Maybe there’s a disconnect with the majority of the current generation from the truth about wealth preservation because they have been sheltered from the consequences of nature.
Farmers in the global north know that more than most that there are seasons you can grow efficiently and effectively, and seasons you can’t.
When the spring came, as early as you could determine it was safe enough, you began to work hard, consistently as the time was good to produce. You didn’t sit around drinking margaritas, indulging yourself, you did the opposite.
You essentially lived poor compared to your capacity because you knew one day, you would need the yield of your productivity to be enough to outlast the winter, with some buffer (for the taxes of the past were less numeral and more about nature’s little ones eating from your stock) and maybe some extra hopefully to deal with a blight year in the future.
When the winter came, it was all based on the work you did in the summer. you worked hard, saving way more than you needed in that moment.
You lived poor when you were producing. Only celebrated big and shared with your community when you were sure you had too much.
We probably could have done way better in managing money had we farmed as kids for a few years. Learned how energy really works by touching it with our hands, moving it physically, feeling it through our muscles. How scarcity is treated with respect, how abundance is treated with care.
#bitcoin has this farming concept built into it digitally, which is why only those who are willing to hit the fields at least once with it, find how it speaks more truth than any other money we’ve ever used.
The above was inspired by some contemplation I have done on much of what
@Jeff Booth has spoken about.
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