It's all About the Money

This is the way our society today views everything. The idea of just doing the right thing to benefit society and make a difference without personal gain is view as crazy. There must be a catch, or a hidden agenda, to want to make a social impact and benefit society. Investors today use the word social impact as a pitch to gain trust but the reality, it’s a pitch to profit. I was recently told by a wealthy individual that his business is so profitable that he can eat five breakfasts, lunches, and dinners daily and never be without a meal. Therefore, where he invests his money it must be like having dessert, real sweet and he must have the bigger share to consider investing. Unfortunately this is an immigrant who has had the good fortune of becoming wealthy in America has incorporated capitalism as his only value and not once considers the good of sharing his good fortune to the poor country he left behind. Yet, he seeks more without any reservation or respect to other just because he can have it. Is this the new America?

At one time, the land of opportunity was the land of social concerns, environment, goodwill to others, and caring for humanity while capitalism opens the door to accomplish these things. The responsibility of having wealth was to protect and serve the communities, environment and preserve our values of what America represents in freedom to care for the less fortunate.

Today if this is the example of what wealthy individuals think , and this individual a immigrant who has taken America as his home can easily forget where he came from we enter a era of where America is no longer a land of opportunity and caring but rather a land of greed. We share and teach greed ignoring the social issues to the point of not caring for our values, environment, and communities we live in. We are no longer free social thinker but rather obsess in a binge for money. It’s time to stop, think and care enough about how we think of wealth in our society.