Video podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe ears of Odysseus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the hard thing in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world is to create and form and formulate your own opinion. I think the big issue is now, with an over abundance of information data words on the Internet etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is almost entirely impossible to create your own opinion, to own your own opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, on some ethical friends; it is actually kind of considered unethical to have your own opinion which is not packed by data facts etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Issue is when it comes ethics owning your opinion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Ethics is not rooted in data facts science etc. Rather it is something deeper, more philosophical, deeper harder, more incorruptible. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ethics of owning your own opinion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
My personal reading intake is that in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world, it is actually considered unethical to have your own opinion. Why? In a world hijacked by academics, constipated fat academics \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc with PhD\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs, political commentators, economists with zero real life skills or sense, and also, in a nation prevailing with Judeo-Christian ethics, the general sentence and thought is that one is not permitted to own their own opinion. Why? Man has made small, insignificant, and the bias is that he must always quote others to gain any sort of legitimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think America might be a little bit less bad than other nations, like for example in South Korea, people are very very foolish in terms of believing any random person with some sort of fake PhD or MD on YouTube. At least Americans are a little bit more discerning, but honestly the average American is no better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, most people have the propensity to be suckered by fake news all the time. Even my mom told me about how Tesla and Elon Musk announced selling some sort of $6500 modular home, and also a Tesla phone, I actually heard it from at least two people; and then I actually did the research and that it was some sort of fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the problematic thing is that actually, all news is fake. Even the real news. Why? Anything which incentivize more clicks, more ad revenue, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcthe better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So once again, the grant question; why? Why does it matter, what is the significance,?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, the ethics of it, the significance of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opinion, to opine, means to think. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op, to choose, to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why does this all matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, I think when we really think about this very very deeply, very very critically, this is what determines everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, the critical thing to consider is that your opinion is everything. There is nothing on the planet which is actually worth more than your opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, I think the difficult thing about politics and much of modern day technology stuff, social media social media networks is that everyone is monetarily and economically incentivized to have you believe a certain way. If you dig deep enough, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re almost always seems to be some sort of money making scam somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nTrust nobody who has to pay a mortgage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In fact, I wonder if half of the evils of society is from people who have to pay their mortgages. Just watched the film thank you for smoking, Nick Naylor the fake tobacco spokesman, does his job to pay the mortgage on his divorce wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, to support his kid, and also to support his own New York City penthouse and his BMW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even think about these evil corporations like Philip Morris, which positively gives people lung cancer and everyone knows it. Same with the evil Coca-Cola corporation. They might just throw up their hands and say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I gotta pay my kids tuition for their private school, or I gotta pay the mortgage\u00e2\u20ac\u0153. I called BS; far more after the call to rent instead. And just drive an old Toyota Prius, and not compromise any of your ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ethics are expensive \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I think this is quite a lot of falls don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand; and maybe also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The reason why nobody has a strong sense of ethics and morality; it is expensive, very expensive. Expensive in terms of what to forgo, sacrifices, and often\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Economic money sacrifices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So for example, most people will not outwardly come out and speak their mind because if they really really speak what is really really on their mind, they might lose their funding their money their income etc. To me very very shocking that the rapper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DaBaby\u00e2\u20ac\u009d essentially was made irrelevant, after a random joke he did about guys who like to suck penises? Come on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from the hood\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and he obviously has zero training in political speech, critically correct speech. And then I find all these followers so fake; y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all listen to his gangsta music yet the second he makes a joke about gay people, you suddenly try to crucify him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyways, the more important thing to consider and think ultimately as long as you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re employed by any other entity which is not yourself, you are in a fragile position. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never ever ever really really really have the chance to 100% on your own opinion once again, You will have to consider your family first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even Socrates, when Athens the century jailed him and forced him to commit suicide and drink the poison, a lot of people told him to think about his family his kids etc. But it seems that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really care for his kids or his wife, who seemed terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So in some sense, Socrates is not a good example, and also he was ugly. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the upside of owning your own opinion?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Truth be told, there is not really a social economic payoff for owning your own opinion. By owning your own opinion, suddenly you will not be showered with US dollars magically being deposited into your checking account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To me this is where bitcoin is so interesting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Assuming you just keep stacking bitcoins, and accumulating it, or microstrategy stock or whatever, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc then, you will know that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at peace to just keep doing as you please, paying the bills, paying your rent, and being able to own your own opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, a very very simple strategy that I have to essentially have infinite money at least to pay your rent, even if you live in Los Angeles, or somewhere more expensive, let us say that your rent is $3200 a month. I currently have around $150,000 of microstrategy stock, which is about 10% of my total market capitalization of bitcoin, and what I do is I keep writing up micro strategy stock, which I believe will go up to $2000 a share, which is almost 10X from here, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and what you do is every month or so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 At the end of the month or whatever, you could just slowly drain and sell $3200 worth of stock, and just use that to pay your rent or whatever. And then the stock will keep going up forever, so essentially you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just using $150,000 of capital, which is not that much, and you could live off of that forever even in sunny in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even crazier, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc considering that you could live in Hanoi Vietnam in the north for only $320 USD a month ,,, then, the truth is there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing holding you back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLife goals?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This is where I think things are interesting because ultimately when we really really think critically, you gotta keep asking yourself a question, ultimately, what is it that you really care for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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