Maintain Your Freedom

Akira
He's got clout
People who are living far below their means
Enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading
Their lifestyles just can't fathom And I think that's very important
Like just do not upgrade your lifestyle all the
Time to maintain your freedom And it just
Gives your freedom of operation
Once we make a little bit of money you still
Want to be living like your old self So that's
Just the worry goes away
So, don't run up and upgrade that house
Lifestyle and all that stuff
Let's say you get $1,000 an hour
The problem is that when you go into a work lifestyle like that
You don't just suddenly go from making twenty dollars
An hour to making a $1000 and hour That's the
Progression over a long career
And as that happens one subtle problem is that
You upgrade your lifestyle as you make more
And more money
And that upgrading of the lifestyle ups what you
Consider to be wealth
And you stay in this wage slave traffic
So, I forget who said it maybe was Nasin Taleb
He said "The most dangerous things are heroin
And a monthly salary"
I think that's very important like just do not
Update your lifestyle all the time
To maintain your freedom
To maintain your freedom
And I think that's very important like just do not
Upgrade your lifestyle all the time To maintain your freedom
To maintain the freedom
The way you want to get wealthy is you want to
Be poor and working and working and working
And this is for example how the tech industry works
Where you don't make any money for ten years
And then suddenly in year-11 you might have a giant payday
Ideally you want to make your money and discrete
Lumps separated over long periods of time
So that your own lifestyle does not have a chance to adapt quickly
And then you can basically say okay now I'm done
Now I'm retired now I'm free
I'm still gonna work because you got to do something with your life
But I'm gonna work on only the things that I want
What I want is very much more creative expression
And much less about money
So, I forget who said it maybe was Nasin Taleb
He said "The most dangerous things are heroin
And a monthly salary"
I think that's very important like just do not
Update your lifestyle all the time
To maintain your freedom
To maintain your freedom
And I think that's very important like just do not
Upgrade your lifestyle all the time To maintain your freedom
To maintain your freedom To maintain your freedom
Now I'm done Now I'm retired
Now I'm free
To maintain your freedom Now I'm done
Now I'm retired
Now I'm free
To maintain your freedom