Stuff the Stuff

Connecting lifestyles to scorecards of success is both incorrect and dangerous. Capital can live forever if treated well. It can sustainably generate real returns, and feed life, or it can be spent. 0-5% real growth each year adds up, even if it doesn’t seem as impressive as a new car, a bigger house, or a fancy holiday. “The Stuff” we judge each other by. The stuff we form our prejudices around. It also traps us in a lifestyle connected to the privilege, or lack thereof, we are born into. Privilege includes skills and talents, as well as the social capital and network we use to get an income. The dance between privilege, merit, income, and lifestyle, traps us in dated and formulaic wobbles out of sync with the music of the time. Traps us in racism, classism, nationalism and projected fears. Real Creativity needs space to breathe. That space can only come if we rewrite the rule book. Rewrite rules that have been soaked so deep, we don’t even know they are made up. Stuff the stuff, we make the rules.

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