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Nick
@nickcammarata
I don’t know how “the quality of life lots of money gets you is peanuts compared to the quality of life inner work can get you” isn’t a more popular meme It’s totally true, money guys and meditation guys both agree, and the meme could lead to more happiness and pro-social good
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's not more popular because it directly attacks one of the foundational memes making capitalism work if people stop caring about money they'll stop taking terrible jobs for money on a more personal level: "well then what did i waste my life on terrible jobs for"
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Jake Orthwein
@JakeOrthwein
I had a potential tweet that I’m trying to come up with the right phrasing for that’s something like: “If 2021 was the year everyone figured out how good inner work is for personal well-being, 2022 will be the year everyone figures out that it’s insanely politically subversive.”
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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@smallkewlhuman
@JakeOrthwein
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@nickcammarata
it is a Whole Thing, i don't mean to get all conspiratorial about it but there are obviously societal forces for whom genuine transformational inner work acts very much against their interests
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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you: class struggle, generational conflict, culture wars me, an intellectual: people whose trauma makes them better at making money vs. people whose trauma makes them worse at making money
8:54 PM · Jan 16, 2022Twitter Web App
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