Ordinary Abundance

Post by throwthrowuknow » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #176

throwthrowuknow wrote: post #174

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Being an Uber driver has nothing to do with starting your own business. You don’t even need to start a business to be a capitalist, just buy capital that can earn you money. That can be as simple as putting a portion of your savings in stocks or as proletarian as buying a lawnmower and a trailer and mowing people’s lawns for extra cash.

> You don’t even need to start a business to be a capitalist, just buy capital that can earn you money. Step 1: be rich. > That can be as simple as putting a portion of your savings in stocks or as proletarian as buying a lawnmower and a trailer and mowing people’s lawns for extra cash. No, that's not being a capitalist. You're not living of the proceeds of your capital, you're living off the proceeds of your labor.…

Post by omnivore » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

techblueberry wrote: post #21

carlgreene wrote: post #2

Hedonic adaptation really is something. I have been deeply trying to appreciate these modern marvels more and more, but it's hard. A hot shower, air almost 50 degrees cooler than the outside air coming out of my vents, communicating instantly thousands of miles away, it's all so easy to just forget and take for granted

I feel like in discussions about nostalgia, there can be this default presentish reaction which talks about all of the things that are better But in the hedonic adaptation sense like - and comparisons are complicated - people aren’t by and large happier now (because of the hedonism this is sidestepping the argument of how well distributed it is, and I’m talking the past 50-100 years not compared to subsistence farmin…