Tag: Wealth
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The Man in the White Suit – Telling Truth like Is
Introduction Every once in while you come across a piece of media that succinctly articulates the ideas you ponder upon. Recently I watched just such a movie called “The Man in the White Suit”. Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard about it because its quite old – it came out during 1951. That’s a…
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Vegans should own Bitcoin
Vegan and Bitcoin are two words that you’ll never find in the same sentence. Even though these ideas seem quiet disparate I reckon there’s quite a bit of overlap.View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Anarchism – The Best Form of Democracy?
I see the term Anarchism popping up more and more lately. But what does Anarchism mean? What’s it all about?
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The Green King – A Book about Greatness
There are many novels that have an incredible story, compelling characters and big ideas. But there are few that do it so well.
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Is your Money Vegan?
You eat vegan food, you wear vegan clothing, your household is vegan, but have you considered if your money is vegan??
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Saving Money versus Making Money, Which is Better?
It’s always easy to find tons of information about how to make money, and it’s always easy to find tons of information on how to save money. But rarely do we find information that discusses the subtle relationship between these two. And the distinction is indeed quite important.
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Have your Cake and Eat it
A big challenge in growing wealth, is that the assets you acquire only have single purpose utility. You can use it for one thing and one thing only. View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Have you Perfected a Skill?
There is a strong relationship between perfecting a skill and freedom. Many people don’t see it, but it’s there, and it’s important. In fact it’s so important that if we fail to master a skill or even just come close to it, then we will fail to unlock some of our biggest opportunities. This is…
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Radical Declutter : Streamline your Life
Modern day consumerism has had the unfortunate effect of straddling all of us with unnecessary stuff. We now have masses of stuff that we don’t need, that’s outdated, out of vogue and just plain useless. And this is a pity and bane because it actually consumes not only our time, effort and money, but also…
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The Simplest Way to go Vegan
You’ve watched “The Game Changers” or “Cowspiracy”, or you’ve just read the latest IPCC report on Climate Change or maybe you’ve even been intrigued by some Vegan friends. And now you want to give this Vegan thing a go. But where do you start, and how do you start in a meaningful way so that…
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Leveraging the Gig Economy : AirBNB
AirBNB has indeed been a massive boon to me. It has allowed to me increase my income, and it has taught me a lot about running a business, being a great host, and even how to maximize the use of my property assets. In this day in age, where costs are running rampant and traditional…
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Getting Started with Bitcoin for Beginners in South Africa
It’s a very odd thing, but even after a decade of it’s existence, when Bitcoin comes up during a discussion I still get a lot of people asking me how they can acquire it. I always wonder if this is a uniquely South African thing, or that I take it for granted that everyone knows…
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The 15 Hour Work Week
The economist Joseph Keynes posited a hundred years that we would all only need to work fifteen hours per week by the year 2030. I believe we can get there, however through a different mechanism than he thought of.
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How Veganism solves Social Inequality
Using Maslows Hierarchy of needs as a starting point, we see how we can use Veganism to reduce food costs which is one of the major household costs. Reducing these food costs, its the biggest step towards financial stability and then social equality.
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Acquiring my Tesla stock for ‘Free’
Technology is opening up possibilities and breaking through boundaries across the board, all to the benefit of us citizens of the world. What’s even better is that all these technologies are starting to work together quite seamlessly.
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Bitcoin : leveling the play field between novice and expert
Cryptocurrencies in particular are still so new, that many people from professional investors to novices have the same knowledge; they’re now on the same level playing field. It’s a great equalizer and that means for once the quest for wealth is really about survival of the fittest.
Jae Subramoney 