I find myself hoping that the current circus show will expedite humanity's trip to the "reset button," that being an examination of our core values and realizing that "enough" is a better ambition to live by than "more."
I remember some years back... actually, the last time the financial markets took it in the shorts during the housing/loans collapse a little over a decade ago... listening to some commentator on a financial channel going on and on about "what it would take to get back to NORMAL," where normal meant eternal business growth and profit. And I thought to myself "we don't need to get back to NORMAL, we need to embrace a different paradigm."
My wife and I own our house outright but we grow increasingly at risk of losing it because the property taxes on the same pile of bricks, wood, pipe and wire has been escalating 10-15 percent a year. When we bought it, the taxes were $2,200 a year. Next week, we'll go hand over a check for nearly $6,000... for what? Pretty much "thin air," as far as I can tell.
People say things like "But look what a great INVESTMENT your house has been!" to which I can only say... "but we LIVE here!"
As far as I am concerned, cryptos took an unfortunate sidetrack when people became more concerned with "when Moon?" than the original promise of a non-banking peer-to-peer payment system... a way for me to sell art and buy apples while entirely bypassing the need to be involved with the banking system.
Maybe our real challenge is a remarkable tendency to only think short term. My wife and I bought this house because we wanted a place to live for the rest of our lives, not because we were looking to have "a million dollar property with an ocean view." I got involved in blogging here not because I was looking for a Lambo, but because I felt it could be something like a long-term "drip savings account" that might have some residual value, 20 years hence.
Often, people's behavior makes me feel very disillusioned... but thanks for another thoughtful post!
Every time I read you, I get thousands of thoughts to sort through and sometimes it's not easy. Yesterday I was a victim of the delincuence. Some criminals broke into my house and stole some things. Beyond the anger and helplessness I could feel yesterday, I felt sorry for those criminals. The fact of exposing your life, willing to stoop so low, for material things, must be very sad. On one occasion, the late ex-President Chavez, already dead and guilty of the whole crisis we are living in Venezuela, said on the national chain that people could steal if they were hungry. Values, ethics, shame cannot be below anything. Likewise, that caudillo said that "being rich is bad". While material things cannot be the engine of our lives, the fact that we have them cannot make us feel bad, guilty. I didn't experience the bonanza of steemit, but I remember that even last year I could make a weekly market with what I earned here. While it is true that one enjoys reading, commenting and voting on publications, and meeting people from all over the world, the financial rewards are an incentive to keep going, even if these days those incentives are less. I think I went a little too far in my response. LOL. Thank you for your publication, @rok-sivante.
When I first joined crypto, I believe when I joined the crypto world, month later I will be a millionaire but guess I was disappointed. Which I know many people will be in my shoe. The economic needs some reshuffle in some or all aspect and I believe this is the perfect time to do it. Generally the world needs reshuffle
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I find myself hoping that the current circus show will expedite humanity's trip to the "reset button," that being an examination of our core values and realizing that "enough" is a better ambition to live by than "more."
I remember some years back... actually, the last time the financial markets took it in the shorts during the housing/loans collapse a little over a decade ago... listening to some commentator on a financial channel going on and on about "what it would take to get back to NORMAL," where normal meant eternal business growth and profit. And I thought to myself "we don't need to get back to NORMAL, we need to embrace a different paradigm."
My wife and I own our house outright but we grow increasingly at risk of losing it because the property taxes on the same pile of bricks, wood, pipe and wire has been escalating 10-15 percent a year. When we bought it, the taxes were $2,200 a year. Next week, we'll go hand over a check for nearly $6,000... for what? Pretty much "thin air," as far as I can tell.
People say things like "But look what a great INVESTMENT your house has been!" to which I can only say... "but we LIVE here!"
As far as I am concerned, cryptos took an unfortunate sidetrack when people became more concerned with "when Moon?" than the original promise of a non-banking peer-to-peer payment system... a way for me to sell art and buy apples while entirely bypassing the need to be involved with the banking system.
Maybe our real challenge is a remarkable tendency to only think short term. My wife and I bought this house because we wanted a place to live for the rest of our lives, not because we were looking to have "a million dollar property with an ocean view." I got involved in blogging here not because I was looking for a Lambo, but because I felt it could be something like a long-term "drip savings account" that might have some residual value, 20 years hence.
Often, people's behavior makes me feel very disillusioned... but thanks for another thoughtful post!
your welcome.
all wonderfully-said! 🙏
Every time I read you, I get thousands of thoughts to sort through and sometimes it's not easy. Yesterday I was a victim of the delincuence. Some criminals broke into my house and stole some things. Beyond the anger and helplessness I could feel yesterday, I felt sorry for those criminals. The fact of exposing your life, willing to stoop so low, for material things, must be very sad. On one occasion, the late ex-President Chavez, already dead and guilty of the whole crisis we are living in Venezuela, said on the national chain that people could steal if they were hungry. Values, ethics, shame cannot be below anything. Likewise, that caudillo said that "being rich is bad". While material things cannot be the engine of our lives, the fact that we have them cannot make us feel bad, guilty. I didn't experience the bonanza of steemit, but I remember that even last year I could make a weekly market with what I earned here. While it is true that one enjoys reading, commenting and voting on publications, and meeting people from all over the world, the financial rewards are an incentive to keep going, even if these days those incentives are less. I think I went a little too far in my response. LOL. Thank you for your publication, @rok-sivante.
When I first joined crypto, I believe when I joined the crypto world, month later I will be a millionaire but guess I was disappointed. Which I know many people will be in my shoe. The economic needs some reshuffle in some or all aspect and I believe this is the perfect time to do it. Generally the world needs reshuffle
It’s certainly in the midst of that reshuffle now...
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