Unscripted - The Great Rat-Race Escape: From Wage Slavery to Wealth: How to Start a Purpose Driven Business and Win Financial Freedom for a Lifetime

by M.J. DeMarco

mundanity,

parroted

frugal

pried

pleadingly.

Feminazi

measuredly,

sorority

The Rat Race Is the World’s Economic Religion, and Culture Is Its Church

gaiety

the rat race is a life theology where your participation is conscripted, and then expected.

At birth, you inherited this religion from your parents. With your first breath, you were immediately stamped with a barcode, a Social Security number. From then on, it is presumed that you will willfully partake in the rat race paradigm as one of two players:

Free-range economic slavery.

Unbeknownst

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Collateralized by our labor, debt, and consumption, we’re owned by ou...

You are biological chattel securitized by a lifetime of taxation. Free? Ha, no, barcoded and enslaved.

palatable.

If you play the game as a shopping-rat, your cheese is Friday night, Saturday, and a dreadful Sunday that fears Monday. If you’re a savings-rat, your rotten cheese is an elderly retirement promised decades later.

Conse...

The best way to keep slaves obedient is to make sure they don’t know they’re slaves.

this cultural superstructure is the most potent deception ever foisted on humanity: an economic cult known as the rat race.

It’s no mistake that you are schooled Monday through Friday for eighteen years just so you can work Monday through Friday for the next fifty.

Formal schooling tells us that intelligence is correlated to rote memory and repetition, and that such behavior is rewardable.

School tells us that truth comes from authority. School teaches us how to be an obedient rat in the system, a good employee in the hive-minded, media-fed citizenry.

As a child, we’re taught to associate happiness with toys—dolls, Lego sets, Tonka trucks. As a teen, this association grows, as do the prices: XBOXs, electric guitars, bicycles.

insanity is financing a house for thirty years so you can enjoy it only on the weekend because you’re too busy paying for it.

While your home might be lovely, its three-decade mortgage isn’t just a lien on the property; it’s a lien on your labor, not to mention the lifetime lien from the state, commonly known as a property tax.

Deviously, the Script snags you young.

With six-figures in student loans and a crappy job that can’t move the needle, what better way to imprison yourself?

How to build a legacy while tapping into happiness and soulful fulfillment? How to think outside the box created by our thought-policers?

When given orders by an authority figure, the average person will follow them. Without question. Even when those orders are harmful, even fatal, to innocent participants. Obedience to authority starts with our parents and is enforced during schooling. As long as the authority is recognized as legal and legitimate, people will obey.

apostles

Omission

Federal Reserve

pittance

snags

Pavlovian

a Machiavellian system engineered for debt and dependence, not dreams.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Once you understand the religion and its priestly operatives, you...

KEY CONCEPTS Regard the rat race like an economic religion, a cult of unwitting participants. You participate in the rat race in one of two ...

honeypot

sting operations,

stratosphere

capital markets were never designed to make you rich.

The only thing that weaponizes compound interest is a large number.

geriatric

for compound interest to truly invoke its power, you’ll need millions, and you’ll need it fast.

lucrative.