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FWIW I don’t think any of you actually have a net worth. We’re just repeating the most commonly reinforced sentences of the last few decades.

Everyone has a net worth, which will highlight some things and leave out others. Sometimes it is zero or negative, but you still have one.

But I'm guessing that wasn't an error but a thinly veiled way to call everyone poor as an insult.


Would you accept a Christian forcing you to recite their Bible and behave within their tradition? Why must I accept your view of worthiness?

What is reinforced in ones neurology becomes the most probable ideas one will work with.

I get I have to work within the concept socially, but I’m pantomiming belief.

If I die there are millions of others who can replace my effort. The same is true of any of us; all these tech enabled companies aren’t running on just your effort.

Why should the concept that makes you feel warm and fuzzy be mine?

I’m guessing that wasn’t an error, but that you’ve simply never considered others might sincerely not give fuck about your personal perspective of how things work socially.

You get a vote. Otherwise you’re just 1 of 7 billion. It’s not written in a contract we’re all friends




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