But what to do? What to do? Spend like there's no tomorrow? Save like there's an arctic winter coming? try to become self sufficient with water tanks, solar panels? Work or retire? grow vegetables or buy them? Or put my head in the sand and eat plastic till it's coming out of my ears?
Yep, all valid questions. I guess the first thing to get comfortable with is, humans almost always live in a world without a clear 'alternative' from the perspective of their current situation. However, society—and the beliefs that it is built on—do change. Knowing that, what a world would look like if, for example, that "change" was a widespread acceptance that the 'money' thing we use to provide choices for ourselves (collectively and individually) is only worth anything if we all share in whatever mechanism gives it its value. Specifically, it is only our (current) collected beliefs about what money is that make it socially acceptable for the process that gives it its value (taxes) to be the burden of poor/workers, while the benefits of it (choices) go increasingly to wealthy passive asset owners.... Obviously, that explicitly doesn't endorse a self-sufficiency or doomerist perspective; it is inherently communal. But it does require a pretty big break from what is a powerful (and wealth-serving) mind prison.
Excellent article makes things much clearer
But what to do? What to do? Spend like there's no tomorrow? Save like there's an arctic winter coming? try to become self sufficient with water tanks, solar panels? Work or retire? grow vegetables or buy them? Or put my head in the sand and eat plastic till it's coming out of my ears?
Yep, all valid questions. I guess the first thing to get comfortable with is, humans almost always live in a world without a clear 'alternative' from the perspective of their current situation. However, society—and the beliefs that it is built on—do change. Knowing that, what a world would look like if, for example, that "change" was a widespread acceptance that the 'money' thing we use to provide choices for ourselves (collectively and individually) is only worth anything if we all share in whatever mechanism gives it its value. Specifically, it is only our (current) collected beliefs about what money is that make it socially acceptable for the process that gives it its value (taxes) to be the burden of poor/workers, while the benefits of it (choices) go increasingly to wealthy passive asset owners.... Obviously, that explicitly doesn't endorse a self-sufficiency or doomerist perspective; it is inherently communal. But it does require a pretty big break from what is a powerful (and wealth-serving) mind prison.