He still died
He who dies with the most toys, still dies.
The great leveller. Death.
You hear about all of these people who die doing what they love and wonder, was it worth it?
I have many questions if people and many more of myself but these days I find that it is easier and easier to justify the avoidance of discovering what we truly love to do and instead set much less lofty milestones for success.
I think this happens a lot on Steem where people want to do what they love and expect to get paid for it. Perhaps what you love is not the kind of thing that people want to pay for, perhaps it is but your skill of delivery or ability to engage your audience is just not good enough.
Someone may love to paint but this doesn't mean that anyone else on earth cares for the subject matter or, connects with techniques or implementation used. Should one be paid for effort even if there is no demand for what is supplied?
We are filled with conflicts and I believe one of these is the expectation that effort in deserves reward. Perhaps nothing we do deserves reward, no matter how valuable it could be bit we are all at the mercy of those who offer rewards. Should we pander to the reward or do what we love regardless?
This seems like the discussion of first world problems but it is not, if anything it is for those who are in the worst economic circumstances imaginable as what is the way out of those circumstances? Is it only finding ways to make ends meet by working in a system that is stacked to ensure that the chance of breaking out of that system is approaching zero?
Tell me, for all the people who have earned a paycheck, how many have been able to convert that value into more than it was worth at the time? Very few I'd say, yet profits keep climbing for the companies and banks while we keep buying consumables with a decreasing half-life instead of investing it into something that has a growing value model.
Most people who buy a house these days will fail to make a sale profit once inflation, repairs and rates are factored in. Cars are a money pit. So, what have we bought that actually preserves value or even better, grows in value? List the things in the comments section that you hold.
For most, it is a life of consumption and debt increase while what is real gets gobbled up by those who trade the valueless for it. We are trained to work for money and buy consumables while they covert their profits into assets. It is pretty obvious where it leads isn't it? Haves and have-nots. And, they can keep printing more of what we want to trade us for the assets we hold.
What has value to you in this life? Is it a difficult question - shouldn't it be so blatantly obvious to you that the answer is immediate, not even a pause of thought? You know what is happening on the news, the latest show, the sports but, you don't know what actually holds value in your life? Avoidance.
That bee in the picture died doing what it loved, without likely having known it. It served its purpose based on instinct and completed a life fully. We are not bees, we have to parse instinct through many filters and we have the ability to question the program and choose how we approach life yet, how many do? How examined is life when all we do is at the whims of others, all our attention and intention directed by the wills of others.
You think you are free to choose don't you? While you complain about not being able to do what you love because it doesn't come with a paycheck attached to buy more consumables while they but assets. You wonder how you don't have enough while their wealth keeps growing.
Every decision we make is s purchase. What we buy makes a difference. If only to us.
We all die. Do we all live?
Taraz
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As a student I hoarded books. Later I sold or gave away most of those. I had to move too many times and I did not value great books that much as object. The ideas there could be bought again in new bodies or e-format. I still keep some valuable books. Valuable to me, not to the market in general;
Now... camera equipment is a money pit ;) A huge one.
What I have as assets are photos, especially those of things that will age or disappear. Some of the photos I discard as I become more critical, but others stay and have more value to me. Maybe one day - to the market as well;
I also gather some small samples of other people's art. Because I like it, not because I believe it will cost more in the future.
Collectibles like TCG cards may become assets. Or weigh me down.
Anyway, those are all items. They may all disappear in a flash.
Knowledge, ideas and experience, interpersonal relationships and ties, too... Those are real assets we have. And they are not eternal, too. nothing is.
Yes unless it is a tool of the trade :D
Perhaps the value is in what was discarded as it limits the run of what is left.
Nothing is eternal except the moment of now. The only thing that will continue, observed or not.
A shovel of the trade I have to use to dig myself out of the money pit first ;)
An interesting perspective. What is discarded in general.
If you think about Michelangelo carving David, what was removed revealed what was of value beneath. This is how I see much of life's questions, a removal of what is not the answer.
How true. No we do not all live some only exist. Thanks @tarazkp
Existence is futile.
Houses aren't supposed to grow in value as they age. It would be disastrous if the average house grew on value as it aged, taking the cost of repairs and upgrades into account. That could only happen during a worsening housing shortage. A house can be thought of as an investment in particularly favourable locations. And in that case it is only the land that appreciates.
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You mean like building with pipework that needs to be upgraded every 25 years? When the plumbing was done on my building, double the cost and a building company could have built two brand new buildings in their stead. Those renovations get tacked onto the building value but make no change to the building itself. it is a scam :D
What I'm saying is that the prices of already existing homes cannot grow faster than inflation in the long run (except they're located in places that are becoming more attractive to live in at the expense of other places) unless there is something seriously wrong. I only mentioned repairs and upgrades because that's the only way to keep the value of any building from eventually going to zero as it ages.
When we were buying a house and calculating whether it made sense to buy or rent, I factored in an annual 1.5 percent depreciation of the value of the building minus renovations or possible upgrades. Old houses should not cost the same as new ones anywhere (unless they are some kind of culturally significant architectural works). If houses don't get significantly cheaper as they age (especially if they're not renovated according to the expected life span of various structures and systems), then there is a severe housing shortage for one reason or another or a stupidity epidemic among buyers. If don't renovate a residential building ever, then it will deteriorate to a point where living in it becomes too hazardous for health.
Houses are not investments nor a vehicle for the middle class to grow their wealth. The only exception to that is land appreciation and land can only appreciate in real terms in areas whose desirability as places to live in is increasing at the expense of other places. There are places like Vancouver, BC, Canada, or Toronto, Canada where ordinary houses cost seven figures CAD (or USD) and that is tragic. Runaway house prices are nothing but a wealth transfer mechanism from the younger generations to the older. In those places, young people are forced to move out or live with their parents forever. In those places, the tragedy is caused by Chinese money fleeing the country.
Now, it's too bad if people in your building have been told that pipework has to be redone every 25 years. It's actually designed to last 40-50 years. Usually, when the pipework is upgraded it makes no economic sense to do only that. It's a given that the bathrooms be renovated at the same time. It makes sense to replace the electrical wiring and systems at the same time, too. There is no reason to do that every 25 years. The designed life of those systems is much longer, more like a half century.
"We all die. Do we all live?"
Live or try dying.
I'm here to collect experiences, from a unique perspective. Mine.
Whether positive, or negative (subjective), an experience, is an experience. I will return to the collective, with what I have gathered, and the collective will be greater, from my contribution.
Peace.
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This is the thing with buying experiences, every decision buys a new one, even if it isn't what one might actually want to experience.
The selection of experiences offered to us in the age of kali yuga, will generally not be to advance our cause in this life. One must therefore consciously choose what experience they would like. Sometimes though, we tend to bottleneck our decision making processes, at a level of basic body operating consciousness, and not allow faith to guide us, in that we already have this under control, at a higher level of conscious over view.
Peace.
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Been there, done that... I now hold value to the experiences in my life and try to add to them daily. It will be better to enjoy time and anything I could buy.
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Knowledge, Experiences & Wisdom, bought with hard earned time tokens. Are the only valuable 'thangs' that I'm gonna truly bring with me to my grave!!
Do the thing than you like,
If you can get a return at the same time,
You would be more engaged,
Because of many things,
When he is doing, he must has to pay out,
And the return can reduce his pay out.
Make him more motivated,
But want to many return,
Often can only give up his dreams,
Because not everything can succeed
So the trade-off is very important.