unethical online biz

Hey friends, 

Today I’m addressing the final part of Emilys email.

“Sorry but I do have a soul, and it's not for sale.“

To me this is more of a dig, and an emotional reaction, versus an authentic question or statement but I will address it either way. 

If the business that you are looking to start compromises your authenticity in any way, do not do it please. It will not serve you, or anyone. How you make your money is more important than the money its self. 

Don’t start an only fans agency if that goes against your morals. Don’t be involved in online gambling if you believe that is wrong. This is for each person to decide for themselves. I personally will never be involved in either of these or anything similar. 

However, I would suggest that the person who just spends their life working whatever jobs are around, or some convenient career loosely based on their interests, and gives away all of their dreams and potential for a wage and health care plan, is truly the one who has sold their soul. 

And the worst part about it, in the words of Dostoevsky, “you have betrayed yourself for nothing.“

We may judge harshly the woman who sells her body, but its not so different from the man who works as a bricklayer destroying his body & neglecting his real mission, for 50 years for a common wage (unless he is building his masterpiece).

But once again, the question reveals far more about the assumptions of the asker.

A strange assumption that making income online VS in person would be somehow unethical?

Most of the people I know have built online businesses, have built it out of their heart and for the purpose of creating something beautiful & great. Something that is of value to others, as well as themselves. 

Like Zig Ziglar said, “to get what you want out of life, you just have to help enough other people get what they want“

For me, my business has allowed me to travel the world since the age of 18, to over 60 countries, and immerse myself completely in the process of exploration and life. 

I have got to live far beyond what is common or expected. 

I have got to ask the questions of myself and life that most spend their life avoiding.

I’ve got to explore my curiosities and interests. 

I’ve got to invest into and support people that I care about. 

I’ve got to become the greatest possible expression of what I am ( so far).

My own online business has become the greatest supporter of my soul. 

The freedom, flexibility and space it provides me allows me to go deeper and truer into me everyday. 

It gives me the time and money to do whatever my soul desires. 

And on top of that, the actual work I am doing in the business, in regards to online education is incredibly inspiring. I get the opportunity to support incredible coaches who are providing the kind of education I wish that I had as an angry frustrated 14 year old kid, who kept getting kicked out of school. 

However, besides all of this- the heart of why this question was asked is probably because of a lifetimes worth of programming from the school system, from government funded media, from culture, from family, from friends about what is acceptable in regards to work and money, about what is possible. 

The government wants wage slaves. And small people with small ideas, want to project their smallness onto you, to justify their smallness to themselves.

Consider, when you don’t know how to move forward into what is it that you desire, you will create beliefs that support you in staying where you are. Beliefs that making money online is unethical, a scam or in someway comes at the cost of your soul- is a textbook example of one of those beliefs. 

Its ridiculous. Consider for a moment even what an online business means- its just a business that fulfils its product or service in full or partially online. By this standard even your local cafe is partly an online business by the way they process their payments through an card reader that verifies the transaction online, or their instagram account that brings in a great deal of their customers etc. The distinction between online VS in person, is getting smaller and smaller, and eventually won’t exist. The only distinction left will be dependance VS independence.

Then the only logical spot that would leave you would be to say that all business is unethical or wrong. And well now that puts you in Marxist territory and we only have to look at last century to see how those ideas turned out. 

Thats all for today friends. Feel free to reach out with any other questions related or unrelated. It’s great stimulus for my daily writing. 

-Jay

Jay Topp is a 24 year old writer, marketer, film maker & self-led educator originally from Australia, now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can see his films here. Instagram here. And his business website here.

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