Not sure those fit with my model of changemaking but worth a second look
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Can’t be radical on all fronts. Retirement investment infrastructure is one of the few things that’s decent if you know how to use it. Roth/regular IRA, put it all in S&P = basic vote of confidence in the nation.
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Yeah but investing in companies that I suspect are bad for planet and people would take a huge and expensive toll on my mental and physical health
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In a way index funds incorporate that thinking indirectly. If enough people are shifting behaviors index will go gradually greener. If not, targeted green investing might hurt you without helping the cause.
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I’d rather invest in index funds and write about climate change and support ideas like Bill McKibben campaign than invest in a “green” fund most likely designed to sucker idealists with high management fees. Green the economy rather than invest in green segment of it.
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Sure. I guess I've been thinking more like direct lending
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I tend to think people like you should help yourself a heck of a lot more before moving on to other people. If you don’t secure your own needs more robustly, your direct work for the planet is at risk. Activists seem to neglect their own needs too much.
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Yeah, but that's also a pretty well-known tendency within activist circles. I appreciate your counsel a lot. And also, it's tough calculus. I'm interested in multicapital wealth to have a matrix of resilience. Reconciling that with the present conditions is certainly complicated.
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I’d really hate to see you burn out trying to do too much for others. Almost happened to a vegan activist friend of mine (one you’d actually like I think... he’s strictly focused on factory farming cruelty). His free ebook on it:
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People differ a lot in steps 1-5 🙂
The important similarities start with step 6

