The Vicious Cycle Pt. I

Have you noticed the vicious cycle that seems to plague our parents, our grandparents, and their parents before them? They wake up, go to work all day, come home, go to bed and day in and day out, they continue this cycle until the glorified weekends approach. TGIF! Remember that? Throughout the year, they are only able to boast of one vacation a year. Maybe two or three if they can afford it or if they earned enough vacation hours.

All the while, they miss countless children plays and sports games, and they have dirty looks from their Boss when they have to call off due to their 2yr old toddler having the flu and a croup cough. And although our parents and our parents' parents see their hard earned money (hours) being eaten up by taxes that (despite a Federal Refund check) never really all get paid back, they tell us to take the same steps that lead them down this broken road.

What do we get? We get generation after generation of hard workers that never see the true fruits of their labor nor accomplish the dreams they had since age 25. We are lucky to get retirement, or have a lump sum of savings in the bank, or we'd be doomed to become a percentage in the poverty statistics.

However, as I drive down the streets of Peachtree Battle Road and window shop in the Lenox Mall of Buckhead, I'm made aware of one true thing. There is something really wrong with this picture, isn't it?

Why is there only 1% of the population having 95% and more of all the world's riches while 95% of the population barely have 1% of the world's riches to call their own? Why does the middle class number continue to shrink into either the poor class or the upper "rich" class? But most importantly, why do we as a younger generation see whats happening and are following in our parents' footsteps?

There is one true reality of our economy today. There will soon only be two economic classes of people. The poor class and the rich class.

The poor class are those people that go to work day in and day out, but no matter how hard they work they only earn enough to make ends meet. They are constantly working hard for money while their body clocks are ticking away into old age.

Then there is the rich class. These are the people that you see driving in the iconic vehicles of good money ie. Mercedes Benz, Range Rover and classic BMW. They seem to have countless free hours everyday to dine in the Houston's restaurants, take long jogs, and enjoy a well deserved hard day's labor of shopping in Phipps Plaza for the Holiday Gala coming up at the end of their fabulous week.

Why does it seem that the hard working are so poor and the "hardly working" are so rich? The question that I have personally always asked is, " What are the Rich doing that the poor and middle class are not?".......

Read Part II for more!