Judging from comments, most understood my article on "Slavery Today", some didn't. I will expand it slightly so hopefully all will understand the meaning. Perhaps I should not have used the "Politically Incorrect" word "Slavery". Today the word SERVANT would be more appropriate. If you disagree...consider that the term servant means "One who serves". Here we mean "Serves as a vocation". Still don't see it? One who works in a doughnut factory is not cranking out those tens of dozens doughnuts for himself (Hopefully), so he must be frying them for others...THEREFORE HE IS SERVING...HE IS A SERVANT! Moreover, he is not a servant by choice because he would rather be fishing or playing golf. He is a servant because he must be in order to provide for his family and pay his bills.

Now the super rich. Why does our example, Bill Gates, with his 40 plus billions keep working, making even more money? After all, a rational person could not possiblly spend even 1 billion in a lifetime. Disagree? Lets look! A billion is one thousand million. The interest/income, assuming a 10% return (easy if you have a billion) would come to 100 million per year. That comes to 8.33 million per month, and assuming you like some free time and would work at it only 5 days per week, you would have to spend around 416 thousand dollars per day just to keep up with the interest. Now I recognize that most people don't have the natural financial management gift that I do, so visualize this: If you're trying to get rid of 400 thousand bucks a day...it's not as easy as it might sound. When we spend money...we don't burn it, or destroy it...WE USUALLY GET SOMETHING IN RETURN! I think that you would find that after just a week or two, trying to blow 400 thousand per day...you would be buried beneath all your loot. I think we can therefore accept that no rational person could spend enough to simply keep up with the interest income of one (1) billion dollars. So there must be a reason why the rich are not satisfied with just a single billion.

Let me bring that reason even closer to home. I myself now enjoy a small taste of the good life, so I know a little about it. Consider that I have not worked a single day, for a wage, in more than 7 years. I have not contributed anything to society, to my town, to my country...to nobody in more than 7 years. Yet, my wife and I have all our needs, all our wishes, all the luxuries we could possibly want...and have had for them 7 years. Somebody must be providing all these comforts to us. Any of you who struggle to pay the bills and feed your family must fully realize that these things don't come "for free"...So who is serving my wife and I that we can enjoy such a comfortable lifestyle while contributing nothing? It's not done directly. Somebody at a cannery, canned the beans we had for lunch. Somebody in Detroit or elsewhere built the car we drive, etc. If we don't work. If we don't contribute...why and how are these things being done for us...WHY ARE WE BEING SERVED? Why/how do we have non-visible servants taking care of us?

It's all done with money. It's the medium which generates the illusion that we are not servants but simply "Honest Hard Working People". Consider this: Even the guy who mows the grass on the medium in front of Walmart would not use a push mower today with a gas can swinging on the handle. He insists on a monster machine, looking like a plumbers nightmare, where he can feel like he is some sort of engineer...a very important person. Gives him status. BUT LET HIM NOT CLIMB ONTO THAT CONTRAPTION FOR A WEEK OR TWO, AND HE WILL FIND THAT HE CANNOT PAY HIS BILLS, HIS LANDLORD WILL HAVE HIM EVICTED, HIS CHILDREN WILL STARVE. Hence he is only a lawn care engineer as long as he stays on his contraption and serves. Bill Gates is not going to drive the mower. He is not going to wash the dishes or do the laundry. He has the entire "Honest Hardworking" people who have no choice but to keep mowing.

The bottom line is that if every person had millions...THEN THEIR MILLIONS WOULD BE WORTHLESS BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO SERVANTS! In that case, when Bill Gates offered us a billion or two, we would respond...THAT'S NICE...NOW GET YOU BUTT UP ON THAT CONTRAPTION AND GET IT MOVING!