I loved reading this, your observations about the new wheatfields installation, the fallacy of investment in this country, the shallowness of accumulating signifiers. It made me think of the TV show, Shark tank, or whatever it’s called, which seems to me to perpetuate the myth that real significant wealth still comes from betting on a good product or service, when in actuality it primarily comes from betting on other people’s bets. I wonder: Is my IRA essentially just an exercise in betting that I can profit on the bets that others make, not on goods or products? I do feel shame that my bets are more remunerative for me than actual labor done by workers.
Oh thank you — yeah, I too feel retirement fund guilt, and a sense of fury that the stocks I got from the job I didn’t love are worth so much more than my labors. At this point, with no real social safety net, what can we do? I bought this house with the intention to live in it forever, I’ve been old-age-proofing it for years, and now town has become unrecognizable around me?
I loved reading this, your observations about the new wheatfields installation, the fallacy of investment in this country, the shallowness of accumulating signifiers. It made me think of the TV show, Shark tank, or whatever it’s called, which seems to me to perpetuate the myth that real significant wealth still comes from betting on a good product or service, when in actuality it primarily comes from betting on other people’s bets. I wonder: Is my IRA essentially just an exercise in betting that I can profit on the bets that others make, not on goods or products? I do feel shame that my bets are more remunerative for me than actual labor done by workers.
Oh thank you — yeah, I too feel retirement fund guilt, and a sense of fury that the stocks I got from the job I didn’t love are worth so much more than my labors. At this point, with no real social safety net, what can we do? I bought this house with the intention to live in it forever, I’ve been old-age-proofing it for years, and now town has become unrecognizable around me?