Before you decide to become the next Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates — if, and only if, you have enough talent, support, and privilege to even qualify — you need to first be trained in the ways of a Future LeaderTM, superior human beings who are worthy of carrying the torch of our capitalist oligarchy. This manifesto serves as an introduction to our Ultimate Future Leader Concentration CampTM program that has been compiled using years of careful observation of the Forbes Top 10 Billionaires’ motivational tweets, heart-wrenching speeches, and totally not ghostwritten books, supplemented by tried-and-true methods from parents and educational institutes from Asia to America.
As a helpless child, what reply did you give when your kindergarten teacher asked what you want to be when you grew up? If you are like most other children, you most probably answered either one of “doctor”, “teacher”, “policeman”, “scientist”, or “businessman”. Now, ask yourself the same question again — is your answer the same? To become a Future Leader, we would strongly suggest that you become a businessman. This is the main spirit of a Future Leader. Check out the Forbes Top 10 Billionaires List, and you will see that all of them are either entrepreneurs, retail owners, investors, CEOs, board members, or all of the above. We hope you consider your answer wisely.
Let us also correct some common misconceptions. We want to make it clear that the process of becoming a successful Future Leader is transformative in nature. Each person is born with a unique set of personality, values, ideals, and passions. However, in order to become a successful Future Leader, we have to politely ask you to abandon all irrelevant characteristics that would only be a hindrance to your path to SuccessTM. One outrageous, but excruciatingly common example of this hindrance is the “follow your passions” sect. Passion is useful for idea generation, productive relaxation, and network building, but it should never be the primary driving force behind a Future Leader’s career. Future Leaders should focus on cultivating a few useful passions, such as marketing, public speaking, and computer programming, to build their career. The rest — arts, music, sports, literature, cooking, and most others — should just be left as a side entertainment because they alone cannot become a respectable Leader career. They can be used as an inspiration for entrepreneurship, but only if properly capitalized on with the help of other useful passions — more on this in the next paragraph.
A related, but even more dangerous sect is the “make value, not money” nonsense. People with “artistic” passions such as visual arts, music, and literature, tend to be common followers of this madness. One of our successful students also used to fall under this trap. Despite being a skillful painter, he only taught visual arts to orphans for an unknown non-profit organization for a long time, wasting his potential for a meager pay. After he was discovered by one of our patrons and offered a position at a prestigious institution, he initially turned down the offer because he did not want to leave the children “he had thought of like his own”. Fortunately, we were able to persuade him that his work is better off given to losers who can never become a Future Leader. Now, he is the founder and CEO of a well-known arts consulting company, as well as the arts curator for the Capitol Imperium Museum of Refined Arts, earning five times his old salary for just 60 hours of work per week.
This student’s case is, however, an outlier. According to our studies, compared to professions in business, STEM, and law, it is much harder for artists to earn mainstream recognition and an acceptable salary. And even though some non-entrepreneurship jobs pay reasonably, no one outside your field will ever recognize you, and your salary will always be lower than that of your boss. In other words, you will always be inferior. We do not want our students to live under the illusion that they have successfully become a model Future Leader by being an unknown high-earning employee. This is going in the right path, but they are not a Leader yet, because a leader cannot rule over people who do not know them. Even though Future Leaders work for money, we also believe that the power and recognition their work entails can be as important, or even more so than raw income alone. After all, this power and recognition aspect is what truly makes them a superior leader. The lowly population only knows and fears Musk, Bezos, Gates, and other real Leaders, not a random engineer, researcher, or manager working under these Leaders. Keep working until you reach the top — that’s another spirit of a Future Leader.
We want to use this illustration to re-emphasize that it is no wonder that all of the Successful people, i.e. the ones who can make it to the Forbes top few wealthiest list, are entrepreneurs. If you want to receive more training, please reach out to us and enroll in our program as soon as possible; you only need to make a 1,000,000 USD deposit and sell your soul to us to learn about all the secrets of the top 0.01% of the world. Otherwise, you are not meant to become a Future Leader, and we kindly ask you to exclude yourself from all future discussions with us.