I think the hard thing about my generation, the millennial generation is that we were promised so much, yet we yielded so little.
For example we were promised that we would be able to change the world etc., in reality we all just became slaves to the big tech companies, yeah yeah yeah we make a good salary, but still… Our lives suck. Sure we might be able to ride on the private jet with Mark Zuckerberg, eat fried chicken with him on the jet, or drive around with him in his Porsche 911 GT 3, but ultimately, none of that really matters if you are plagued with insomnia because you’re concerned that you might have to go on a random business flight, unannounced, tomorrow.
Also, it looks like the big tech boom is done and over. Nobody’s talking about building $1 billion unicorn anymore, hopefully trying to IPO it, have it valued $4 billion, collect some stock options, retire on some sort of desert island somewhere.
Even we are in a weird inflection point in which the new pillar of success is maybe own a single-family home somewhere… But it is so beyond our budget, and even if we could afford it and purchase it… It is a bit uneventful?
Bitcoin as the ultimate hope
It is true that Punlilius Syrus once said “never moor all of your hopes to just one anchor”. so in some ways, if we moor or anchor all of our hopes to bitcoin, this might not be a good idea. However it seems like such an obvious decision to me, like investing an apple in the 1980s, investing in Amazon Facebook or Google when they IPO’d, or even investing in the Internet.
I think of bitcoin like the Internet. Like the Internet 3.0. The Internet 1.0 was like AOL 3.0, dial up 56K Internet, then the Internet 2.0 was like Amazon Facebook Twitter Google social media etc. And now the Internet 3.0 is bitcoin.