production over consumption

We're looked at and positioned to be consumers, and as Americans, consume more than needed in many senses.

Production is then the only combatant to consumption.  So if we're able to offset our consumption by our production, and even force our production over consumption then we have beat a system aimed at driving our consumer insatiaties.

If the focus is on production, and a continued production, no matter what is reaped, then consumption will at least be battled.  When production starts to gain actual benefit and increased demand, then real consumption can be ignored.

Many times our focus is limiting consumption, whether it's cutting down on carbs, bills, or something more innocuous that we can inevitably consume over focusing our efforts on production.

Focusing on production can be fruitless for a long period where there still has to be an effort on reducing consumption where able.

Life feels very loss mitigating and losses and consumption must be managed.

But if production, and eventually, fruitful production, is the focus, consumption can be maintained.

And I guess I've looked at consumption in this negative way but more so the larger focus on reducing consumption and taking away that need for production.

I although assume consumption, as it is necessary, there can be good consumption.  Consumption that increases production per se.  But still the focus would remain on production.

This may seem a bit theoretical, or even simplistic to the point of mundane and unnecessary, but many do not care or care to understand their role as a consumer and the benefit to being a producer over a consumer.

A consumer is led by everything around us, while a producer can direct production, and consumption.

The Worker Revolution

At many levels, we are seeing the negative effects of "our" collective, corporate actions on society.

The Great resignation I believe it's deemed is due to a workforce having more options.

Many of those options were government driven, a government that has laid the framework to allow workers to be treated secondary to profits and "shareholders", a concept of financial making that takes the meaning of a company from producing a product or service with compensated workers to producing a profit, any any expense and cost, without an association to the worker.

This is the US.  Better than some in the treatment of the workforce, certainly.  But not world leading where other workforces are granted more at the bottom half of the workforce. 

And while I allude to the workforce as a class, this is also taking place on larger scales.  One of the more visible worker transitions is in the highest levels of professional golf, where outside, and not conforming, money is providing "better", more lucrative opportunities for the workers, ie golfers. Even those at this elite level, industry representing individuals are being chased away by years of corporate culture focused on profits but lacking the creativity to put efforts back into those that make the product and service.

Obviously this happens at the lower ranks than elite professional sports, but until recent years, the company seemed to have the upper hand.   Maybe, at the hand of the times and circumstances, not necessarily union or institutionally driven, workers will see their day, and their keep, and society will reep the benefits of a people that are compensated in a fair, and agreeable, for both the worker and the company, manner.

Until then, the people will always sway the industry or the landscape, but the individual is responsible for what they can control and do and produce, and where they do it.  To an extent.

we can all prosper

Does it have to be a race?  A contest?

In this game, we can all prosper.

I have a team of 30 and I'm gonna make sure we all prosper.

what's missing - a humbleness to say I'm flawed

The number one thing most people lack is to understand they are flawed, and to use that as an advantage and understanding to drive them to become better, or, alas, less flawed.

Somewhere, someplace, someone is doing something.

We, as a people in developed societies, have moved from hunter/gatherer to industrial to technological where the technological wave moves into AI and our experiences continue to be simulated.

As an advanced society, the number one activity is sitting, watching others do things, on innumerable devices, platforms, programs, stations, and topics.

We will continue to grow into mindless rats in some social experiment while some world happens, it has to right?  

Somewhere, someplace, someone is doing something.

Unnecessary , but awesome

I have so many unnecessary, but awesome things, which can probably be said in the reverse, depending on your priority.  Awesome, but unnecessary,  things.

I was holding a novelty golf ball.  Cheap in value but a part of my collection.

We spend money, any money, great or small, on collections, whatever that is, when people are hungry, sick, and dying.

Maybe it's our reach, we deny that due to an excuse of reach.

More so, it's probably selfishness, but more so humanness.  To gain.  To have dominion.  Even over something as minimal as golf balls.

Life is about passion.  (And that's my take)

But it drives us.

However it can't be driven unchecked, and this attempt at gain, or thought of many's purpose (an idea I've taken from Mr Beast of all folks) being to obtain a bigger box, just fuels this realization of capitalism, 100k plus, the day to day 9-5, only being a struggle of our making.  A daily production to only move the tangible that the same system has brought us to need.

Starting to ramble, as we all do.

But to have a purpose is to live, and to be capitalism's purpose, through all but asking to be by borrowing such an agregious amount to then work for that same system, is either irony, ludicrousy, or lunacy.

And I don't  think much else.

But that's what many do.

That's what I did.  Am doing.  And will continue to do until the mindless, blind spelunking of a person looking for a purpose, through direct payment for that purpose, makes another, strike that, a better, plan.

Purpose comes from a plan. (A plan is necessary, whether awesome or not)

Given

100k plus indicates I wasn't given at least the basic rights of a secondary education to guide through the actual preparation to being something.

I wasn't given it but I damn sure wanted to be given it, amongst many other things and situations.

When I was young, I wanted to be given a spot in a band with minimal dedication to an instrument or a dedicated craft.

Now, a bit older, I want a good round of golf, or dare I say, make that my living, which is laughable, but I want to be given that ability.

I believe kids should be given innate rights, like a path to affordable, life appropriate secondary education, amongst many other things.

But I want given much.

Earned is much sweeter, and concrete.  But given is easy.

By wanting easy, by being given, we diminish our place on this earth and who we were meant to be.  Our souls don't reach the heights they were meant to through being given 100k, but through blood, sweat, and tears, earning it.

I'm not sure if I believe that or if I'm trying to convince myself out of the pain of 100k plus vs the other options.

I still hope for the givens, whether that's from the government or a relative.  But that's not right.  That's not a life fulfilling way to go about each day.

I'm not Dave Ramsey.

I'm 100kplus.