The Games of Power [Part 2]

We tend to or easily forget that the world is still competitive. Common fallacies we come to learn as we live in this modern-day world, for example; is that ‘Facebook’ isn’t political or that ‘Apple’ isn’t political. And then we are told, we are not competitive, we are all teams. If we are all teams, how many Chief Justices in Supreme courts are there? How many CEOs of companies are there against the world’s population? Hierarchy still exists, and not only does it exist. It is inevitable.  

They are people who have more control over life than other people, and therefore, there is competition. It is a situation of mixed motives. As we negotiate our careers, we are both collaborating with people; we are also in competition with these people, for promotions and other things.

We all better or worse at some things. You want to highlight the dimensions on which you are doing the best. And certainly, be vigilant as situations change. Don’t expect fairness or gratitude. And organizations for the most part don’t exhibit gratitude. You can see this in the venture capital community. Where people have made for other people billions of dollars but how often do you see these organizations express gratitude towards the people who have made the organization billions. 

Build personal qualities that create Power. Discipline being seen as a manifestation of Power was touched upon briefly, but perhaps discipline is a manifestation of Will. And hence the term ‘Will-Power.’ I am tempted to dive in deep and explain the abstract concept of Will-Power, but I am not at liberty to do this in this blog. [Details of Will and Power are explained further, in my upcoming book, to be published in July, 2022- ‘Tips to Genius Entrepreneurship’].  

Take for instance – The Power Games of Money. Cash as we know it; Who is killing it and why? In 2014, we tipped into a “New World Order.” It happened without a spike on Wall Street, not a mention on TV, it did not even trend on Twitter. But for the first time in history, card and contactless payments overtook cash transactions. In Holland, a coat developed for the homeless allows people to give money by swiping a card on their sleeve.

 Physical money in your hand – a system of payment that began 600 years before the birth of Christ – Is coming to an end. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook says the next generation ‘will not even know what money was.’ Coins first began circulating on three continents in the sixth century BC. A technological innovation every bit as far-reaching as the iPhone. Coins were a physical embodiment of trust, a simple way of doing something astoundingly complex: creating an agreed value between two strangers. 

By the 1860s, there were over eight thousand separate currencies in operation in the US alone. The US National Bank Act of 1863 tried to end this fragmented chaos and unifying the United States under one currency: The Dollar. 

With the end of cash, the world of eight thousand currencies is returning. Mobile Money, Bitcoin, Digital Vouchers, Apple Pay, iTunes, exchangeable shop credits, everything from overseas currency transfers to billion-dollar deals with the digital hand shake of block chain. All of it is money.

The death of cash is the result of a plan-to cede control of money away from the banks and even governments, and place it instead in the hands of the new players: Tech Companies. This to me represents the shift of the Power-Balance of who controls money itself. Covid-19 global pandemic only actuates this even further. [This perhaps gives me the confidence to say that Covid-19 was a man-made lab deadly virus to depopulate the world, and shift the balances of Power, amongst them Money Games].

Not to reach for power, in the contemporary view, is to limit one’s potential, to set a limit to one’s consciousness. Two world wars, Russia invading Ukraine amongst other worldly events have finally brought men to the realization that existence is finite, that death is real. There are no longer any plausible substitutes for success and fulfillment in this life.

 In former times, power was a game of the elite, a violent activity like jousting that occupied the time of those who had already had enough to eat. Work and prayer were the lot of the unleisured classes, and given the nature of the pre-industrial society, work tended to absorb most people’s energies fully.

SEX POWER Games – And other Power Games examples.

[Look out for Part 3]