#12 “You and I are such similar creatures Vivian. We both screw people for money.” Edward Lewis -Pretty Woman 1990
Are we in competition with others, yet find similarities amongst the two when we exchange money? Am I changing the perceptual transfer of funds by winning over the other guy? If I generate a better performance am I taking money out of someone's hands? Its safe to say that we all our thieves to one another. Stealing time, money, and energy from everyone we shake hands with, just to better our position within society?
Do you screw people for a living?
I look at it as taking my earnings, embracing my winnings and cashing in on my hard work. We often at times rarely think of the concept that money is worth something to the person giving it to us. They put in just as much work and effort to earn it, and now we are taking it from them because we put in the work. Can we safely say we've earned it?
Your employer for instance, they worry about bringing in enough money so in return they can pay you. But what is their biggest challenge? Giving it out, or bringing it in?
We all have our hierachy of money values. Some pyramid that we work off of each day. Yet, does the money we earn come from a product of something or someone else? When you get paid do you think about what it took for that person to pay you? Most of us don't. We think about how much more we should have deserved, or that its never enough. We think that if they were less greedy, we'd feel more respected.
The point of the matter is to not make you feel guilty about collecting a paycheck, or earning money. The point is to realize that we all in some weird way screw people for money. Think about the transfer for a second. An idea or concept is sold, a product is delivered, and money is collected. The world is asking for money and then dispersing it amongst those who generated the initial transaction.
Someone is always paying, and someone else is ultimatley benefiting.
Are we confident enough in our careers to say we earned the money? Do you sometimes show up and think, "why are they paying me to do this?" Or, "how are they going to pay me to do this?". The next time you transfer money from one hand to another, think about where it came from, and what it took to get in your hands. If we all valued money like we value the air we breathe, would we be considered thieves? Are we literally screwing people for money?
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