Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air ‘money’ require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.
Chris Martenson
Quotes
#111 – Bukowski on Life
I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.
Charles Bukowski
#110 Wallman on Stuff…
Overwhelmed, and suffocating from stuff, we are suffering from an anxiety that I call Stuffocation.
James Wallman
#109 – Pirsig on Religion
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
Robert Pirsig
#108 – Nolan on Reading
Why bother reading something that you won’t remember?
Jonathan Nolan
#107 – Pullman, Religion
Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don’t accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It’s still going on.
Philip Pullman
#106 – Bassey Johnson on Advice
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#105 – Anon on Unemployment
A day unemployed is like a bagel – even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
Anonymous
#104 – See on Relationships
I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
Lisa See
#103 – Graeber on Work
We have become a civilization based on work—not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself.
David Graeber
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