There is a book out there by the way with that same title: Money and the Meaning of Life, I didn't necessarily draw material from there specifically. It's a good read. Someday I will have clickable books in the sidebar.
Next week I will write some on another equally controversial subject: food. Specifically Ayurvedic food and drink. So be sure to tune in for that. I may stop with the email alerts I know everyone loves getting email. I will generally have, if works out an update of some sort every week.
There was some thought to a separate blog on money and investing... but that may be a retirement activity, we will see. If you want to know how peoples perception on fear greed and wealth, change on a day to day basis, put some money in the markets.
Even though prosperity comes and goes as it will, Yogi Bhajan came to the west and spent the first winter in Vancouver BC wearing newspapers around his feet for shoes, as he lost all his luggage and money, became homeless. Not only did he bring Kundalini Yoga to the west, but went on to form 14 corporations, Yogi Tea, WaheGuruChew, Peace Cereal, Kettle Chips, Akal Security.... to name a few.
Here's a few exerts from a daily blog I subscribe to on the horrific events going on 1/2 a world away:
“If economic textbooks had a chapter on how to destroy an economy, then Burma – renamed Myanmar by its ruling generals – would be a perfect case study. Cyclone Nogin was a natural disaster, but that was only the latest catastrophe to befall the Burmese. The other was man-made...
“The reality of Burma's economic mismanagement was seared in my mind when I last was there. Grinding poverty and government neglect were visible. On a Rangoon sidewalk, a young mother held baby so malnourished that it probably died not long after I gave her a small bit of money. It was probably more than she had ever had in her hands at one time, and far more than the malignant military government spends on any desperate citizen in a year.
"Half Burma’s national budget goes on the military for one of the largest armies in the world, with more than 400,000 soldiers. Spending on other needs is distinctly lower. The UN estimated that Burma spends about $1.25 per person per year on education and health combined.
"The fury of the cyclone missed Naypidaw. The spirits (Nats) killed fishermen instead of generals. The angry spirits may have missed their target, but the people know where the generals are."
