The Wave of Wealth – On Unity, Apparent Opposites, and the Eternal Dance of Balance
People often say the world is getting poorer.
But that isn’t true.
The whole world can’t become poorer — it’s impossible.
Poverty and wealth exist only by virtue of each other.
They are communicating vessels within a single closed system.
When twenty percent grow richer, eighty percent must grow poorer.
That’s not an opinion — it’s physics.
We often forget that money, like energy, never disappears.
It only moves.
What appears as profit in one place, dissolves as loss somewhere else.
Economists call that a cycle.
Nature calls it balance.
And the Dao simply calls it the Way.
Rich and poor are not enemies; they are two faces of the same whole.
One cannot exist without the other.
Just as day needs night to be day,
and warmth draws its meaning from cold.
The Catholic Church turned this into a battle:
good versus evil, light versus darkness, God versus the devil.
But in Daoist philosophy, that opposition is an illusion.
Light does not drive out darkness — it emerges from it.
Darkness is not the absence of light; it is its source.
Balance is never perfect.
The world is always in motion.
Like the wave within the yin-yang symbol that endlessly turns from white to black,
wealth too moves through society —
sometimes more here, sometimes more there.
The system isn’t sick when it moves;
it’s alive.
Yet we live in an age where people act as if wealth is a permanent possession,
something that can be stored without consequence.
But that’s impossible.
Every gain that isn’t shared
will eventually be reclaimed by reality.
It’s not punishment — it’s a law of nature.
You might call it the thermodynamics of the soul.
The world of money is like a casino.
The bigger the reward, the smaller the chance of winning.
The higher something climbs, the harder it can fall.
And that applies not only to stocks,
but also to egos, empires, and civilizations.
Wealth is not a number — it’s a wave.
It comes, it goes, and it moves through us.
Those who understand that no longer try to own the wave —
they learn to ride it.
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