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 freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is John Schwachite, today on the show I want to share with you a simple and yet

I believe under-discussed truth.

This is a truth that I myself have resisted quite vigorously.

This is a truth that I have never wanted to acknowledge as true.

This is a truth that I wish were not true.

And yet at this point in my life, I have to concede that I believe this is true.

I believe that this is an enduring truth that has really probably never really changed.

And at this point in time, I don't think it has much chance of changing.

Here is the truth.

If you desire to live a lifestyle of freedom, to have the highest levels of personal freedom,

the highest levels of personal choice to be able to do the things that you wish to do,

to live in the way that you believe is right, if that is your desire, then you have virtually

no option other than to dedicate yourself to becoming rich, to dedicate yourself to becoming

financially wealthy.

Now here, McClely, I do not like that that is true.

I long for a world in which that's not true.

I wish for systems of community and culture and government to be dedicated to justice,

equal justice for all so that all are equal before the law.

I wish for systems that acknowledge individual sovereignty and individual rights.

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