OK so this is an insanely mega giga brain idea… Playing for the insanely super turbo long-term game.

So, if you try to plan and structure things, assuming you’re gonna live for the next thousand years or whatever, in our case, let us see the next hundred… Then, you could start to structure and strategize things for the very very long-term.

Time horizon

So I think the tricky thing is, psychologists call this “time preference”– There are some people who have a very very long time preference and there are some people who have a very very short time preference.

This is my honest thought, it comes down to optimism, ignoring these cowards and wimps who are too focused on the short term, fake fear porn you see in the news.

I’ll give an example, if you are the typical person, scrolling social media all day, essentially just waiting for the world to boil over, and collapse… Certainly there is no incentive for you to save up your money in capital, buy bitcoin, plan on getting married in order to have kids, etc. Rather, you’re probably in a position in which, your positioning yourself to slowly die the least painful death possible. Therefore you try to come out to Zen music and hot yoga, drink $20 soy lattes, stick to mostly “plant based” diet, maybe save enough money to do that yoga retreat in Bali, and maybe get an adopted rescue dog, and you try to “lower your carbon footprint”.

For myself personally, I separate people into two categories: we wise philosophers who don’t follow the news or social media, do not have Instagram, let alone TikTok which is probably just like a spying device on US citizens and teenagers by mainland China … and also a new category, somehow these very intelligent, high income earning, tech workers… Who once again are just waiting for the next iPhone Pro, and still do not understand bitcoin?

Forever or nothing

I mean certainly we humans we will die, as individuals. But our lineage and our bloodlines shall live forever, assuming you’re intelligent enough to want to have children.

OK and this is actually a very very bizarre American thing I’ve noticed… That somehow, it is taboo to ask people whether they want to have kids or intend to have kids or have kids?

What’s interesting with Asian culture Korean culture etc.… When you meet somebody in their mid 30s, you actually already assumed that they have kids. Same thing goes with when you meet Mexicans or Latinos, etc.

But in America… I remember this first, when I first met one of my old students, was maybe in his mid 60s… Who was married but did not have kids, I found this insanely bizarre?

I think it’s kind of perhaps endemic, of a cultural thing. And this is where a sociology is useful. And now tying in sociology and maybe economics.

So this is one thought, perhaps the reason why society is becoming kind of anti-kids or whatever… It is maybe a sense of economic pessimism. For example, if there is this ridiculous sense that the world is going to boil over or whatever… Certainly you will not want to have kids because you don’t want to raise kids on a planet that’s going to be gone in 20 years. Which is a ridiculous idea.

However, if you think the next million years of humanity is going to be insanely bright and glorious, then, certainly you will approach life differently. You will approach it with much more hope optimism joy, because you know the future will be much more prosperous.

Heat loss

So an interesting thought, now that LA is starting to get very cold… Is this notion of heat loss.

So I suppose the good thing about being a warm blooded animal, is that we humans produce our own heat from inside. The idea of “keep the warmth” is a good one.

I remember as a kid trying to understand this notion that when you put on a jacket, it does not give you heat or add heat onto you, but rather… It just keeps the heat from leaving your body?

And then this becomes interesting because, the whole notion of jackets down layers etc., you’re simply not trying to have the heat leave your body because you already have all the heat you need!

So if you think about heat like economic heat, heat loss, economic energy loss… You just need to figure out these points in which you are leaking large amounts of economic energy and heat?

For example, for 99% of Americans it is probably financing. Financing that loser car, paying for that loser premium gas, and also simple lifestyle workflows and protocols.

For example, ordering takeout or eating out… These are just not a part of my mental protocol anymore. I suppose they never were really.

I’m still kind of shocked, eating out now, you could easily drop like 200 or $300 onto two people. Just buying the meat and cooking it yourself, you’ll probably save like $3000 a month.