Serving people.

Serving someone. That’s the core of every action you take. If not yourself then somebody else. However there is an important distinction to make concerning the value we create through our time investment: who are we serving and how ?
First of all we can be serving by choosing how to spend our time. At work you help your customer get some kind of value from your products. During your leisure time you might want to have fun or relax for yourself, your friends benefiting as well.
You can also serve by choosing how to allocate the money you earned from your work. For every purchase you let the producer keep on further developing and selling the product you just bought.
So you have the ultimate power to control those two resources: time and money. So now what ? The tricky question is to be aware of whom is benefiting from your behavior. And the list of people getting some kind of rewards from you is long, very long. But you still get to choose them. It’s up to you. You can decide to research what they do with YOUR money and how they produce the goods and service you decided to buy as well as you can decide how you spend YOUR time. It is your responsibility to do so or not. Do not complain about the world being so a bad place if you contribute yourself to the raise of inequality. You have much power to change how the markets work. Each one of us sums up to make an aggregate economic demand, for goods and services and therefore for jobs. We choose how fair the world is because we choose who we serve. Think about it twice.