If I had to write a letter to myself 20 years ago, it would be: - People are evil and getting more evil. Don't trust anyone. The governments of the world are c

If I had to write a letter to myself 20 years ago, it would be: - People are evil and getting more evil. Don't trust anyone. The governments of the world are corrupt and will become more corrupt. Forget about principles and ethics. - Invest in the hype. Those who control the money supply are twisted fucks. Don't save money, don't look for value investments, don't look for logic or reason. Do the opposite of everything you were taught. Be reckless. Follow the trends. Don't think; just do what everyone else is doing as soon as it starts to look trendy. Don't look at the underlying tech or fundamentals; the worse the fundamentals, the less efficient, the better the investment! - Corporations are going to get bigger because the government will help them to establish and expand their monopolies and this will make it impossible to start a small business since it will compete with the interests of corporations. The playing field is not even so don't play that fucking game; they get free money from the government, you don't; they play a different game. The majority of people with power will support corporate monopolies no matter how harmful they are, so nobody will even speak up, you'll be fucked. - Don't start working on open source. Even if your open source project becomes popular, corporations will use your open source work to make the world a worse place and everyone will make money from your work except you. What kind of fucking world do you think this is? - Playing by the rules and doing the right thing is for idiots! So far you've been a fucking idiot! - Be an asshole! Everyone else around you will be an even worse piece of shit so you won't even feel bad about it! It will feel normal. Your successful asshole friends will even think you're a nice guy and they will praise you for your comparatively superior ethics (trust me, the worst stuff that you're capable of doing is not that bad). - If you think that this sounds 'not worth it', you don't want to know what happens if you continue down the righteous path that you're currently on. Trust me, as your future self who always tried to do the right thing, choose the asshole path.