Ask not

JFK is known in part for a speech in which he said "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country" . DunnKruger asks " .......ask what you can do for your fellow man".

DK proposes that life is both that simple and profoundly hard. Simple in that if you distill your goals they ultimately consist of providing for others or making them guests in your pursuit and success. Profoundly hard in that the need for service has no end and may extend well after our time on earth if you pass on your stored work.

Say that work is service to your fellow man, money is work storage, and stored money is wealth. Wealth or stored work is used to acquire future service from others to ourselves, all humans are serving others so that they may be later served by others. Ask yourself, what would you do if you had $1M or otherwise had what you considered to be a large sum of money? When you answer that question, be it throw a big party, give big gifts, buy a big car, boat, airplane, the use or spending of that money would almost certainly include a sharing with or providing for others. Unless you're planning to pile up $ in a room and roll around on it, you will certainly include others and provide for others with your wealth / stored work. Even if you save or invest it, those $ are necessarily loaned to others to satify their immediate needs in exchange of them repaying you with their future work to your benefit. Ask would there be a difference in the way you spend $ acquired in a windfall vs $ acquired over a long periond of hard work. Would $ acquired thru hard work be seemingly more precious and spent in a more sparing deliberate manner with more care? Would $ acquired in a windfall be spent with the easy come easy go mentality? Dunn Kruger proposes that $ acquired thru hard work are more precious and are intrinsically higher valued due to the hard work spent in service to others required and then stored for future use. Maybe the value of service to others $ saved is in part the initial effort to acquire stored work but also the accummulated value of all spending options foregone and gratification delayed in order to wait to accummulate a total needed for a big future high value goal. It is the hardness of the acquisition that provides the value.

Dunn Kruger proposes that the addage "it is better to give than to receive" is correct. It is correct in the sense that giving or serving others more than you demand service from your fellow man allows you to acquire and store excess work which becomes wealth. If you are a saver, you are indebted to none. When you demand more service than you provide, you become a debtor to others, owing them your future service without compensation. You voluntarily make your self an indentured servent or slave to another. That may where the phrase the borrower is slave to the lender originated.

Being a net server of others and net saver / storer of work frees you from the indenture of your future unpaid service. Yet, debt is fairly ubiqiuitous in society. It is so common that the credit industry has developed a credit score for those with a borrowing history to rank both an individial borrowers ability to repay and history of repayment. The higher the score, the higher probability that you will repay and the better of a bet you are to the lender. Low scores identify a borrower as a higher of a risk for nonrepayment.

Dunn Kruger offers for consideration that all individuals should aspire to do unto others better than they would have others do unto them. Service of and to your fellow man is necessary and unavoidable. You must strive to provide more and better service than you demand to receive. This is the path of freedom from the indebtedness of indentured slavery to the net saving and acquisition of wealth that makes all free.