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The Abounding Nature of Money

The Abounding Nature of Money

MT Praus
September 10, 2023

Most see money as a scarce commodity that everyone is competing for.

Some try to get their hands on as much as possible while others try to spread it evenly between each other to ensure "financial comfort".

Many arguments start because some are labeled greedy, and those who attempt to spread it are seen as naive due to their many failed attempts.

Unfortunately, that argument will never get anywhere because that is a flawed premise for what money is.

Once the premise is fixed, our association with money changes to a more holistic representation.

There is money on an individual level but also money on a societal level.

And on a grand scale, it is evident that money is not a collectible but an energy.

If you have a lot of money, that means you have a lot of money you can spend, and thus it moves to the next person.

And even when you don't spend it and put it in a savings account, the bank then uses it to lend out credit, and it's given to other people.

Money is a flow and not a collectible. It belongs to society, and it moves between us all. It's an energy.

It's a transfer of time, value, and work that humanity has agreed to trade with.

By understanding this, we can shift our thinking from a piece of the pie to the flow of a river.

And you can place yourself in places where the flow is heaviest. And enjoy that energy while also letting it flow to other people regardless of where you sit.

It's just asking where you're going to position yourself. Will you go through the work of swimming against the current to get upstream, or will you let society push you out to the mouths of the river?

Many criticize billionaires as greedy because they do not fix world hunger; instead, of spending their billions on yachts and continue to fuel their greed in amassing more wealth.

This, however, is utterly irrelevant because the truth is that these people do not have billions in their bank accounts.

They have ownership of a part of the river where the flow is abundant, and their wealth comes from what we, as a society, are willing to pay to gain access to that area.

Elon Musk does not have $250 billion; he owns a part of the river that we value at $250 billion.

But how did he come to own this?

He created new pathways for the river to flow to, and we all siphoned the river there because we saw what he created as valuable.

Money is a measure of value, and once we understand that, we open the door to enormous wealth because we start creating value instead of churning out tasks for an hourly compensation.

It is about swimming upstream and attracting the river's flow to you.

This applies even to the people around you. It isn't about collecting or "finding" people.

It is about positioning yourself in the right place and attracting those people to you.