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once again using ya'll as a springboard for My Thoughts, thx both
I've been concerned/curious about money, finances, meaning etc all my life, and I've been interested in formulating a "solution" to this problem
the best "answer" I've found so far is a very full-stack thing,
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which is to articulate a mission that is larger than the individual. ie, to have something that money is *for*, at least in the context of your life. articulating this explicitly and clearly allows you to walk thru multiple status regulation checkpoints
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to lay my cards out in the open, I intend to spend most of all of that $ incentivizing creators, artists, public intellectuals, people who I think are helping to make a better public commons globally
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and actually, in my personal experience, the hardest and heaviest social regulation is internal. I have to have a good reason to want to make money, that my various subselves agree is valid, good, real, etc, in order to persuade me to do the work
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Replying to @visakanv and @michaelcurzi
I've since then come around to realizing that, for me, my aversion to money can be a sort of mini-narcissism – because when I have money, I can use it well – I can support other creatives, artists, etc – it's my feelings that are the bottleneck keeping me from helping more people
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eg. I have a patreon
and it's partially just math – the more often I talk about my patreon, the more patrons I get
but every so often, me posting my patreon makes someone be mean to me
and... the weird(?) truth is that I allow my fear? of people being mean to me, hold me back
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when I write/say it out loud it sounds stupid. why should I be afraid of randos being mean to me? but it's a very primal and primitive sort of hesitation – macolm's dream boat again – and it needs to be consciously brought up and dealt with lovingly
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2. here is my quick-sketch summary of @Malcolm_Ocean's 2021 dream boat mashup post
reddit.com/r/IngroupTwitt
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I mean, [straightens up, deepens voice] I'm not ~scared~ of people being mean, but it's still annoying discomfort, and I need a good reason to wade into that nonsense, otherwise I'll put it off. that's where a sense of mission helps. I want the $ to help the others
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anyway to circle back: I think people who are serious about this do have to have long conversations with themselves and others about What Is Money Really, What Is Money For, and so on. Lots of people operate with vague, inherited assumptions that are convenient but unhelpful
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extremely agreed. i had to do so much writing just to get to the stuff in the acid thread and that was like the very beginning of the thing. much more writing needed
yea it's wild for me to realize that I've been thinking about this stuff regularly since I was a teenager, and that this is part of why I'm able to live this internet-gumroad-youtuber-ebook life. lots of other people can't see the possibility at all
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A question that made me anxious when I was a teenager is “where does money come from really”
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wild to really, really think about
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When I asked a friend about her dating life, she said "every car I've been in has a different vibe, each is a brief little universe that I share with a man I maybe could've loved" and I think about that a lot
she should write novels
she is a dentist, you'll never hear of her
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