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Originally Posted by Lucas  This doesnt make any sense. Under your logic, Doctors and Lawyers choose to charge outrageous prices, instead of bettering humanity. You are holding the producers of the documentary to a completely different scale than you are holding everyone else. Maybe you arent getting the way IM works or something, it is my thought that they chose to manifest money for themselves and they took action on the opportunities that the universe opened up for them, and they are now recieving money, by way of their production selling extremely well. |
What it is, is that people think that it's ok for every profession in the world to make money, except for what Steve calls "Lightworkers". People who teach things like Intention Manifestation, Self Development, Subjective Reality, etc. are expected to give away their advice for free, otherwise people automatically judge them as "The only real way they make their money is selling the very advice we're supposed to follow."
What this does is it makes people think that those people couldn't make money any other way except to sell their advice via books, seminars, movies etc. which isn't true. For example, most of the people in the movie (if not all) were already wealthy before making The Secret. Canfield for example made money from his "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series which has nothing to do with IM or LoA. He just used IM and LoA to make the series successful. He was an author no different from the lady who writes Harry Potter.
It is true that some people like Anthony Robbins make money selling "How to make money" advice, but so what? The point is to take the advice and apply it to your own world, your own job/career. It's like when I read a book by Michael Jordan and he talks about things related to basketball. I don't sit there and say "Oh, well he plays basketball, so this is useless advice.", I realize that I have to take the lessons he teaches and translate them into my own line of work.
The best way to look at it, in my opinion is this. Everyone in the world deserves to be a multi-millionaire regardless of their job, whether it be soccer players, or doctors, or lawyers, or firemen, or authors, or self development coaches, or baseball coaches etc. Whether they are millionaires or just barely scraping by should be in direct proportion to how WELL they do their job, not WHICH job they do. For example, there are many self development coaches and teachers and they bring results to their clients with varying degrees. A lot of them don't make a lot of money. The reason someone like Tony RObbins makes millions is because he's the best of the best in his line of work. For every 1 Tony Robbins there are thousands and thousands of people making 30k/year, or 50k/year etc. Just because you get into self development and teach it doesn't mean you automatically become a millionaire.
It's the same thing with LoA and IM. THere are countless of resources and teachers which teach LoA and IM out there. For example you can get a FREE copy of the book "The Science of Getting Rich" here (
The Original and Only Science of Getting Rich Network! ) which has been available for years and was my introduction to "The Secret" way of thinking. However, even though it's free, whenever I ask people "Have you heard of this book?" almost everyone I know says "Nope.", so even though it's free for humanity, it doesn't mean it spreads. Why? Because most people are too lazy to read a book.
The makers of "The Secret" decided to make a movie out of it since most people are lazy and they'd rather sit and watch the boob tube instead of reading a book. So what's wrong with that? Nothing, it spreads the word out there. Anyway, all I'm saying is that everyone deserves to make money and people who are into learning and teaching self-development stuff shouldn't be forced to go and work with "normal jobs" just so people don't think there is a conflict of interest because the advice is free. If that's the way you think , than we would have to re-think every profession in the world along the same standards like doctors etc.
I personally have no problem for example with the sponsors on Steve's website paying him the money he makes every month which allows him to write articles full time. If Steve didn't monetize his site he would have to go and get a full time job doing something else and then he wouldn't write as many articles. In fact, the beauty of this system is that the advertisers pay his wage, not even the readers. As a reader all you do is click on an ad if it interests you, and the advertiser pays him, not you. Clicking costs you nothing. Even so, we've already seen some people here complaining about Steve making money with this site. I think a big part of that is the inherent jealousy people have for anyone making more money then them, especially if they think that person "doesn't work as hard" as them. It's like when people say "Do you know how much money Jordan makes? He's filthy rich!", and they don't realize that for every 1 dollar he makes he adds like a million dollars to the economy with his line of products, the NBA etc. I can't remember the exact numbers but I heard somewhere that he used to add like billions of dollars to the economy for every 1 million they paid him. Meaning, if he died in a car crash before he became big, there would have been billiions of dollars less in the US economy due to lost jobs of all the people who his brand employs etc. Same with Bill Gates, etc. I think before people go and judge people for how much money they make they should ask themselves just how much value THEY bring to the economy.