Do you know your historical money gods? Let’s take a look. Background: Plutus (or Ploutos) was the son of Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. He was often depicted as blind, symbolizing the indiscriminate nature of wealth distribution. Worship: Highly revered in Hindu tradition; worshiped during Diwali, the festival of lights, to bring prosperity to…
Category: Money Culture
It’s Too Tough For Young People
Over the past few months I’ve had numerous conversations with a variety of people. Many are friends that we’ve known for decades and all have adult children now. In talking to many of them there is a consistent theme: Young adults are having a very tough time. The Crisis Matrix The year 2000 generation has…
Financial Regrets: Failed Expats
I spend a bit of time now researching international destinations for where we’ll retire. The best way I have found to do this is to hear from people who’ve actually done it and follow them on their journey. My first resource for this is YouTube followed by Reddit and then blogs or other websites. Please…
Demographic Crisis In The United States?
I’ve been reading and researching demographics given the current administration is keen on trying to incentive people to have kids. On my wife’s side of the family, I have 4 nieces/nephews. On my side of the family, I have zero. From a total of 8 siblings (mine and my wife’s) only 4 nieces/nephews were produced….
Poverty & Mental Health
When you live long enough, you get to a point where you’ve mostly “seen it all” and after having lived five decades and met, worked and friended thousands of people, I have come to some conclusions about poverty. But before we get to that, I asked AI to give me a list of reasons for…
TV Characters & Personal Finance
Once again, I have been having a retrospective look at my life and went back, way back to my childhood and watching episodes of Gilligan’s Island. As I recalled the TV show, it reminded me of how often TV characters are a reflection on society at that current point in time. It got me thinking…
Are Humans Currency For Gods?
Ever wonder what the meaning of life is? Today’s post is about personal finance for gods so if you’re not a god, you can skip this post. My wife and I started watching a Netflix show called Kaos with Jeff Goldblum. It’s a show about the old Greek gods and it’s funny and entertaining. As…
Entrepreneurship YouTube Channel: UpFlip
I’ve written about this before, I like watching YouTube videos about money, investing, and travel and I don’t remember what I was searching for when I came across YouTube channel UpFlip. What caught my attention was this video where a small business owner talks about making $90,000 from a washing machine! I actually have a…
How To Deal With Stock Market Skeptics
“The stock market is overvalued” “The stock market is going to crash” “The stock market is a scam” “The stock market is a casino” These are some of the quotes I’ve heard from people over the past few months, years, decades….heck, I might have said some of these quotes myself at one point or another….
2024 Olympics & The 80/20 Rule
My wife is a big fan of the Olympics so I had to watch every day along side her to cheer on our favorites athletes but since I like to tinker with numbers I decided to use my time on the couch to test the Pareto Distribution. Pareto Distribution For the uninitiated and from Wikipedia,…