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Kinda surprising that the average ability of money to motivate people is falling even among poor people. And it doesn’t seem to be a function of handouts/extended generous unemployment benefits. People at all levels are re-evaluating their relationship with money at least in US🤔
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Some sort of “emperor has no clothes” threshold has been passed where everybody is starting to see money as sort of fake and arbitrary that can be designed to do what you want almost at whim. The “too big to fail” banker mindset has been democratized a bit.
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Something very dangerously destabilizing is afoot around the entire concept of money and value. And that includes crypto. For the first time, people who are extremely money minded seem more than just shallow+ambitious. They come across as clueless. Even the cunning grifters.
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I imagine there’s some sort of general rush to hard assets, not just real estate but everything? Supply chain vagaries provide a short-term pragmatic motive to hoard stuff, but in general, is stuff > money now?
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Hmm. What’s the maximum rate of real asset depreciation above which you should prefer money now? Vegetables? Frozen food? Furniture? Cars?
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literally screwing up brains at an innate level - the rewards/punishment brain system is deeply subconscious & has been fine-tuning long before humans; once broken, rebuilding it requires awareness (first) & a lot of conscious efforts (often futile).
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. - Harry Browne
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Many many people coming to grips with their own mortality for the first time this past year. Money represents delayed goods/pleasure. How sad would it be to die with $100 bill in your pocket?
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