In the days and weeks leading up to my departure, I immersed myself in financial news, succumbing to ever-present talking pundits and info feeds of cable news and the internet.
My recent journey served as a wonderful release from these info dependency and allowed me to see first hand some of the financial environments of various places around the country.
I traveled to the poorest place I've ever been in the United States (Jackson, MS) and some of the richest (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, etc.).
Jackson is an interesting place in that the city is absolutely decimated by poverty, yet has wealthy areas. Instead of pursuing legitimate economic growth to alleviate this blight, the young demographics with opportunity pursue careers of either medicine or law. It is a place which epitomizes the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
Why do our current economic systems seem to always yield this result? Poverty is very real, and yields destruction upon everyone. Why do the people with opportunity simply pursue their own prosperity, rather than the prosperity of society?
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