Re: inflation, I’ve told this story a few times – when I was about 10yo I learned in school about hyperinflation in WW2 Singapore and it freaked me out horribly. It shocked me that nobody else seemed to care- not the teachers, not the students. Money is sentiment and can go mad
I agonized about this all my life. What is money really? How do we trust it? People were during themselves during the Asian Financial Crisis in ‘97. Why? How did it come to that? Again, weirdly, nobody around me seemed to really care. “Go to school,” they said. “Get a good job…”
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1375094522049261574
*people were killing themselves!!! 
just, layers upon layers of “polite fictions” and social bullshit, a house of cards in a hall of mirrors, and they’ll call you the crazy one for asking questions
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1090161445717737472
oh yea so anyway where I eventually ended up is: money is just a representation of debt, anyway, so I might as well go to the source and do favors for people. The favor economy predates the cash economy and you can’t tax friendship
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1232228286928809984
favors are in some way less reliable than cash, because people are finicky. but if you patiently build a network of people who you trust, suppose even if 80-90% of them are fair-weather friends who abandon you, there’ll be *some* people you can count on. I get v dramatic…
but history is dramatic!! shit gets real wild real fast “out of the blue” and lots of people wail that they didn’t see it coming. I wouldn’t call myself a prepper or survivalist per se, but relative to people just bumbling about I suppose yea, I optimise for not dying
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1174935204625936384
80% of being a survivor is studying how people get pwned, and taking steps to avoid that
Https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1294903763761676289
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