Life goes on
Life still goes on 🕯️
Today marks 4 years being married to the best human on earth
@ArthurMacwaters 🤍
A few things to know about Arthur:
>he still wakes me up with coffee four years later
>he believes marriage is something you continually invest in
>he has more integrity than anyone I know
>he goes on prayer walks almost every day
>he has a childlike appreciation for wildlife and will attempt to catch almost anything at least once
>he stands firmly behind what he believes in
>he came from a small town and very humble beginnings
>he works harder than almost anyone I know
>he is endlessly curious and always learning
>he’s incredibly loyal
>he is generous without needing anyone to know about it
>he believes there is always a solution.
>he challenges me to think bigger and isn’t afraid to dream
>he makes ordinary life feel like an adventure
>he loves God and genuinely wants his life to reflect that
>he is still my favorite person to come home to
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How are midgets going to complain when they are the only "minority" group that has always been represented in media as they are without hate?
LotR/Hobbit
Willow
Willy Wonka
Wizard of Oz
Time Bandits
The list goes on, and still those ingrate dwarves complain about being oppressed, from who?
The only dwarf hater that's worked to get other dwarves disenfranchised by CGI and the same pygmy actor for everything, has been Peter Dinklage: a fucking midget.
If I was a dwarf I'd be very happy with the lore bestowed upon me.
Any midget who doesn't dwarfmaxx Willow larp is wasting his life.
Imagine being a decent IQ midget, watching Thunder Dome, and deciding not to find a 6ft+ retard to manipulate into being your personal steed.
Makes no sense, the world needs more creative midgets.
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One of the biggest reasons why no one wants to have kids these days is because our generation is much more stressed and anxious about the future compared to previous generations.
The reason for that is because the amount of disposable income and savings (NOT in meaningless NOMINAL but in *REAL purchasing power* terms) that people in the bottom 97% have keeps dwindling every single year.
The reason for that is because they are printing money, lending money, borrowing money, and expanding the money supply at a faster and faster rate each year.
Even if you are making $300,000+ per year, you can still feel this ACUTELY; as in most cases prices are growing faster than the rate of your savings growth in real terms.
Even if you ignore hoeflation, hypergamy, and the sinister effects of smartphones and social media, and focus on normal, reasonable, grounded people - people that don’t come from top 5% families (those that own lots of stocks and real estate which can keep up with money printing) feel psychologically “unworthy” and financially unprepared for parenthood as it is taking longer and longer to achieve basic milestones.
Money does not define one’s worth, but food, rent, childcare, education, healthcare are real expenses that require money.
The overly debt-ridden and inflationary Fiat Late Capitalist system is becoming so extreme that its major byproduct is sacrificing real human births and real human happiness for the sake of letting the system live another day and enriching the asset-owning class.
All of the trends described above will intensify even more as both AI capabilities and money-printing speeds accelerate. This road only goes one way.
As automation inevitably accelerates, we will witness a greater "Crisis of Worthlessness".
Having children will go from being a standard human experience to being an ultra-luxury good. The trend will be towards only the ultra-wealthy in the 1st world and the ultra-poor in the 3rd world being able to have kids, with the upper-middle, middle and working classes of the "developed" world being disproportionately affected.
Your life has been made harder for the sake of their profits and keeping the existing system afloat to live another day.
We have been in a multi-decade Happiness Recession no matter what "GDP" numbers say, and that's what truly matters.
An animal stops procreating when it feels it is in a prison.
The System is Broken.
Charts unrelated.
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I know I can still make a lot of $ investing in companies led by people like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman, but they are shady and I just can’t trust them.
And that’s why the founder matters so much to me when I invest.
I’m betting on so much more than just the products, technology, or financials, although important. I’m betting on the person leading the company… their vision, character, ability to execute, willingness to risk everything, and most importantly, their heart.
And the heart matters.
I genuinely believe Elon has a kind heart and that his intentions are real. He’s shown me time and time again that this is about so much more than just making $ money (despite him NEVER letting investors down for any capital raise for any of his companies in the long run…)
You don’t risk everything you have on electric cars, FSD, and reusable rockets bc you’re chasing the easiest $ dollar. In fact, looking back, there were probably a thousand easier ways to make $ money with far less risk, stress, and sacrifice.
You dedicate your life to solving some of humanity’s hardest problems bc something deeper than $ money is driving you.
Elon could’ve easily taken his $ money, disappeared, and lived one of the easiest lives imaginable. But instead, he kept putting it back on the line to build things people said were impossible and were super important for the future.
Making life multiplanetary.
Accelerating sustainable energy.
Giving people internet anywhere on Earth.
Restoring mobility and independence through robotics.
Pushing humanity forward with AI.
The list goes on and on…
You can disagree with Elon. You can hate how he says things. He says crazy things, I know. You can question his decisions.
But after following him and investing in his companies for more than a decade, I believe he’s the real deal… the mission is real.
I believe I have a pretty keen eye for these things.
Great entrepreneurs can copy ideas, improve them, and still make investors a lot of $ money.
However, true innovators create the future everyone else eventually follows.
That’s the difference.
And to me, there’s only one Elon Musk.
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trimmed fartcoin and pepe over the last few days taking a -$300k realized loss.
fartcoin was a $2.4m position, pepe was $2m
thought we could catch some momentum upwards and was wrong. it happens. life goes on.
posted a win earlier this week, so here’s the other side.
left 750k on each of the positions cuz i still think both of these do well eventually. but the opportunity cost of sitting in them was high given their sizing.
so now im sitting on a lot of cash.
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I can’t wait to get the next-gen Tesla Roadster and hear people tell me, “You got lucky.”
And when I prove to the world that I can make $1M a year owning my own fleet of Tesla Robotaxis, I’m sure they’ll call that luck too.
I guess I’ve been “lucky” my whole life then.
Lucky to become the youngest working at Apple at 22.
Lucky to become financially free by 31.
Lucky to own my own portfolio of real estate in one of the most expensive place on Earth, manage it myself, and build something outside of a normal 9-to-5.
Lucky to build my voice on 𝕏 from nothing to where what I say actually matters and reaches millions of people.
Lucky to see Tesla and SpaceX differently before a lot of people understood what they could become.
And maybe one day, lucky enough to build a Robotaxi fleet that produces $1M a year while the cars are out there working for me.
The list goes on and on.
People usually only see the result.
They rarely see the years behind it.
The late nights.
The risks.
The patience.
The learning.
The mistakes.
The times people laughed, doubted you, or thought you were crazy and you kept going anyway.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
You still have to recognize the opportunity when it shows up.
You still have to prepare yourself for it.
And you still have to have the balls to go harder when everyone around you thinks you’re wrong.
There’s only one person I know who works harder and smarter than me, and that’s Elon Musk.
Watching how he thinks, builds, takes risks, and keeps pushing has only raised the standard I hold myself to.
So when the Roadster is in my driveway, the Robotaxi fleet is running, and the numbers are there for everyone to see, people can call me lucky.
I’ll just smile.
Bc I’ll know exactly how much work went into creating that “luck.”
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