Go West Young Man – 21st Century Version
Publisher Horace Greeley advised young Americans in the 1840s and 1850s to make their fortune by going West.
The New Hampshire journalist was absolutely right to publish
a quote from John BL Soule, “Go west, young man, and grow with
this country.”
Fortunately, Americans never stopped going west and growing with this country, even to this day!
Today, “young men” also include young ladies, as well as opportunity seekers of all ages.
Greeley did not consider that if it continued west, it would pass through California, Oregon, and Washington, eventually landing in the Far East, including China, India, Japan, and South Korea, global hypergrowth.
nations from 2006 and later.
And, with the Internet, you can go west, south, east, north, or anywhere in the world without ever leaving your home or office, or even getting up from your chair.
In the 21st century, you do business in space (cyberspace), not just in a limited place like a town, city, region, or country.
Horace Greeley would have loved 2006, being a visionary who boldly editorialized to free plantation slaves. In the 21st century, you can free yourself from the slavery of employment, the last legalized form of slavery in the United States.
The 21st century began with a requiem for the Industrial Revolution of the last century, now dead and deserving of a proper final burial. Industrial revolution, rest in peace!
Not only is the Industrial Revolution over, but so is employment for life, jobs, job security, unions, fully funded pensions, factory towns, socialism, outdated Rust Belt factories, tariffs and barriers. trades and myopic economic nationalism.
In the 21st century, self-employment, self-sufficiency, entrepreneurial action, globalization and the Internet are the keys to success.
What do we need to know about the 21st century?
First, what is happening with US finances? Can the government support me or create a job for me? Answer: No!
1. The economic position of the United States is unstable. Our 2005 annualized trade deficit is $706 billion, up from $616 billion in 2004.
2. The US budget, “balanced” in 2002, amounted to around half a trillion dollars in 2005. Washington’s power elite no longer practice “just saying no” or the use of the veto.
3. The total US budget deficit is approximately $8.0 trillion, or $26,222 per American man, woman, or child. It is rising at just $1.76 billion a day.
4. The US has $44 trillion in underfunded government liabilities.
5. Congress just raised the federal debt ceiling to prevent the possibility of default. That’s the government’s version of increasing your Visa card limit so you can keep taking cash advances to pay your other bills.
wake up people The government cannot afford to support him with
from the womb to the grave socialist benefits or creating a job with no purpose and doing nothing for you.
You need to be self-employed and save and invest your money to take care of yourself for the rest of your life.
Second, what is happening with China?
China is becoming a capitalist superpower, just like the United States. BusinessWeek believes that the world’s three superpowers by 2050 will be the United States, China, and India. I agree.
China’s population of 1.5 billion includes 300 million educated middle-class people (more than the entire US population) who buy middle-class houses, cars and other niceties of life.
This group is called “Chuppies”, Chinese urban professionals (similar to the American yuppies of yesteryear).
Americans can make a fortune selling exclusive products and services to Chuppies.
With manufacturing wages in China running from 68 to 88 cents an hour, China is almost impossible to beat in manufacturing. There are benefits. For example, products made in China and sold here in
Wal-Mart stores save the average American family $500 per year.
China is building a national system of interstate highways with many more miles than ours, and building whole new cities the size of San Francisco every few weeks. With the 2008 Olympics set to take place in China, that country wants to show the world that it has truly arrived as a world-class superpower.
China uses 40% of the world’s steel and 30% of the world’s coal and also a lot of cement. China also imports increasingly large amounts of oil.
Don’t look at China through the prism of outdated Cold War stereotypes: rice-farmers, Chairman Mao, stultifying communism and the Red Guard. Forget those things.
Consider that your next car may be a Chinese-made, imported red Chery sports car priced under $19,000 fully equipped with Lexus robotic manufacturing excellence and sleek Ferrari design. China has 120 automobile companies.
China will have its cars available in the US for sale in late 2007 or early 2008.
Third, what are the opportunities in the 21st century?
The United States remains at the forefront of new technologies and creative innovations. Forget Detroit’s Big 3. Forget most of the once-impressive companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Forget the low-tech factories that make shoes, toilets, and boat anchors. Clean that bulb. Look to the future.
Focus on these new, high-growth alternatives: Web 2.0, fluorescent light replacement, nanotechnology, WiMAX, RFID, clean energy (solar and wind), emerging countries, biometrics, Internet TV, Internet over power lines, enriched
uranium, VOIP, offshore energy exploration and The Wellness Revolution.
If you don’t know what these industries and innovations are, ask any tech-savvy teen or start reading business publications more often.
America’s best years are always ahead, and these new and innovative things will position America, and you as the self-employed, as a successful 21st century player.
Network marketing, using “intellectual distribution”, will be a way that many people will prosper as freelancers in the 21st century, building global distribution networks at home, using the Internet.
What do I forecast for 2006?
Answer: gasoline at $5.00 to $6.00 a gallon, crude oil at $75 to $100 a barrel, the increasing irrelevance of Ford and General Motors, an increase in the prices of major commodities (gold, silver, platinum, and uranium), an increase US interest rates, a weakening housing market, a decline in the value of the US dollar, and ongoing violence and political turmoil in the Middle Eastern OPEC states and oil-producing nations in Africa and South America.
Is this doom and gloom? No way. The United States has 5% of the world’s population but 31% of world economic activity, a gross domestic product per worker 30% higher than Japan and Germany, 600 pet chiropractors, numerous Starbucks stores, and headed households. for a college graduate earning an average of $72,000.
What country!
If you make friends with and welcome the change, embrace self-employment, think outside the box, see everything globally, and work hard and consistently, you will do very well and enjoy everything even more.
Wherever you are now, follow Horace Greely’s editorial directive “go west, young man.” Applying Greely’s quote to modern times, it means getting moving, going “west,” wherever the opportunities of the 21st century lie.
