Why You’ll Never Get Rich in a Job

Part of me is very angry with you.

The other part is sympathetic.

Why?

Allow me to explain…

You see, for me it’s ‘common sense’ that you’ll never get rich in a job and in my mind the fact that this penny hasn’t dropped for you yet / hadn’t dropped for you a LONG time ago makes me very angry that you didn’t think about the time for money game for even a few minutes.

Admittedly, I’ve thought about this subject matter long-and-hard and from a young age could see that most employees are unhappy, unfulfilled, numb, robotic peasants.

Just look around you and you’ll see…

…people dutifully running along to clock-on for their slave masters right, left and centre… most have had their morale broken and smashed so low they now accept their current state of mediocrity as “normal”

Those of you that get The Tube to work every morning know exactly what I’m talking about – not a pretty sight.

Note: I’m referring to the army of worker-drone wage-slaves seen on London Underground every morning.

Now, why do people do this?

The majority are not working for fun… they’re working because they have to work.

Why do they have to work?

Because they don’t have enough money not to work aka they’re not financially independent – they’re…

FINANCIALLY DEPENDENT

Now, why are they financially dependent?

I submit to you it’s because the majority of these wage-slaves’ parents put them on this planet with ZERO financial plan… they couldn’t sort their own finances out let alone plan ahead for their kids… much easier to train them to become rat-racers like themselves.

The above said, I sympathize with you because you’ve been born into a world where from a young age and from almost every angle you’ve been TRAINED to become financially dependent.

You hear it all the time: “just get good grades so you can get a good job.”

It begs the question: what is a ‘good’ (haha) job?

It also begs the question: who said you wanted a ‘good’ job?

This is not the time or place for me to answer these questions, but I shall just say that…

…they (government) want you to become a living, breathing, walking, talking, powerless cash-cow tax-payer as over the course of the average person’s working life you’re worth AT LEAST a million pounds to them

I also sympathize because for the majority of people everyone in their lives has bought into this spoon-fed non-sense of: “job, job, job.”

…and it’s hard – even if you suspect something’s not quite right – to voice opinions to the contrary because everyone else around you has accepted that getting a job is the only way to go.

I can assure you: getting a job is DEFINITELY NOT the only way to go… not if you want to live any sort of meaningful existence, anyway.

If you’re from a lower or middle class family then you’ve probably been brought up in an environment where your parents ‘worked’ for a living.

Translation: where your parents took orders for an existing.

I digress.

So, yes, I sympathize with you because…

…you were kept ignorant, were brought up in a real-world matrix and were TRAINED to sacrifice your life to line someone else’s pockets…

…because: “this is what we have to do” and because: “everyone else does.”

For those of you that are reading this who’ve been employees for a long period of time, say, 10 or 20 years you may have come to the conclusion that working for a living existing is, frankly, bullshit and you’ll NEVER get rich in a job.

Bravo – you’ve reached the right conclusion.

But, let’s analyze why so you’re 100% clear – the real reasons are not often spoken of publicly so this should prove interesting for you.

Reason #1 – YOU ARE A COST

The purpose of nearly all business is profit maximization, and, you – as an employee – are a COST.

Guess what?

Businesses are cost-rophopbic… in order to maximize profits businesses would ideally like you working for free or even paying for the privilege of working slaving for them.

However, seeing as most people are not willing to do this…

…businesses pay as close to zero as they can get away with… this is known as a salary aka pittance

Note: don’t take it personally; it’s good business sense.

Reason #2 – Supply and demand

Understand something: there are more people than jobs out there (technically this is not true as we could create jobs for every person on the planet, but that’s not happening any time soon so let’s stick with reality).

Jobs don’t need you, you need jobs.

Therefore jobs (job creators [business owners]) have the odds stacked in their favour.

If you don’t want to work for the absolute rock-bottom lowest wage legally (and often illegally) payable someone else will, therefore, prices paid to those who work in jobs are LOW.

As I say:

If you don’t want to work for next to nothing someone else will – the supply of humanoids far outweighs the supply of jobs

Note: the world population is only going one way (up) so expect wages to get worse and getting jobs to become even more competitive.

Reason #3 – The world is getting flatter / there are fewer barriers

Not only are there more people than jobs out there, but the boundaries which stopped other people doing your job have now been destroyed with the growth of outsourcing, the information age and countries joining the EU to name but a few.

Example one: rather than paying an accountant or web designer to work for you in the UK you can hire EXACTLY THE SAME quality (if not better) for a fraction of the cost by outsourcing to a ‘developing’ (third-world) country.

Example two: with more and more people from developing countries moving to developed countries those from the developing are willing to work for far less than the developed population e.g. Polish tradesmen, Romanian waiters and waitresses, Filipino maids, etc.

Reason #4 – Greed

Many business owners are greedy.

If you make ‘the company’ (the business owner) £100,000 you might be lucky to see 5% of that – although not pocket change you’re not getting a fair deal and will certainly not get rich on such terms.

Reason #5 – Brainwashing

The people around you in jobs are – generally speaking – not that intelligent, after all: if they were smarter they’d be the employer, not the employee

This being the case many have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by their bosses that: “making money is hard” and that: “it’s tough for everyone right now” whilst their bosses are counting stacks of cash with their feet up in the back office.

Also, as an employee you can get brainwashed by OTHER employees (the brainwashed).

They say you become the average of the people you spend your time with and to allow the brainwashed to come into your average will bring your average crashing down to pitiful levels of mediocrity with a bang… or more likely a bailiff pounding your door trying to reclaim the debts you’ve racked up because the brainwashed told you a credit card was a good idea.

Reason #6 – Competition

If you work in a medium to large sized company and a position which pays more money becomes available here’s what’s likely to happen…

You and another 20 staff slaves submit your application to ‘senior management’ for review… if deemed to be submissive, obedient and compliant enough you’ll be invited for a face-to-face interview – which if passed – means you’re faced with a further interview interrogation.

It’ll then emerge that some mediocre joker in the office has said they’ll do the job for the same pay they’re currently on and so the pay rise which you were naturally expecting is out the window.

But, of course, the brainwashers will put forward the argument to the brainwashed that: “…more responsibility looks good on your CV…” so you should take the job as it’s in your interest to take it, right?

Wrong! …it’s in their interest for you to take it (they save money [in case you hadn't already guessed]).

Note: this is a developed argument of Reason #2 – Supply and demand.

Reason #7 – Tax, tax and more tax

This is key…

As an employee you’re told what tax you’re paying and it’s taken stolen from you accordingly

As an employer you tell them (government) how much money (pre tax profit [assuming you’ve made a pre tax profit]) you’ve made and tax is then extorted from you accordingly, of course, what you tell them you’ve made can always be less than you’ve actually made.

Note: I advise you always pay your taxes and never try and cheat the system – heaven forbid you might try and keep the money you made.

What’s more, as an employee if government decide to hike income tax and national insurance there’s sweet fuck all you can do about it bar pay… you’re forced to hand over even more of your hard-earned wonga whether you like it or not.

I’ve not even covered fear, habit, inertia, and worse which come to mind… but we’ll leave it there for now as I’ve got money to make.