Tom is my name. Trademore is who I am. I am a Greedy Capitalist.
Are there any Capitalist's Anonymous groups for people with my condition?
So many people have called me a Greedy Capitalist on various social media platforms that I have decided to wear that term with a badge of honor.
I guess no good deed goes unpunished as I love to share my knowledge, heart, and soul with others. But apparently, in today's world, wanting to have the choice of where my money goes and what I invest in or donate to makes me an evil person. So I guess I'm a greedy capitalist. I won't hate you for calling me that...in fact, I may thank you.
Greed and profit are among the greatest motivators....right up there along with love and hate.
Capitalism is the greatest vehicle for delivering much needed products and services. It is every entrepreneurs aspiration to seek out people who have a need, and then fulfill that need....yes...for a profit. With that profit, not only is the entrepreneur able to fulfill a need that was previously unfulfilled, but the entrepreneur is then able to employ other people who also have needs and then reinvest profits to seek out more people who have needs. And the cycle continues. The more needs that are met, the more profit is created. The more profit that is created, the more needs an entrepreneur can meet. I value my greed and capitalist desires as a virtue. Call me a greedy capitalist if it pleases you.
Countless lives have been saved through capital investments into medical inventions and breakthroughs such as x-rays, MRI's and AED's and life saving devices like airbags, seat belts, anti-lock breaks and no-slip bathtubs. More food and water has been delivered to the furthest reaches of the world than ever before in history. Untold millions of jobs have been created simply for manufacturing senseless trinkets and entertainment paraphernalia.
Content backed cryptocurrency now appears out of nowhere and could actually prove to be a viable replacement to debt backed fiat currencies. The creators of Steem and the Steemit community have found a need and they have fulfilled it. That need being for writers, artists, musicians, photographers and other content creators to get paid for their work.
This is truly an amazing time we live in.
IBM fulfilled a need for computers. Microsoft fulfilled the need for a user-friendly operating system for home pc's. Google fulfilled a need for a search engine based on relevancy. Facebook fulfilled a need for social media so that people could connect with their friends and family. All of these companies were greedy for profit and provided us amazing things that we never would have had otherwise. Capitalism did this.
Yes, sometimes that greed can be taken to an extreme. For the last few years the social media giants have taken everyone for a ride, charging outrageous rates to advertisers, often times so high that no small business or entrepreneur could ever have an ROI high enough to turn a profit and be successful. They did this while paying little to nothing back to the community that built them.
Steemit has changed that. Steemit is a game changer. Once again a capitalist endeavor is fulfilling a need. The free market keeps greedy capitalists in check from becoming too greedy.
We still need, and will always need, greed and capitalism to drive new ideas... But don't let that bother you. The free market, and your right to choose alternatives will always keep capitalists from being more greedy than what the market can bare. This is Yin and Yang at work. Darkness vs Light. Good vs Evil. Pain vs Pleasure. One cannot exist without the other. Capitalists look for your pain. You give them your money to take that pain away.
Everything we have today that benefits us is a product of someone else's greedy capitalism. Capitalists are the worlds most despised heroes. Capitalists don't ask for a thank you, or an appreciation for their accomplishments. Just your money.
If it makes me a greedy capitalist to understand that I can help more people if I have more control over my own wealth, to invest in a business that could potentially employ people and help others, than to simply have it extracted from my account to prop up a wasteful government, then so be it. I am a greedy capitalist. If any would hate me for that, then so be it. I would rather be hated by others than to abandon my principles and change who I am. I am greedy. I am a capitalist. I am a Trademore.
When I'm not greedy chasing money, or trying to start some business, I'm playing Santa Claus in the Philippines.
