After few posts on Politics. Let's discuss something more close to us and coincidentally something just striked through my head. Does living luxurily means that you are financially stable and have great potential?
If we look at the structure of the current urban society, everything is about presentation. Mooncake's boxes, dining places, shopping mall, watches, handphone, etc, all of them have to be presentable and what lay man would say as " Beautiful". Why?
Most of the working subgroups are chasing for this luxury and most of the large-scale company earns big money from this luxury chasing game. For example, StarBucks, LV bags, Iphone, Padini, SEED, Giordano etc. They all earn huge part of their money by knowing most of the people will "chase" this luxury. Do you think most of the working class professionals are well off? The answer is simply a big NO. Because they are"chasing" this luxury. (Let us exclude those born billionaires and those fortunate to strike lottery). And for the sake of that, their account might not have lots of money because of this chasing game.
Author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", called this a RAT RACE. You work for the sake of your chasing, and as you crawl higher up the ladder, your chasing gets bigger and so goes the rat race. A big vicious cycle goes on and on with no end. So how do we end this vicious cycle? I think a 6 year old can tell you the answer. "Stop the chasing la".
I can't tell you all more as I am still too young to exmeplify. Will probably update when i gets older :)
Here comes the second part, how do we stop the chasing? It comes with practice and determination. Now, Simplicity comes in. You can not be wanting luxury and tell people that your lifestyle is simple. It doesn't work this way. It is a practice! Some people will then ask, why those poor people, their financial status are so poor, they can't afford anything more than rice, not luxury at all....:( For sure, that is not the only factor, there are other factors like how much they earn, how many children they have, the condusiveness in the environment for them to propel financially, their determination to propel financially, their knowledge(financial knowledge and basic knowledge). I mean you cannot expect a cleaner who earns RM300 a month with 3 children, who has been living in simplicity to prosper financially.
In conclusion, simplicity is relatively proportional to capacity(Financially) with other factors interplaying.
