Gerber

My father engrained in me the idea that you must earn what you get. I bought my first fishing rod selling seeds door to door and I had to buy my first car myself, but my dad taught me how to work on it myself, that was his gift to me. Being independent saved me money.
He was actually a carpenter by trade (it's what he liked doing) he also was a real estate broker, built houses and then tried to develop property but the bankers & Wall Street sabotaged that in 1979 when the interest rates were jacked up and the artificial recession was created. He was also a real estate appraiser, an honest one and he had worked at the pentagon and had top secret clearance (that’s an even more interesting story).
Making money off of money and betting on market fluctuations and even failures is not earning it. There is a difference between investment and gambling. Investment returns dividends over time and gambling is short term gain. The casino marketplace creates a huge incentive for corruption, generates imbalance, inflated prices and destroys any chance of a "natural marketplace". I am not much for banning anything and having to many controls stifles evolution, yet without wisdom and discipline freedom is soon lost. So what we need is a high tax on the short “gambling” & little or none on the long term “investment”. That fixes the problem although it will need to be given a lot of thought and all the effects must be must be taken into account.

I introduced a new concept to mankind that of Dissonant and Resonant information states. Pain is a signal representing a dissonant information state. In fact pain creates a disruptive signal that interferes with regular signal processing (thinking) demanding attention. It is in ignorance that we artificially eliminate pain signals rather than correcting) bad” although sometimes we will endure a dissonant information state to achieve a greater resonant information state.
It is also true humans trapped in a dissonant the imbalance that is a cause of them. Humans will most always seek to create a resonant information state because resonance "feels (positive) good" and dissonance “feels (negative information state will create dissonance for others having a resonant information state to bring attention to their own dissonant information state. The problem is some will create a dissonant information state for others in order to achieve a resonant information state for themselves. But this results in an imbalance and will later invite a much more disruptive information state.
Truth that could lead to dissonant information for the individual is often ignored or denied and this again may work for the moment but will lead to a more severe dissonant information state in the future. The dominant causes of dissonant information states are ignorance and irrational behavior resulting from fear which shuts down the higher processing functions of the human brain. Love is a resonant information state and the feelings of hate, anger and fear represent dissonant information states, imbalance needing correction. This is of course the perspective of a computer scientist and part of Gerber Information Universe Theory. For more insight see God Particle and Metaphysics .me (Intangics) its all about you. Also read The Science of Love and about the No Fear Movement created by Gerber.