AARON DOMMER - I am the man who loves his life.

So a new idea has entered my life and it’s annoyingness (by that I mean it’s constant reocurence in the past few days) has prompted me to write about it. The idea is that your income will be in the same proximity as your 5 closest friends. In my mind this means that the company you keep has an economic value. The gap between the rich and the poor (as portrayed in the documentary ‘The One Percent’. See blog post on 22 Feb.) is widening. This has more to do with a natural tendency in life than a prevailing upper class cutting off the lower class.

Think back in your own life when a relationship was ‘costing’ you time or money? Or when being around someone was a draining. The growing ‘gap’ is a result of this idea. Your friends are those you see on a daily basis. For the rich, they are in rich meetings, rich events, and rich vacations, all the time associating with other rich people. If they were to associate with homeless people what would they talk about?  Their time is best spent buiding ideas and raising their own standard of living. How many success stories start with a young man or a poor man seeing a nice car or a big house and then commiting to becoming great? People have a tendency to look at rich people and decide how the rich should use their money.

It is funny to me that someone who makes, lets say $30k a year would criticize and condemn someone who makes $300k a year. The person who makes $30k has all these ways that the rich man should give to the poor. People are so generous with other peoples money. What person who makes $300k a year would follow the advice of someone who makes $30k a year? Obviously this could happen and does happen but if the $30k a year person’s ideas are so valuable than why aren’t they making the $300k themselves?

There are reasons why people do the things that they do. A good principle I follow is this: Assume other people have just as worthy motives/reasons as I do. People feel as strongly about their ideas and opinions as I do. How much time is spent trying to go against this principle? Complaining, convincing, and Condemning? Way too much I presume. More to come.