The 5 Enemies Of Your Money

Paul K. Dunn
Jun 12, 2017
4 min read

Introduction

Over the next 7 days, I will be discussing the Five Enemies of our money. When it comes to money in 2017, I believe we simply fail to understand "How It Works". The vast majority of the population have been brainwashed into consumers. As mentioned in a documentary I recently watched called Zeitgeist Addendum, capitalism has promoted a consumer mindset that will only destroy our world instead of preserving it. The concept of cheaper parts, cheaper labor, cheaper prices and a frenzy of junk available to purchase, ensures that we are spending our money endlessly all the while, creating more piles of rubbish than we can dispose of in our lifetime. A shocking revelation is that the more we consume, the faster we deplete our resources; the faster we deplete our natural resources the closer we get to natural disasters that can wipe us out. Disasters like famine, energy crisis, water pollution, etc. can be the cause of an entire country ending up in chaos. This type of mindset is destructive no matter how you look at it. When we talk further in the post about bad spending habits , it ties back to the topic of overconsumption; a that will empower the urgency of change in your daily lifestyle.

The background of money goes back centuries, but lets just talk from the era of 1970's. The United States went off of the gold standard on August 15, 1971, when President Nixon announced that the U.S. dollar would no longer be convertible into gold in the international markets. The Treasury would convert dollars into gold for foreign governments as a means of maintaining stability and confidence in the dollar. This process of going off of the gold standard devalued the US Dollar and changed the way money would work in the future. Without a solid backing of the US dollar in place, and considering there was no confidence in the true value of the dollar amount, it turned into a CURRENCY. A currency by definition is a system of money in general use in a particular country. I would like to point a keyword in this definition, "SYSTEM". A system of money would mean also by definition a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular; or even better, a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done; an organized scheme or method. Keeping that in mind, do YOU know how that organized scheme or method operates? Are you being taught any of that in schools, jobs, business workshops, etc.? Where's the 'non lawyer' edition of the manual that gives the inside scoop on the United States Financial scheme or method?

This is why so many Americans fail to grasp HOW they have little to no money when they live in one of the richest countries in the world. The good news is that quite a few of us entrepreneurs have caught on and uncovered both the phenomenon and deceit going on behind the scenes. There's so much opportunity available within the system but the mindset controlling mechanisms have pushed financial equality just far enough out of reach to deter you from chasing it. There are so many obstacles thrown in the road on the way to financial freedom that it demoralizes the 95% of the population that struggle financially. By creating the illusion of The American Dream, it gives people hope because of how often they see success from others. The reality is, as a human on this earth, EVERYTHING is borrowed and returns to which it came UNLESS you understand the game. Sort of like Monopoly. Have you ever played that game? Where you acquire property, hotels, houses, tons of money and then everyone else goes bankrupt and YOU, well you win! And, you return EVERYTHING back to box and go about your night no richer than the morning before.

The purpose of this post is to help uncover some of the biggest and nastiest of the obstacles you will face in your personal finances. Once uncovered I want to give you a practical solution to overcome these obstacles. This approach should help our readers better understand the SYSTEM of CURRENCY and how it works. Systems are controlled and will always follow a set of rules. During my 6 year stint as a store manager, I've learned that the best way to conquer any system is to know and understand what NOT to do, in order to draw a clear path of best practices you can use to succeed often. Below are the 5 enemies of your money. They will help you understand what NOT to do and what to look out for, if you ever want to have a chance of reaching your financial independence.

* Zeitgeist Definition: The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.