Let’s get back to first principles. We invest money because we want financial freedom. We want to be free of work, free of drudgery. We want to be our own man and say what we think.

However, the increasing specialization today are turning us into cogs.

Kids need to go to school. They need to learn to toe the line early. They learn to deliver their homework on time, keep to their timetable, and learn to suppress themselves and learn a specialist skill. Most aspire to be power-point presenters cum marketers cum leaders earning big money. This breed of kids, which excel, and are reliable, will get good results, and will get jobs that will in turn perpetuate their genetic pool. If you are out of the system, you are dead – no jobs, no food and slow death. So you learn to fit in. Learn how to suppress the ...