Singing the Empty-Pocket / Empty-Wallet Blues

I'm not only unsure, but I also have doubts about the phrase, "it takes money to make money". I'm writing this post because of how I felt about this unnecessary statement, especially after doing multiple searches on search engines like Google.

I just have my doubts about it overall.

Perhaps this is one of the "dreamslayers" that keeps people from living the life of their dreams, and instead implants a form of poverty consciousness in the form of fear and greed.

I would LOVE to create the life of my own dreams, but then again, as the poor people see it, you need money in order to live the life of your dreams. Currently, i'm one of them.

People see the rich in a poor person's viewpoint, and immediately assume or believe by default that perhaps Microsoft founder Bill Gates, multi-billionaire Donald Trump, or even TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, automatically had a fortune in order to make a higher fortune. Perhaps this is what hold the poor back from a rich lifestyle like them and forces them to give up and settle for a mediocre lifestyle of suffering and pain, struggle and strain.

It's a sad thing that people see this as a programmed reality. Even sadder that people are living their lives in poverty, and die with many great regrets of not living happier lives that they could've had, "if I had enough money" or any "if only" regrets of similar nature in relation to this phrase.

If it takes money to make money, you'd have to go get a job, perhaps one that you might hate. In a job, you're not only trading your time for money, but you're also trading your health for money. No wonder people come home tired and slowly becoming burned out and disillusioned after a week of struggle and strain that's known as so-called "hard work". The truth is that wealth won't matter to you if you don't have good health to enjoy it.

It's not possible to enjoy your million dollars if you don't feel like a million dollars.

This truth is so simple, that it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a knowledge of Calculus or Euclidean advanced mathematics to understand that.

You'd also had to borrow money in order to make money in the form of loans and credit cards. After borrowing money from a money lender, you may have to put up collateral, or replacement as an option. If you use a credit card and max it out, you have to pay the full amount you spent at a future date. If you're unsuccessful in making money from loans or credit cards, two things can happen:

1. The money lender can keep your replacement as long as he wants until you make the borrowed money you wasted back to give back to the lender, or...

2. You'll start sinking and drowning in a sea of debt from your credit card "investments". A sea of collection notices, bills and/or invoices that you couldn't pay back causing your credit score to drop lower and lower to the negatives.

So if you want to make money and enjoy wealth, don't EVER borrow money from loans and credit cards unless it's a serious life-and-death emergency, AND as a last resort!

Don't EVER go into debt just because you want to make money and become wealthy. Debt and wealth are like gasoline and a lit-up match: they are dangerous to mix!

They say that it takes money to make money, but if that was the case, NOBODY, AND I MEAN NO ONE, not Bill Gates, not Warren Buffet, not Oprah Winfrey, not Donald Trump, not Mark Cuban, NO ONE would create the life that they dreamed of. In fact, if it did take money to make money, wealth would never exist in the first place.

Thanks to this "dreamslayer", we STILL live our lives shackled in the chains of poverty, or what I call, "financial slavery". Even worse than the pharaoh that made slaves out of Moses's people in biblical times, even worse than the enslaved African-Americans during the pre-Civil War times in the 1800s, and even worse than the Jews trapped at gunpoint and killed in concentrated camps like Auschwitz during the final times of World War II.

That's not only a sad phrase, but a sad belief given from one generation of people to another in their lives. It's like a vicious loop of domestic violence, and feeling helpless about it against superior people.

So isn't it about time to break out of that dangerous circle of belief, and start finding creative ways to invent money to live the life of your dreams, even with a thin wallet, an empty merchant account, or no money (not even a penny) in your own name?