there should be two phases to the deployment of excess wealth. first find something meaningful to do with money, then you’ll be motivated to keep/grow it. reversing the steps leads to a mostly meaningless life followed by “wtf do i do w all this money suicide”
tiger moms understand compounding and so start the education, piano, math, blah blah blah as early as possible. they correspondingly create attitudes that see life as an endless grind and higher suicide rates despite secular success
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such a strategy min-maxes hierarchy-status/wealth at the cost of inner motivation and personal charisma. a factory of perfect builds.
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in a country like the us where social status is not bound directly to hierarchy status(individuated charisma is important), this leads to a disorienting position that is disorientingly successful in society but also always outside looking in.
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orthodox privilege amplifies the voice of those who just so happen to have the same values as the System while blinding them to the coercive pressures of the system http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html
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modern day society disproportionately rewards those to which managing money IS meaningful to them. they like the numbers and the sense of growth and productivity. (like a sim game)
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just like everyone in software pretends to be interested in linear algebra for AI/ML lots of hoomans in regular society pretend to be interested in VC or other money related roles. “o wow, the numbers. they must be magical!!! senpai notice me!!”
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this is why tiger parents spend so much effort contorting their own and their children’s value system to align with the System’s. the resulting life happiness is so much higher when u r aligned w/ whatever is exponentially compounding
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they just miss the fact that the energy required for the contortion isn’t free. and that a contorted life that only cares about survival or personal benefit is very similar to a virus or cancer. it’s a mimetic mockery of life.
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