Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now,

while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I'm your host and today we're going to talk about

revolution versus reformation and how you can protect your money, your family,

your livelihood, etc. if you are unfortunate enough to live in a time of revolution.

This morning on Twitter I wrote out a quick tweet that said I've over a period of years I've become entirely opposed to revolution.

I've become convinced over about the last 10 years I've been thinking about I've become convinced that revolutions are always bad, that

they are 100% of the time just completely bad. Rather, I'm in favor of reformation. The things that need to be changed in society

or in the world or in your city or your community, those things should be changed

not by revolution but by reformation.

Now at the beginning here I want to just talk philosophically about this difference

between revolution and reformation and then we'll apply it to money but you should be forewarn that this show is going to be big picture I'm not going to give a lot of specific financial advice but we'll talk about what I see is the solution of how to survive and prosper during a revolution if you find yourself living through one.

First, conceptually, what do I mean by these terms revolution and reformation?

Well, admittedly, they're imprecise, but what I think of when I think of revolution

is a complete transformation of something within a very small amount of time.

A complete transformation of something within a very small amount of time.

I also think of the concepts of kind of a lack of control, a broad spread,

uprising of some kind that has something to do with it. I think there may

also be violent connotations, whether that includes physical violence such as some political revolutions have

included or that just implies such a dramatic pace of change that it feels

almost violent because it's so fast.

Now I contrast revolution with reformation.

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