May 10, 2016 (Tuesday)
Yesterday I wrote about the perfume, Chanel No. 5, which sells today for $125 per 0.25 oz. If you are looking for a business to run, you might try fragrances. There are 6,000 brands of perfume, and each bottle makes 95% profit for the business that sells it.
Coco Chanel, the originator of the product, was born into terrible poverty in France in 1883. Her mother died when she was 12, and her father sent her to a convent where she lived in a harsh, strict environment until the age of 18, when she went out into the world on her own. By 1971, she was one of the wealthiest women in the world with $19 billion in assets (Equals $118 billion this year).
The first perfumes were simply made of one flower but formulas for enhancing the product soon made thousands of fragrances available. Many people have become wealthy by entering the fragrance business. Many others have acted upon their own unique dreams of other things and have found material success. This is still the land of dreams.
Coco Chanel got rich in France, but people in every country have found ways to improve their lot in life with ingenuity and hard work. Our country has many famous citizens who have moved from poverty in childhood to wealth as adults. We applaud them. They have found America to be a land of opportunity and have fulfilled their dreams.
I am disappointed and shocked by people in our country today whose goal in life is to somehow move our economic system toward “equalization of income.” Have they been asleep all these years when Communism and Socialism have fallen flat on their faces in failure to accomplish this?
All our country ever offered to everyone was equality of opportunity. That’s quite a privilege.
The Lord wants us Christians to be compassionate and generous, freely giving so that others might be blessed,
but setting up a government that forcefully demands such generosity is something entirely different, unnecessary, unwanted, and, yes, un-American.