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INTRODUCTION I 5

great life by working and investing to win.
Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are best-selling authors and
popular speakers because they teach people to expand their
meansand improve the quality of their lives, rather than work hard
to live below their means.They want people to work and invest to
win.

A Little History

During the Hunter-Gatherer Age of human development,
humans lived in tribes and, for the most part, all people were
equal. If you were the chief of the tribe, you still lived pretty much
like the restof the tribe. Chiefs did not have Learjets, multimillion-
dollar estates and golden parachutes.
In the Agrarian Age, there evolved a two-tiered society. The
king and his rich friends on one tier and everyone else (peasants)
working for the king on another tier. Generally, the king owned
the land. The peasants worked the king's land, and paid the king
a form of tax by giving the king a share of their harvests. The
peasants owned nothing and royalty owned everything.
In the Industrial Age, the modern middle class was born in
America and so was democracy.
The founding fathers of America were so impressed by the five
tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, who lived in what is today
known as New England, that they used the tribal model as the
model for our democracy. That model elected representatives, an
upper and lower house, and a supreme court (made up of entirely
women).
At the same time the founders of America were copying the
Iroquois form of democracy, the idea of democracy and a middle
class was still considered unrealistic in Europe - all while a
powerful middle class and democratic society were blooming in
the United States.
Today, in the Information Age, the middle class is slowly dying
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