HELPING EACH OTHER VS. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. EARNEST MANN’S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN TRUTH BAR PC.3
The Power of Reciprocity: Why It’s Essential for Success
Hello, Earnest Mann here! Today, I’m breaking down one of the most overlooked yet essential principles for personal and business success—reciprocity. If you feel like you’re stuck in life despite your best efforts, this episode is for you. Understanding reciprocity and symbiosis can be the key to changing everything.
Reciprocity: The Foundation of Human Success
Since the beginning of humanity, dealmaking and mutual benefit have been the backbone of civilization. Without reciprocity, societies crumble into chaos and decline—just look at history. Today, we see it happening again, and greed is the primary cause.
How the Business World Lost Reciprocity
There was a time when small business owners understood the importance of symbiosis. Competing burger joints coexisted because they valued community over cutthroat domination. Then came the corporate mindset, embodied by people like Ray Kroc, who turned McDonald’s into a soulless empire, crushing small businesses along the way.
Why This Mindset is Killing Small Businesses Today
I share a real-life example of a restaurant owner who refused to invest in expert advice, even though he was desperate to keep his family business alive. He wanted something for nothing—and within 14 months, his business was gone. This kind of thinking—expecting free value without giving anything in return—is destroying businesses, communities, and even nations.
The Harsh Truth: Nothing Comes for Free
Too many people today have the mindset of a spoiled teenager—they expect everything for free. But success, whether in business, relationships, or nations, requires mutual effort. If reciprocity dies, everything collapses. Just ask ancient Rome.
So, Where Do You Stand?
Do you agree that reciprocity is the key to a thriving life and society? Or do you think differently? I want to hear from you! Leave a comment, email me, and let’s discuss.
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Transcript
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I would like to share with you one of
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the most valuable but often overlooked
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insights I can offer to help you gain
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better control of your life it's the
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complete understanding of the absolute
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necessity of
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reciprocity so if you're not moving
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forward in life despite your best
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efforts Give a listen to what I'm about
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to say you may very well be surprised by
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what you discover
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that and so much more on Earnest man
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show hello folks thank you for being
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here today I'm going to talk about a
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subject that I've gotten many emails on
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so I figured it would be a lot simpler
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if I just talked about this to all of
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you this is about
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reciprocity which walks hand in hand
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with symbiot is and for those of you who
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may not be familiar with those terms
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they are both part of the social
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contract and basically without them
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Society collapses as it is collapsing
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now now I'm not going to sit here and
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say that these two actions are the most
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important for Human
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Society but I'm going to say that's
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pretty much it's damn close to what they
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are you see ultimately in one form or
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another human society and
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civilization is not really built so much
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on the level of technology that it has
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achieved technology is a good thing I'm
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not anti- technology but what I'm going
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to talk about here actually supersedes
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technology because for example if you're
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experiencing
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massive social unrest generally speaking
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new technology will only be applied with
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the goal of possessing a strategic
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advantage in killing your enemy and
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again generally speaking most people
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don't like to do that so the fact of the
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matter even if you've never actually
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considered or believed this the only
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thing that really matters is doing
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deals and in order to do that you have
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to have
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reciprocity
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practically just about anything you can
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think of is directly tied to the ability
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of being able to do
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deals and by that I mean just about any
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kind of deal that is to say there has to
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exist a state of symbiosis
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which is a fancy term for saying you do
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for me I'll do for you or you scratch my
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back and I'll scratch yours something
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that has ensured Humanity success since
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the beginning of well
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Humanity but when we stop doing that
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when you refuse to trade or refuse to
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deal Society breaks down very fast all
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you have to do is view the outcomes of
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various
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Nations just within the last couple you
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know hundred years you will absolutely
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discover just how important as a Bedrock
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of human civilization a state of
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symbiosis deal making had to be and
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conversely when that symbiosis goes away
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Society quickly breaks down into chaos
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and violence and history has proven that
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to be the case time and again so if
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that's the case what causes the loss of
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symbiosis and reciprocity in the
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shortest possible terms the primary
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cause is
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greed let me give you a perfect
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example in much more reasonable times
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meaning non psychopathic
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success obsessed times we're talking
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like 30 40 years ago small business
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owners still understood this concept
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very well if two smaller burger joints
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were just two blocks away each owner was
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not obsessing about crushing the
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competition because that competition
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were actually human beings and they
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understood that the other guy that had
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his Burger Joint had their own families
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to
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support one of the main reasons being
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that they didn't have a psychopathic
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corporate
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mindset even on just a intuitive level
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they understood that their defining
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their success as the single owner and
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perhaps maybe you know their immediate
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family did not mean having an obsessive
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Psychopathic driven mindset to take over
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the entire town city or
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state with chains of their
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restaurant okay quick question how is
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this narcissistic prick in the White
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House well that's easy uh lots of money
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and Corruption
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so how is this uncircumcised penis in
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the White House well answer actually
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he's not in the white house yet but he's
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working on it next question how's this
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narcissistic prick in the White House
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well you guessed it money and
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Corruption but all that changed when a
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no good Psychopathic son of a
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named Ray Croc bought out a local
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business called McDonald's McDonald's
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was originally owned by the McDonald
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Brothers now we have Bland tasteless
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mcshit Burgers coast to coast and that's
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just one company that's mostly by and
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large they also produce high-price
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lowquality Burgers yay corporate
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America but what I really want to talk
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about is not a critique of American fast
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food what I'm trying to tell you is a
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mindset amongst business owners that I
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have had to deal with for many years and
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not only is it depressing in my life but
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what I really want to talk about is not
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a critique of American fast food what
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I'm trying to tell you is a mindset
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amongst business owners that I have had
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to deal with for many years and not only
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is it depressing in my life but unless
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you listen to what I'm about to tell you
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especially if you're a small business
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owner such as you know bar restaurant
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and you're having financial difficulties
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it's very possible if not likely
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regardless of how many years you've been
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around you're going to be out of
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business soon really soon
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and the causes for this are much more
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internal than
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external you see what I'm talking about
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here is not so much about the nuts and
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bolts of a small business operation I'm
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talking about a breakage a breakage of a
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system of thought that as I said earlier
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was much more
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symbiotic here's a brief example
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recently I had a nection to speak to the
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owner of a small restaurant business
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this is a process by the way that takes
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several hours of research on my
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end but I only ended up talking to the
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owner briefly because he didn't want to
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pay the research and Report fee which
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was modest one of the very first things
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I asked him was how important was the
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business to him I'm not talking about
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income potential per se I'm talking
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about as a family heirloom the pride of
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keeping hold of a place and he said well
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his parents started it in the late 50s
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and he absolutely by any means possible
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didn't want to sell the place or have it
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to close
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down then in the next breath he's
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telling me he thinks my report fee is
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far too expensive and actually and as I
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said it was quite modest he said can I
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just be a good sport and give him some
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free
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advice despite the fact that I was
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really insulted by this I maintained my
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composure and I told him no I'm not
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going to give you any free
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advice but I will give you a
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prediction oh yeah he nonchalantly and
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sarcastically
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responded what's your
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prediction I'd like to just briefly add
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this man had the social graces of a
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pig I said your business will be
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completely shut down within one to one
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and a half
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years I ended up being pretty much right
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on the money it closed down 14 months
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later so in conclusion what I'm trying
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to illustrate is that in in our current
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Society in everything from small
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business to even personal relationships
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many people today have no understanding
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of
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reciprocity no sense of
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symbiosis sadly what many adult
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Americans want is exactly what a poorly
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raised low character teenager wants and
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expects something for nothing and if
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you're going to have any chance of a
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successful person community or Nation
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that's simply not
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possible because eventually people
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communities or nations that Harbor that
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belief
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collapse even once Mighty Rome being a
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perfect
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example so what do you think can you see
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where I'm coming from on this or do you
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have a different opinion in either case
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