Happiness and Revolution at $150 Oil

The meltdown accelerated several games already in play.

The disparity of income and privileges between the developing countries and developed countries has obviously been playing on their minds. The revolutions we are seeing however are in the countries with caste systems more obvious than India.

With the dollar as the standard currency being debased, food shortages exacerbated by global warming floods, fires, and droughts, and uneven distribution of wealth, someone is going to crack.

Marx had it kind of right, but not totally. The capitalist system rules democracy resulting in the voters getting the short end of the stick. The mineral rich countries by the same token are not distributing the income evenly. If the minerals come from the land, why do the kings get to keep all the rewards.

Not educating the masses is one way to prevent revolution, but that wasn’t the case in Tunisia. A book I read long ago said it is not the have not’s that revolt it is the educated have a little that revolt. The Tunisians are evidently educating all their brothers.

How is this going to play in the U.S. and how is it going to affect you?

It brings to the front issues I didn’t think we would see for a few years. I had thought that revolt to the dollars decreasing purchasing power would cause other countries to stop funding our debt which would then require the crack down we see in Greece and Ireland.

Employment won’t increase at $150 oil. That means the bet the U.S is making that inflating the currency to create a recovery to collect more tax revenues hits a bump. It means that deflation and inflation could run amuck at the same time.

The website I created called Innovative Downsizing becomes more of a necessity for most people. The significance is we have to anticipate higher costs to purchase what we need at the same time we see stress to our income.

People who can anticipate the problems and the needs of new stress are going to have products or services in greater demand. One definition I read of wealth is it is creating products or services that can be exchanged. If you think about it, it means that people make choices as to what they need to purchase or want to purchase.

We rarely touch significant money. It all happens on exchange. It goes into our bank accounts and then out with checks or credit cards. It goes in because we create a product or service someone wants. It goes out because we purchase a product or service we want.

The concepts of abundance have to take on new relevance. For those highly evolved in creating wealth, it has never been about creating cash in hand. It has been about creating products and services that are contributions to make people more useful and more happy.

Abundance is not just paper money. It is feeling good about ourselves, loving others, helping those close to us, contributing to the community, finding avenues of self expression, understanding our purpose for being here.

We can live on a storm tossed sea with little to eat and still find abundance in a calm we create.

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