Providers and Consumers: The Abundant and Scarce Lifestyles
From my experience there are two general lifestyles that people adopt:
Providers: Those that provide more than they consume.
Consumers: Those that consume more than they provide.
Note: Providers do actually consume, and Consumers can actually provide, it is the net result that is important.
The Net Result:
As one could predict, consuming less than one produces creates an abundance, while consuming more than one produces creates scarcity.
The Abundant Lifestyle: Abundance feels great! It's great to know that one has enough and to spare. Having what one needs is nice, but having what one needs and wants is nicer.
The Scarcity Lifestyle: Scarcity is horrible. Living from day to day worrying that any minute one might be deprived of all they have is a terrible feeling.
and lastly...
The Start Doesn't Matter
Whether a person is starting with nothing, or even with debt, there is still nothing quite like that feeling of coming out with more than before.
1 comment:
Did you make the figure yourself?
I like the simplicity of your explanation. It makes me think of how I want to engender an attitude and culture of producing in my family - rather than the culture of consumerism. I think our society as very much adopted the label of consumer to describe itself. This may explain, in part, many of the social woes we see.
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