Are You “Manifestly Unsuitable” for the Money?

These are the words Australian Billionaire Gina Rinehart employed to explain why she’s shielded her children from receiving a portion in the family’s mega-inheritance.

Gina Rinehart, the world’s 18^th wealthiest woman and generally known to keep private matters private, has of late been forced to express:  My children are “manifestly unsuitable” to manage the fortunes otherwise due them as beneficiaries of the family fortune.

Few things in life raise the banner and beacon of our attention more than Money. Money not only manages people’s minds, but it frequently catalyzes all kinds of egocentric ethics, antics and pronouncements.

In the case of Billionaire Rinehart, dispositions of the money can impact the lives and families of many Australian natives whose  livelihood depends upon employment or attachment to the Rinehart family’s fortune.

As Money’s glittering appeal has once again captured the conversation of the masses, those who have, those who have not, and those who wish they did are all chiming in today over the Rineharts or, in reality, The MONEY.

Okay. So we’re not a Rinehart. We’re not the parent, the child or even the litigious member of the legal community embroiled in this controversy currently circulating the globe. But what if . . . ?

What if you were a working parent, actively engaged in managing your family’s business affairs. Would you lightly lift the money gate to millions – just because the beneficiaries are relatives?

What if you were an offspring who hadn’t yet discovered your mettle, found your groove and gotten on your personal road to prosperity. Would you feel entitled – just because Mommy or Daddy was rich?

What if you were the lawyer retained by either party in this high-stakes litigation with the potential to impact the economy of an entire nation. Would you carefully measure the magnitude of your influence in litigating – or overlook the grander responsibility because it was all about the Money?

Masses will continue to argue the Money issue for decades, even millennia. Seems everyone from rogues to royalty and clerks to clerics remain destined to be dazzled by the alluring charm of money.

Since I’m the one publishing today’s particular report, I’d like to proffer my own alternative to the age old issue of Money which, in the Rinehart’s case, tolls into the Billions.

Rather than continue to talk about who’s “unsuitable” to receive an inheritance, why not see some beneficiaries arise who are “richness ready” to receive their cache of cash and “manifestly manufactured” to utilize it fully – enriching the Life, Happiness and Peace of the world about them.