“We’ll just double time it to your house, and grab the tickets before heading to the train station for the 3:45 to DETROIT! ROCK! CITY!” – Detroit Rock City
When they filmed one of the battle scenes for a Transformers movie in Detroit, they had to use half of the CGI budget to repair buildings.
Wealth.
It’s the golden goose that societies have all chased, but most forget where the eggs come from. I assure you it’s no longer Detroit, but we’ll get to that.
Spoiler: it’s not just the land, the trees, or the shiny rocks or sticky fluids underground. Sure, Saudi Arabia’s sitting on enough oil to lube up Oprah with enough left over for a dozen Kardashians, but without the brainpower to drill, refine, and ship it, they’d still be herding camels and wondering what a Ferrari is.
The same goes for North America. For millennia the fertile plains forests were untouched. It was a backwater until European misfits turned it into the world’s breadbasket and factory floor.
Wealth isn’t just stuff; it’s the ingenuity, sweat, and sheer cussedness of people making things happen. The dirt’s nice, don’t get me wrong, and someone, somewhere has to have it or else things would get mighty hungry might fast. Iowa’s black soil grows corn like it’s auditioning for a role in a Monsanto® ad as a glyphosate-absorbing sponge. Canada? Canada’s got enough timber so it could stack it up and reach the Moon. They also have nearly that many Indians.
Two peanuts walked into a bar. And that’s why Monsanto™ has to be stopped.
But Japan? Japan is a rocky island with zero oil, barely any farmland, and a tendency to shake like a wet dog every few years. Yet it’s a global powerhouse, punching well above the weight of its country’s size or population.
Why? The people.
Same with England, Singapore, Taiwan. No natural resources to speak of, but their folks figured out how to turn ideas into skyscrapers, cars, and microchips. Even Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth wasn’t something the Saudis turned into wealth. It was a group of Western engineers and wildcatters that turned that black liquid into gold.
Without them, the Saudis might still be sitting on a lake of useless sludge, arguing over whose camel was the best hump.
North America is the same story, minus the camel arguments. For thousands of years, the continent had everything: buffalo, forests, rivers teeming with fish. Yet, outside of some Mesoamerican skull-stacking enthusiasts in Mexico, it was dangerous and dirt-poor. Why?
Is a monk with wings an air friar?
That’s a big question, because just a few years later the Europeans showed up. They brought the tools, the technology, and most importantly the mindset to make the place a source of plenty. By the 19th century, the U.S. was feeding and arming half the world, not because the land changed, but because people did.
They built railroads, factories, and a culture that rewarded hard work over siestas and skull collecting. Wealth exploded.
For a while.
The GloboLeft thinks wealth comes from a magical printing press. Since the Soviet Union keeled over in 1991, the world has belonged to the U.S. dollar: print it, spend it, everybody loves it. But cash is most definitely not wealth: at best, it’s just a scorecard. Real wealth comes from production: making stuff, growing stuff, inventing stuff and developing a moral and trustworthy people.
But now we’re spending our wealth on things that actively destroy the system.
I did once get a three-foot ruler at a yard sale.
Take immigration. Please.
Unchecked waves of illegals, incentivized to cross borders with freebies? Not good. Legal immigrants who think that Western values are an outmoded suggestion that only naïve people would follow?
That’s not a workforce; it’s a drain.
Then there’s the family fiasco. Single-parent households are mostly moms with no dads. These mom-led houses represent 65% of black kids and 24% of white kids growing up fatherless in 2020.
The GloboLeft cheers this like it’s fEmALe EmPOwErmENt, but kids without dads are far more likely to drop out, do drugs, or end up in jail. That’s not building a trustworthy people: it’s building chaos. A stable family is like a factory for productive citizens: break it, and you’re churning out liabilities, not assets. This is yet another reason I keep banging on the “the family is the base unit of society, not the individual” drum.
In Oklahoma cowboys don’t roll joints – they tumble weed.
We actively pay people to not work. The Social Security Administration reports disability claims have spiked 20% since 2000, with over 8 million Americans on the rolls by 2023. Some are legitimate. Nobody’s knocking the guy who lost a leg in a mill accident (his name is Skip, by the way), but when “anxiety” qualifies you for a lifetime of checks, we’re paying people to sit on the couch instead of building bridges. That’s wealth destruction, plain and simple.
Healthcare? That’s another black hole. The U.S. spends 18% of GDP on it. $4.5 trillion in 2022. That’s more than any other nation.
Yet, we get crap for it. Life expectancy is flat, and obesity is up 40% since 1990. We’re not paying to make people healthier: we’re bankrolling a system that patches symptoms while folks chug Mountain Dew® and avoid treadmills. A healthy population works harder, lives longer, creates more, and is happier. A sick one? It’s a money pit.
All this anti-wealth nonsense is sold as compassion. Free money, open borders, no-fault welfare? It sounds warm and fuzzy until you realize it’s starving the engine that makes societies thrive. Wealth isn’t the goal. Wealth is the fuel for a happy, healthy, productive life. Without it, you get decay, both literal and figurative. Look at Detroit: once a manufacturing titan, now a ghost town because the focus shifted from making to taking, complete with a demoralized population.
Feel like no one gives a hoot about you? Try not filing your tax returns.
So how do we get back on track?
Stop pretending money equals wealth. Reward production. Cut the incentives for idleness; if you can work, you should. Fix families by making it easier for dads to stick around and reducing the incentives for women to break up a family for fun and prizes. Make being a whore shameful again.
Streamline healthcare to focus on prevention, not endless treatments – 30% or so of what will be spent on a human for healthcare during their entire lifetime is in the last year – wouldn’t it be better if their last decade was better?
And secure the borders—nations that can’t control their edges can’t control their economies. Almost every economic problem this country has is downstream of immigration.
Wealth isn’t in the dirt or the printing press; it’s in the people who turned dirt into crops, ideas into empires.
Let’s stop subsidizing sloth and start hammering out real wealth again. Otherwise, we’re just paving our roads with good intentions.
And we all know where that leads.
Hell, it leads to Hell.
Or Detroit.
The destruction of the family is so far advanced that if you see an adult male and a little kid out in public, your first thought is to wonder if he’s a pedophile.
Dad’s have become invisible, so when we see them it’s almost shocking.
There are other contributing factors. Gym culture steals enough time from family for a part time job. Online gaming with your buds or clan steals more. We don’t have neighbors we can drop in on for a quick chat, welfare check, or even just a beer away from strangers and other demands.
The collapse of fraternal organizations deserves a whole book. They were the glue that held communities together. They provided help to those in need. They provided companionship and structure, and corrective action for men. They were civically focused yet provided a space for men to be at ease with other men. The women’s groups and ‘ladies auxillaries’ did their part too.
All that’s left is guys in funny hats and tiny cars in a parade (if they still do that), or slowly deteriorating halls with signs out front saying things like FOE, Aerie #132.
nick
Bingo. They put that thought in our heads. Instead of civic organizations, now people have phones and infinite entertainment.
Those signs were in Modern Mayberry a decade ago, but have been taken down now.
White men create. Women and all others consume.
Simple as.
Every statistic backs that up.
The whole import millions of third world retards, is part of the Cloward-Piven, Rules for Radicals, degrade, destroy America Agenda. Everybody hates the Problem, (((They))) created. This is a NATIONAL PROBLEM!!! DO SOMETHING!!!
(((They))) have a prepared plan, a Solution! Yay! It’s biometric, digital “registration” of approved citizens. “If you don’t have the right ID, “No job for YOU!”. No banking, no gas, no travel, no food, unless your social credit is good enough! No buying or selling, without the mark (number) of the Beast. The claim: That will get rid of the foreign invaders!….Unless they are given the mark/ID, also.
It’s ALMOST like they planned the whole thing out!
One of the main problems is that we have a very large and exponentially growing workforce that adds no value and creates no wealth, they siphon wealth off from the productive wealth producing class which is growing smaller. Too many leaches are bleeding the system to death.
Yes. Look at the schools. And the infrastructure they require. And the hospitals.
“Let’s stop subsidizing sloth and start hammering out real wealth again.”
Both ends of this see-saw starts with education. As you note, hammering out real wealth requires skilled people – not the ones that write “Do to not haven water we can’t sale any Soda Drinks”, “We due apologize, we don’t have any harsh browns this morning” and “Sorry we can’t sale burgers at this time, are grill is down” highlighted in your Monday meme column.
The input:
https://www.cato.org/blog/quick-cutters-guide-us-department-education
The output:
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/she-couldnt-read-her-own-diploma-why-public-schools-pass-students-but-fail-society/
Last week Trump and Hegseth summoned 200 generals for a face-to-face indoctrination meeting. Maybe 100,000 teachers in the Super Bowl stadium is next.
Oh, wait, that’s Bad Bunny.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/entertainment/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-subversive
https://x.com/RobinLovesNCSU/status/1972523430777082304
Did you notice the sub-head on that Daily Economy article?
“Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate.”
Jee-ZUS, people! If you are writing a sharp condemnation of public schools for producing functional illiterates, have someone proofread your screed before posting. A typo or omission in the article proper is bad enough. But in large font on the sub-head?
Editors. What do they do?
Bad Bunny. Just wow.
The only thing 40% of our poulation would fight for are free shit and not working. It is an anchor, and imho there is not any fixing it or them.
Yup. They need their own place.
Based on the article about the girl who gets a scholarship but can’t read, almost half the people you pass on the street are functionally illiterate. And probably have gov’t jobs with bennies. Plus an iPhone, a used Lexus & $20K in credit card debt that will never be repaid.
There’s no way you can rebuild the US with such trash, white or black.
That’s a sobering thought.
Yup. And the people who gave her a scholarship should be jailed.
And change such as this will never occur in FUSA. The current house must be destroyed before a new can be built.
Agreed. It’s in process.
Wealth is so subjective, but the current perception is of having lots of money, the ability to pay people to fetch your groceries, unlimited access to anything the internet can provide, and refusing to understand that money is not really money, devalues faster than used car with a transmission failing, and regardless of how much you save, there is never enough interest from investments to cover the loss from inflation.
Wealth is investing in people by demanding integrity, applauding excellence, charity to neighbors in need, honest elected officials, and refusing to take the carrot of supposedly free goods. Nothing is free except failure for not trying to be productive. A strong family creates this environment, and thrives even when times are tough.
Every word you wrote is correct.
Jess-
Let’s hear about someone who made a difference. Wealthy guy whose family founded Lenoir, NC in the 1840s. One of my 3 largest clients of all time. 49 year friend, competitor, fellow church member, then environmental consultant to. Drove 6 hours to his funeral. Being in Lenoir (big furniture) and who attended, likely $3-4B sittimg in First Presby (now Lenoir Presby, quit the US Church and went independent).
Look up the obit for John Barclay Beall. You’ll agree. He owned the “big smirk”, as well.
“Japan is a rocky island with zero oil, barely any farmland, and a tendency to shake like a wet dog every few years. Yet it’s a global powerhouse, punching well above the weight of its country’s size or population.”
“Why? The people.”
“Same with England, Singapore, Taiwan.”
This is the fatal flaw to the thesis in Jared Diamond’s book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel”.
He looks for any reason to make excuses for the rest of the world.
Societial-size increases in wealth come only from technological growth, not from the freedom of families to continue making cheese the same way their ancestors did. Technological growth comes only from individual freedom, which allows weirdos and misfits to not conform to societal social patterns and instead explore that wacky “petroleum”.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku was 220 years of isolationist Japan, with closed borders, no immigration, and no international trade bringing economic competition from outsiders. Big, beautiful walls protecting the national industries from foreigners! They also had no steam power and no industrial revolution, which allowed wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition to show up in a steam-powered ship and inform Japan they have lost a war. Oops! If only Japanese citizens had studied history and learned the wealthy places are trading hubs, not open air prisons behind an iron curtain.
Is Japan happier now?
There do not exist any settings of the tariff/border policy knobs that produce both a competitive military, and also support existing less efficient production processes. Military competitiveness requires robust international trade, the continual chasing and adoption of the technological state of the art, or you get to be the Aztecs.
As far as health care for the elderly, knee and hip replacements do wonders, IF they are replaced early enough. I had my knee replacement at 74, and know just how much the reduced pain and greater mobility have helped in the last year.
Same with cataract surgery.
The goal should’ve to extend the active portion of people’s lives, by intervening before their condition is hopelessly deteriorated.
My son in law, A disabled veteran, needs knee replacements – he is bone on bone status in both knees. The VA denied it – he was considered too young. That policy stems from the time when knee implants had a relatively short life before needed to be replaced again. Today’s implants’ life is measured in DECADES, not years.
He is going to have to put in for a reconsideration of that policy.
Good deal!
Does it really? It requires certain raw materials, sure. It requires development as well. But it doesn’t require that global values replace native values.
Too late.
Over 80% of the population were dumb enough to take the jabs.
40th in the world in scholastic aptitude.
Survival requires intelligence.
To survive as a culture, I fear the only way is to allow the system to crash. It’ll be ugly but neccessary; there’s no fixing this shitshow with legislation.
It’s getting ready to crash.
Well,don’t blame the whores! It surely is the hard up losers that buy their services you need to worry about!! Where ever there is a market,someone will fill it with the required product.
Well, the thing is, they do it for free.