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What is worth going after? We live among people in certain families, with certain mindsets, and we are told that the way to live is the life they have accepted. So many people are reduced to robots, conditioned from school not to be intelligent, critical, or logical in their thinking, but to comply, submit, conform, and unify.

Education focuses more on instilling obedience than on fostering freedom of inquiry. In fact, that was its original purpose. The modern school system was heavily influenced by the Prussian education model of the early 19th century, which introduced compulsory schooling to create disciplined, obedient citizens—whether as soldiers, factory workers, or bureaucrats. This model was later adopted by other countries, including the United States.

In the early 20th century, industrialists like Rockefeller and Carnegie shaped American education to produce a compliant workforce, not independent thinkers. This fact is not hard to find—if you’re willing to look. From the very beginning, schools were designed to produce workers, not thinkers. And despite technological and societal advancements, this purpose remains largely unchanged.

Today, students are taught biology and chemistry, not necessarily to foster scientific curiosity but primarily to become doctors or lab technicians. Language and history classes are often reduced to rote memorization, preparing students for… what? Perhaps for low-wage service jobs at McDonald’s or Lidl, rather than inspiring them to become great writers or historians.

The human brain is incredible—it is capable of inventing things nature could never have imagined, like airplanes, the internet, and modern technology overall. Yet in schools, we are trained, rewarded, or punished to conform and specialize in certain fields, abandoning our innate brain potential to work for something or someone, for as little money as possible—barely enough to live and eat. We work, go home to recharge, only to spend that invaluable energy working again, trapped in a system like a cog in a machine.

We have been trained by society, parents, schools, and universities to live this way—allowed, in most cases, only a few weeks of leave per year, often just two in many countries. Our years are numbered, and our youth is even more fleeting, assuming we live long enough to grow old.

We are told that money does not bring happiness. Perhaps that is true—it is, after all, just a tool. But like any tool, its effectiveness depends on how it is used. To those who claim that money does not matter, I ask: Have you seen the homeless? Living in boxes, clothed in rags, eating whatever cheap, chemical-laden food they can get? Have you seen someone gravely ill, with their family scrambling to raise money because medical care is a business—priced for the wealthy, not the poor?

We need money for survival—for rent, a home, food, and immediate, adequate medical care. We need money to travel, enjoy entertainment, and explore the world. Without it, you have no home of your own, no way to position yourself as an attractive mate if you’re a man, no ability to see the beauty of distant places, no chance to experience life fully, and no independence.

Many who deny that money brings freedom do so because the truth makes them uncomfortable—perhaps because they don’t see a way out and would rather not admit it, fearing it would only make them feel worse. But also, most people give up too quickly, claiming it’s impossible simply out of habit.

They say family is more important than wealth, yet they spend the majority of their lives at work, seeing their family only briefly before eating, resting, and returning to work. They say health is more important than money, but if you’ve ever known someone seriously ill, you know they either can’t afford proper treatment or are given the “free” option—waiting months or even years for an operation. The writer himself once needed urgent medical attention for a hand injury but was told he would have to wait five months. Imagine your house is on fire, the flames consuming it, and the fire department tells you they’ll arrive in three months. You can imagine what your response to that would be. I’m sure you’ll be creative and have fun with it—I’m chuckling at my own response as I think about it.

If you are honest with yourself, you’ll see that health can be lost or severely degraded if you lack the funds to address it immediately. However, there are people in this world, humans just like you and me, with an abundance of wealth who, if they manage it well, are free from the burdens of basic survival—shelter, food, medical care. They have the time to spend with their families if they choose.

If someone tells you that wealthy people are unhappy, I say this: If that is true in some cases, it is likely due to their own inability to confront their psychological struggles. Do not believe financially struggling or ordinary people when they tell you that money is evil. Money is merely a tool—like a kitchen knife, it does not move on its own, does not think.

But those who are honest with themselves will recognize that in this world, with an abundance of wealth comes freedom—freedom of time, freedom to travel, freedom to experience events, people, and cultures. In terms of material well-being and survival, the quality of our lives depends on the wealth we can bring into our environment.

I believe it’s time for us to truly realize that in this system, there is no true freedom without wealth. Once we have that freedom, we can then think about another kind of freedom—psychological freedom. Freedom from our psychological struggles, freedom from our own mind, whatever that may imply.

We all die eventually, but we don’t have to live like this. We can live life in ways we’ve never imagined before. I truly believe it—it’s like fire, burning through my arms and head. And I know that once I have the means, I will not only help myself but also elevate as many people as I can who are seeking freedom. I never wanted to live like a cog or a slave in the only life I was given, and I don’t want that for others either.