I know I’m supposed to be a part of a really big and impactful company. If I’m 100% honest with myself, I feel like I’m supposed to be big part of creating that company. And that is exactly what is happening. This is something that I’m supposed to do – that voice of the universe tells me that all the time. I know I don’t have to listen to it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t owe the world anything. I don’t have to life a certain lifestyle. But I have to acknowledge that the world would be a better place if we could bend reality a little bit with the business model of this company. It’s like a big improvement on capitalism – maybe it would push us closer as a society towards having an even more fair economic system. I think capitalism is much better than any alternative so far in history, when there is a group of people as big and diverse as there are in the US. In smaller groups of people with less diversity, that group can agree on more things and more compassionate forms of government seem to work ok sometimes.
The main flaw in the capitalist system is that not everyone starts on the same starting line. Some people start laps ahead, and it is correct to use a sport analogy here. Capitalism is a giant game, and everyone plays the game of capitalism – no matter what – we are all forced to play the game. Some people stick their head in the sand and don’t acknowledge they are playing, most people don’t even end up learning many of the rules, they just get up to the plate and watch 3 fastballs come right down the middle and someone yells your out and they walk back to the bench fuming mad about how unfair the game is (they have no idea why they even struck out up at the plate). Some people get beat down by starting so far back that it feels 100% impossible to make any progress, which is totally legit – that would be amazingly hard! Anytime I see someone who has pulled themselves and their family out of poverty I get so happy, and I’m majorly impressed with that person and the effort and stubbornness they have. I really admin anyone who has done that.
If we can get everyone to start at the same starting line, which would absolutely take generations, but if we can do that – that would be really amazing. Our country would be soooo much better off! I think we can help to do that a little bit with this business model, if we stay true to it. It’s very easy to say what we will do with money before we have that big pile of money sitting there – I’m as close to 100% confidence as I could be that we will stick true though.
And then after that, if we have enough resources to focus on the charity aspect, like if this business model can also fund the charity goals we have, we could could really make an impact. It’s hard to know how much of an impact, but I honestly have the confidence of someone who is new to an activity – so over confidence for sure haha, but thats fine because I feel like we could make a massive impact, and even if we end up only making a smaller impact, it doesn’t matter – we will be bending the arc of society in the right direction and someone else will come along behind us and keep things moving until we get to where society allows for everyone to start on the same starting line.