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>Your most important asset is your ability to produce income. You... may want to reconsider that one.
by trevyn 8y ago
>Your most important asset is your ability to produce income.
You... may want to reconsider that one.
- javacodecreeks 8y agoOK
- your-nanny 8y agofor many people that is the only significant asset they possess. see: Das Kapital
- tajen 8y agoI work with beaten husbands and most often, the beating starts because of their inability to produce income for the wife. Most divorces start after a layoff too. If you believe you have value beyond your ability to produce, it’s nice, many people transform beliefs into truth by excluding all opposite evidence. Meanwhile, keeping the wife is way more correlated with produce than other factors like weight or unmeasurable things (aka: love and attention).
- michaelcampbell 8y agoMany have, for generations, came up with the same answer and it works for them.
- watwut 8y agoIn other popular threads on this site, people have long discussions about loneliness, depression and suicides. If works for some, it does not work for all in the long term.
- cicero 8y agoEven if you disagree with that, there are many other goals in life that are aided by being physically healthy.
- rubicon33 8y agoI would love to know, oh wise one, which of your many assets is going to help you when you have no means of securing a roof over your head, no means of a meal every night, no means of healthcare, or safety. I'm going to go ahead and agree with OP. Your ability to make money is your greatest asset, and one you should protect.
- codr4 8y agoThere are plenty of people who are managing that without making any money at all, despite all sorts of prolonged efforts to turn their way of living into hell. Integrity, being surrounded by loving people, being in good health, having the freedom to be all that you are. Those are all more important from my perspective. We've been carefully conditioned to believe that this game is the only alternative, it's not.
- rubicon33 8y agoI don't believe it's the only game, rather, I believe it's the best. The alternatives are theoretically wonderful, but when you lose the security of regular meals, a roof over your head, a shower, etc... Suddenly I'm not convinced. Judging from the fact that you too are posting from a computer, running on the internet, I can assume you haven't adopted the virtuous life of income free bliss that you speak of?
- codr4 8y agoOh, for heavens sake. That's as far as you can see? You can get that in prison. We were born and raised on a giant slave plantation. There are enough resources to take care of everyone, so much that some of it has to be kept off the market to keep up the illusion and prices. I'm currently scraping by at a bare minimum, growing my own vegetables and foraging whatever I can find in the area. And I find it infinitely more satisfying than writing software for startups and helping them rape the world in the name of profit. On a more constructive note: Consider the effort put into, and importance of, visualization in sports and other areas. If you can't see it; it's just not going to happen, ever. Same goes collectively. What's worse, you tend to get more or less what you expect. Which is why the people running our plantation put so much effort into making us visualize exactly the kind of slave life they have planned for us.
- dang 8y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099961 and marked it off-topic.