Everyone should read the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" or listen to the audiobook.
After I left one of my first jobs in web development, my old boss and I caught up. She is a white lady. She was up on game and told me things I will never forget. We were hired on the first day. She got hired first then turned around and interviewed me. Later on she told me how she would get a sales license and register to sell products for a company for products she wanted to buy for herself just to get the discount.
On one hand its like... "are you really that cheap?" but on the other hand... you the one that's broke. And yeah, I was living paycheck to pay check at the time. She sure as hell wasn't. So from then I understood that it's not that every white person just starts out richer than us. Some of them start out the same as us and just as broke. But there are others who have a different type and different level of hustle.
And so after we were catching up she asked what I was doing because she could use my consultation to help her get some new client. But she wasn't about to do the work. Oh noooooooo. It was almost beneath her. No, in her mind all web developers in America should basically be outsourcing job we get here to overseas labor, in effect, doing the same thing that Walmart was doing. And why not? There are people in struggling economies where that's a lot of money to them. And if you're getting enough to eat, while feeding them, and there's mutual benefit... that's what good business is. At the time I kind of rejected her whole approach because I actually enjoyed doing the work and didn't want to give up that creative aspect. Now I kinda wished that I had taken it more seriously. I probably wouldn't be sitting at a desk right now. But that was my choice. I have a good job. I'm content. But for anyone who wants to be smarter than me, there's no need to be limited by this unwritten rule that says you have to do the work yourself. Do managers do all the work? Or do they supervise others? There's nothing wrong with delegating. Virtually every semi-intelligent social species does it. Lions do it. Ants do it. Bees do it.
And if someone wants to do it and you want to include me, I'm a great business partner. Don't ever stop chanting down Babylon but don't let Babylon use you for cheap labor when you can make money moves and not be in poverty.
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