“Honest, Modest Living”

I thought it was our Russian thing implanted by communists, that wealth is some how associated with dishonesty, but apparently it's a world-wide disease.

There is nothing wrong, or dishonest, or bad, or somehow negative with being wealthy! It's just another excuse we have in our arsenal to justify failure!

"I'm not rich, but at list nobody can say that I'm not an honest man!"

 What a load of crap!

We spent decades back home being poor and justifying it by being honest, before Gorbochev said "Go ahead, make money, start your own businesses and achieve your financial dreams" and everybody woke up and realized that one can be at the same time wealthy and still be an honest person!

That those two things aren't even related anyhow!

How about this: in Africa hundreds and thousands of people die every year because of the malaria. One mosquito net could be purchased for less then $10 and it will save at list one person from literally dieing! If one has an opportunity to earn extra $100,000.00 and purchase 10,000 mosquito nets and therefore to prevent 10,000 people from dieing, but instead he or she is too busy trying to justify not doing anything about it, too busy being scared to invest in the wrong company or opportunity, while knowing well that somebody is dieing right now and could be saved but not going to be, isn't this actually dishonest?

Pretending that Africa is just a made-up country from a children's book - is this honest? It's just one of the problems in the world that could be cured with money.

Let's stop looking for excuses to fail and start making money and making a difference in the world!