Get The F-ing Money Part Deux: Money Matters

This is a regular reminder. 24-36 months to really make it. Don’t do dodgy, immoral stuff. You need to do it right, unlike all the stupid scammers and kids out there. 

Money matters for survival. For taking care of your family and community at large. But it goes beyond that. It gives your point of view and vision weight. 

Chamath Palihapitiya, ex-FB exec, investor extraordinaire said it best at a talk he did at Stanford University: https://x.com/F_Compounders/status/2016568450047483971

“So, that's what you have to do, you gotta go and get it. If you control the capital and you have a point of view, you can now, not be a sell out. (sic)

Whatever your world view is, you should be spending time to think about what that is. So that when you control some of these purse strings, you push that view into the world. I will never judge you, and you should not judge me for what that worldview is.

But the point is the more diversity of those views, the more rational actors we have and the more of a balanced, fair system, that is what diversity really means to me.

It doesn't mean let's manage back to a quota, it doesn't mean, okay, we need a black guy, a brown guy, we need a few, that's not what it means. This is what it means, right?...

You have a very unique worldview that matters. In the absence of capital, you're irrelevant, with capital, you're powerful. And then you decide in small ways, in medium size ways, in large ways, right, and it just depends on the scale of capital that you have.

And so that's what's necessary now in capitalism, which is that we have to come back to what is it really?

Is it an economic system, yes. But it is a philosophy as well, right?

And it's a philosophy that says we will vote for the change we intend based on the views that we have. And when you look at the most successful people that operate in these tentacles, that's what they do. Look at the Koch brothers, that's what they do. They have built a network of influence based on capital. Their world view is propagated into the world at an unbelievably aggressive rate that has been compounding for decades, that is genius.

It is genius, it doesn't matter whether you agree with their world view. Irrespective of what you think of the Kochs. You want both views out in the world at scale. Well right now, you have this and you don't have this. And there are many examples of that. And so get the money and don't lose your moral compass when you do.”

If this is not a case for making lots of money, not sure what is. Money is power. Money is influence. Money is leverage. Money is a tool for making the world and future you want to see. God knows we need it. 

So go get the F–king Money! Do some good to the world with it.