Jeff Bezos – Self Equanimity http://selfequanimity.com Current Affairs Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:45:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://i0.wp.com/selfequanimity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SE-Copy.png?fit=32%2C32 Jeff Bezos – Self Equanimity http://selfequanimity.com 32 32 176655959 The World Economic Forum just ended? http://selfequanimity.com/the-world-economic-forum-just-ended/ http://selfequanimity.com/the-world-economic-forum-just-ended/#respond Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:32:11 +0000 https://selfequanimity.com/?p=1936 Every day, I hear black people brag about how intelligent we are, not to mention how informed we are, coming to look at it seems most people are spewing the same rhetoric. Oh it is so easy to know one thing or the other, but to have sophisticated thinking abilities, well that takes certain skills. .. Moreover  I don’t think we care about the things that really matter. if 2020 has taught us anything at all it has taught us that politics is a very emotional affair Friendships ended because of politics, families stopped talking to each other, etc. This tells us that politics have very little to do with facts, besides if we want facts, we would have to read and reading is boring.  The whole thing is based on who likes who. You would think that in this age of information, many of us would be a little more informed than usual.

Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice

This brings me to my topic.  Today I’m talking about the World Economic Forum. an event that takes place every year. Let me enlighten you. The World Economic Forum is a meeting of the most powerful people in the world, of course with power comes influence and money.  This event as I stated already, happens every year at a place called Davos, in Switzerland. They meet and decide world policy. Every influencer be it an actor, people in positions of power, or just plain rich, etc has been to the World Economic Forum in Davos at one time or another.  Arent we curious to know what happens there?? This isn’t a conspiracy theory, and it is hardly a secret at all,  they release a report of their meetings every year, and this year’s report is about 100 pages.  .  Anyone can get a report of these yearly meetings if they so choose, it’s no secret at all.  The World Economic Forum even has a website where people can go and read whatever information they want.  Again these people shape Global policy. 

Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Thabo Mbeki, Tony Blair  Bono Olusegun Obasanjo

my question is if these people are the ones responsible for current events in today’s world. why arent we more informed about this??? informed enough to ask questions ??

Bono & Angela Merkel

At the end of the day we are more concerned with things we cannot control, and those things become our natural opium, we are not concerned about policy and where these people are taking the world, some of these powerful people were elected by their nations.

People like

Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie

Jeff Bezos

Jack Ma

Donald Trump

Will-I AM

Matt Damon

Richard Gere

Condoleezza Rice

George Bush

Joe Biden

Hillary Clinton

Bono

Leonardo Dicarprio

John Kerry

Pharrell

Forest Whitaker

Bill Gates

Barack Obama

Just to name a few, just anyone who is someone in this world has been to Davos, our own black billionaires have been there, these people shape global policy yet we hardly know that this meeting takes place. I think we should do a better job of being and staying informed. I’m not here to give anyone a history lesson, I’m asking the question of us being more informed about world affairs. Today we have no excuse.

As black people we say we believe in so-called White supremacy,  well the first thing about white supremacy is that it is Global and international, if anyone thinks I’m lying all they have to do is look at the institution of slavery, slavery was international, it is almost as if there was an international coordination,  and also an international coordination when it was abolished. Other examples are Wall Street, trading, etc. Everything happens globally, the world is too vast and broad for us to limit ourselves to one country. International Affairs is a must.

THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

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THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH


The thing about being, wealthy is that it is more complex than we make it to be, when it comes to money we have this lottery mindset!! we want to win the lottery big time, from $10,000 to $10 million, only then will it be ok, we don’t know about assets nor do we want to know. We don’t want to work to become wealthy, the sad thing about what we do as a people is that we do like to impress other people with the little money we have,  we buy clothes, and buy cars to impress people. The thing about rich people, they don’t have to impress other people. Rich people don’t have to impress anyone and tell anyone they are rich,  if they are,  you will know, and if you don’t know it is probably not meant for you to know. Our idea of rich or wealthy is usually a music video or comes from TV, or these days the internet ( which has replaced TV). We think what we see is everyday life for high net worth individuals. I ask a question, Can anyone tell me what car Jay Z drove yesterday? Or any of the rich people we know or want to become. We would see him in a music video though driving a Rolls Royce or a  Ferrari but we don’t know what he drives every day!  He might be able to afford a Rolls Royce, or any other car in real life  but is that his everyday life .. Nope here is something we need to consider 

  1. Jeff Bezos, Amazon  Net worth $154.2 Billion, drives a Honda Accord  Base Model  Price $16,000
  2. Sergey Brin co-founder of Google, Net worth  $54.2 Billion drives a Toyota Prius, price $ 30,000.
  3. Larry Page  Co-founder  of Google, Net worth $55.5 Billion drives a Toyota Prius, Price $30,000
  4. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Net worth $64.6 Billion drives an Acura TSX price of 30,000.00, he also has a Volkswagen Golf GTI hatchback
  5. Number 5 for me takes the cake, he may not be living with us anymore but he understood that a car is only meant to get you from point A to point B, This man was the founder of Ikea and he died in 2018, which means he could afford any of the nice things we see. With a Networth of almost $60 Billion he can buy any car he wanted, his name is Ingvar Kamprad. He drove a 1993 Volvo 240 GL until his death!!

I think we can learn a thing or two, from these guys, they understand money very well !!!! we should be learning from them

 

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