This was my reply to a friend who actually put up the conversation in his blog. And yes, in case I lose his blog, I wanna remember what he said, in reply to my material pursuits.
"A good friend of mine, also in the midst of changing her life, had an interesting response to my question on whether she was planning to follow in the footsteps of Dan Pitera.
"...well, need moolah for the time being, remember the rules for flying, oxygen mask for self before you can put on for others rights" (sorry girl wanted to record this down in case facebook crashes ;-p)
Then i thought hard....
The oxygen ain't moolah, its who we were born as, already are and have become- the lucky ones. so for me there's no better time to start than yesterday.
I think it's a supply market now. to sustain themselves and their growth in free market economics suppliers are making society unfairly and falsely demand more and more from us. those who can meet these demands get trapped by more. those who can't get ruined. the manipulators milk it, and milk the futures now.
the price of producing one barrel of oil from a 50-year old saudi rig not reaching peak-oil yet should be cheaper, not 4 times the price. the demand for oil now is not greater than when the US went ballistic industrializing into an economy still 10 times bigger than China is today (just making a point, not sure of the numbers, but there's still a vast difference). The house that my father bought in Jalan Maju for 85K in 1980 does not cost 300K to build now.
So we can continue trying to find moolah to pay for all these crap. Or we can start giving regardless. With what we already are as the luckier ones it won't be hard to survive happily. If enough of us do it, demand might just fall. suppliers might just find that shit these fishes aren't biting. bankers might find that all those oil futures they bought can't go up thru fear tactics anymore. In the end, char kuey teows might become rm1.50 again.
and your conscience is all you, can take to your grave. my 2 cents worth. ;-p
and i keep going... "
