Post Apn6IDYwSshfChDrdo by landley@mstdn.jp
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 (DIR) Post #Apn6I7e2T1DOqlYqki by landley@mstdn.jp
       2025-01-05T20:05:36Z
       
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       I'm not motivated by money. I'm sometimes motivated by a lack of money, but just to make it stop bothering me. Basic income would be ideal for me, because I could get to work.I care about creating value, not making money. Converting the value I create into money has always been a janitorial task.Just some thoughts listening to https://youtu.be/xvZB93rnq4Q (where he said he's not motivated by having money but is still motivated by making it), and being reminded of https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
       
 (DIR) Post #Apn6IDYwSshfChDrdo by landley@mstdn.jp
       2025-01-05T20:11:24Z
       
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       I say this having saved coins in a bag over a year when I was 5, thinking compound interest was the greatest game mechanic EVER at 7, I read a biography of Warren Buffett for fun right after graduating college, spent 3 years during the height of the dot-com boom writing stock market investment columns...I've known HOW to make money. I had a gig making $50/hr at 26,  and was offered $75 to stay. And I was absolutely MISERABLE. The money was like a video game score, when I hated the game.
       
 (DIR) Post #Apn6IJgFic7GB6gmrw by landley@mstdn.jp
       2025-01-05T20:17:59Z
       
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       Took me a longish time not to feel I'd failed somehow by being emotionally unable to persist at Cashing In and compounding. I paid off all my debts early on (see "lack of money") but didn't even make regular contributions to my coca-cola stock DRIP. (Invest by mail! Zero effort required!)The problem was I never converted to capitalism. I was like someone studying theology and winding up atheist. Money isn't REAL. It's as bad a way to organize a society as the "divine right of kings" was.