What Schools Will Never Teach You About Money By Robert T. Kiyosaki

Producing Proletariat
Karl Marx defined the proletariat as a class of capitalist society that 
does not have ownership of the means of production. All they have to 
sell is their labor for a wage.
This is what our school systems do. Schools produce the proletariat 
class of a capitalist society. Schools do not teach people to be capitalists.
Today, the working class wants high-paying jobs, but true capitalists 
are moving the production, hence the jobs, to low-wage countries. This 
is the real crisis. How can an economy come back if jobs are scarce and 
wages are low?
Due to a lack of financial education, even the highly educated 
workers have their wealth siphoned off by debt via the banking system, 
their retirement via the investment-banking system, their labor via taxes, 
My grandfather married my grandmother, whose family had made 
the crossing a generation earlier in the 1800s. My grandmother’s parents 
still worked on the plantation when she married my grandfather.
My grandfather wanted nothing to do with life on the plantation. 
As soon as he was off the boat, he started a photography business. He 
was an entrepreneur.
My grandfather was very successful. While most fellow immigrants 
were working for $1 a day, living in housing owned by the plantation, 
my grandfather owned a house and a car. It was not long before my 
grandfather was investing in the stock market and buying beachfront 
property on Maui, the island where my dad’s family lived.
In 1929, the stock market crashed, and the Great Depression 
began. My grandfather’s business dried up, and he soon lost his house, 
car, and his beachfront property.
My dad was ten years old when the Depression began. That era 
affected his outlook on life.
He saw Japanese and other immigrants as paid slaves working on 
the plantations of the rich. He saw his dad, a man who got off the 
plantation, wiped out by the market crash and economic depression.
In my dad’s mind, the only safe way off the plantation was through 
education. Rather than go to medical school, he chose to become a 
teacher, with the hope that a good education would provide a way off 
the plantation for the children of the immigrants. He saw education as 
an escape from the enslavement by the rich, a passage out of bondage.
My dad dedicated his life to education. He graduated from the 
University of Hawaii and was soon promoted to principal of a school, 
the youngest principal at the time. He held a full-time day job and 
remained in school to obtain higher academic degrees. He was selected 
for advanced programs at Stanford University, Northwestern University, 
and the University of Chicago. He worked hard and studied hard as he 
worked his way up the ladder of public education, eventually becoming 
the superintendent of education for the State of Hawaii.
My dad would often tell us kids, “The rich brought immigrants to 
Hawaii to work on their plantations. As soon as the workers arrived, 

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