RE: Late Night Thoughts: Why Do So Many People Judge You For Wanting To Be Wealthy?
No one should judge you at all!!! In a perfect world "money" as we know it probably wouldn't be a thing, like we'd all live in abundance and share. But knowing we need money, nobody should judge you for wanting it.
In the world as it is now, money is often correlated with doing the things you like and are passionate about anyways.
In the cryptographic future maybe you get reputation points or something for doing the things you're passionate about or for correctly speculating on future trends etc. In this world you get money; smh.
Now that cryptocurrencies are more or less in the mainstream, the negative energy seems to have remained, but just in a different form. It's sort of a mix of greed, jealously, and FOMO.
Whenever the price crashes, I am met with several "I told you so" and "How much did you lose". When the opposite occurs, I am constantly reminded by the people around me that, "money will never make me happy".
Oh for sure it's insane how people who were told about Bitcoin at $5 can think it's insane of you to not sell at $1000, and then rinse and repeat next cycle, and they somehow think they're the voice of reason the whole way thru, like they somehow lose track of the fact that it's gone up 200,000% and they've been bearish the whole time.
Like I thought when Bitcoin was clearly "a thing", people would have to be like whoaaa, I'm shocked, let's reassess things, but they find ways to rationalize and not have to shake up their view of things too much.
I think it's like a combo of jealousy and wanting the world to work as they imagine
I hate the idea of depending on a government system that is honestly doomed to fail, to take care of my expenses when I am too old to provide for myself. I would rather sacrifice now, and invest in passive revenue streams that will build wealth for generations to come.
Absolutely. That's kind of the thing, like philosophical considerations aside, it just isn't gonna last forever and that our generation will be paid out in the end.... isn't something I'd want to bank on.
People think of that as "security" when actually it seems absurdly reckless lol.
Funny how backwards it is.
I almost wish you would have made a post with this comment!
I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain the natural cycles of Bitcoin, and that us early adopters are still very much ahead even after these major crashes.
I'm very optimistic because it seems like Steem is holding really strong around the high $1 range, which means we are all still in the green!
I think 2018 is going to be a great year for those of us who've been in this space a long time because no matter how long this bear market lasts, we are going to hold strong because we've seen this cycle occur so many times!
yup!! It's amazing how their minds work. Like I actually wouldn't have thought people were capable of it.. just kind of a kindergarten concept that if it goes up 10x and then drops 60% it still went up lol.
It's "winter" season right now! Hopefully spring time comes in 2019 if not later this year.