From 69172301cefa489e3a07bf039a9ffaaf99306162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy DeHerrera Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 23:39:34 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] fix --- content/blog/letter-to-my-children.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/letter-to-my-children.md b/content/blog/letter-to-my-children.md index dc57375..e1acfb6 100644 --- a/content/blog/letter-to-my-children.md +++ b/content/blog/letter-to-my-children.md @@ -244,9 +244,9 @@ I'm sorry it's come to this, but I hope, if nothing else, it serves as a great a ## Lesson 7: Give More than You Take -Now we are gonna end on a perhaps less profound, but no less important topic. One that is critical to understand and oft neglected. This is the lesson of finances, and how to properly manage them. First of all, it is important to understand that what really separates a free man from a slave is the ability to enact agency over one's own life. I even attempted to [formalize](https://nrd.sh/blog/code-of-rebellion/#the-class-of-the-citzen) this conception because we seem to have a severe misunderstanding in our time about the reality of slavery. You see, we have this colloqiual idea that slavery is dead and defeated, yet if you go by my (in my opinion) much more coherent definition of what consititutes slavery, the lack of authority or meaningful agency, the you'd be foreced to admit that there are more slaves on the face of this earth now there there has likely ever been, and hopefully will ever be again, once this time has pass (and it will pass). +Now we are gonna end on a perhaps less profound, but no less important topic. One that is critical to understand and oft neglected. This is the lesson of finances, and how to properly manage them. First of all, it is important to understand that what really separates a free man from a slave is the ability to enact agency over one's own life. I even attempted to [formalize](https://nrd.sh/blog/code-of-rebellion/#the-class-of-the-citzen) this conception because we seem to have a severe misunderstanding in our time about the reality of slavery. You see, we have this colloqiual idea that slavery is dead and defeated, yet if you go by my (in my opinion) much more coherent definition of what consititutes slavery, the lack of authority or meaningful agency, the you'd be forced to admit that there are more slaves on the face of this earth now than there has likely ever been, and hopefully will ever be again, once this time has passed (and it will pass). -So this lesson is pertanent directly to your freedom my children and it concerns something that many of us don't like to think about, whether its from stress, overwhelm or just plain ignorance: money. Oh boy there is a lot to say about money as I've spent *a lot* of time and energy over the course of my lifetime to try and understand the reality of the economic situation in this country and the world. I hope someday I can share with the the fascinating, if somewhat horrifying, history of how our money came to be so entangled into the hands of but a few private interests, but for now suffice it to say the game is heavily, severely even, rigged against you. +So this lesson is pertinent directly to your freedom my children and it concerns something that many of us don't like to think about, whether its from stress, overwhelm or just plain ignorance: money. Oh boy there is a lot to say about money as I've spent *a lot* of time and energy over the course of my lifetime to try and understand the reality of the economic situation in this country and the world. I hope someday I can share with the the fascinating, if somewhat horrifying, history of how our money came to be so entangled into the hands of but a few private interests, but for now suffice it to say the game is heavily, severely even, rigged against you. It is almost at a point now where you have to agree to sell your soul over and become a regular visitior (proverbially) of a certain island and be a part of a special club to even have hope of finding freedom through financial success in this country. However, this isn't true. The situation may be dire, and the odds horrendously stacked against us all, but there is still hope and strength in the basic and immutable priniciples of economics. There is also power in integrity; so if somebody wants you to play your hand in a rigged game, the best thing to do is actually play an entirely different game all together.