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Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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In some (more catholic) regions in Germany you spend a (voluntary) week in a monastery during school - called Besinnungstage (loosely translated as “mindfulness days”).

I went and thought I would hate it at the time - mostly because I really really hated the narrow catholic mindset i grew up in at that time - but it actually was a really profound experience that I think back to often.

The life the monks led was simple, almost primitive, but it radiated a contentment and mindfulness that was inspiring. Also the brotherhood and love they had for each other. Of course I only saw the surface and as a teenager I didn’t appreciate a lot of the lessons, but looking back it was one of the better parts of being in a heavily catholic coded school.

Edit: also my religion teacher told the story how we was a monk in his early life and then left everything behind when he fell in love with a woman - which immensely increased my respect for him. I though he was this dried up, humourless pendant, so finding out he had this great passion in his life was a great surprise to me

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army

The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable?

I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funnel it into $100M mountain properties. However, I'm trying to be objective. Given this situation what is the investment with the little bit of wealth that I have acquired? Do I need to worry about this not being sustainable and crashing?

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable? I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funn…

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable? I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funn…

Don’t worry about it - you know why? Because if the entire thing crashes, then everyone crashes with it, and there’s a million people (or more) that have a lot more skin in the game, a lot more power, and therefore a lot more incentive to make sure this doesn’t crash.

This is not your battle alone, so don’t worry like it is.

Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable? I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funn…

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Re: Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

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> landed a $10 billion software contract with the U.S. Army The United States has ~$38,000,000,000,000 in debt which means a baby born in the US will get $1000 in Trump Bucks to invest in S&P 500 along with a $111,000 share of that debt with its $3,000 a year interest per person. Can someone explain to me how long this will be sustainable? I'm a little sad that I'm not getting any free borrowed money in order to funn…

They can take your stuff faster than you can make it.
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