On Wealth #It'sOn

There is a thesis courtesy of Allan Farrington that Gross Domestic Product, otherwise known as GDP, is a misleading metric for measuring the performance of a nation state. My bad. I was totally conceptualizing wealth in GDP terms. When you are an unapologetic Economist reader. Not anymore. I lost my free access. Getting back on topic. Apparently, GDP is a better measure of an organization's ability to destroy wealth rather than capture it. Shocking. This leads me to think that our own measurement as individuals through the metric known as "net worth" is probably the wrong way to think of our economic value. That is, our worthiness as a creditor. Instead, we should be judged on our ability to transform or translate given credit to true value or desirable good. In other words, wealth. Let me say that again. When people take on debit, and in return, produce something that people want, need, or desire, that is wealth. Yet, that is not how we do things. We have it all wrong. We need a revisionist history on that. A great injustice has been carried out and people are supposedly non-the-wiser. They look askance when the hand of true justice points the finger at them. Not me, they want to say. Not my fault. I didn't know. Bullshit, I say in response. You knew all along. You had a front row seat. You chose to look the other way. You took the money. You sold your soul to the devil, all the while claiming the moral high ground. What insult to injury. Instead of making useless arguments that no one in their right mind would believe, how about you do the right thing. Not apologize. That is an empty gesture and words are cheap. Do something. Change the system. Change your ways. Maya Angelou famously said, "when you know better, you do better". Which is funny if you think about it because "ignorance of the law" is also no excuse, as we are told by those who enforce the law. I turn it back to them. How do you explain the blatant criminality then? Pray tell, how is it that you are able to rob, steal, injure and kill with impunity in the name of bravery, humanity and freedom? When was the last time you admitted THE TRUTH. Not my truth, your truth, their truth. In the end, those who right the ship, find the righteous path, take the arduous journey are rewarded for their courage, strong-will, and character. Resist temptations, small lies, justifications of clear wrong-doings. If you don't the devil will take your spirit as promised. Don't cry foul. You have no leg to stand on. Amen. 

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