lot of questions about money. I just want to help people help themselves. I’m not here to help people that don’t pay it forward. So, although it’s incredibly unlikely that anyone who reads me would find themselves asking the question, (Q1) “Why don’t I have any money?” in vain. At this point, I think that most of the people that read me would be more likely to ask the question, (Q2) “What should I do with my money?” That’s at least the right start. What is money?
Money, in my opinion, is a store of value with which you can buy someone else’s effort at a particular moment in time. To get it, you generally have to assist someone else in doing something. So, if you are struggling with Q1, you really should be asking yourself Q2. Most people I know make at least some money. Much past that, it’s what you do with it that determines whether you amass a lot of it or not. Obviously, spending less than you make is a good start to building up to Q2. That said, if you want to have a lot of money, like I am assuming you do, figuring out how to help others is a good start. People that help society the most tend to acquire large sums of money.
At that point, you may ask yourself again, what’s the point of having large sums of money? Well, those that do make the decisions on how society allocates its time and effort. So, you have people that helped a lot of other people getting to make larger and larger decisions on behalf of society. Maybe you can start by trying to help these people help everyone else? I mean, that’s what I do. Was that helpful?