The “burnout wave” going on is about a lot of people deciding to stop solving for money. They’ve had enough. What happens when you stop solving for money? You fuck around and find out.
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Not just rigged, but also how limited it is. We’ve hit the limits of the money game. Even Bill Gates couldn’t tame the pandemic on his terms. t.co/spjkz0ngEv
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The dangerous thing now is that money is not only not worth solving for as an end in itself, it’s not sacred. Which means people don’t feel as much guilt about getting what they need through grift rather than honorable effort.
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“Respect for money” was an intangible but powerful thing in the early 80s. There was honor in making money. Merely getting lucky was kinda contemptible. Then over 30y the equation flipped. You were a mug if you actually *worked* for money instead of gambling riskily for it.
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Now you’re a mug if money is the main thing you’re solving for, either through work or gambling. Fuck-you-money is so 2015. Now it’s fuck-around-and-find-out money. Just enough to leave the game, not “win” it.
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Much as I dislike the grifter economy and the weakening ability of money to guarantee anything, I can’t say I entirely blame people for choosing that path.
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These days I look for signs that someone is solving for something other than money before spending any on them. Whether it is a haircut or coffee, or an product from a website. And I don’t mean bullshit social missions.
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When money is sacred it is a highly effective coordination token. Efficient markets can run on it. When it’s no longer sacred, it becomes increasingly ineffective. Markets weaken. Grift becomes invisible inflation.
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This is not debasement through regular money supply inflation. If products are shoddy/fake and you have to buy and return items or spend hours on Yelp reviews to find an honest and competent dentist… that’s a kind of hidden inflation.
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This happens when the meaning of money has weakened, your handling of it does not reflect strongly on your virtues, and you just want to make what you need in the fastest dumbest way you can do you can get on with your real life. Lemon money.
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A sufficiently unequal world eventually discovers Universal Basic Grift. It’s a kind of creeping monetary rebellion.
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Money as a utility function degrades your ability to generate valuable outcomes. Money as a constraint hides the richness of the world, both problems and opportunity. Making solving more difficult.
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in the future we'll be paid in time
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It's insane that the senate passed the Black-Connery bill in 1933, which would have mandated a 30 hour work week. We were smarter about work 100 years ago than we are today.
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