I actually had a friend say to me, “how much more money do you need?”
This dude is childless and lives off his parents lol
What he doesn’t understand is this…
How much more do I need for me? Nothing.
But when you have a family, people depend on you.
I have four kids.
What if they have four kids?
Including my wife that’s 21 people I’m responsible for.
What if I’m the only person in the family who ever figures out anything substantial?
Looking back that appears to be the case.
Everyone before me was some garden variety European peasant.
There’s no royalty in my blood.
Why would I assume it would be any different going forward?
Nah man, it’s me.
Just me.
I’m the only one.
And people are depending on me.
How much more money do I need?
Enough for everybody.
I’ve been hodling for 10 years.
I’ve been married for 9 years.
I’ve been a father for 6 years.
And I can confidently say that the best things in life, the only things truly worth having… take a lot of time to acquire.
There’s no way around it, you’re going to have to spend significant time and energy on everything worthwhile in life.
Absolutely. The thing that you’re acquiring is not just the marriage or the relationship with the child. But the good marriage and the good relationship with the child. That’s a consistent journey with the only final point being death.
Wake up.
Say GM to the homies.
Mute a few reply guys (and gals)
Laugh at the ops with @rand0mguest2
Check out some memes.
Post a musing or two on life.
Another perfect day on NOSTR.
Since almost everyone is stupid about compounding even me.
Here’s the math.
Using @saylor's base case (13MM a coin by 2045) as the example…
Saving $20 a week = $1,200,000 in 2045
Saving $50 a week = $3,000,000 in 2045
Saving $100 a week = $6,000,000 in 2045
Saving $500 a week = $30,000,000 in 2045
Saving $1,000 a week = $60,000,000 in 2045
Now let’s get properly bullish and use Saylors bull case 🐂 of $49 million per coin by 2045.
Saving $20 a week = $3,600,000 in 2045
Saving $50 a week = $9,000,000 in 2045
Saving $100 a week = $18,200,000 in 2045
Saving $500 a week = $90,000,000 in 2045
Saving $1,000 a week = $181,500,000 in 2045
If you save $20-$50 a week over the next 21 years you will end up with somewhere between 1.2 and 9 million dollars.
I mean bro for Americans that’s like me asking you not to go out to lunch once or twice a week.
That’s nothing. https://image.nostr.build/624b110fc7c9489badb805e3d715e5993543b37370086a45dc184e91c2dc3757.jpg
Something I’ve learned over the years is that being helpful comes off as hurtful and being callous comes off as caring.
People hate when you believe in them and think they can be more, because then they feel pressured to change. To endure discomfort.
People love when you treat them like low agency losers who are incapable of change, because then they can stay comfortable.
To me the latter feels like callous disregard and the former feels like loving guidance.
But somehow it’s reversed in the minds of most recipients.
Poverty is very simply just having the wrong ideas in your head.
You can replace the ideas and lift yourself out of poverty.
The problem is most people don’t know, don’t care and don’t care to know.
I feel like if we could put new ideas in those peoples heads then they wouldn’t have bad health or addiction or dependence or unemployment or illiteracy.
There are certain people from the past (all of them) who talk to me the way they used to and I do not accept that anymore.
Causes big friction. People are used to an older version of me who had less boundaries. Put up with more bullshit.
Usually easier to just avoid these people entirely.
I can barely stand most of the people I know from high school and college etc. mainly because I would never choose those types of relationships for myself now.
Speaking for myself, having children makes me even more invested in attempting to shift society. Change at scale is possible. You just have to chip away at it slowly over time.
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