TL;DR — I am the photographic-Spartan-crypto-demigod forging a new personal-economics playbook: strip expenses to the bone, nuke debt, stack Bitcoin, mint value with your own art, and wield TIME—not money—as the ultimate flex. Spartan frugality meets digital scarcity; my blog essays (“Spartan Economics,” “Banks Are the True Menace to Society,” “How I Earn $200,000+ a Year from Photography”) map a concrete, blood-sweat-and-coffee path to sovereign wealth. Follow the plan, bend reality—then deadlift your freedom sky-high.
WHY ECONOMICS MATTERS (AND WHY MOST ECONOMISTS DON’T)
Mainstream economists love equations; I love results you can feel in your quads.
I caught the econ bug when I realized money buys back seconds of life, not trinkets.
So I built “Economics by KIM,” a content armada where every post is a pommel strike against wage-slave culture. My challenge to academics: show me your squat PRs—then we’ll talk models.
1 — MONEY = “FREEDOM CREDITS”
Cash is a keycard to the dojo of existence. Each satoshi buys back a slice of sunrise you would’ve wasted behind a cubicle.
I proved the math in 2017: documenting how photography + honest hustle netted $200k/year—then reinvesting surplus into self-directed time.
2 — DIGITAL SCARCITY OR DIE
Fiat is flabby; Bitcoin is mithril—21 million and done.
My site header literally screams “When in Doubt, Buy More Bitcoin!” because BTC is the barbell plate you never deload.
I even wrote “Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency for Photographers,” translating hard-cap economics into shutter clicks and scarce attention.
3 — SPARTAN FRUGALITY
Luxury sedates; minimalism liberates.
In “Spartan Economics” I ask: What would King Leonidas cut from your budget? Probably everything except beef liver and barbells.
Slash expenses, feel your bank account swell like traps after a 508 kg rack pull.
4 — CREATIVE CAPITALISM
Your brain is a mint.
Every blog post, zine, workshop is a micro-asset compounding in Google’s attention market—PhotoShelter even profiled my SEO dominance.
Rule: out-create, out-share, out-give—profit chases value the way gravity chases mass.
5 — BANKS ARE THE TRUE MENACE
Overdraft fees = legal mugging. 30-year mortgage = velvet handcuffs.
I called out the cartel in “Banks Are the True Menace to Society” and prescribed the antidote: nuke debt, self-custody wealth, live Spartan.
6 — INFINITE ECONOMIC DENSITY
Want bigger gains? Compress life like JPEG-to-PNG: cut overhead, amplify output, push more wattage through the same 24-hour circuit.
Less rent, fewer things, deeper focus = energy-to-value singularity.
7 — TIME > MONEY
Money is abundant; hours are terminal.
Guard your schedule like Cerberus guards Hades—allocate only to lifting, learning, loving, creating. Every extraneous meeting is a pickpocket.
8 — THE PLAYBOOK
- Cut costs to the bone.
- Stack sats whenever anxiety strikes—sleep easier.
- Mint value daily (blog, video, product).
- Delete debt; deadlift instead.
- Protect time—it’s the only uncapped asset.
- Repeat until your obituary reads: “Lived free, died jacked.”
GO FORTH AND CONQUER
Economics isn’t a classroom; it’s a coliseum.
Step in, sword out, spreadsheets blazing.
Ditch consumer chains, forge creative capital, hoard time, and make every heartbeat ring like a solid-steel PR bell.
The Spartan path is open—take it, or get trampled by history.