Last week's episode caused quite a ruckus.

(If you haven't listened to it yet, go do it now. It's called The Future of the Liberty Movement. Then come back to this one.)

After listening to the feedback from some of you guys, we realized we need to go a little deeper.

Libertarians want to change the world. They have all sorts of ideas that would improve people's lives. And they feel like if they could just come up with the right arguments, they could convert anyone.

But the problem is, that's not how persuasion works. Any marketer will tell you that showing is always better than telling.

This is why we call our show Wealth Power & Influence. If you want to influence people, especially at scale, then you need some degree of power. And power is a natural product of wealth.

Every single political conversation is some variant of "people with wealth and power used both to influence other people." So money doesn't care how you feel about it. If you want to impact the world, you'll need some of it. And you'll probably need a lot of it.

But wealth is more than just money. And after reading your comments, we realized that this is where we lost a lot of you.

So let's define wealth.

Wealth is measured in three things:


Time

Mobility

Quality of life


 

Money is simply a proxy for all three.

If you spend $5,000/mo and you only have $5,000 in your savings account, you can buy yourself a month before you lose your freedom to your source of income.

As long as your income is bound to a specific location, you're a slave to it.

If your lifestyle outstrips your income, you aren't free to live as you please. You must subordinate your desires to your current circumstances.

So no matter what the government looks like, if you don't have wealth, you don't have freedom.

But what does this have to do with influencing people?

Well for that, you're just gonna have to listen to today's episode...

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