Taking advantage

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Tweet by user @your_nutt replying to @TheDamaniFelder. The original tweet shows a comic titled “How to liberal” with two panels: in the first, a bearded man with glasses holds a sign that says “DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM!” and a button reading “The system is exploitative and unsustainable!”; in the second, the same man panics in front of a falling stock chart, shouting “NOOO NOT THE SYSTEM!”. The quote tweet text reads: “if I’m locked in a cage, and I repeatedly say I don’t want to be in the cage because the cage is bad, it is not hypocritical for me to panic if the cage catches on fire with me inside.”

I used to feel guilty about taking advantage of opportunities I have. In an unstable economy, such as one I live in, you try anything you possibly can to survive. Most of you probably have no idea how it’s like to sleep at night and wake up in the morning to see your money is now worth half.

In this kind of economy you try your best to invest wisely. You won’t keep cash, you buy gold. You won’t buy something that can lose value by using, you buy something that keeps it. Everything you have is an investment. Even your phone. A phone you buy for a thousand dollars will probably worth the same, if not more, one year from now.

We even invest for short terms, such as weeks. If I want to buy a laptop, I won’t keep cash, I’ll try to buy some gold so a month from now I won’t pay twice the cash I saved. That’s how it is to live in sanctioned and collapsing economies.

Gold is one of the most famous investments all around the world, but it’s even more popular here. Since it’s valuable everywhere in the world, so you’re no limited to local market, and it doesn’t rely on your state’s economy, it’s rising everywhere so if your economy collapses, you don’t lose everything.

Now when you invest in short terms, sometimes you feel guilty. If I buy ten grams of gold today so I can save for a new laptop, say for a month, and the price of that gold decreases in the month, so I actually lose a little, I’d probably be sad. But should I? Doesn’t that mean I’m actually sad because the economy is getting better?

Isn’t it wrong to feel happy when the price of gold increases (as a matter of local economy improving)? Well for people who experienced this for decades, no. I know the economy won’t improve in long term, because of the political situation, and the improvements we see are most-probably some trick to take away what I have.

I used to feel guilty about feeling happy when some prices go up, because I had investments in that area, but no more. I’m in a cage and I don’t like it, nevertheless I won’t like it if the cage catches fire with me inside. Let me be free, and then do whatever you want with the cage.