Here is a post that actually is investment and financial advice, in contrast to the unlikely doom and gloom possibilities about which I have written earlier today.
Do you find yourself with any or perhaps
all of the following?
- Rich, varied, healthy, delicious foods
- Clean freshwater on tap that is reliable and cheap
- Modern medical care
- Computer, smartphone and broadband internet connection almost everywhere you go, and the literacy necessary to take advantage of it
- Literal metric tons of material possessions
- Electricity that is reliable and cheap
- Automatic indoor heating and cooling, and even humidity control if you want it
- Bed with a mattress and plenty of sheets and blankets
- Ability to walk outside alone without significant risk of being murdered or mauled by a bear/other predator
- Refrigerator, stove, oven, dishwasher, salt, herbs, spices, pots, pans and a wide variety of other unnecessary specialized kitchen tools and appliances
- Motorized transport (car, bus, train, plane, boat, e-bike, etc.)
- Multiple pairs of shoes and clothes, with fashion as the primary consideration
- Washing and drying machines
- Waste removal services for your poop and trash
- A shower, and multiple options for soap and towels
- Contraceptives
- Toothbrush and toothpaste that prevents you from losing teeth and having severe gum disease by age 40
- Cameras
- Access to barbell equipment that could make you strong if only you'll use it
- Access to scientific knowledge that wasn't even known until very recently
- Access to billions of songs of your choosing and speakers that can play it on demand with nearly perfect fidelity
- Low likelihood of compulsory military service
- Low likelihood of you, your partner, or someone you know dying in childbirth or losing an infant to something like typhoid, influenza or yellow fever
- Low likelihood of your government unjustly seizing all your property, or imprisoning you, or executing you
- More high-quality entertainment options than you have time for
- Freedom to say anything you want, within reason
- Freedom to associate with anyone you want, within reason
- Freedom to travel almost anywhere on the globe, or even get a spectacular view of the ground from the actual stratosphere while doing this travel
- Freedom to elect who runs your country
If you have this stuff, or maybe even more additional amazing stuff like it, then I want to congratulate you, because your life is insanely awesome. You are fabulously rich in a way that the majority of humans alive today would love to have, and the majority of humans who have ever lived, even kings and emperors, couldn't even
imagine. If you're here on the TMC investor forum, then I bet you're probably even very rich compared to the majority of the population in the country you live in, and they also have all this stuff.
If you have this stuff and still are experiencing fear about finances or anxiety ultimately rooted in worries about economic scarcity, is the problem that you don't have enough already, or the feeling itself? Is an irrationally falling TSLA stock price a good reason to be in a grumpy mood right now?
It's a very natural and understandable human feeling to experience, considering that historically contentment was never optimal for maximizing reproductive success.
But you are a modern rational human.
Homo sapiens sapiens. You have that computer, that internet connection, that access to knowledge and ideas, strangers who can encourage you through books or podcasts or YouTube, and the free time (if you made room for it by sacrificing some of this aforementioned abundance) to come up with a new way of thinking about your situation that makes you happier and more joyful. Here's a couple good places to start:
In my ongoing and painstaking research on what separates Wealthy Mustachians who feel life is full of abundance, from Consumer Suckas who can’t seem to get ahead because of life’s many …
www.mrmoneymustache.com
Imagine that you are floating comfortably above an alien planet observing the really insane species that lives there. We’ll call these beings Sheeple, because their incredible tendency to fol…
www.mrmoneymustache.com
If Mr. Money Mustache is not your cup of tea, how about recent wisdom from our Technoking?
