Capitalism was named such by its enemies. In this episode, I'm going to address
socialism versus capitalism which is simply captivity versus freedom. Get ready.
My name's Doug Andrew and I've helped many many americans prepare for their future financially and
in many other ways optimizing their financial assets but also their wisdom, their knowledge,
their heritage, their genealogy leaving behind to their posterity
all of the great assets more than just the money. Leaving behind really how to fish to their
children and grandchildren instead of just dumping a bunch of fish in their lap. And that's why
I wrote a book called Entitlement Abolition. And so, I'm going to share with you in this episode
my take on the difference between socialism and capitalism which I refer to as captivity versus
freedom. So, when we look at these differences, you need to understand that basically speaking,
socialism is more or less a philosophy where you have the future pay for the past. And if you study
any socialistic governments or systems in the world, they're always requiring that the future
pays for the past. We're seeing that happen right now in America and it makes me very, very sad.
Capitalism should have been named cooperation. But see Carl Marx was its enemy. And he says, "Oh,
you're capitalizing on people's needs and wants. That's unfair." When really, it's cooperating. I
want to produce my goods and services what I'm passionate about doing. If I like to grow corn
or if I like to fish or if I like to sow clothes, I just cooperate with other people. If I like to
catch the fish and my wife likes to sows clothes and somebody else wants to grow the corn, we just
all cooperate. We can trade, we can barter, we can use a medium of exchange. But we're cooperating.
But so many times, people go, "Well, that's unfair." Because they want to regulate it.
They want to come in and it causes what Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. And that
has happened many, many times not only in America but throughout the world. So, Dan Sullivan is one
of my good friends. He's known as the strategic coach and I met him over 25 years ago and I was
one of his students for 20 years. So, I attribute some of what I'm going to share with you based
upon some insights that he gave me. And I've expanded upon these in my various books. And
if you stay with me to the end of this episode, I would love to gift you a free copy of my book,
Entitlement Abolition. If any of this begins to resonate with you, be sure to click like or share
with anybody who you can think maybe wants to also hear this message. So, captivity versus freedom.
I'm going to super simplify this like Dan Sullivan did for me because this is really
where we get caught up in socialism. And it's sort of concepts compared to capitalism
or cooperation. It's a scarcity versus abundant mindset. So, here we go. We start out in life and
often we see ourselves as here in the moment in the present and we can't wait till we get there.
Whatever there is. So, when we're young, we can't wait till we go to school. We get to kindergarten,
when we finally get there, what happens? Oh, we can't wait till we go to a full day of school
and we get school lunch. We get there and I have about 3 school lunches and we go, "What was that
all about?" And then we can't wait till that we get there we're the king of the school in the
elementary school. And then guess what? We get demoted down into middle school or junior high
and now we're being made fun of. And we can't wait till we get there and we're the king of that
junior high school. And when we get there, then we get demoted. We go to high school,
now we're the sophomore, the freshmen, and we're going around people are making fun of
us and finally, we can't wait till we get there. We graduate from high school and we know it all.
I was a keynote speaker to a thousand high school graduates that got entrepreneurial scholarships.
And I was invited to speak to them on how to take that thousand-dollar scholarship
and turn it into a million dollars by using it as seed money for an entrepreneurial idea. Because
I've helped many many teenagers take $2 just like the parable of the talents in Matthew 25. And $2,
they bought gas and oil for lawn mowers or a flour and tomato paste and made of pizza.
And then made 2 pizzas, 4 pizzas, 8 pizzas and many of these young people took $2 in a matter of
10 years became a millionaire by mowing lawns, by having lawn crews and so forth. So, I was teaching
these high school seniors how to do that. And in the audience that night, you know,
they graduate and they throw their cap in the air and they go, "We're there! We know it all!"
I can guarantee you about 3 months later, they're on some college campus
like this. And then they're going, "I can't wait till I get there --I graduate from college."
And then when they graduate they go, "I can't wait till I get a job. I can't wait till I get
a better job. I can't wait till I get a new car. I can trade in this clunker. I can't wait till
I can drive a Tesla. And then I can't wait till I get this and that and a boat and a motorboat,
everything." And somehow happiness will be theirs when they finally get there. This is what I found
out happiness is simply being grateful and happy wherever you are at. So, to illustrate this,
I'll usually put a triangle on the screen for my audiences and I'll say let's say this is humanity.
And it's been estimated right now that there's about 7.6 billion people on the earth today.
A lot of people think that there's been maybe 70 to 80 billion people live on the earth since
Adam and Eve. Let's just use those numbers for the fun of it. Do you know out of all the people
on planet earth today or who have ever lived on planet earth, most of those people would look
at you and me our lifestyles, our flush toilets the pharaohs of Egypt would have given their eye,
teeth for a flush toilet? And they would say, "What do you have anything to complain about?
You're already there." Yeah, we are in the top one tenth of 1% of humanity on this planet. We
are already so blessed. But we have a tendency to look at what we don't have instead of what we
do have. So, if we're already there and you start out with gratitude, wow! We're already so blessed.
We're already there. You know, in this country, we have some freedoms I'm going to talk about. But
we are there. But I've learned that happiness should not be contingent on some future result. Is
the drama in life more important than being happy wherever you're at? But I travel a lot and I see
grown adults throw tantrums while they're going 550 miles an hour through the air
and the wi-fi goes out for 10 minutes. And they're on their phone and they're just like....
Give it a second. It's still going to outer space and back, okay?
Or I see children who throw tantrums because they can't figure out how to open their second bag of
Cheetos because their hands are too greasy from their first bag of Cheetos. Do you know a lot of
children on this planet have never even had a bag of Cheetos? And so, when you think about what is
the deal here, it's lack of gratitude and perspective. We are happy because of what we are,
okay? Not because of what we have. Happiness comes from producing values not consuming values. Does
that make sense? Unfortunately, many people choose to go deep into shallow things like Facebook,
Twitter, social media. "Oh, I wonder what so-and-so is doing right now." And they put
everything into what somebody else is doing. I see responsible adults latch on to a movie star
a rock star an athlete. And when they make a mistake or whatever... But everything! Their
political opinion, everything is hinged on that person. They worship people. We have people who
worship things. You can always tell these people because they're always talking about their things.
It doesn't matter how many things they acquire, it's not enough. You have the people worshippers
like I'm talking about. But then you have the thought worshipers. And they're the ones that
are really sad because they get caught up in thinking, "Well, if it sounds too good to be true,
it probably isn't true." So, they ignore it. Do you know a lot of things in my life sounded too
good to be true and they ended up being true? If I would have ignored them, I would have missed
out. But I serve on a board of teenage suicide prevention. I volunteered with my wife for 5
years at a crisis center for teenage children who have attempted suicide numerous times.
And often, they get into their thoughts, "I could never be forgiven" or "What's life worth
living?" or "I cannot choose. I don't have a choice for a brighter future." It is so sad.
And all you have to do is rethink your thinking and show them that their future is spotless.
Instead of relying on social media. So, the opposite is also true they choose to go shallow
into deep things --the eternal life-changing principles. How sad is that? Oh, no. You can't go
there. No, that's off-limit. We can't talk about that kind of stuff. So, what's the solution here?
I wrote an entire book about it here but let me summarize this in life. You can choose to marinate
in degrading things which never turns out good. Or you can choose to marinate in uplifting things.
And I would love to uplift you. And if you want to uplift those you care about, it's a lot easier to
lift others up when you're on higher ground. Does that make sense? My wife and I have 6 children
and 20 grandchildren. And so, this is how we do it. We teach our children and grandchildren,
"Be grateful. We're already blessed. We're already there." Now, what do we do where much is given,
much is required. There are 4 freedoms we have in America that most people on planet earth have
never had. Freedom of time, to be able to use time as we see fit. Do you know that most people on
planet earth, they spend their waking hours just trying to get rid of the pain right down there. We
have freedom of time, we have freedom of money. To be able to go out and become self-reliant,
to produce value and be compensated for it. You don't have to work 24/7 unless you choose.
Freedom of purpose, to be able to be able to decide every morning what your purpose is for that
day or for that week. Many people have never had that freedom. They're just told what to do. And I
think we're in danger of going back to being told what to do if you know what I'm talking about.
The last freedom is freedom of relationships, to choose who you hang out with. A lot of people
have never had that choice. I tell my children and grandchildren "Be friendly to everybody
but be very careful who you are friends with because who you choose to hang out with will be
who you will be 5 and 10, 15 years down the road." Jim Rohn said, "You are really the total of the 5
people that you hang out with the most." So, if you want to have an abundant life, hang out with
other abundant-minded people. Who look at what's going right in life instead of what's going wrong
and to be able to take advantage of these freedoms of time, money, purpose, and relationships.
But be grateful that we already are there. And when we can do that, we can move from captivity
to freedom because this is what socialism tends to put us into is a captivity mindset
versus freedom which is capitalism, it's cooperation. It is ownership. The secret
to American wealth has always been in deeds titles and articles of incorporation owning. Take
ownership for your brighter future. This is where we can have a great country. We can come back and
be able to flourish and everybody benefits when we do this. Let me show you how you can get a copy
of my book Entitlement Abolition. I'll pay for the book and you can claim your free copy. Here's how.
So, I'm so passionate about this and many other related topics that I wrote the book Entitlement
Abolition: How to abolish entitlement mindset, teach responsibility and accountability to those
you care about. There's a chapter in here for business owners to teach your employees this.
There's chapters in here about how to have grandpa's camp for your grandchildren family
vacations with a purpose. All kinds of neat ideas where we've been able to help our
children and grandchildren, our employees get into an abundant mindset; to have freedom and
use those 4 freedoms that I talk about. So, you can go to entitlementabolitionbook.com.
Entitlementabolitionbook.com. You contribute a nominal amount towards the shipping and handling.
You do that. I'll pay for the book. I'll fire it out to you. There's also an audio version
there. There's also an 18-hour master class that I teach about these concepts
that you can also take advantage of if you would like. But if you can't tell, I love my country,
America and I want to see us flourish and be able to appreciate the freedoms that we have
and that we don't buy into a captivity mindset because we're preaching a fairness doctrine. This
is what this country was built upon --ownership. And when we take ownership for our own future,
for our own health, for our own retirement; we will take better care of it. When was the last
time you washed a rental car? People don't wash rental cars. They wash their own car.
That's why I love ownership in this great country of America.