1-1-06 (2) Low Spark of High End Business

When you're a cog in a corporate wheel, there's a definite sense of purposelessness in every day's activities. It's not much beyond serfdom in a feudal society. No matter how hard you work, you just never seem to "get ahead".

The basic premise for getting a good job is do some trading of value. You provide the value of your services to the company in exchange for money. Then you trade the money for the things that you need and want in order to live. The idea is that you work in order to live.

This is why people start businesses. The basic premise is to create something of value, exchange it for money, and then use the money to exchange for things of value that you need and want in order to live. Businesses are started by people in order to live.

It's all about the most basic part of any economy. People create value in goods and services by doing the work. These are traded for money, then the money is traded for what's needed or wanted in order to live.

You'll notice that the money isn't the end product, however.

But there can be other agendas involved with the exchange of values using money. For instance, my employer may not look at the exchange on those terms at all. They may not even look at it as an exchange of values. They may have another agenda at work, like, for instance, the agenda of the accounting department. In the accounting department, the payroll is an "expense" item. From that perspective, my pay is something that cuts into profits. Anything that cuts into profits is looked at by the accounting department as "bad"...

This is actually a very old way of looking at things in western culture. The medieval monks who invented the accounting standards that are still in use today chose to put income on the right hand side of the ledger, and anything paid out on the left hand side of the ledger. This is because the right hand makes the sign of God, and is the "good" hand, and the left hand makes the sign of the Devil, and is the "evil" hand. They even used to persecute people who were left-handed. Anything to do with the left hand side of things was "bad" or "evil". This goes way back in time.

Also, entries on the left hand side of the ledger are made in the color of blood. The "good" entries on the right hand side are made in black. It's all very medieval and barbaric, to say the least.

So it comes as no surprise, now that accountants rule business, that anything on the left hand side of the ledger is constantly considered for elimination. Clearly, the basic premise of any business operating in this fashion has been long lost.

The original basic premise behind business is to find some way of creating value that can then be traded for things needed or wanted in order to live. We don't live in order to work.

Businesses always had some form of keeping track of the activity, usually the accounting method, but it was never viewed as the most important part of the business. Instead, it was where a record of the statistics could be kept. If you wanted to know how many buggy-whips your business manufactured last month, you could go to the beady-eyed accountant over in that dusty corner of the office and he'd be able to look up the exact number for you. Then you could compare that to previous months and see whether production was up or down.

Today, the accounting department determines whether the business is "making money" or not. If they are "making money", then the hotshots in the accounting department damned well better be able to hide as much of it as possible from the IRS, or there'll be hell to pay!

Actually, that's the only reason accounting ever got raised up out of that dusty corner of the office, ie- to find all the loop-holes in the income tax laws as possible, and utilize them to maximum advantage. That was the first step away from the basic premise for starting the business.

Today, the ultimate divurgence from the basic premise of a business is running the route to being a publicly traded company. This is where the original activity effectively stops. Whatever value they originally got into business to create (the actual product or service) is no longer the guiding premise behind the bulk of the activity. Nobody cares how many buggy-whips got made last month, but everybody is concerned about how the statistics listing money in black ink and money in red ink is "balancing out".

In other words, the statistics of the business have become more important than anything the statistics might actually represent.

If you work in one of these "low spark" businesses, you know what I mean. It's "low spark" because there's really no purpose to the activity at all. Whatever's left of the original activity that actually creates value is just a sideshow.

You'll notice that the money has become the end product...

Unfortunately, money is just a statistic.

What makes it possible to generate wealth with this statistic is hidden manipulation. Why do people manipulate this data? Because they CAN. Consequently, there's a whole imaginary world of fake value that came into existence over the years. We can philosphize and theorize forever upon the complexities of national and international economics, but the existance of fake values within any system can only introduce a detriment to actual values.

People can get excited about being in on ways to create wealth in this manner, however, and they can be infused with a burning purpose to create as much wealth as they can, as fast as they can. But it's a truly unethical purpose when it violates trust.

We trust that the value represented by money will be fairly regarded. But when that trust is violated for personal gain, a detriment to actual values is inevitably introduced. The underlying source of this unethical behavior is the promotion of the idea that money, itself, has value.

So, as long as you continue to misunderstand what the money really is, you can easily be roped into this pervasive activity of having your own personal sense of self-worth devalued constantly.

Money today behaves like energy. It has to flow, in order to have any power. At the level of personal earning and spending, you have to trade your money for things of actual value as fast as possible. Thinking that you can "save up" any amount of money, just means that you still haven't gotten the idea. If you want to build up anything of value, the last thing you should do is "save money" because money loses value over time, just like a battery loses energy if you leave it on a shelf.

What matters is the "money flow" on a weekly or monthly basis. Generate as much as you can, but flow it right back OUT as fast as you can. And if you accumulate anything of lasting value along the way, then so much the better.

The worst thing you can do is borrow money for anything that won't increase in value over time.

Admittedly, for most of us, it's a losing battle trying to build up any kind of "estate" over our lifetimes. Even the equity we build up in our homes is far outstripped by the interest paid on a typical mortgage. But at least we get some amount of value building up over those years.

Underneath it all is the ongoing rape of value in exchange for nothing of value in return. Wherever this is going on, you'll find the "low spark" effects that high end thievery causes for all the honest people in the world.

This imaginary fake value is understood for what it really is by these slime-balls; it's the generation of energy in an imaginary world. It only relates to the real world that generates real things of real value in that we both use the same measuring stick... the money. Lots of fake value is generated, but as soon as it's "cashed in", that's when the real value level within the system decreases by exactly that same amount.

The low spark of high end business? It's that feeling of purposelessness that comes from being robbed blind on a regular basis, and not even realizing it.