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mtrimpe · 01-13-2007, 03:34 AM

As to the contextual history, I've dug in pretty deep and to me it has become virtually insignificant. We still have interest on loans, people still pay rent for their apartments, companies still make profits and nations still levy taxes.

I personally recently adopted the belief that it is best to have a strong vision of your personal utopia and find the most direct, powerful and effective route towards it. Finding that route takes a lot of imagination and creativity and most importantly the willingness to accept that it will probably be later generations that reap what you sow, but it has already given me a far greater sense of purpose.

As to your statement about the applicability of this philosophy, I have already made quite some changes in the last few weeks since reading the book:

I abandoned my goal of becoming rich
I now see my boss(es) as people who offer me a service and demand access to the information I need to determine if they're not getting paid too much for what they offer me.
I set the goal of paying off all my debt because that was making some investor somewhere rich without having to work for it
I decided that any undertaking I plan would only involve freelancers or philanthropists.
It made me develop concrete plans for an electronic system of government where the citizen can decide how he wants to spend his taxes.
I converted my initial plan to get rich by becoming the eBay of real estate, to a plan to facilitate swapping occupancy of real-estate back and forth as needed easily and effortlessly.
It got me started on developing plans for an internet based economy that takes away the fallacies of capitalism I could detect and that can peacefully spread over the world.

Each one of these changes brings the world closer to my personal utopia, instead of taking me farther away from it. I now feel that I'm working on improving the foundation of society, instead of adding another floor onto any one sky-scraper in it, and it feels a hell of a lot better!

I do love your final statement though. I must subconsciously have been asking for that play on words to be made

. Let's just say that I'm turning up my metabolism and working on nuclear fusion.

01-13-2007, 03:34 AM	#23 (permalink)
mtrimpe Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 127	As to the contextual history, I've dug in pretty deep and to me it has become virtually insignificant. We still have interest on loans, people still pay rent for their apartments, companies still make profits and nations still levy taxes. I personally recently adopted the belief that it is best to have a strong vision of your personal utopia and find the most direct, powerful and effective route towards it. Finding that route takes a lot of imagination and creativity and most importantly the willingness to accept that it will probably be later generations that reap what you sow, but it has already given me a far greater sense of purpose. As to your statement about the applicability of this philosophy, I have already made quite some changes in the last few weeks since reading the book: I abandoned my goal of becoming rich I now see my boss(es) as people who offer me a service and demand access to the information I need to determine if they're not getting paid too much for what they offer me. I set the goal of paying off all my debt because that was making some investor somewhere rich without having to work for it I decided that any undertaking I plan would only involve freelancers or philanthropists. It made me develop concrete plans for an electronic system of government where the citizen can decide how he wants to spend his taxes. I converted my initial plan to get rich by becoming the eBay of real estate, to a plan to facilitate swapping occupancy of real-estate back and forth as needed easily and effortlessly. It got me started on developing plans for an internet based economy that takes away the fallacies of capitalism I could detect and that can peacefully spread over the world. Each one of these changes brings the world closer to my personal utopia, instead of taking me farther away from it. I now feel that I'm working on improving the foundation of society, instead of adding another floor onto any one sky-scraper in it, and it feels a hell of a lot better! I do love your final statement though. I must subconsciously have been asking for that play on words to be made . Let's just say that I'm turning up my metabolism and working on nuclear fusion.