I’m physically too old 🤣 but definitely not mentally, as long as it’s not too crowded, which it wasn’t in the middle of the audience. No way I’m going up to the front now.

I don’t think we disagree. I see the fear as what is fueling the Ponzi scheme. There is no reason to spend all that money on university for 90% of the people, most of what they teach is useless or available online for free. People accept shitty jobs at shitty companies for shitty pay because they don’t believe anything else is possible.

I don’t have a solution to solve all of our problems but I know if we looked out for each other more and had higher standards, things would not devolve as quickly as they are and more solutions to more problems would be popping up faster.

Hive has been one solution for me, I would not have been able to continue as a freelancer without it, it got me through those slumps. There are tons of other things that would develop if we put our energy towards looking for them instead of trying to live safely. People are too worried about their future without realizing that if we don’t solve the future of the collective, they will have no individual future.

I think reputation will be a major currency of the future, and I would suggest everyone works on building it, not on tricking people into thinking they are something different or special but actually doing things that matter like creating a better atmosphere and being more generous with their time and energy, working on themselves to be more adaptable and emotionally stable because that will matter more and more.

I’m not talking about a social credit system, more like 关系 but less of an “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” and more like “I see how you treat people so I know I can trust you”. There will be tokenized versions of this and also intangible versions of it which have always existed but will become more popular because currency is less reliable. And I imagine there will be a transitional generation where people try to build reputation by silly manipulative means until people are forced to get better at judging character