Spartan Economics

Some more Spartan economic thoughts: 

  1. Perhaps the only “property” worth having her owning his property in regards to strengthening, physical valor? For example, only your own weightlifting equipment, your own squat rack or power rack, your own barbell, etc.
  2. more time spent in nature, in the elements: let us think about the movie 300, the Hardy Spartan men, once again, wearing nothing but there Spartan bikinis, and a single leather cape, bear chested in the cold, the winter, the snow, the elements etc. back in ancient Greece or ancient Sparta, did the notion of “indoors” even exist?
  3. Radical simplicity: Simple thoughts, simple ethics, simple valor. Don’t be a coward, via true man, stand up for justice and what is right. Kind of like being a modern day Batman. Without all the emotional baggage; just watch the Lego Batman movie.

Money as a self-defense war chest

For a Spartan, to accumulate money while etc., was simply a means to having the means to defend oneself, when shit hit the fan. 

For example, note when King Leonidas goes to see the Ephors, he has a sack full of gold!  Certainly the Spartans would not stack those gold coins in order to buy blue Vuitton handbags from Persia, would rather, as a tool to gain military favor when they needed it. 

War chest?

The real big thing with Fiat currency, assuming that your anti-war, is that field currency is in theory bad when it comes to conflicts. Why? If America wanted to go to war, or if Germany wanted to go to war, and kill innocent people, what is the government do? They start printing out more money, issuing more bonds, seizing property from innocent people like the Japanese during World War II,  and also seasoning gold from private citizens, to create tanks, aircraft carriers, and ammunition and bombs.

Therefore, the simple thought of money is to just accumulated, create a war chest in order to retire and be left alone.

And the ideal is to retire into the maximally frugal, spare and sparse lifestyle, not to retire with $100 million in the bank, in order for you to live expensive lifestyle, indefinitely.

For example, better to retire now and get paid $4000 a month, forever, rather than to retire in 30 years, and get paid $20,000 forever.

Why? Once again opportunity cost.

By the time you’re actually old enough to retire, by the time you are 60 years old 65 years old,  66 years old whatever… You might be so sick, bad, unhealthy, your type two diabetes would have weaken your body and your soul and your spine, you no longer will be able to walk, and so all that money you are making… won’t be able to “fix” your poor health.

Type 2 diabetes and gait

Even now, I see people in their early 40s, making a big salary, $2000 a year, or a $500,000 year combined house salary… The husband the wife, so fat and so sick, essentially they just waddle around, or because they are so Overfat,  they must sit down regularly, and just tell their kids to run around and play instead, and they don’t have enough strength and vigor or health to run around with their kids! 

I was even doing some research, apparently having type two diabetes, which is essentially caused by over consumption of sugar, starches changes your gait — how you walk! It also might cause some sort of nerve damage, damage in your spine, which ruins the way that you walk.

Once again, doesn’t matter if you’re a billionaire, if you’re crippled, you cannot walk, without the assistance of a wheelchair… Nothing is worth it. Not all the beautiful babes on the planet, all the Lamborghinis Ferraris etc., all the trips to Italy etc.… Nobody wants to be a cripple inside a yacht.

Health is the ultimate signal of wealth

A modern day reverse wealth thing; if you’re a man with a full body tan, typically the signal is that you’re so wealthy and self owned, that you have the privilege and the freedom to just be out all day, at the beach, etc. And the more pale you are is typically a sign of servitude; you are forced to be stuck inside Apple Amazon office all day… Or inside your fully tinted Porsche 911 with air conditioning all day etc. In fact, I find the modern day captivity to modern day slavery, in which which you are forced to do boring zoom calls all day, indoors, without being able to go outside. 

Certainly everyone has a different living situation, but, the goal isn’t wealth, the goal is freedom!

ERIC