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Consensual vs Coercive?
Positive sum game
Subjective value **
Infinite resources ,,, besides time & energy?
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Value vs Price
Both take advantage of one another!
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Production possibilities frontier **
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Practical economics
Abundance Theory
Magic trick
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Motivations for trade
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What can you travel with?
Limits with travel
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Division of labor
Economic incentive
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It just looks fun!
Transform yourself into the thing?
Economics & trade
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Lack of coincidence of wants
Medium of exchange
Search costs
Indirect exchange
“Salability‖> ability to quickly liquidate it.
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Bitcoin is property, digital property
House and car,,, very LOW salability –> avoid!
Money as the most salable good
What makes something a good money?
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Inert & indestructible
Easy money
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Bitcoin & dick size? 
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I suppose one of the great glories of owning bitcoin is that you could just walk around like an owner, like you own everything? That you never feel any sort of shyness going anywhere because any space you enter you know you could just buy the place out?
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Energy Poverty 
So I’m currently reading the principles of economics by Saifedean, and I really love it. I realize that in my life, I’ve only ever been interested in media and things which actually gave me real life utility or payoff for practical live reality, real joy hope optimism faith etc.
So for example, the logic of a lot of modern day living I think can greatly be benefited once we actually put into words and precisely define the terms in which we are engaging in. So for example, energy power, poverty prosperity, trade money, capital labor etc.
In fact, economics might be the most important field to study in the practical pragmatic sense that assuming that you’ve ever handled a $100 bill, purchased anything on Amazon Amazon prime, been to Whole Foods, traveled, bought an airline ticket, purchased an apple device, filled up the gas in your car or supercharged your Tesla or electric vehicle, or even better yet… Turned on an air-conditioning unit or heater or put on a down jacket, you will know that these things matter.
Energy poverty
So one thing I’ve realized is I wonder… If 95% of the world’s misery has to deal with energy poverty.
For example, heat and air conditioning. For example if you’ve ever tried to sleep in this while touring hot humid 105° weather in Southeast Asia or Dubai, you know that life without air-conditioning is not a life worth living. During the day I don’t need air-conditioning, but certainly at night, it helps me sleep. I almost cannot sleep without air-conditioning on.
Also, in a lot of the industrialized world, especially having spent time in Michigan, the East Coast, Providence Rhode Island etc., and even Los Angeles during the winter months, it gets fucking cold, really really late at night or really really early in the morning, or just in general.
No one bizarre thing I found is a lot of Americans Asian people etc., are far too Puritan when it comes to heating. They are very very stingy about cranking on the heat!
In fact, I think to waste electricity or energy on heat and air conditioning is virtuous; because once again, cold and frigid bodies leads to human misery.
As a consequence, some strange individuals think that it is a virtue and that it is virtuous to be miserable? And that it is somehow advice to be prosperous, rich successful, and happy?
The virtues of misery?
I’ll give you a real example; typically if you’ve been from any sort of immigrant family, in which your parents were not born in America but came here in search for greater economic opportunities, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Typically we are taught that to overcome difficult difficulty and suffering is a virtue, and that a life of ease happiness joy and leisure is a vice?
Yet the strange thing that a lot of these people living in poverty then say is that they brag about how they know about other random people or super super rich? Very strange.
I almost wonder if now, behind closed doors, other people then brag about how rich and successful I am?
Anyways, doesn’t really matter; I wonder than if once again, critical issues here:
first, the general idea is that if you have the option, and you’re most certainly do, make your habitation as comfortable as possible! What this means is structure your world in such a way that when you’re at home, just adjust the heat or the cooling or whatever, to make your home as comfortable to you as possible. And when you’re sleeping, try to change the thermostat to whatever temperature helps you sleep well!
in fact, my practical thought is assuming that you are like some sort of investor or money making machine, the very very practical and pragmatic thought is that in fact, you should prioritize your sleep exercise and food in such a way that helped you maximize your optimism joy and happiness and personal productivity because the greater you take care of your own personal health habitation climate food and sleep, the more productive you will become, thus yielding you more money accumulation etc.?
What is poverty?
So if we think about money or like heat or energy, perhaps we should consider heat loss.
What is heat loss in economic terms? Your car payment, your mortgage payment, your rent, your subscription services, maybe your credit card payments?
Visual ease for our eyes
I think I’ve got it figured out; I think the reason why I really like Matt Black, or a nice matte black wrap on a car is that it provides some sort of visual ease. Like when you look at a really really nice met black car, all matte black everything, matte black is very very easy on the eyes. It has a beautiful sheen and Verneer, is not distracting, yet pleasing!
I also think the same things with homes, clean white paint on the walls, and neutral gray or stone colored surfaces and fixtures? For example, for fools who think that colors don’t matter; would you want to paint the tears your home brighter red? Probably not you’ll go insane.
Or would you want to paint your countertops of your kitchen like some sort of acidic looking green color? No!
As a consequence, I think colors are very very important. Typically colors which provide some sort of visual ease are derived from nature. For example, we like the color of green because it is the color of life, just imagine the windows 95 or the windows Vista wallpaper. We love a blue sunny sky with rolling green verdant Hills. Or think about Sapa in Vietnam same idea.
What is consumerism?
My innovative thought is that consumerism and capitalism is not the same thing. Consumerism is the exact opposite of capitalism.
Capitalism is all about capital accumulation, whereas consumerism is blowing it.
Or in more crude terms, capitalism is like semen retention, and consumerism is blowing your load.
Why?
The general way that consumerism works is that you are exposed to advertisements which convince you that somehow your life is incomplete and miserable and unhappy and that in order to seek happiness, you must purchase XYZ in order to make you happy. And then it becomes like a mathematical equation somewhat: the more units of XYZ you purchase, The higher degree your happiness will become.
I’ve also discovered that promoting minimalism and reduction is not a profitable path. For example, encouraging people to not waste their money is not profitable.
However, getting a bunch of losers to buy overpriced loser stuff is profitable.
Body shame
So the first way that consumerism does this is that it makes people feel ugly. It makes people feel ugly in terms of their body, body shape, body composition, and it just makes people feel ashamed about being naked.
So for example, as a consequence, people feel ashamed of their bodies, and do everything in their power to hide their ugliness.
My personal theory on why there is this new trend of people wearing really really baggy clothes and jeans and sweaters and hoodies and stuff is precisely for people to hide their ugliness.
For example, you would only ever wear short short shorts if you actually have impressive legs or a butt or behind to show off.
Or if you’re a man, you would only ever walk around topless without a shirt on, if you have a beautiful or impressive upper body.
Or as a woman, similar speaking you’re only probably walking around in a sports bra or a bikini if you also have impressive muscles, and also a low body fat percentage.
Can you spend money to hide your ugliness?
You see this all the time; especially vehicles. I also have a theory that purchasing a vehicle is like buying a really really expensive article of clothing; once again to hydrogenous you hide behind your car with 5% limo tint. Do you want to feel cool sexy grand powerful indestructible master of the road etc ,,, and you do this by jumping in your loser Range Rover, or your loser AMG wagon, or your loser Porsche etc.
The only people I trust are people who drive without any tint.  And do not wear sunglasses or anything that covers up their eyeballs, or anybody who also has facial hair, which is the new modern day trend to hide the ugliness of your face or your double chin, or a baseball hat or a hat of any sort which is also another way to hide your balding or your ugly head.
what is true power?
So some guys with low testosterone, who want to seem tough and strong or whatever, buy all these firearms and guns because it makes him feel tougher more dominant more powerful etc. But the truth is it makes your dick size smaller, what does a typical gun owner look like? Typically somebody who spends too much time on Fox News, alternative right wing Facebook, and is always reading some weird quick bait about how liberals are ruining everything.
And also, this fake fear mongering.
So for example if you have a gun, the excuse is that it is for “self-defense“. But if you need to self defend yourself, it is a sign of fear. The general fear is that somebody else might have a gun or some sort of firearm or knife or something, and that somehow you need to “defend†Yourself and your family etc.  But there is not a positive aggressor factor; nobody ever buys a gun within intention to physically positively attack somebody, unless your hobby is hunting wildlife going to the shooting range whatever.
So then, the only rational reason for somebody to own a gun is out of fear. But then, if you’re a real man and have no fear, what is the use of a gun? None!
Fear marketing?
FOMO fear of missing out, or, fear of missing out on some sort of economic opportunity which could alleviate you from your economic suffering and poverty.
So the reason why this is so insidious is that once again, a lot of this fake news or click bait you see on the Internet is predicated around fear. If you do not read this article somehow you will be at a loss, or that you and your future family or your bank account can be harmed.
What is so fascinating about bitcoin is that actually, it is the opposite. In some ways, you are not afraid of chaos because chaos actually favors you; in some ways you actually desire chaos!
For example, the more chaos uncertainty inflation and bad economic policies there are on the planet, bitcoin benefits and so does you!
So whenever you hear about inflation whatever blah blah blah and the economy is going to tank, the simple strategy is to just buy Bitcoin because the more fear porn you see in the news and the media, the better the return of your bitcoin! 
Financial freedom within four years?
Retiring within four years?