His life-changing work has inspired audiences from 50 to 55,000 throughout the world. This advice was good during the Industrial Age but is no longer applicable for the Information Age. Young people graduate from college and get good jobs. They begin to make money, credit cards arrive in mass and the spending begins. They meet other young people, date, fall in love and get married.
Life is wonderful because now they have two incomes.
As a successful couple they decide to buy a house and two cars, and have children. A pay raise comes in and they decide to buy a bigger house, because someone told them they can get a tax break from the interest. They realize they need to start saving for their children's college education so they work harder to make even more money. This happy couple is now trapped in the Rat Race for the rest of their working days. They work for the owners of their company, for the government paying taxes, and for the bank paying off a mortgage, car loan and credit cards.