"boomers can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent" - it's why I don't buy new things when avoidable. They're all cheap facsimiles, or ultra luxury handmade. In some ways it's a reversion to most of history, aristocracy could afford highest quality items across the board, rest could afford one shirt, one chair, etc. so I buy Antique or vintage furniture, salvaged wood, used cars (toyota/lexus only). Trying to find value in a world where everyone has forgotten what quality is.
Wow, Sean is great. So cool to hear someone succinctly tie together what were in my mind disparate ideas and framings related through a general skepticism of the progressive and modern: fraud of the whole macro climate, criminal inflation of asset prices, the degeneration of actual productive capacity, but also the generational dynamics, and the ultimate solution of something closer to self sufficiency / small communities, for when the fall cometh...
I'm an older millennial so sort of lucky to have just got some purchase on career growth into the fake (tech) economy, was able to afford my first home after five years of looking, but inwardly I pretty much totally reject the modern project... feel somewhat caught between my (relatively recent conversion to) Orthodox Christianity on the one hand, with its rejection of modern epistemology, and selling b2b software on the other. The saving grace is living basically in the woods, and trying to build competence in physical things, and enlist those around me, so this resonated deeply.
It seems this cycle of excess has been around in one form or another since Roman times or earlier, so I guess we are just the latest iteration...
"boomers can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent" - it's why I don't buy new things when avoidable. They're all cheap facsimiles, or ultra luxury handmade. In some ways it's a reversion to most of history, aristocracy could afford highest quality items across the board, rest could afford one shirt, one chair, etc. so I buy Antique or vintage furniture, salvaged wood, used cars (toyota/lexus only). Trying to find value in a world where everyone has forgotten what quality is.
Very smart
Now is a great time for getting antiques, as many younger people don’t see the value in the older, better stuff
“If printing money created value, then everyone in Zimbabwe would be a trillionaire.”
Lazerbeam quote
I was laughing quite hard when he said that. So good
Finished listening, some more thoughts:
Wow, Sean is great. So cool to hear someone succinctly tie together what were in my mind disparate ideas and framings related through a general skepticism of the progressive and modern: fraud of the whole macro climate, criminal inflation of asset prices, the degeneration of actual productive capacity, but also the generational dynamics, and the ultimate solution of something closer to self sufficiency / small communities, for when the fall cometh...
I'm an older millennial so sort of lucky to have just got some purchase on career growth into the fake (tech) economy, was able to afford my first home after five years of looking, but inwardly I pretty much totally reject the modern project... feel somewhat caught between my (relatively recent conversion to) Orthodox Christianity on the one hand, with its rejection of modern epistemology, and selling b2b software on the other. The saving grace is living basically in the woods, and trying to build competence in physical things, and enlist those around me, so this resonated deeply.
It seems this cycle of excess has been around in one form or another since Roman times or earlier, so I guess we are just the latest iteration...