King K Unfiltered

This may offend some people. That’s okay. Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable. We spend a lot of time blaming governments, employers, inflation, immigrants, taxes, corporations, and “the system” for our financial struggles. While all of those factors certainly play a role, I believe one of the biggest causes of financial hardship is something far closer to home: Our own choices. Think about this for a moment. Imagine a village of ten families. Each family insists on having their own internet account, their own streaming subscriptions, their own expensive cable package, their own electricity setup, their own water account, their own security system, their own vehicle, and often their own unnecessary luxuries. Then everyone gathers together and complains that life is too expensive. What if the problem isn’t only that things cost too much? What if the problem is that we refuse to share? The Death of Community Economics Our grandparents understood something that many of us have ...