Money isn’t Everything; Freedom is.
There to be a pattern developing that your average person may not truly understand or see–but it’s happening right now. This is between rich and poor people and where both of them see value (you guessed it, the former are a bit better than the latter at assigning value). I won’t define rich or poor, I’ll let you set that standard yourself, I still believe it will apply.
What are the Rich Doing?
Rich people are examining the world before them in a set of tradeoffs, probabilities and weighing what is valuable to them. Notwithstanding the tax increases happening in the West, the rich will settle for less money & “nice things” in effort to to sustain what everybody would regard as a ‘normal’ life 5 years ago. This means that they will seek to preserve a living standard involving reliable electricity & internet, heating, good food (not slammed with preservatives, hormones or pesticides), hygiene on the streets, safety (especially for their children) & familiarity in their cultures. This may mean that their income level drops by a considerable 60% from what they have grown accustomed to receiving. It may mean not working at all for some years given language differences and lack of resources in the new area (simply working off of savings). If you’re portfolio and business is going through the roof, but your world is a state of collapse–what the hell is the point?
Furthermore, the rich & wealthy will seek to create their own parallel systems of value to utilize those around them the best (to have a sources for medicine, for meat, for entertainment, for transport, etc.). Again, even if this means a considerably decline in their paycheque, bonuses or social status. After all, what’s the point of an ‘extra’ 5 million dollars if you’re forbidden from living as a free human.
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What are the Poor going to do?
Poor people are adopting a tunnel-vision approach by assigning the ultimate value to “money”. They will strive to make more money at all costs but sacrifice their quality of life & freedoms. They will willingly take the jump head first into a dystopian, apocalyptic world failing to see the ‘point’ of money in the first place.
Additionally, I believe poor people will continue to forego their relationships with their sexual partner, their family & their friends for this hunt for more money. They will stop doing the things they enjoy and work around the growing inconveniences of life, unpredictable violence and soul-crushing nature of bureaucracy. All of this will be towards the chasing the dream of holding a larger bank account, the largest penthouse on the block, the most recognition amongst the business/tech/finance community. Of course, only a few will be successful at this journey (hence why they’re in the poor crowd) just from the regulation and taxes alone, but this journey would have removed any joy or meaning from their lives.
Even those who are successful, there’s only so much you can do in a 15-minute-city that bans travel, meat consumption, healthy food or alternative medicines or news from the state-mandated versions.
Likewise, these poor folks are going to compete on who can be most connected to “the system”. That is, they will compete for the number of social media accounts, purchasing the latest item, downloading the latest application and their life will become increasingly detached from reality and attached to the virtual cloud or state-controlled power-grid. There won’t be any parallel system, it’ll be the same system that is currently controlled.
The Best Option is to:
Maintain your freedoms. It’s always superior to have yourself in a position whereby you have options or Open Doors that you may not have to walk through, but it’s much better to have options alive. It’s a superior strategy to not be dependent on others for basic items such as finance, transportation, medicine, food, digital usage, speech, education, etc. This, I believe, is where the richer crowds assign real value that goes beyond their brokerage accounts.
Tiny Story
I had a meeting where I was chatting to some folks who were definitely successful and wealthy about the nuances of the world around us. My partner felt insecure about the topics with lots of forecasts, predictions & names being thrown around. She felt as though she had nothing to offer. The conversation somehow ended up about food supply in her country and she remarked that her grandmother owned a lot of chickens. The wealthy men immediately acknowledged this as being a great asset to have in life, especially now.
They were able to realize that it doesn’t matter if you have a sports car, fancy pair of shoes or a Rolex watch, what matters are the essentials [one of them being food!].
Closing
We are seeing a situation where everything is about movement control in the Western world. Controlling your physical movement, your thoughts, your communication, your capital. These areas of the world are run by collectivists that do not see the importance of individuals–they see the importance of their group and that is all. The powers that be have ensured, with lots of success, that being in any group (or utilizing any method) outside of their own is increasingly difficult.
The essentials, Maslows hierarchy of needs, are what really matters when the world is in a state of chaos.
Life in Uruguay or Paraguay is far more limiting in terms of consumption, entertainment & everyday pleasures than say London or New York–you really have to amuse yourself down in South America.
However, a country like Uruguay has all the properties you may want by retaining a level of normalcy and stability in your quality of life–which is the main purpose of acquiring money in the first place!
