For most people chasing “generational wealth” is a trap. Prioritize personal freedom and present happiness over an ego-driven desire to build a dynasty. Bezos can't buy more time or meaning. The real wealth is in your lived experience.
@Daojoan The real way to chase generational wealth, to leave your family things is to have nice things and to live well with good memories and good knowledge of places to go things to do
Love your family, encourage everyone to follow their dreams, and hey what if one of them hits a lucrative dream?
not a horde of whatever or Daffy duck with his giant diamond saying how rich he is
@Daojoan I'm betting you a trillion dollars that there is not a single billionaire on the planet that has my voice nor how to use it nor the accompanying control of my physical body no matter how many different specialists they pay to make themselves whatever
@Daojoan I often wonder if "meaning" is just a way to give those at the bottom something unattainable to pursue. A squirrel doesn't need meaning; its existence fits and flows in the natural world. Oh to be a squirrel.
Also true, though, I'm reading The Lost Cause by @pluralistic (is that humblebundle still available? Best deal ever) and it's honestly making me rethink that whole thing.
Having a backyard is fine (I hope, cause I have a pretty nice yard here, an hour outside the city), as long as you don't catch NIMBYism.
And it can be hard to sort out, what's useful to the community from what angle, and what cannot be entertained, and does the elected cohort understand any of it.
My yard is full of garden, front and back. Of course, out front it's disguised as landscaping. You'd be amazed how many people don't recognize herbs in plant form, lol.
I am attempting to become more adept at both keeping plants alive, and more long term, doing so without stuff like MiracleGro or even peat moss.
I have been adding to an excellent compost pile/dog smorgasbord all winter and the weather just got daytime above freezing today, presumably for the duration, so I expect some excellent rotting to commence.
The dogs, well, putting up fence is my love language for my dogs apparently.
@jpaskaruk
The big eye opener for me was realizing how much easier it is to keep plants alive when they're ones that are supposed to live where you do. It's kind of amazing when you come to understand that maintaining a native plant garden can be as little work as cutting it back / thinning it to keep it from overflowing it's boundaries.
Lots of herbs and spices are basically running wild in our yard, and the bees love it! I noticed we have parsley, mint, oregano, and borage that have escaped from their boxes, lol. Probably more. We never spray toxins. If something grows in the walkway we try and move it, not always successfully. I'm hoping for a more "permaculture" end goal where maintenance is, as you said, herding it, not continually disturbing the soil.
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