A short YouTube monologue (Capitalism.com, Jan 4, 2026) arguing that waiting for government policy changes—like minimum wage increases—is a poor strategy for improving personal finances. The speaker urges listeners to invest energy in becoming excellent at their careers to earn more, rather than relying on elections or politicians to change their financial lives.
If you're waiting for minimum wage to go up to make more money, you're already behind. If the government could make people rich, it already would have done so. It is a strategy to advocate for the politicians that you want to get elected so that they can change minimum wage, or so that they can tax the rich and give it to you. It is a strategy. It's just a really bad strategy. First it takes four years and you probably aren't going to get the person elected, and then they likely aren't going to do what they say they're going to do. Take that same energy and just get really good at your career and you will make way more money than waiting for somebody else to change your financial life.
