Also, out of curiousity, did the publisher offer you a free book giveaway and you turned it down b/c you did not like the book? Just wondering how things work.

Cheers, Sam
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Wow, it really is such a sad day when people not only think these kinds of things but actually publish them and are proud of them. I would be disgusted with myself if I ever resorted to the lazy mindset of “Oh, those people are successful and rich so since they worked hard to have more money than me they should just give some to me for college so I don’t have to work my way through school and build something through my own sweat equity”.

Whether someone says this statement about themselves, their kids, or someone else’s kids it is still a sad day for the American dream of working hard and pulling ones self up by their own bootstraps if this kind of thinking ever becomes main stream – however tempting it is to the naturally lazy and selfish side of all of us.
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Laura you hit it on the head. It was two books but strangely cojoined.

Financial Samurai I’ll be looking forward to your take.

Looking toward the leadership may be a vain hope, and politicizing the solutions is worse than counterproductive. I haven’t read the book, but there are plenty more like it that take the same route, as if the only solutions are collective.

What about living beneath our means, saving and accumulating money, deciding that we don’t need the lastest gadget or to follow the herd into oblivion? All of those are things we can do that don’t involve politics and if enough of us do them, real change will happen even if the leadership doesn’t get on board.