{"id":316745,"date":"2021-06-15T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=316745"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:53:37","slug":"self-speculation-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/15\/self-speculation-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Speculation Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are often taught that it is good and virtuous to invest money in our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153future \u00e2\u20ac\u0153, and to secure a prudent retirement future. However that notion is upholding Puritan values of self sacrifice for the greater good, not necessarily your good. I say instead to stake out a few thousand dollars into spend that money extravagantly on yourself, towards your own tools, arts experimentations and random speculations, then to spend it on other entities, stocks, funds, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/03\/bitcoin-as-the-simplest-cryptocurrency\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"315806\">crypto<\/a> currencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>speculate in yourself, and invest in yourself. You are the ultimate good and aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/self-entrepreneurship\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"304655\">Self entrepreneurship<\/a> is the goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often taught that it is good and virtuous to invest money in our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153future \u00e2\u20ac\u0153, and to secure a prudent retirement future. However that notion is upholding Puritan values of self sacrifice for the greater good, not necessarily your good. I say instead to stake out a few thousand dollars into spend that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/seneca-new-new-75-of-185-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316749,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316745\/revisions\/316749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}