This document discusses three common beliefs that portray money and the pursuit of making money as evil. The first is that those already in power with money want to maintain the status quo. The second is that most people are not very skilled at making money, so they claim it is bad to avoid feeling left behind. The third is that the idea of openly trying to make a lot of money threatens one's self image if they fail. However, the document argues that these beliefs are nonsense, and that making money is actually good because it requires providing valuable products or services that people want.

1. Three Evil Money Beliefs

2. I remember a long time ago shortly
after I graduated from college.

3. It was before got a job, so I was still
VERY wet behind the ears.

4. I was at some wedding of some distant
relative, and I met this guy who was a
preacher.

5. I think he was dating another distant
relative at the wedding.

6. Anyhow, when he learned that I'd just
graduated and hadn't found a job, he
asked me what I wanted to do.

7. Half jokingly, I said, "I want to make as
much money as I can."

8. This preacher was pretty shocked.

9. He launched into some long lecture
about how money is bad, chasing
money is bad, it's better to serve your
fellow man, etc., etc.

10. He seemed to enjoy lecturing me so
much I didn't have the heart to tell him
I was only kidding.

11. But this is not an uncommon response.

12. If you told you're friends and family
your main goal in life was to make
huge piles of cash, they would
immediately think you were evil, or
didn't care about people, or were
going to somehow "exploit the poor"
in order to get rich.

13. And to be sure, lately it seems plenty
of people ARE getting rich (and staying
rich) that way.

14. But the idea that money, or making
money is "evil" has been around a long
time.

15. Why is that?

16. One of the reasons may be that people
in power (those who have money)
want to keep it that way.

17. After all, if everybody were rich, they
wouldn't feel so special.

18. Another reason is that most people
simply aren't very good at making
money.

19. So when you tell your buddies you
want to learn HOW to make money,
they suddenly feel as if they are going
to be left behind.

20. So they say money is bad.

21. Another reason is a lot of people
associate the idea of making money
with presenting themselves to the
world.

22. After all, if you really DID give it your
best shot, and failed, what does that
say about you?

23. These three reasons, combined
together, make it pretty fricking easy
to convince ourselves that money is
bad.

24. It keeps us safe. It keeps our friends
from thinking we're going to leave
them.

25. And those that are in power don't
need to worry about us challenging
them.

26. Luckily, all of these reasons are
absolute NONSENSE.

27. Lies we tell ourselves to protect our
egos.

28. The bottom line is that money is
FANTASTIC.

29. Making money is FANTASTIC.

30. Because the ONLY WAY to honestly
make money is to make (or help make)
something (product or service) that
other people WANT.

31. So in reality, when you say you want to
MAKE A TON OF MONEY, what you're
really saying is that you want to figure
out how to help as many people in the
world get what they want.

32. And that is anything BUT evil.

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