A few months ago a single guy, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, with a few words was able to cause a small crash in the cryptocurrency market. The market shortly recovered but this action alone created some thoughts that most people are not willing to face. Worse, even if most of us do face them, we choose to ignore in the longterm (for our sake).
Most people believe that working 9-5, havings kids and a few hobbies satisfies what is to become human. One third of most people's life revolves around working for almost nothing other than putting food on the table and paying bills. Yet, Jamie Dimon, with few scare tactics about Bitcoin was able to subtract billions in market valuations in just a few hours. Entire countries are not able to make that much money in years.
If someone works 9-5 for $5 an hour while Jamie made some billions in few hours with just saying a few words this can put things in perspective. Is it worth pursuing some kind of meaning in this life under our civilised "Jamian" world? If 1/3 of our lives is spend in order to mingle in Jamie Dimo's empire while we spend another 1/3 sleeping then there is not much left. Without even knowing it, we become autobots of some sick scheme. Hard work means nothing. Dedication means nothing. Ethics and morals have meaning only if enough people embrace similar values. In other words, we can all sit and cry and pointing fingers at Dimon while he just looks from the top, looking with a sense of apathy. Don't worry though. We do the same as Westerners for people that from Latin America and Africa.
I personally find no point is pursuing a western civilisation game that was set for the sake of consumption. I am a hardcore capitalist but I prefer to invest in my own capital, my own values and most importantly my own lifestyle. For better or worse, those values are not shared by most people around me and I am not willing to make any compromises so that I can belong under this sick game. This was also the reason I chose Bitcoin a few years ago. Due to this, I have lowly withdrawn from civilisation and joined the wild. And I love it.
Wealth can be spent on one's offspring, house, gadgets, pleasures and such but at some point when everything is satisfied wealth will mean nothing. Spending a life time accumulating little by little so that it can feed major whales such as Dimon is pointless. For one, people like him don't know where to spend the money. More so, it is not worth an average guys time and effort to sacrifice their life for the memes of country and family. For most people, the amount of money they would make in order to afford pleasures will be minimal. They are better off living off grid for themselves. Any investment made for the civilised world will be eaten up by higher interests.
Probably one day humanity will figure out this wealth meme and realize that our life on this planet is minimal. Perhaps we need something or someone to scare the shit out of us in order for us to understand that the most valuable thing we time. We have less of it day by day. Why throw it away?
