What is the point of building a stable career or life when a few powerful people can disrupt entire economies overnight?
Looking for practical and philosophical perspectives. How do you plan long-term in a world where global decisions feel unpredictable?
What is the point of building a stable career or life when a few powerful people can disrupt entire economies overnight?
byu/ArjunSreedhar ineconomy
Posted by ArjunSreedhar
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I understand the thought process, but I try to live life normally and be prepared for anything.
I also try to stay away from the fear mongering on YouTube…
Prioritize long term access to clean water, grow some food so you understand how cheap healthy food should be, develop local community (the part i don’t like and don’t do, but is necessary for meaningful security).
At the moment jobs tend to be tied to high rent areas. Getting out of those high rent areas is the first real step to removing the influence of elite rent seekers.
The alternative to a stable career and life is worse.
Because we don’t cower in fear
Figure out what grounds you and gives you a sense of belonging and calm.
unless you plan on being fully self sufficient in certain or all aspects of your life then you are forced to participate within the system you exist in.
you can buy a parcel of land totally off the grid and live off the land and be completely disconnected from the effects of those few powerful people. or you can choose to participate in society and work within establish boundaries.
nihilism is lame imo. nothing matters so what’s the point (in short) is such a boring way to live. much more fun to lean into absurdism. nothing *innately* matters so find what matters to you and pursue that as a rebellion to an otherwise indifferent universe.
you have to participate in the meaningless parts of life (unfortunately) to be able to experience the parts of life that have meaning to you.
Long term planning is never easy. Now it is much more difficult as the USA has decided to shred the rule of law and the Republican party has fully embraced corruption as the main guiding principle behind policy.
Many other countries have experienced such governments for decades. The chaos such corruption at the core of the economy obviously reduces the goods created by the economy (such policies reduce the effectiveness of the economy). So there are many fewer resources to allocate to those living in a country that is focused on corruption returns to those in government and those paying them to disrupt the economy/rule-of-law etc. for themselves.
Look to how people plan for the long term when they are subject to the rule of those behaving as the Republican party has been. It is a much more difficult environment for those that are not in on the corruption to get by. But it can be done. Mainly it requires cutting your standard of living and increasing your savings.
And it requires much more thought on how to invest to protect from a government that abuses citizens for the gains of the those in government and those paying politicians for favors. You have to look at countries that have historically behaved that way and not at past USA investment options (when rule of law was generally respected and while there was corruption it was very limited compared to what is going on now).
It isn’t nearly as calm as long term planning when the USA was behaving as it did from 1950 to 2015. But it is even more critical as the risks to your financial health are much greater in the new USA than they were in the USA as it used to operate.
I don’t know of simple answers. Though one is certainly to reduce your standard of living now and increase savings to cope with the lower investment returns the USA has chosen to accept going forward.