Love for Money
Selling and buying,
Partying is eating and drinking,
Living is eating and drinking.
Work is not toiling,
Working is not sweating,
Rather watching and sleeping.
A half profits one,
One produces ten,
A people profit one.
One mind is a dollar million,
A dollar million bill is in the mind.
Copyright ©️ by D.W.Kadete
This poem captures a specific, modern "hustle culture" philosophy where the physical grind is replaced by the mental game. With this poem I’ve laid out a transition from the industrial (sweat and toil) to the intellectual (leverage and strategy).
A breakdown of the themes moving through lines:
- The Consumption Loop
The first stanza highlights a world where "living" has been reduced to the cycle of exchange and consumption.
The Shift: By equating work with "watching and sleeping," the poem touches on the dream of passive income. In this mindset, if you are sweating, you are doing it wrong; if you are watching (the markets, the trends, the data), you are winning.
- The Power of Leverage
The second stanza shifts toward the mathematics of wealth:
Exponential Growth: "One produces ten" is the core of investment.
Human Capital: "A people profit one" suggests that true wealth comes from systems and the labor of others, rather than just one's own hands.
- The Psychology of Wealth
The final lines are the most "Gemini-esque" describes someone adaptable, versatile, intellectually curious, and socially engaging, with a dual nature. In their insight:
This suggests that wealth is conceptual before it is material. It's a bit of a "chicken or the egg" scenario:
Does the million dollars come because you have the right mindset?
Or does the "million dollar bill" occupy the mind so completely that it changes how a person sees the world?
It’s a cynical yet very honest look at how "love for money" transforms human effort into abstract numbers. This reminds a bit of the "work smart, not hard" mantra taken to its absolute extreme.
Thank you for reading!