![]() ![]() Kiyosaki is clearly very passionate about the subject matter which adds an air of confidence and authority to his book. This book encapsulates capitalism and for the most part whatever your philosophy, the advice is sound.at least from a 'Western' stance. ![]() I'm sure the author would tell me that I'm my own worst enemy, though, because in spite of his efforts to be 'neutral' and 'balanced' in how he presents things, his own viewpoint is fundamentally that of a pretty greedy man of slightly better than mediocre intelligence. If not - you're screwed in the long run, even if you take all the advice in the book. Hard times ahead - except for the people who already have pretty much everything. With radical changes coming more and more rapidly, the approach advocated by this book is going to become less and less relevant. Third, this is a book of it's time, and will age less and less favourably as time goes on. Still, the book will absolutely help you get rich enough to stop caring if the whole system crumbles. Smart, but very destructive to society as a whole. The behaviours suggested in this book are fundamentally parasitic in nature - you leverage other people's hard work to make yourself rich at their expense. In a world full exlusively of investors, ironically no one makes and bread. The second major problem is that the strategies presented would literally fail if more than a tiny minority of people adopted them. Boasting about not contributing to things we literally all need seems to be the exact thing the author subtly calls the rest of us who do - terminally short sighted and stupid. Even the rich enjoy having public services such as a police force, army and roads. That doesn't make it an ethical thing to do - just a selfish and short-sighted one. It's possible to evade taxes - rich people do it all the time. Not that tax is bad, though, we're assured - just that smart people don't pay it. He explains, at some length, that taxation is bad and implies that people who pay taxes are stupid, and helpfully elucidates that America and the UK were both countries that had no taxes at one point, but fails to mention that the effect of tax was, in part, to make the countries the global powers that they became by allowing them to invest in projects that no individual could manage alone. In so doing, he lays the challenges and problems of the poor and middle classes at their own feet. He clearly feels enough guilt over his strategies to offer the platitude that poor people are really responsible for their own problems, and if only they'd change how they think about the world, they too could be rich. The author wants you to think about how to get rich - full stop. This question isn't even passed over lightly, it's completely absent from the book. While from an individual's point of view, the advice given seems likely to achieve the end goal of making the individual using it richer - at least a little - there seem to be quite a few pretty critical issues entirely overlooked. The author seems sincere in his belief that a socialist philosophy is just an economic stupidity, and then goes on to extol the apparently endless virtues of what is, at heart, some fairly straightforward capitalist dogma. This book seems to mostly be a hatched job of socialism parading as a fair and balanced viewpoint. ![]() What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? “ Rich Dad Poor Dad is a starting point for anyone looking to gain control of their financial future.” ![]() Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad - The #1 Personal Finance Book of All Time! The result is that people learn to work for money… but never learn to have money work for them." "The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. His easy-to-understand audiobook empowers you to make changes now - and enjoy the results for years to come. He is regarded worldwide as a passionate advocate for financial education. With perspectives that often contradict conventional wisdom, Kiyosaki has earned a reputation for irreverence and courage. With an incredible number of 5-star reviews, Rich Dad Poor Dad has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. Clearly lay out what to teach kids about money for their future financial success.Show parents why they can’t rely on the school system to educate kids about money.Define once and for all an asset and a liability.Challenge the belief that your house is an asset.Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich.Robert Kiyosaki’s easy tips and straight talk will… Listen today to set yourself up for a wealthy, happy future. Rich Dad Poor Dad is the #1 personal finance book of all time. ![]()
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