Investment For Life Instead of Investment For the Sucker

A good investment is an honest investment. Adam Smith once said that, but I am not quoting him. I am quoting every honest economist and philosopher over the last five thousand years. Immediate prosperity is one thing, but consistent prosperity over a long time, even permanently, is better. To my way of thinking, and anyone else honest enough to think rationally, this is reality as it is. Simple and succinctly reasoned. But to all others who have ridiculous rationalizations and irrationalities on their minds, including concepts of luck and chance, everything is mixed up with superstition and irrational mysticism. This is the way that never works, reality as it is not. When you admit and realize reality as it is, it is simple and a matter of effort and integration. When your concepts are mixed up with chance, fear, mystical beliefs and unreality, life is "complex" and a matter of lucky breaks. When I say the words "mysticism" and "lucky breaks" or the like, I mean irrational hope, not so much religiousness or even anything spiritual. For, I repeat with embellishment indeed, a good investment is an honest investment with efforts that bear fruit in reality. Sure, I could take the opposite "tack" and talk about the "easy way" and chance bearing fruit through irrationally "lucky" efforts without a definite goal except to get it the "easy way" and through winning the lottery or games of chance. But as shall be proven in the next paragraph, what is earned is always better used, while that which is obtained through luck has the "who knows" factor of the unearned. In fact, that is the phrase I will coin here: "The who knows factor of the unearned."

We all love to win, but who loves to train. A remembered swimmer from the 1972 Munich Olympics once said that and paid dearly for it. But he is right, and has the virtue of being right about that. Winning by chance is not everything and sometimes it is nothing. But when you earn, even when you "get it wrong" and many do, it is always something. When used right, it is something big. When used wrong, it is something small. But do not make any mistake, what is earned is always better than that which is won through luck or chance, especially in overall use value and net value. I know, I sound like a "fun ruining stick in the mud" for saying that, but it must be realized that value is value and cannot be otherwise.

They realized that value is value in ancient culture and that money is just a sign of value, not the money itself. That is why the invention of the measuring stick called money has survived, because if is part of value that you can see and feel tangibly and intangibly. You can feel it tangibly in that you hold its significance in your hand. You can feel it intangibly as the energy and materials it represents. The unification of these concepts of tangible and intangible make it all what it is. Disconnecting value from commodity is the investment of the sucker. Connecting value and commodity is the investment of the winner. Existence is valid only when you genuinely achieve realistically. Life instead of death or mere existence is what it comes down to, all else is commentary, spouting words and nothing valuable.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker.
I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.