Objectivist Criticism of Consumerism and Making Money | Podcast
5Outline:
- I’m not driven by money
- Consumerism, junk, clutter and too much trash are bad
- Having an average income to buy mass-produced and mass-available things is good
- Being rich doesn’t give you much more to buy. Our society is bad at selling additional things worth having
- “Expensive tastes” are bad
- Semi on strike like John Galt
- No differentiated work that helps power structures – don’t sell unique brains or morality
- In our world, money doesn’t correspond well with productive achievement
- Don’t help evil corporations like Google, Amazon, Coke, Nestle, big pharma, big banks, big oil (Alex Epstein shill)
- Quiet quitting
- Certain types of work are safer and can’t really be co-opted by the powerful
- Science
- Art
- Philosophy
- Hair stylist
- Money, ownership, passive income or other wealth isn’t safe:
- Government confiscation
- Inflation
- Wrong investments, e.g. stock or bond market crash
- Scams, fraud, phishing, theft
- Lawsuits
- Natural disasters
- Medical bills
- Capability to earn is safer. Then you can do more work at the current market rate if needed
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