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“The only rules that matter are the ones that matter” Most of the rules that most people live by are bullshit and only serve to hold you back. The key is in fi

“The only rules that matter are the ones that matter” Most of the rules that most people live by are bullshit and only serve to hold you back. The key is in figuring out which is which. In the extreme, many laws are not even enforced. I’ve mad my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong. The pearl clutching rule followers equate rule following with ethics. They’re often wrong.

newsbinator 6y ago
> I’ve made my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong. I'd like to hear more about this.
- ryanmarsh 6y ago
  I dropped out of high school, didn't go to college, took a break from my career to serve in the Army, started a business with an empty bank account (multiple times), didn't pay my taxes until I could afford to do so, took big risks, never asked permission at clients just did what I thought was best for them (breaking all kinds of internal rules), violated contracts and non-competes, skirted the law on international movements of money and doing business with sketchy places, other things I won't mention that are technically legal but could get me in hot water if someone didn't like me, sold things I didn't have (yet), and much more.
  - zarkov99 6y ago
    Do people in your life like you?
    - ryanmarsh 6y ago
      IDK, I assume so, I have long close friendships and a stable happy family. Why wouldn't they?
      - zarkov99 6y ago
        From your post it sounded like you might just not care about other people. I was trying to understand where you were coming from better. Part of me likes your approach but another part made me suspect you were just an A-Hole, no offense. Seems like that is not the case.
        ryanmarsh 6y ago
        I care very much about other people. I care so much that I am infuriated by the structures around us that make a prison for those leading lives of quiet desperation
        zarkov99 6y ago
        Fair enough, you sound like a cool dude.
gizmo385 6y ago
This feels like one of those things where you're only able to do this because of those "pearl clutching rule followers". If everyone lived to break most rules, I doubt that would be a good thing.
- ryanmarsh 6y ago
  I think most of the "rules" (especially the ones middle class people live by) are actually quite harmful.

newsbinator 6y ago

> I’ve made my living breaking all the “rules” and by doing everything wrong. I'd like to hear more about this.

ryanmarsh 6y ago
I dropped out of high school, didn't go to college, took a break from my career to serve in the Army, started a business with an empty bank account (multiple times), didn't pay my taxes until I could afford to do so, took big risks, never asked permission at clients just did what I thought was best for them (breaking all kinds of internal rules), violated contracts and non-competes, skirted the law on international movements of money and doing business with sketchy places, other things I won't mention that are technically legal but could get me in hot water if someone didn't like me, sold things I didn't have (yet), and much more.
- zarkov99 6y ago
  Do people in your life like you?
  - ryanmarsh 6y ago
    IDK, I assume so, I have long close friendships and a stable happy family. Why wouldn't they?
    - zarkov99 6y ago
      From your post it sounded like you might just not care about other people. I was trying to understand where you were coming from better. Part of me likes your approach but another part made me suspect you were just an A-Hole, no offense. Seems like that is not the case.
      - ryanmarsh 6y ago
        I care very much about other people. I care so much that I am infuriated by the structures around us that make a prison for those leading lives of quiet desperation
        zarkov99 6y ago
        Fair enough, you sound like a cool dude.

gizmo385 6y ago

This feels like one of those things where you're only able to do this because of those "pearl clutching rule followers". If everyone lived to break most rules, I doubt that would be a good thing.

ryanmarsh 6y ago
I think most of the "rules" (especially the ones middle class people live by) are actually quite harmful.