Yes, you guessed it. The award winning Sci-Fi movie The Matrix that depicts a real world ruled by artificial intelligence (robots); who placed human beings in a virtual world while using human’s body heat and electrical activity as a source of energy. The movie illustrates modern slavery in the world we live in … or is it so?

To spice up a serious topic such as this, let’s give a role that reflects a specific character or an object in the movie. From there, we will then name the relevance of each role.

Now we will jump straight into the first role …

Simulated Reality

Simulated reality is a world perceived to be “real” by human beings in the movie. The best role for this would be the mainstream media.

[Movie] The simulated reality is made to fool human brains into believing that they are enjoying life while the fact is that they are actually slaves powering the robots.

[Real Life] In real life however, the mainstream media is constantly feeding us with false information, instilling pictures into the minds of young children to be slaves as they grow up. Of course, this is not done in such a direct manner. What they tell you are something of these sort – “We offer you ZERO interest on the first 3 months of your credit card! Use them as you please, because we want you to be rich!” or “The economy is picking up as President Obama has prepared stimulus packages to boost the economy”.

Harvesters

Harvesters are the ones who maintain the power plant of humans batteries. The best role that portrays the harvesters are the “something” behind the throne, I will call them the “Ultra Rich”.

“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself”

- Sir William Pitt, House of Lords 1770

[Movie] Harvesters’ job is to maintain and populate the fetus field while constantly growing the power plant for the survival of their own race.

[Real Life] The Ultra Rich’s job is to maintain us as slaves, have us work for them voluntarily (more like unknowingly) and strip us off our wealth. With business tools such as the Corporate Veil, it is still unknown as to who are actually pulling the strings behind the scenes. What is definite is that the government is not the ultra rich; they are the ones doing all the dirty work.

Source of Energy

The robots used human beings as source of energy in the movie. This is no different than the world we live in; the role to be played will be our “Hard Work”.

[Movie] When the robots in The Matrix are stripped away of their ability to use the solar energy, they turn humans into slaves as their main source of energy.

[Real Life] The Ultra Riches have been polishing their ability to enslave people since the dawn of age and are still perfecting it as we speak. With the use of debt, inflation and political overthrow, they can turn a country of free citizens into a country of hardworking slaves that will generate profit for their organization (Jamaican Water War).

War between Human and Robots

This is probably the only self explanatory thing here and is of course reflected by the unnecessary World Wars.

[Movie] In the movie, the conflict started when human discovered the first robot that killed his master. However, it is human as always, drew the first blood in both the war and Operation Dark Storm that is both self destructing in the end.

[Real Life] The World Wars however, was fuelled by nothing but greed to profit from the war. There is nothing more profitable to a Central Bank than country borrowing money from it to fund the war while repaying interest on top of the debt.

The Sentinels

The Sentinels are the machines that attack human whenever they are spotted. They represent most of us who are uninformed.

[Movie] These guys are the one’s programmed from birth to do all the destructions to the human society. They do not think for themselves. They only follow commands directed by their leader; that is to search and destroy human at all costs until they receive a command not to do so.

[Real Life] The ultra riches understood that human learn through education and observation. So they manipulated our Education System and the mainstream media; feeding us with irrelevant information perceived as important to survive in these harsh environments they planned for us. Overtime, these false information became a norm in our society; creating countless “Sentinels” around ourselves, telling us things they thought are facts. Thus the perfect “Simulated Reality” is actualized, brought forward by ourselves and playing into the hands of the Ultra Riches.

Get Informed!

This virtual world we created for ourselves was started by the Ultra Rich, through the use of education and the mass media. But eventually, it is us (and our close ones) who are actually doing all the damage by spreading information we thought are the truth.

You can start to get informed by being more sensitive to the information you receive and ask “why” questions. You will realize that most answer are the same, it’s either “that’s what we’re told to do” or “that’s how everybody does it”. If that’s the case, you know extremely well that you should take the information with a grain of salt.

The Ugly Truth

You will also learn that many people are not able to handle the ugly truth you told them, like Cypher in The Matrix. They are too engrossed to the entertainment and comfort offered by the virtual world that they find no reason to leave that comfort zone. There is really nothing you can do about these people, let them grow and soon they will realize the truth themselves.

Also, I am not saying that as a human being we should deprive ourselves from entertainment and comfort. In fact, I think we should enjoy whenever there’s an opportunity to do so; as long as doing so does not affect you in the long run (like using your credit card to travel around the world when you don’t even have a stable income).

In a Nutshell

This is a very long article and I do not want to have loose ends. I am sure some of you will be wondering if a world that is fair and square is even possible to achieve.

To answer that honestly, I have no idea. But here is what I think that will happen, answered by a role in The Matrix series.

Agent Smith

Agent Smith is the baddest ass in the movie that is always there to screw things up. The perfect role for this will be the Weapon of Destruction created by scientists.

[Movie] Agent Smith actually started out as a controlled AI program to keep The Matrix in order, until he was “freed” by Neo when Neo defeated him. He then starts to replicate himself like a computer virus until there was nothing left in The Matrix.

[Real Life] The Weapon of Destruction (Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Bomb) was also used to keep the world in order by ending conflicts such as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Warfare, however that is not what I believe to be now. When the time comes when all options used by the Ultra Rich has failed and most of us has come to realize the peoples who are actually screwing with our lives, we will face Armageddon.

I hope I am seriously wrong on this one.

To end this article, the movie did not illustrate real life modern slavery. Our modern slavery real life illustrated the movie.

Most of us perceive inflation in many different ways. Commerce graduates are taught in universities to look at the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to determine the inflation or deflation of price for average goods. Normal citizens like us would normally gauge inflation on a daily basis through buying daily needs. However, the plain simple truth is that all these methods are delusional, incorrect and biased.

I once got into a heated debate about inflation with a person who knows zero about inflation and was telling me this, “I got a better computer system with my $1000 today than two years ago, now that’s fighting inflation”. If this is how you interpret inflation, reading this article will definitely be a treat to you.

Paper Money

Let’s talk a bit on our paper money since it is important to get to know our little paper friends if we really want to understand inflation.

I believe that at least 60% of the world’s populations are still presently uninformed that the paper currency they are holding now is not real money. Our paper money (credit in electronic form) is a Legal Tender*, meaning they are only worth something as long as the government says so.

Also, as we all know, counterfeiting money is a crime and you go to jail for printing money. However, the process of creating more paper money is nothing but a legal counterfeiting of money. To illustrate on that, new paper money is printed by a printing machine and new credit are just numbers added into the computer. This can be done legally by a Central Bank, and most countries have a Central Bank.

Now do you realize how disastrous this would mean to you and me when somebody can print money out of thin air? To answer this question, let’s find out how new money gets their share of “value”. A metaphor for this would be the number of children in a family. If you are the only child in the family, I’m sure you receive all the attention and are “worth” more. However if you’re from an old school Asian family that has ten or more children, you receive less attention and is “worth” less.

I know, bad example, but as you can see, new money seeps value from our current money and debase all the currency as a whole. This results in wealth being transferred away from our savings and investments to the people receiving the newly printed money.

My Definition of Inflation

So my simple definition of inflation would be nothing but the expansion of monetary supply that causes the debasement of our money and thus reducing our overall purchasing power.

The reason I said that relying on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is delusional and incorrect is because the main problem is not the increased price of goods. The main problem is the increase in money supply without the increase in economy output. This causes inflation and companies have to jack up their prices to survive the inflation.

The mainstream media blames price inflation on greedy companies, which is untrue for most companies. The media is the perfect propaganda tool being used by the government to spread their “fairy tales” to vulnerable and uninformed people like us. I strongly suggest you to think twice before believing anything on the TV or radio.

Legal Tender – Something offered as a payment legalized by the government

Long before money (silver and gold coins) was invented, the barter system was used by traders to exchange goods. Since the first gold coin was forged from its cast, money has been appreciated by many, for it is light and easy to carry. As time passed by, appreciation towards the invention of money has been clouded by greed and this eventually leads to Credit Crunch.

However, as I was surfing the internet the other day, I stumbled onto a very inspiring and eye-opening video, the “One Red Paper Clip” video on YouTube.

This is a story of a young man who bartered all the way from a tiny red paper clip to a house.

Needless to say, if an average Joe can trade all the way from one small paper clip to a house, I am pretty sure there are  millions of people who are struggling financially in this rough financial thunderstorm can barter their way out of debt as well.

On top of the video, I have also discovered that Robert Kiyosaki, a financial guru had organized a 3-day-course called “Art of a Deal” a week ago where participants did nothing but traded goods with each another without money.

This had me wondering if it is possible to survive or even achieve financial success during this financial meltdown through bartering?

It is quite certain that barter system will not replace the money system we have now considering how deep the mess we are in. But is it possible that bartering is the new way of achieving financial freedom? Has the buying and selling behaviour reverted and does it still take money to make money?

You tell me.

“If I have a million dollars, I will …” is a sentence that everybody can complete. However, only 10% of the population’s can actually achieve it and less than a handful goes beyond the millions.

I still remember exactly 6 years ago, one of my respective teachers talked about his dream of getting a million dollars. He was about 40 years old and he said, “If I have a million dollars now, I will retire, put the million into my bank’s savings account and siphon the yearly interest until I die”. He said the interest from the million is more than enough for him to live a simple life.

What he said made perfect sense to me while I was still a kid and it probably makes sense to some of you in the present too.

Nevertheless, if my teacher were to get his one million dollars 6 years ago, the million would worth significantly less (even with the interest) than 1 million due to inflation. Not to mention he still has government tax to pay, monthly expenditures, holiday trips, children’s education and random doodads to spend on.

The value of the million will decline over the years  and I’m not entirely convinced that he could buy his own coffin with the million he owned.

Look, I’m not here to mock my teacher’s financial knowledge and I’m definitely not here to teach you how to spend your million dollars. I wrote this article to raise the awareness of the constant decrease in buying power with our currency.

You may have noticed that price of goods have been increasing steadily over the years and packaging of goods have shrank while the price remains unchanged. Our salary on the other hand had not moved a bit. All these are signs of our currency declining in value.

So why would the currency decline in value?

It would take pages to explain why, but to keep this article simple and easy to understand, it is because the governments are printing money out of thin air. That is how our million shrank in value if it is kept static in the bank.

But banks offer high interest rates!

Well that’s spot on! But you’re not told the next few points. Your savings account’s interest rates are never higher than the inflation rate and that the interest on your capital is also taxed like a normal employee.

You see, bad advice comes almost from every corner of our society, even from your education institute. Here is another, “You won’t lose a penny if you save your money in the bank”. Of course you wouldn’t lose a penny, the 1 million you saved in the bank 6 years ago will always remain 1 million (or more), and it is the behind-the-scene stuff like inflation that is seeping the value of the 1 million away.

However, with proper education and planning, you can turn a million dollars into a few millions or even billions if you’re that lucky.

So, if I have a million dollars, I will definitely not save it in the bank. This does not mean that I should go on a spending spree too.

Right, I can virtually see a few of you cringe even by reading the phrase “blog for money”. Before you press “X” button, here is an advice, be a little more open minded. I know blogging for money sounds cruel to some people but learning (and understanding) the truth is just a switch of perspective away.

If you answered “yes”, good on you. I wish you all the best so that your blog can be capable of providing food on the table for you and your family in the future.

For those who answered “no”, let me put this very bluntly for you. I think you are living life aimlessly, you do not know the potential of the internet and to simply put it, you are wasting valuable time blogging for nothing.

The Simple Truths

Here are a few simple truths I have understood after a lot of reading and observing.

#1: Truth about Our Money System

One thing you need to know about the money system of the world is – our money is eating itself from the inside (like viruses eating you from the inside). This process is referred as inflation and with a constant 7% inflation per year, everything doubles their prices every 10 years. A million in your bank account today will worth as much as a little more than thirty thousand 50 years later.

I will cover more on this in the future.

#2: Truth About Creation

Things are created because there are profits to be made. The internet is created because the potential to make big money is there. The same goes to companies, organizations, gadgets and EVERYTHING.

#3: Truth About Time

This is common, even your grandparents had advised you on this before. Time awaits for no men and if you miss the opportunity to make a living, you are losing out!

#4: Truth About The Internet

This has little to do with your blog but important to know.

Before the dawn of internet, systems such as barter, commodities, receipt money are used. These are slow because the physical item must be presented, traveling time is spent and targeted market is small.

It is the information age now, everybody wants to make money by the speed of light through the internet. If you are using the internet for your business, you are tapping into the international market 24/7, compare this with the store you just opened.

#5: Truth About People Saying “I Don’t Blog For Money”

Ugh, it is my turn to cringe when I hear people say that. Look, that is like saying “I don’t wear condom for sex”, that’s ridiculous! We all know that we need money no matter what, we need money to entertain ourselves, have a drink, house rental, mortgages, gadgets, get married, we even  need money when we die! Who’s paying for your coffin and the land to put your coffin?

Thus the simple truth about people saying “I don’t blog for money” is they don’t know how and they are lazy to earn a living even for themselves! They expect people to spoon feed them with money.

#6: Now The Truth About Your Blog

Here are a few easy-to-understand and straightforward truths about your blogs.

Your blog is not a tool to…

• Show off your pictures, Facebook can do the job better!
• Seek attention
• Rant about your life, bosses fire their employees for the constant complaints about the company in their blog
• Overrun your government
• Share pirated things
• Chat with your friends (there are a lot of software out there to do this job)
• And the list goes on!

The Good News

The good news is that all truth about your blog can be overlooked if they are generating money. I don’t really care how the money is flowing into your pocket. Maybe your sexy shots got you a modeling job or maybe your boss promoted you because you gave constructive complaints. As long as you are generating money legally with your blog, it is alright.

Look at the headline image of this article. That picture illustrates how the internet looks like. It looks like a limitless universe to me, limitless opportunity and profit too.

Can I still Blog for Fun?

Fun is a very vague word, I would call that blog for nothing. Of course, you could also continue to blog for nothing, but I can assure you that you don’t just blog for nothing. If you blog for nothing, you blog to

• Waste money
• Waste your time
• Waste opportunities
• Waste your youth
• Waste resources
• And more!

What can I do if I’m not blogging for money?

Honestly you are better off without a blog if you are blogging for nothing. That way you can spend more time with your family, friends, love ones and do something that eventually generates your income!

Nevertheless, it is not too late to change. You can always disregard whatever you have answered yourself earlier (the “NO”) and ask yourself again…

Do you or do you not blog for money?

PS, if I have directly or indirectly insulted you in anyway, I apologize.

I finally found out the secret to some people earning thousands in a website. I’ve been receiving too many advices about writing a good post to drive more traffic into the website and money will come after that. In Google AdSense Marketing, writing a good post and drive more traffic can be metaphor as making the foundation for a cake. Important as it may be, it’s the icing above the cake that translates the taste, in this case, translates the money.

As a publisher, knowing all about publishing advertisements is not enough. Any publisher knows how to publish advertisement but how many publishers actually learn how to advertise? In other words, knowing everything about AdSense Marketing will only make you an average publisher, to be a successful publisher you need to know Adwords Advertising as well.

To do that, you’ll have to study more in-depth about the subject and use it’s tools. One of the most useful tools I’ve came across is Google Adwords Keyword Tools. This tells you detailed information about Keywords Bid Prices, Advertiser Competition and Search Volumes. These are all vital information to improve AdSense Marketing.

In case you don’t know, your AdSense pay per click is based on the prices bid on keywords (that generates relevant ads). I’ve seen people talk about their earning/click ratio and after the calculation, they’ve got only 8 cents/click average, some got only 3 cents per click. This is because they have knowing or unknowingly targeted the low paying keywords. With this average they will need 3 thousand clicks to reach the minimum AdSense payout! How long would that take?

I’ve also seen people creating many small niche websites all for the sake of targeting the high paying keywords and get paid quickly. Even though I doubt that they have the knowledge in that subject, they still learn profitable amount doing exactly that.

Google certainly did not tell you to earn money that way because all these High Paying Keyword AdSense Marketing begs the question,
Will the content quality be compromised when publishers target high paying keywords to earn a living?

I’m not saying publishers should not target high paying keywords or stop working on a website because the niche has low keyword bids. As far as I am concerned, I build websites to generate traffic, income from AdSense Marketing is just a reward after all the hard work. However, this does not stop me from being savvy and to target high paying keywords whenever I write an article.

Before I end the article I’d like to share some of these massively high paying keywords with you guys.

High Paying Keywords

1. Mesothelioma
2. Credit Card
3. Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer
4. Insurance

All these keywords have CPC (Cost per Click) bids as high as 10 bucks, if not more. Don’t worry if these keywords do not suit your website. I’m almost certain that there’re high paying keywords for every niche in the market.

How many of us actually really understand how our money is created?

Do you know that our money are actually debt? Do you know that our deposits are actually loans to the bank?

This video explains it all.

This is a 47 minutes video. Just watch it when you have the time.

Do comment on what you think.