Its the only thing that matters to me. I am convinced that money is optimizing a quantity which is increasingly becoming irrelevant.
If you have a rich understanding of 'meaning' you should be maximizing that, and if that includes the accumulation of economic free energy (money), then do that. I urge people to make sure they are taking the proper time to analyze what they want out of life, and not just defaulting to dollar-maxxing because its what your parents told you to do.
How is money increasingly irrelevant? I'm thinking you gotta max money so that you have the breathing room to be able to move to meaning-mode. If you're living month to month, that's gonna clamp down on your ability to actualize.
The more you have, the less relevant getting more is.
At least for me, once I was makimg 'enough' per year, earning more was nice, but I didn't actively seek it out. Finding work that made me feel good was more important (but, when I was starting out, getting a paycheck made me feel good, so the particular work wasn't as important). For me, enough was maxing 401k, making some extra mortgage payments, having a decent and growing emergency fund, and not worrying about regular expenses.
You need access to resources, so money will never be fully irrelevant to living a good life, until we are fully post scarcity.
In current society, if you have a house and an education, things are so easily available, then you can live a beautiful life on 15k a year (I do this right now, paying $950/m in LA). You could rightfully claim that housing is very essential, and is hugely expensive. However, houses are not actually expensive or difficult to make. Having a property in a certain desirable areas (which have been purposely prevented from expanding naturally) is the limiting factor. Also, IMO, a lot of property in desirable areas is in a bubble.
Regarding education, high level educations are increasingly becoming democratized through the internet. I have very high hopes for the future of education, where skilled teachers are able to make the highest quality content, made available for very low costs to millions. Having professors with doctorates was cool, because they meme-plexed information, but they were often limited on bandwidth. Search engines are making it increasingly easy to memeplex a field of knowledge without a hugely skilled person's assistance.
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Its the only thing that matters to me. I am convinced that money is optimizing a quantity which is increasingly becoming irrelevant.
If you have a rich understanding of 'meaning' you should be maximizing that, and if that includes the accumulation of economic free energy (money), then do that. I urge people to make sure they are taking the proper time to analyze what they want out of life, and not just defaulting to dollar-maxxing because its what your parents told you to do.
How is money increasingly irrelevant? I'm thinking you gotta max money so that you have the breathing room to be able to move to meaning-mode. If you're living month to month, that's gonna clamp down on your ability to actualize.
The more you have, the less relevant getting more is.
At least for me, once I was makimg 'enough' per year, earning more was nice, but I didn't actively seek it out. Finding work that made me feel good was more important (but, when I was starting out, getting a paycheck made me feel good, so the particular work wasn't as important). For me, enough was maxing 401k, making some extra mortgage payments, having a decent and growing emergency fund, and not worrying about regular expenses.
You need access to resources, so money will never be fully irrelevant to living a good life, until we are fully post scarcity.
In current society, if you have a house and an education, things are so easily available, then you can live a beautiful life on 15k a year (I do this right now, paying $950/m in LA). You could rightfully claim that housing is very essential, and is hugely expensive. However, houses are not actually expensive or difficult to make. Having a property in a certain desirable areas (which have been purposely prevented from expanding naturally) is the limiting factor. Also, IMO, a lot of property in desirable areas is in a bubble.
Regarding education, high level educations are increasingly becoming democratized through the internet. I have very high hopes for the future of education, where skilled teachers are able to make the highest quality content, made available for very low costs to millions. Having professors with doctorates was cool, because they meme-plexed information, but they were often limited on bandwidth. Search engines are making it increasingly easy to memeplex a field of knowledge without a hugely skilled person's assistance.