We're trying something new this week for members. Here are some highlights of the notes I've taken, and new articles that came across my screen this week. I'd love some feedback. Is this something you like?
Uber's bezzle destroyed local taxis and local transit – and replaced them with worse taxis that cost more. - No, Uber's (still) not profitable.
This is the lie of so much of the technology that is going to "revolutionize" our lives. It's a lie propped up to capture a market with predatory pricing and then they're going to rug-pull us and start extorting as much as they can.
There’s no magic formula—not for ourselves, and not for the people around us. We won’t make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people’s habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best. Better Than Before
This is one reason I always say to use whatever note tool, or system works for you. I don't have all the answers. I only know what works for me in the contexts I exist in.
The families in the highest quintile (the top 20 per cent) earn 45.7 per cent of total income but pay 61.9 per cent of total personal income taxes, according to the report. On the flip side, the lowest-income families (the bottom 20 per cent) earn 5.1 per cent of total income but pay just 0.7 per cent of personal income taxes. - High income earners in Canada are already paying their fair share of tax (Apple News) Globe and Mail
Our tax brackets top out around 250k and those earning more, but there is a huge difference between earning 250k and 1 million or 1 million and 1 billion. Ultimately I'd love to see an expansion in the ranges of the tax brackets so that there is a tier over 1 million. No country should be able to build billionaires while others starve on the street because they cannot fulfill the capitalist ideal of working to be worthy of survival.
How can I optimize my business and marketing around enough, instead of endless growth?
How can I create true fans of an evolving, messy, holistic self, rather than true fans of one static, narrow aspect of myself? - Containers of Aliveness
Both of those questions are what I'm trying to answer here. Kevin Kelly wrote about 1000 true fans in 2008 and since I heard about it a few years after I've been pursuing it. On my shelf, I have The Day The World Stops Shopping which is about not consuming so much. This goes against much of capitalist training though, where you must always be increasing what you have to truly be "happy"1
- Also currently reading Manufacturing Happy Citizens which shows the many holes in positive psychology and the self-help/wellness community out there. ↩