Something isn’t right here with our systems.
Anybody else feel this?
The Earth provides every resource we need
We, the humans, use our intelligence to manipulate materials into goods for our use
We cut the tree, turn it to wood
We take the wood and turn it into houses, chairs, tables, paper
We, the humans, invent our systems… we co-create our reality. We’re just making it up. We make the rules, the laws, the systems.
Let’s chat on the money system…
We’ve invented the money system to aid in the trade of goods and services
But the way we are currently operating feels to me less than optimal
It’s NOT optimal that we capitalize on our basic needs, because then so much of our energy is wasted when it could be better allocated for improving operations, well-being, enjoyment, pleasure and an overall better life experience across the board.
Because of the current operating system so much of our time is spent working to make money to pay for goods that would otherwise not be necessary to continue to pay for, but we do because of capitalism.
I’d like to speak specifically on HOUSING for the sake of illustrating this point.
After you have built your home/shelter, the thing is built. It’s DONE. It need not be bothered unless some repair is needed. Outside of repairs and upgrades being made over the many years, for the most part the home is DONE. There is no need to keep “PAYING” for it, AKA exerting ENERGY, AKA make MONEY to keep PAYING for a thing that is already DONE. But whyyyy do we do it? CAPITALISM.
And beyond that, we have governmental forces wanting to TAX (aka make money) on LAND, whereas LAND is intrinsically free of monetary value. Land is a natural space that has no actual intrinsic monetary cost. It is humans that are putting a monetary cost to an otherwise costless thing. Why? Because of the current system at hand.
There are many people who benefit from the way things are who would have no incentive to make any changes. There are many who have studied and understood the “game” and are playing the “game” and thus perpetuating the system as is. Even if a new person becomes wealthy from capitalism and now is blessed with riches, opportunities, ease and comfort, that person will still not thrive as optimally as possible because the world in which we are co-creating isn’t an optimal world.
Ok, I kind of went off the rails with that last point there as it’s quite a high level perspective.
The point I am making isn’t that capitalism is bad or good. The point I’m making is that there is something off about how we are currently operating and I believe it could be better.
I believe we could have much better systems that waste less of our personal energy. Systems where we don’t have to waste time to make money just to pay for certain resources that could simply be a given. Instead our energy could be better allocated and put towards doing epic things that make us more intelligent, help us have more fun, joy, pleasure and have an AMAZING TIME on this beautiful Earth.
The point is we could be LAUGHING more, loving more, we could be healthier, happier, and more at ease in our bodies. We could be seeing the world. We could actually make it to MARS in our lifetime. We could feed EVERYONE. We could probably even figure out something mind blowing like creating a TIME MACHINE!!
But no. We are POORLY allocating our time to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for wood we found of the Earth in nature for free just because it turned into a house.
Like come the fuck on. I KNOW we can make a better system than this.
so the other day I was watching a course on real estate investing so I could learn how it all works
and then I had this epiphany
“It’s fake.” 🫠
let me explain…
We, the humans, are inventing the rules, the laws, the systems, the stuff you see around you
We’re the one making up stuff
We use our intelligence to make stuff from the stuff we find on Earth and then we start making up these rules and stories about it all…
We even invent sounds (words) to point to objects so we can understand and come to an agreement about all the stuff we keep inventing
We make the laws, the systems
it’s made up… by us
It isn’t “real”. There is no actual intrinsic law that says a red light means you stop. We just made that up so we could organize traffic.
So if we make the rules of our world, shouldn’t it just be intuitive that we’d want to make it awesome!?
It’s tricky though because we all have different definitions of what an awesome world would look like and what that means
but I’m pretty confident in our ability to figure it out
to harmonize…
but here’s the other curious thing
there does seem to be some intrinsic order that permeates reality that is in effect apart from our human creations and inventions
Like the sky, and the rain
and the fact that my spoon will fall if I drop it
there are some “laws” of nature
and there there is also the curious thing that there even is something at all to begin with
something rather than nothing
and that something is inherently intelligent and organized, to the point of fabricating your beautiful face which such detail- your beating heart with it’s perfect veins connecting to other parts of your body… and all the living creatures- all so unique and with such FINE detail. Like bro, have you LOOKED at a birds feather and how exquisite it is? And just literally everything. Like a grain of sand, a rock, the ocean, the trees swaying in the wind.
LIKE WTF?
I’m in literal awe
but then zoom in on us… the humans…
and then there’s our stuff… the college applications and the line at the DMV and the glorious cup of coffee at Starbucks, chocolate ice cream, and Seinfeld… oh and the housing situation!!!
We are making up all this extra shit
So given that we are making up the extra shit — shouldn’t we be making it good for us all to enjoy a good time on Earth?
I vote yes!
Because why should some struggle while others don’t?
I don’t know,
this is a long topic and it’s late and I’m sleepy
but yeah
those have been some of my reflections
Too da loo
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