Dear The 1%, The Wealthy, and The financially Successful:

[Jered Sturm]

Dear The 1%, The wealthy, and The financially successful:

I am not someone who enjoys politics or follows politics in detail. My reason for that is because it seems to me that politics is more often than not, about proving something/someone wrong, rather than proving something right. By far my least favorite part of politics is the position that one side must be wrong if the other is right. I explain this because I want you to know my letter is not to persuade in a choice of political party, or belief.

To better understand my letter, I think it would help if you know a little about me to begin. I am 26 years old, happily married, self-employed entrepreneur. My wife is a schoolteacher, and her salary is currently our main source of income. According to the Gilbert's as well as Thompson & Hickey's models I grew up in lower middle class family in Cincinnati Ohio.

I am writing this letter because I felt I needed to say thank you. Thank you for all you or your family has done recently or in the past to build the wealth you have. Through this effort we are left with jobs, products, services and even industries that we would otherwise never have. I look to you as inspiration to achieve more in my own life and business. One of my driving factors in wanting to be entrepreneur is the idea that I can create opportunity out of thin air not just for me but all those around me. I see this trait in so many of the wealthy people of the world. I believe money represents a combination effort and time. If this is the case your self or your family has either found and easier way to do something, put a ton of effort into something, or waited a really long time for something. Regardless of how you did it congratulations on all you have achieved.

In my own experiences many my peers in my massive generation of millennials are unhappy with 1% and the wealthy. I am sorry for the negative connotation my generation has begun to associate with the wealthy. I fear what repercussions this outlook could have on our economy in the long term. I do not understand it so I have a hard time commenting on that mindset. What I do understand is that through you or your family’s initial efforts, and now the compounding effort of your capital, my self and everyone is left with opportunity and a blue print. Through your journey to wealth you leave behind a road map of examples of how opportunity can be recreated, adapted and accelerated.

I know much of the nation looks to you for support when it comes time to pay for taxes. On the surface this makes sense. You make a lot more, you may have extra why not help out more? But when we ask this of you what are we losing? Those jobs, products, services, industries, and opportunities that so many wealthy capitalist have introduced get washed away in the heavy tax of the wealthy. Currently the better you do financially the greater you are penalized in taxes. I hope despite this you continue to persevere, adapt, and find new ways to continue the opportunity that I know comes from the wealthy.

I hope to join you all very soon.

Sincerely,

Jered Sturm