I just finished recording day one of the live training inside the First Stock Challenge. It went well. Really well, actually. I got some of the best feedback I've ever gotten from someone who went through it.

But afterward, I was sitting there tired. Genuinely tired. And I had this thought: I could just stop for the day. I've got emails to send, replies to make, calls to return. Nobody would notice if I called it quits early.

Then I realized something, and it's been sitting with me ever since. I'm not going to stop, because I have purpose behind what I'm doing. And thinking about that purpose led me somewhere I didn't expect: straight into the middle of the whole capitalism versus socialism debate.

Capitalism Gets a Bad Reputation It Doesn't Deserve

Most people hear the word "capitalism" and think of greed. Everybody out for themselves. Take as much as you can, give as little as possible, and don't worry about who gets left behind along the way.

Socialism gets framed as the opposite. Give everything to everyone for free. Nobody has to work. Do whatever you want.

Here's what's funny though. When I actually sat down and thought about why I do what I do, I realized I'm very much a capitalist. But not for the reason people assume.

The reason I'm a capitalist has nothing to do with greed. It's because capitalism is what lets me take the most valuable thing I know how to do and hand it to you in exchange for something that lets you go do what you're best at.

The Real Trade Happening Underneath It All

I'll be honest about what I actually believe is the most valuable thing I know how to do. It's not investing. It's knowing God. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul? Nothing. If you want to talk about that, I'll happily talk to you about that all day.

But the second most valuable thing I know how to do is teach people how to invest in a way that's simple, makes sense, and is actually useful. I've spent over a decade earning that. Books when I was young. A finance degree. Real money in real accounts, where I've had wins and I've had losses. All of that experience is sitting in my head right now.

Capitalism is what lets me take that experience and sell it to you for a profit, so you can gain from what I've already learned instead of stumbling through the same mistakes I made. You give me capital. I give you something that took me years to build. Then you go do whatever you're best at to make your own money, and eventually you can invest that too once you understand how.

That's not selfish. That's specialization. It lets me do what I'm best at and give it to you, and it lets you do what you're best at without having to become an expert in everything yourself.

What I'd Be Doing If I Were Actually Being Selfish

Here's the part that really clarified things for me. If capitalism really was just greed dressed up in an economics textbook, then the selfish move for me would be obvious. Keep all the knowledge to myself. Stop making videos. Stop running the challenge. Stop trying to serve anyone at all.

I have investments going for myself already. I trade and make money that way. I have a regular job that pays me too. I genuinely don't have to be doing any of this.

It would be so much easier to just walk away from all of it. Less effort. Less time. Less tired evenings after a full day. If I were actually motivated by pure selfishness, quitting would be the logical move.

But I'm not quitting, because this is what drives me forward. This is the reason I keep bringing stock market education to people, keep talking about this stuff publicly, and keep building toward things like the First Stock Challenge and Stock Market Starters AI. Not because I have to. Because I believe in what capitalism actually makes possible when it's done right.

Why This Matters for You

If you live in a capitalist society, and you probably do, then this same idea applies directly to you. You have something valuable to offer the world too, whether that's your job, your skills, or something you're building on the side. Capitalism is what lets you trade that value for capital.

The question is what you do with the capital once you have it. Most people earn it and let it sit in a savings account, slowly losing value to inflation year after year while doing nothing. But you don't have to let your money just sit there. You can put it to work the same way I've been describing, by investing it in things that produce real value in the world, so it keeps working for you even while you're living your actual life.

That's the whole point of learning how to invest for yourself. Not to become a different person. Just to make sure the money you've already earned through your own specialization doesn't sit there doing nothing while you're busy doing everything else.

So here's my question for you, the same one I asked in that video: do you think being a capitalist is better than being a socialist? And either way, if you're living in a capitalist society already, shouldn't you learn how to make your money work for you?

​P.S. I made a video going through this idea in more detail. Check it out here: