Is minimalism the final Zig Forums pill?
Is minimalism the final Zig Forums pill?
Thomas Ortiz
Austin Johnson
Pretty much, in practice not spending ten bucks in stupid bullshit is the same as making ten bucks.
Jose Brooks
Yes. Don’t fall for the consoomer trap. Cars (shiny wagecuck cages) new phone every 2 years etc etc.
Eli Wright
every dollar you save and invest is a soldier working for you.
Ian Bailey
Money buys freedom, not some fucking useless trinkets. Consooming is bad form.
Julian Foster
In Taleb's world, freedom is the ultimate goal, not being rich. That's why he prefers to be referred to as a "flanuer" these days: an idler or lounger. He has a host of quotes in the book about not falling into the hedonic trappings of wealth. Here are some of my favorites:
* "When people get rich...[t]hey lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences to their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery."
* "Most people, I am convinced, are happier in close quarters, in a real barrio-style neighborhood, where they can feel human warmth, have company, but when they have big bucks they end up pressured to move into a outsized impersonal and silent mansions, far away from the neighbors. [sic]"
* "You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on his peer assessment."
Owen Green
Minimalism is larping as poor. Actually poor people, like the depression generation, keep virtually everything to reuse.
Noah Ross
Consumption is what keeps the capitalist economy omg alive today. It’s household consumption is 70% of US GDP.
Ryan Hernandez
based
Brayden Roberts
>Most people, I am convinced, are happier in close quarters, in a real barrio-style neighborhood, where they can feel human warmth, have company, but when they have big bucks they end up pressured to move into a outsized impersonal and silent mansions, far away from the neighbors. [sic]
I assume pic related is only a small wing of his house judging by this room alone