dislike money as energy metaphors b/c they imply intrinsic value. it’s more like a pipeline of promises that allow you to see certain futures. this vision provides the energy the same way a dream provides motivation
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money ofc isn’t necessary for dreaming unless the free market is necessary. for jobs like coding or dog sitting it IS because such work is not valuable in of itself without the ability to transmute it into other forms (unlike homesteading or farming)
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also why marketing is so important in making money. money paves the path to specific visions but the vision itself needs to be provided
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it can be a vision of partying with friends at the beach w a corona, sophisticated whiskey musing in a philosophy chair, hitting a forehand like roger federer, or sitting enlightened as apostles prostrate them before you it’s a sensation of “being”
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these dreams act like crutches because they provide goals to work towards and create the constant movement necessary for a whirlpool to sustain itself as a legible entity
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but they eventually replace the dream mechanism many hoomans are incapable of doing something just for its own sake but then also resent being told what to do they are trapped between meaninglessness and a sensation of slavery
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money in such a state becomes a drug. pure potential but none of it useful in a meaningful sense because there is nothing to do with it but make more of it
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this is the bug. spending money actualizes potential causing one to move closer to a dream but saving money ALSO makes one feel that they more moving closer to a dreamhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1399855668643786752?s=20 …
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you cannot simultaneously spend AND save money except through investments and that's the same exact thing as using money to make more money
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