Nate Auffort recounts a mentor's lesson on money: it comes from other people's pockets, but the difference between stealing and capitalism is providing value in return. The mentor reframes how Nate thinks about earning.
And it wasn't until I had a mentor come into my life who changed me completely. He took everything that I thought and threw it out the window. Right. Hurting. Money doesn't grow on trees. We all heard that. Money doesn't grow on trees. He said, yeah, I bet they never told you where it did grow, did they? Said no, because it grows in other people's pockets, Nate. And if you take money out of someone's pocket without giving them something in return, it's called stealing. But if you give them a product or a service in return for their money, that's called capitalism. That's called profit.