You will either be capital or you will be labor...-Mehrsa Baradaran

"You will either be capital or you will be labor". Said by author Mehrsa Baradan. That statement resonates with gravity, as I look at pedestrian traffic crossing a busy street on a Monday morning. You are only as free as your finances allow you. A vacation is based upon leisure and disposable money to have fun. In which most people don't have either, especially in a nation that never sleeps—seeking the American dream.

America is about production, one nation of many orbiting in the name of capitalism. There are two tears to society: -capital (or)

-labor

If you can quit your job, and maintain your lifestyle without working anymore, you may have capital. That statement does not fit most of society. One of my old managers, said to me "everyone is just one check away from homelessness".

https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/c191513b-a57e-4361-b7d3-6dfc86c08b32/embed?theme=dark-blue"

8:50 “You will either be capital or you will be labor.

also read her book on audible

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"Baradaran's brilliant and devastating analysis leads to an irrefutable conclusion: the racial wealth gap is the product of state law and public policy, and will only be reversed when the same governmental tools that created segregation and discrimination are deployed to end it." (Beryl Satter, author of Family Properties)