Kicking it off with an example:
You are in a partnership business. You work in sales and business ops while the other partner is in charge of collecting the money, payouts and capital re-investment (think of paint jobs, adverts, etc). At the end of the month, your partner pays you your share and he gets his fair share. Things are going well until you one day up your IQ na decide to ‘check’ the business and you face the unexpected. Your partner has not been paying suppliers but has just been issuing IOUs to them. Furthermore, he has personal loans that he pays with business money but accounts it as part of business expenditure. You decide to confront him but you find out where the power is. He has brainwashed the watchmen that you are not a business partner but rather an employee just like them only that your pay is higher. He manipulates you by telling you to focus on what you are trying build ‘together’ as the business revenue has been growing as well your monthly share payouts and any less commitment will give power to the rival firm trying to buy you out. You comply, but deep down you know you are in a shitty position and situation.
This is what the average citizen of any country finds themselves in.
POINT: Your country’s GDP could be growing or shrinking. Your government might get you into debt by taking loans to sustain itself. It does not matter, what matters is, how much did you gross at the end of year. When the government releases official GDP forecasts in June, what is your personal forecast? The GDP could grow by 7-8% but has your money grown as an individual? Your country’s GDP might grow in the negative direction but have you gone to Thailand for the vacay? Have you paid fixed price to agreed 37 thots a year? Did you buy that Benz to increase your SMV? Did you prepay your full-years gym membership fees? Did you get a cut of the 2 bn/day stolen money? Are you eating Salmon with cassava flour or you are still talking horse-feed (read maize meal) prices?
When you die and go wherever you go I guarantee you one thing, there are people who died hundred of years before you who thought that the government will grow the economy and their ‘dear-daddy-government’ will make them rich but they died eating bread & beans while others in their times got away with caviar, champagne, chewing underage girls who worked as their maids (yes, the modern version to this is bosses chewing their juniors in modern times) and living on acres of lands run by farmhands and errand boys.
So who are you?