| Getting richer | Getting poorer |
| Paying all your taxes | Paying all your taxes |
| Confiscate your workers’ documents | Confiscate your workers’ documents |
| Bribe your way into every deal | Bribe your way into every deal |
| Kill and destroy whoever stands in your way of getting that money | Kill and destroy whoever stands in your way of getting that money |
| Steal public funds and channel them to your personal accounts | Steal public funds and redistribute them out |
| Pay what you owe, proportionately to what you earn | Pay what you owe, proportionately to what you earn |
| Use your 24 hours, in a day | Use your 24 hours, in a day |
| Fully charge for a service before it is even rendered | Charge for a service before it is even rendered |
| “Own” vast chunks of land | “Own” land |
| Have a very strong hold on the natural and human-made resources | Have a very strong hold on the natural and human-made resources |
| Having unlimited access to information concerning key cornerstones of your existence | Having unlimited access to information concerning key cornerstones of your existence |
| Being well learned and schooled | Being well learned and schooled |
| Actively join politics | Actively join politics |
| Live a healthy life | Live a healthy life |
| (Ab)use drugs | (Ab)use drugs |
| Live a marginalized life | Live a marginalized life |
| Do all that you do with total impunity | Do all that you do with total impunity |
| Be a nice person and keep following all “the rules” | Be a nice person and keep following all “the rules” |
Rules:
- Read through every statement you see there.
- Think about it critically.
- Tick or cross or circle against each statement as it best makes sense to you.
- Go back to rule number 2.
- Take off a moment and feel whatever you are feeling.
- Take action to change something about your current situation.
~ Are you getting richer or poorer? ~