Why the Rich Feel So Poor
October 6, 2023
During a trip to Hong Kong, the billionaire duo decided to grab lunch at McDonald's. To Gates' amusement, when Buffett offered to pay, he pulled out a handful of coupons.
Warren Buffett is a billionaire. But most of the super-rich suffer from spiritual poverty. He gets his meaning from making or saving a dime.
Whether we are poor or rich, Money holds us prisoner. The rich feel poor because of GREED. No matter how much they have, their identity ("feeling good, important, secure") was forged by a system based on making and spending more.
"Enough is a little more than one has." Samuel Butler
Updated from May 4, 2022 and Oct. 6 2023
by Henry Makow PhD
Few people take a rational approach to money.
This would involve calculating how much money they need in relation to how much money they have, and how much money they make.
Rather, people tend to focus on their last 2%. Depending on their tax bracket, this may involve their last $100, $1000, $10,000, $10 million or $10 billion. They ignore their big bank balance or stock portfolio. They always feel poor.
Money is supposed to free us from material concerns. Paradoxically it does the opposite. We become its prisoners.
We are satanically possessed. This means we identify with money rather than our Divine soul. We are money rather than God's personal representative on earth. The more money we have, the bigger and better we feel. These values are inculcated by our satanist-controlled mass media.
I am addressing the roughly 50% of my readers who, according to my Gab poll, have enough or more money than they need. I don't fault the other 50% who don't have enough or are broke for feeling oppressed.
Paradoxically the rich suffer from a spiritual impoverishment.
The more they identify with their money, the smaller they are. The more money they have, the more they identify with it.
In the case of the Illuminati bankers, this inner poverty is toxic. They are a cancer that threatens to destroy mankind.
They want to "absorb" (their word) all the world's wealth leaving nothing to support humanity. They want it all!
We're indoctrinated to seek money. Within limits, money is a great motivator and measure.
I know someone who doesn't have to work. He works because he has nothing else to do, and it makes him feel productive and rewarded.
Another friend is independently wealthy from investments. He retired a couple of years ago but is returning to his old profession out of sheer boredom.
PERSONAL
I am as satanically possessed as anyone. I have had a lifelong struggle with greed. At age 74, I am just starting to master this demon.
Recently I did the calculation above and realized that I have more money than I'll ever spend.
My spending habits were formed during eight years as a graduate student living on roughly $10,000 per year. I really don't need or care about material things.
Paradoxically, this lack of concern for money did NOT stop me from developing a gambling addiction. When I didn't have much money, I didn't care about it. When I sold Scruples to Hasbro in 1986, I became a money manager and thought my game smarts would extend to the stock market. MISTAKE.
Scruples had been a labor of love. I did it because It was a workshop on everyday morality.
After my windfall, I became satanically possessed (i.e. GREED.) If someone asked how I was, I said, "I'll ask my broker." That's how totally identified we are with our money.
We have to be on guard constantly because the voice in our head often is the devil!
Then another voice arises from our soul and says, "Cool it, you greedy moron."
You gamble with money you'll never spend. More or Less. What is the point? You don't even know your balance.
Surely, these human qualities represent our true riches.
Money is the lowest common denominator. People today are consumed by money. They are charmless.
While the world descends into Communist tyranny or faces a nuclear catastrophe, they act like money will save them.
For people who have enough, freedom lies in eschewing money. Just not caring about it.
Can you do that?
Roshan said (October 8, 2023):
Thank you for keeping us posted on current events. I just returned from a trip visiting my 94-year-old mom and I can tell you I am richer after spending so much money on the trip - richer spiritually of course.
Every day we live is one day closer to our death and since we will live eternal in the hereafter, this world compared to the hereafter is only a speck. So work for this world as if the day will not end and simultaneously be ready to leave it at any time. Exchange it for our hereafter and be eternally happy - that's the smile of those who do not have enough in this world and beg only God, the Almighty who is rich while we are poor.
If we live as travelers in the world, we will not have so much as we will not be able to carry it and we will prefer those who do not have when we have and be grateful to God, the Almighty when we do not have for He has kept what we do not have with Him in our hereafter.