So what about that ubiquitous question? People don’t really care about your vocation or avocation, nor do they understand your job. But since it’s impolite to ask directly about the money, they ask the proxy question, hoping they can figure out your worth. But actually the most important question is “how do you make your money”. There are only three options: you can steal, be gifted assets or you can earn your pay as a result of some value transaction or exchange. This seems such a critical key to understanding a person, yet it remains the most guarded bit of information. We need to know the exact trajectory of a dollar before it ends in the person’s pocket and this very trajectory is the most telling factor in judging a man, especially if a person assumes a public role or even a person who volunteers an advice. And you should follow this dollar to its source, to the origin of the gifted money, etc. How can one accept a guidance when person’s relationship with money remains undisclosed? This is the holy grail of the American privacy. But how can you have a proper communication with any person without having a bird’s-eye view of his or her financial life. And this is the very reason it remains such a guarded secret, it leaves a person totally naked, reveals close to everything. Imagine a conversation without knowing if it’s a man or a woman? This how it feels when you don’t know where the money come from.
Further reading:What Do You Do or How Do You Make Your Money?
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