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You Are A Slave to Your Timeline
I Was Too Before I Realized How To Escape. Here is My Escape Plan.
Before I explain how to escape your timeline, I want to make something clear. I used a very emotionally charged word in the title. I did this very intentionally. I believe that we are currently enslaved by our past. It limits our present and our future by removing our choices in life. We may get to make small, insignificant changes, but overall, we do what we have to do to get by. We make the decisions that we have to in the moment. We deal with the consequences after the fact. I believe that most of you are still enslaved by time.
But you don’t have to be.
How We Got This Way
It all made sense, back before computers. Look at how humanity was evolving. There was a progression throughout time. There were ups and downs, but progress overall. Then we hit 1960ish. That is when computers started to get developed at speed. This shifted the meaning of money and broke the economy.
What is Money, Really?
Money is a model we use to represent value. This works perfectly well in the real world when physical items were worth money. It allowed two people with different needs to have a common system. This was a good system. It optimized…