My dad always told me, “I want you to study hard so you don’t have to struggle and suffer like me”. But working hard manual labor at SL was *incredibly* satisfying to me. It was the opposite of school. Everything I did *mattered*. I felt real kinship with everyone I worked with
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I get that I was working only for a month or so, and it’s a sort of “blue collar tourism” - life is different for people who have no choice. I know. I spoke with them, worked with them, ate with them, smoked with them. It was the realest experience of my life until then
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So like... maybe what my dad was trying to say with “I don’t want you to struggle like me” is, “I don’t want you to feel low-status like me”, in which case I have already succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. But I don’t think he sees it
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I think what I’m circling around to is... my experiences with lots of different people have taught me that there’s something unjust about the way money is distributed. (Just observing my own feelings; I’m not advocating for redistribution or anything. Just trying to understand)
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And I think maybe the secret is buried in the phrase “money is debt”, which is an idea I’ve encountered several times but I’ve never quite properly investigated
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Before I get down to reading the Graeber book I think it’s interesting to just reflect and riff on the idea. Money is debt. Money is a promise. Money is a piece of paper representing the promises people have made each other We pay each other with other people’s promises
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It all makes sense nowhttps://twitter.com/thefaceberg/status/1067267214879780864?s=21 …
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Patrick McKenzie
This is part of what I’m talking about. Why do the money gods smile on some and not others? I want to understand. It’s an elaborate game of status and intriguehttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1067515893335257088?s=21 …
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Patrick McKenzie @patio11The OSS community has yet to come to grips with “Companies with $50 million in the bank send an incredible volume of support requests to people who are worried about making their $600 rent, and the community and culture in OSS makes this feel normal.” https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1067497894394028032 …Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Patrick McKenzie
I would love to read a book or thread about “the physics of money”, just full of anecdotes like thishttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1067699966066405376?s=21 …
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Dang it, now I might have to write that...
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I would love to assist! What are the other weird/surprising things about money physics?
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Just chiming in to say that I wholeheartedly support this collaboration and would 100% pay full retail for this book
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