Why do the poor have more children than the rich?

Poor people see children as having the potential to go beyond their parents.

Rich people see children as having the potential to fall behind their parents.

:D 

And guess what the ultra rich do?

Metaphysics of money

Money is just a proxy for ordinary experience. Money is a synthetic token, what matters is how you manipulate it.

For example if you make $1/hour, and I have the freewill to charge you between $1 and $2 for an essential good, it just means money is a measure of how much of your time I want to take.

So a nice person take less of other people's time, and a nasty person takes more. Money is just the unit of measurement ... 

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Addendum, 2025-12-31

Monetary ontology : extended note 

Recently I illustrated that money is just a mechanism for quantifying time, for the purpose of trade between individuals. I pointed out that suppliers raising prices arbitrarily, is nasty, and reducing them arbitrarily is nice ... when demand is inelastic.

Some people took offense at this ... but you would only take offence at this, if you somehow believed that you were giving more time to anyone else, by demanding more of their time from the supplier.

"Greed is good", means taking more of everyone else's time is good.

"I don't need money", means expressing distance from consumption of other people's time. 

"We spent quality time together," means we forwent opportunities to spend time, elsewhere. 

These are just simple examples of what money is, how it works, and how we talk about it.

Psychosocially, money is time. Money has no other function to the individual user, but to increase one's own time, or to decrease someone else's, via trade.

There are other phenomena in monetary economies of course : some market phenomena can be catastrophic, by wasting more of everyone's time. Other times, markets phenomena reduce waste of everyone's time, and such phenomena are deemed socially positive environments. Money has no intrinsic value, so it cannot improve anyone's time : it can only used, more wastefully or less wastefully, with respect to theoretically ideal market efficiencies. 

Malaysians and civil roles

 Ini bukan masalah UMNO atau Melayu sahaja. Ramai antara warganegara kita yang membesar di sini, yg memahami perundangan, kewangan, tek, budaya, dan geopolitik ... tidak memandang tinggi jawatan kerja awam. Pada pandangan saya, ini berakibat langsung daripada titik2 penegasan dalam pendidikan awam Malaysia. 

1. "Kenegaraan mengikut sentimen" adalah antara budaya kita. Jadi sesiapa yg berminat dengan "kaedah rasmi adalah lebih mulia daripada perasaan peribadi", dorang secara otomatik tidak mahu bergaul di tempat membina dan menaiktaraf jentera kenegaraan.

2. Proses dan jentera cabangan2 kerajaan di bawah perisiaan perlembagaan, dulu dipanggil "sivik" tidak diberi penumpuan langsung. Sebenarnya, memupuk kesayangan ke atas jentera ini boleh berlaku dari umur 7 sampai 17. Tapi dah lama kita abaikan

3.

4. etc.

Kanta2 lain boleh diamalkan bagi memahami tingkah laku kelas "tidak mahu bercampur dalam politik". Saya hanya nak introduce pemandangan ini saja.

Fish : mainly a note on ocean varieties

 Ocean fish.

Pelagic fish live near the surface, and have more oil in their muscles. 

• : Herring, mackerel, anchovies, and sardines ... are broadly in this group, though the names may contain mixed species in industry. For omega3, mackerel is the riches, followed by herring. Good luck getting fish that actually match, in cans labeled as such ... in Malaysia. 
• : Scombridae includes mackerel, tuna, and bonito.
• : Pomfret are pelagic - and are considered "butterfish" on account of their culinary quality; whereas escolar are conventionally deemed false butterfish, on account of their indigestible waxy esters. 

Demersal fish live near the floor, and have less oil - thus "whitefish", "flatfish", and other cartilaginous fish, have their oil concentrated in the liver. 

• : Cod / Gadidae is a major family of whitefish, which are in colder waters an apex predator : haddock, pollock, whiting, etc. 
• : Sciaenidae / croakers / drums make a noise. 
• : Snappers (sleeker, faster) and groupers (pudgier, slower) are short-distance prey-swallowers.

There are too many fish called "bass".

Tilapia, perch, bass, trout, and carp are common freshwater fish.

Food supplements : learnings and phenomenology

: beta-alanine is sweet, and paresthesia is a functional stimulus to the CEN / central executive network

: leucine and HMB are bitter, and slightly sour, these taste profiles also have culinary function, thus stimulating CEN slightly, but more the DMN / default mode network, as bitterness is prone to do

: citrulline tastes like soap, if mixed with the wrong stuff, as its aromatic profile is vegetal; salts seem to mitigate that

: sodium ascorbate is much more interesting than ascorbic acid, because of the Na+ characteristics

class analysis : Malaysian citizens

Kelas2 warganegara Malaysia termaktub dalam perlembagaan kita. 

1. raja2

2. melayu bukan raja, dan bumiputera/BP sabah+sarawak

3. lain2, termasuk BP bukan melayu semenanjung

Secara tidak langsung, akibatnya :

2.1. BP sabah+sarawak ( beragama Islam/BI )

2.2. BP sabah+sarawak ( bukan BI )

3.1.1. lain2, yg BI ( BP semenanjung ) 

3.1.2. lain2, yg BI ( bukan BP semenanjung ) 

3.2.1. lain2, yg bukan BI ( BP semenanjung )

3.2.2. lain2, yg bukan BI ( bukan BP semenanjung )

Contohnya, ada 7+

vocab : marxism, capitalism, socialism, communism

To "say capitalism" or "say socialism", is to "do Marxism", because the latter simply refers to a linguistic framework that includes concepts such as capitalism and socialism. 

To "do capitalism", is to accumulate capital, which is what all living things do, in the state of nature (evolved, thus far).

To "do socialism", is to distribute capital, which is also something that many but not all living things do, in the state of nature (evolved thus far).

So, capitalism and socialism are not opposites, but different modes of capital distribution. To do Marxism, is to study such distributions of capital. 

You might then, ask if there is then no distinction between Marxism and economics in general. It would be coherent then to say, that Marxism is simply a variety of economics characterised by concepts of capitalism and socialism, whereas there are varieties of economics which do not employ those concepts. 

Communism is thus trivial : it's just the set of texts encapsulating the practical politics of Marx and Engels, both of whom can be understood as Marxist theorists. 

some asset classes are volatility buffers

Some asset classes function as volatility batteries ( buffers ). At any point in time, global markets contain a certain appetite for risk, expressible as a quantity of volatility.

When global markets are focused on external threats, such as pandemics : volatility as a whole is reduced, due to consolidation of in-group sentiment. When global markets are focused on internal threats, the actions of market participants : volatility as a whole is increased. 

Just as how bullying and adulation in societies coalesces around specific groups and individuals due to perceived weakness or strengths, contrarians also swarm around asset classes perceived to have abnormal fundamentals. ( Here, fundamentals refer to structure including, to a limited degree, trending sentiments a.k.a. momentum, from positive feedback loops. )

At the present moment, cryptocurrencies are by far the asset class with the lowest reliability of structure, and are thus fundamentaly deprivileged. Perhaps that is why, they are undergoing heightened volatility, as volatility ekes out of equities, metals, oil, and bonds. Under this hypothesis, cryptocurrency volatility will reduce whenever those other asset classes lose momentum.

Equities will lose upward momentum, if the funding cycle phases down.

Metals will lose upward momentum, if interest rates rise, and if geopolitical concerns encalm.

Oil will lose downward momentum, if the business cycle phases up, and if geopolitical concerns ratchet up.

Bonds will lose downward momentum, if the business cycle picks up, and if political turmoil within nationstates reduces somewhat from its presently chatty norm.

Just thinking aloud over tea, after breakfast. I have not analysed these thoughts in detail.

a brief ontology of everything

GOODS and services are concrete. Money is an abstract store for goods and services. All of the above (4.) are simply ways to talk about POWER. 

1. Power is fundamentally the ability to alter one's CONSCIOUS experiences. 

2. Most of us learn to modify our conscious experiences, via manipulation of objects beyond our bodies. The power to do things, to get things done, PHYSICALLY.

3. POLITICAL power is the manipulation of people as physical objects. The power to get people, to do things, to get things done, concretely.

4. Money is simply a conventional token, a.k.a. currency, which abstracts over goods and services, which are reified physical objects, via a (literally) metaphysical construct, a synthetic physics, which we call the financial system.

So money is best understood, as a unit of political power, in a synthetic physical system. And political power is simply a variety of concrete physics in general.

5. Finally it must be noted, it is also possible to alter one's conscious experience, via direct physical manipulation of one's cognitive apparatus, without manipulation of physical systems broadly external to it. Some people call this a sort of self-control, it involves imagination, and broadly it is employed in activities associated with the word "meditation". 

So that is, in a nutshell, an ontology of human experience, across all academic disciplines.

the epoch of childish moralities

Unequivocal support for any cause, people, or value, is a child's notion of politics. But this is encouraged in various religions, both among theists and atheists. The nature of governance at this point in history, still depends on a large swarth of the population being retained as children. 

pleb knowledge

What can the ordinary citizen know about, the government? Very hard to say. I was just pointing this out to my father. 

- When a foolish statement was made, it could be naive, strategic, coerced, or simply consensual after a complicated conference of interests. ( You cannot know, the security protocols are designed to allow others, to prevent you from knowledge. )

- When a former government servant dies suddenly, it could be ordinary disease, a disposal of liabilities, retribution, or a signal between parties. ( You cannot know, the security protocols are designed to allow others, to prevent you from knowledge. )

🤷🏻

the work

Most people I talk to, seem not to comprehend my scope of study. Maybe one way to explain it is, acquiring the ability to deconstruct nearly completely, a subject. 

The scopes I have already acquired are

- people, as information processors

- documents, as information in the context of all history

- computers, as information processors

The scopes I am actively pursuing are

- human physiology

- global economics, realestate markets

- basic electronics, metalwork, woodwork, masonry

- etc. 

The scopes I wish I could get to sooner are

- math and stats

- physics

interesting projects and timelines

PROJECTS that interested me at points in life

17 : figure out if consciousness could be quantified

19 : figure out how to structure the history of all human documentation

25 : learn how to talk to computers

42 : learn real estate markets and construction techniques

... these were the "harder" ones, executed in descending order of priority; 

... projects that didn't count as hard included : accounting and finance, talent management, operations, regulatory compliance, visual design, consumer marketing, hooking up, running a business ... but it is probably because I set myself very low bars for these

... projects that are very hard/expensive, which I have yet to focus on due to lower priority : math, stats, physics, engineering, machining, investment management.

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TIMEFRAMES for projects I could brain

17 : four years ( college )

20 : twenty years ( quantified phenomenology )

30 : ten years ( commerce )

42 : twenty years ( real estate and construction )

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I never know who to talk to about these things. So usually I am working by myself.

claims that XYZ action is anti-Malay

1. Malaysia is a constitutional ethnocracy. 

2. Within the context of (1.), there will always be voices calling for improvements for the de-privileged minorities. 

3. Within the context of (2.), there will always be rhetoric claiming that (2.) is an attempt to abolish (1.).

All of this is completely normal, given (1.). 

:)

new study portfolio : realestate

 Realestate, is for the rich. I don't consider myself rich, so I have never made a point to study realestate in detail. 

Around the age of 27, I made a token investment in realestate - a leasehold suburban flat, the cheapest I dared pay for. Around the age of 39, I made a second investment - a freehold urban apartment, mainly useful for entertaining guests. The shopping process for each of these involved a vast survey of the city's options for residential flats, and nearly nothing else.

Around the age of 42, I found myself looking to simplify logistics for the maintenance of old people in my family, so I began to survey all sorts of realestate, commercial and residential, land and buildings, throughout the peninsula of Malaysia. That was the last month, or so. 

I figure, over the next 20 years, so roughly until I am 62 ( 2045 ), if I live that long, in Malaysia, and undistracted by greater responsibilities ... then I shall acquire more knowledge of realestate economics and property development. Also I should aim to save up enough to purchase a commercial-zoned property as an option to live in, for the longer term, while having the opportunity to hawk goods and services from time to time.

We shall see how that turns out. Either someone might have killed me, or revoked my citizenship, or jailed me, or ... gainfully employed me elsewhere.