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Not Doing Better Than Our Parents
and Loving It (Or, Why Keynes Was Right)
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“Today we are in a position to
derive much of our happiness from pursuits internal to our
minds. We do this by blogging, watching House of Cards on
Netflix, listening to a symphony from iTunes, tweeting with
friends and acquaintances, seeing their pictures on Facebook
or Path, and learning and collaborating on Wikipedia. As a
result, once one secures a certain income to cover basic
needs, greater happiness and well-being today can be had for
virtually nothing. What is the point, then, of doing
materially better than one’s parents?” - http://theumlaut.com/2013/04/01/keynes-was-right/
Well, I've been saying this for the past decade, and more
frequently in last 3 years.
As we switch from a materialization of hard assets, we will
transition through viritual or digital assets...which have an
underlying cost, they are not neutral, but the way we use "0"
and "1" is shifting.
Also, this is key to my existential/being shift...
If we need hard assets through normal work/organization and
government to exist, then shifting to being requires a
different approach to all those vehicles, including play (as I
noted almost a decade ago that a shift from work to play would
occur)...and a shift out of hard assets geared to profit and
loss per se (at least in conventional frame) but into a
post-conventional frame, where sitting on the porch (poor
people did this, and still do) and "being" rather than getting
stuck on a roller coaster of time acceleration where money and
credit requires you forego the porch (time in being) in favor
of creating income for hard assets you have forward purchased
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Helpful Hint: We have this idea, that releasing
ourselves from the hard work of existence meant more
accumulation and acquisition of additional hard assets: Paul
Zane Pilzer writing in UNLIMITED WEALTH says we all want more
quantity, and then more quality, and then more quanity of the
new quality...and so on, this never stops! Which is why he
indicates there is unlimited wealth based on this cycle of
"improving levels of existence @BS. |
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Action Step:
To get off this merry go-round of
striving and never arriving, we need an entirely different set
of tactics @F-L-O-W...and a simple step by step guide: find
out what makes you truly happy, and it's not all pleasure,
there is happiness tension and suffering there too...then
discover if most of what has chosen you in success can be
gradually peeled away because of your gaining back your time
for being and giving up more and more consumption of things
you make future income commitments too by purchasing them with
credit. Find time each day to match something that makes you
happy in tension and allocate more time to being there in that
tension @F-L-O-W. |
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