Paradigm Surfing

With a grasp of basic fundamentals, an individual can go from serving the machine to owning a little machine of their own, ran and directed by that individual, and free from direct influence of an employer or boss.

At this point, if that individual takes on employees, the weight of responsibility arises, yet with a mass conditioned perspective that people are commodities such as corn, oil or a business and treating people like cattle or worse, is the sad front to humanity when considering the job market / for-hire employment, I think.

A decent mixture of discipline, character and persistence ( to name a few attributes ) is needed to step outside the current paradigm of economic slavery by default ( working for someone other than yourself / a cooperation / a mutual trust where you are a beneficiary, not simply a trustee or worse, a debtor ) and exist.

I think if more people had a financial education, less and less of them could be fooled by snake oil salesmen and profiteers which do not enrich their community, but strip it of resource and future growth.

Read, listen and learn about your missing financial education.