Thought I would share this little nugget of what I was studying from the administrative works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard…
Money has to represent something because it is not anything in itself but an idea backed by confidence.
It can represent gold or beans or hours of work or most anything as long as the thing it represents is real.
Whatever it represents, the item must be exchangeable.
As it exists at this writing, the only real crime in the West is for a group to be without money. That finishes it. But with enough money it can defend itself and expand.
Yet if you borrow money you become the property of bankers. If you make money you become the target of tax collectors.
But if you don’t have it, the group dies under the hammer of bankruptcy and worse.
So we always make it the first condition of a group to make its own way and be prosperous on its own efforts.
The key to such prosperity is exchange.
One exchanges something valuable for something valuable.
Once you discover what people want that you can deliver, you can go about increasing the demand or widening it or making it more valuable, using standard public relations, advertising and merchandising techniques.
The fundamental is to realize that EXCHANGE is the basic problem.
Then and only then can one go about solving it.
L. Ron Hubbard, December 1971
So being ethical enough to realise that you have to exchange something valuable; something useful, will help you, in the long run, to be more prosperous. Not a bad idea, eh? The above quote is copyrighted 1971 to L. Ron Hubbard Library. You can get the volume containing it in the three-part “Management Series” by L. Ron Hubbard. Details on where coming soon.