OK so this is an insanely mega giga brain idea\u2026 Playing for the insanely super turbo long-term game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, if you try to plan and structure things, assuming you\u2019re gonna live for the next thousand years or whatever, in our case, let us see the next hundred\u2026 Then, you could start to structure and strategize things for the very very long-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think the tricky thing is, psychologists call this \u201ctime preference\u201d– 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll 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\u2026 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\u2019re 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 \u201cplant based\u201d diet, maybe save enough money to do that yoga retreat in Bali, and maybe get an adopted rescue dog, and you try to \u201clower your carbon footprint\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For myself personally, I separate people into two categories: we wise philosophers who don\u2019t 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 \u2026 and also a new category, somehow these very intelligent, high income earning, tech workers\u2026 Who once again are just waiting for the next iPhone Pro, and still do not understand bitcoin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I mean certainly we humans we will die, as individuals. But our lineage and our bloodlines shall live forever, assuming you\u2019re intelligent enough to want to have children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OK and this is actually a very very bizarre American thing I\u2019ve noticed\u2026 That somehow, it is taboo to ask people whether they want to have kids or intend to have kids or have kids?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s interesting with Asian culture Korean culture etc.\u2026 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in America\u2026 I remember this first, when I first met one of my old students, was maybe in his mid 60s\u2026 Who was married but did not have kids, I found this insanely bizarre?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think it\u2019s kind of perhaps endemic, of a cultural thing. And this is where a sociology is useful. And now tying in sociology and maybe economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So this is one thought, perhaps the reason why society is becoming kind of anti-kids or whatever\u2026 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\u2026 Certainly you will not want to have kids because you don\u2019t want to raise kids on a planet that\u2019s going to be gone in 20 years. Which is a ridiculous idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So an interesting thought, now that LA is starting to get very cold\u2026 Is this notion of heat loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u201ckeep the warmth\u201d is a good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 It just keeps the heat from leaving your body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then this becomes interesting because, the whole notion of jackets down layers etc., you\u2019re simply not trying to have the heat leave your body because you already have all the heat you need!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if you think about heat like economic heat, heat loss, economic energy loss\u2026 You just need to figure out these points in which you are leaking large amounts of economic energy and heat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, ordering takeout or eating out\u2026 These are just not a part of my mental protocol anymore. I suppose they never were really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m 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\u2019ll probably save like $3000 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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