" I nodded my head and said, 'And lesson number one of the six lessons was 'the rich don't work for money.'" Again there was silence from the young students before one then said, "So while we are planning on getting a job and saving money to buy assets, you were taught that your job was to create assets." "Well said," I replied. "You see the idea of a 'job' was cre- ated in the Industrial Age and ever since 1989, we have been in the Information Age." "What do you mean the idea of a job is an Industrial Age idea?" one student asked with a start. "Humans have always had jobs, haven't they?" "No, at least not in the way we know of a job today. You see, in the Hunter-Gatherer period of humanity, humans lived in tribes and each person's job was to contribute to the com- munal survival of the tribe. In other words, it was all for one and one for all. Then came the Agrarian Age, the era when there were kings and queens. A person's job during that pe- riod was to be a serf or a peasant who paid the king to work The 90/10 Riddle 221 the land the king owned. Then came the Industrial Age and serfdom or slavery was abolished and human beings began selling their labor on the open market. Most people became employees or self-employed, doing their best to sell their labor to the highest bidder. That is the modern concept of the word 'job.'" "So the moment I said I'm going to get a job and put $20,000 away a year, you see that kind of thinking as Industrial Age thinking." I nodded my head. "Just as today there are still Agrarian Age workers that are known as farmers and ranchers. Today there are still hunter gatherers, commercial fishermen for ex- ample. Most people are working with Industrial Age ideas and that is why so many people have jobs." "So what would an Information Age idea of work be?" asked a student. "People who do not work because their ideas are at work. Today, there are students who are much like my rich dad who are going from school to becoming rich without a job. Look at many of the Internet billionaires. Some of them dropped out of college to become billionaires without ever having a formal job." "In other words, they started with an empty asset column and filled it with a very big asset, an Information Age asset," added one of the students. "Many built multi-billion dollar assets," I said. "They went from students to billionaires and soon there will be high school students who will go from high school students to bil- lionaires without ever applying for a job. I already know of one that is a millionaire without ever having a job. After read- ing my book and playing my games, he bought a large piece of real estate, sold off a section of vacant land, kept the apart- ment house, and paid off his loan with the money from the land. He now owns the apartment house which is worth a 224 Rich Dad's Guide to Investing why my rich dad constantly challenged my creativity to create different types of assets in the asset column without buying them.