I'm a pretty jaded guy.. with people, systems, rulesets, you name it. I have no intention of changing that about myself and dumbing myself down. I'm above lying to myself that things aren't ****.
That being said, I won't deny that it's causing me to sabotage my professional life pretty seriously.
Putting forth the slightest amount of effort at a job makes me feel stupid.. like I'm fighting for something that's not gonna get me anywhere because social mobility is a lie save for ungodly strokes of luck.
Not gonna happen.
I share similar views
A career and salary is the biggest con of all time ...."Give us 40+ hours of your life per week and in exchange we will provide you with a nominal amount per year that you will need to give half of back to the state and you will be trained to spend the rest on utter crap , this amount will never be enough to sustain you and therefore you will need to continue exchanging all of your time for the rest of eternity"
Once you frame it like this you realise your onto a perpetual loser
"work hard" is another phrase that is abundantly meaningless yet used be the system as a dangling carrot to ensure the average drone has some hope of one day attaining that tony montana mansion on his salary
Of course if you look at the highest levels of society thats.... bankers, politicians , economists, government officials etc most are undeniably corrupt and are usually acquiring their gains illegally they are just smart enough to make sure they don't get caught
I am fortunate in that i have found a few ways to " hack the system "
1) stay out of debt
2) Avoid purchasing a vast majority of useless consumer goods , you do not need a new tv or a new mobile phone every year i bought a tv 10 years ago it still works perfectly today
3) Find a product which consumers want and sell it to them (if the markup is less than 50% forget about it)
4) Find someone or someones you trust to share living expenses with
5) avoid taxation by any means necessary - many fail to realise this is designed to keep you poor
6) Always Invest in the opposite of what the rest of the market is buying ......stock markets follow herd mentality and move in cycles you need to be ahead of the herd not behind it
7) avoid people who make you feel like you need to compete with them , this is another system construct which is designed to suck you in to perpetually wanting "more"
I look at social media and it is full of people competing with one another - yet nobody can ever win
its hilarious
8) do as little as possible for as much in return as possible.
