Why I Don't Understand Hustle Culture And Never Did

While it may seem paradoxical to my claims, Hustle Culture and being Business-oriented in the sense of discovering "opportunities' was never actually a talent of mine whatsoever, and actually I'm probably one of the worst contenders in such departments, granted I grew up in a different era compared to today where everything is "Fast Money".

Nevertheless, while I am comfortable and do quite well and work minimal hours and generally lead a slow life, I'm also not as well off as the rest of my remaining extended family has been, including the fact that we took very different paths and strategies in life.

And that's the only reason I'm still working, largely because I never signed up for retirement and don't pay into retirement funds and play in the system as most human beings do.

But what really is something I find fascinating and not in a good way is how Money-oriented so many Men are especially in a Capitalist society like America or even the way Men in India are.

They are pretty much cut-throat and see dollar signs in everything out there, while I'm actually one of the least savvy person when it comes to looking out for trends and things to "capitalize on", or to invest in 401ks or Real Estate to rent out to others.

This stuff never interested me, and yet I argue with many about it but the one thing I notice about many of these Men is even how well off they might be, they have lived nothing but neurotic lifestyles and basically always juggling a whole bunch of things at a time and have absolutely no sense of reflection or seeing where their life is taking them.

For example, if you were to tell me about some ways to make an extra $1000 per week, you'd probably lose me already there because my biggest concern is how much more time and aggravation I'd have to spend to get that.

I'd never be interested in renting apartments even though I notice a lot of people around my age and also Gen X as well have made part of their retirement strategies based on renting to others, but this doesn't interest me either.

I'm not the type who wants to wake up to calls from tenants about a frozen pipe or a broken laundry machine or some drama between tenants, or coming to learn that I have tenants who smoke weed and have also been vandalizing the property or if I need to pursue an eviction, I have to deal with bringing them to court.

All of that interferes with my relaxation strategies which largely include listening to music, sunning and bird watching and I would lose my mind with that nonsense.

In general, the people who rent properties out to others to make a living are scum lords because they basically exist as a parasite in the system, so I have no respect for them because they simply deny property and rights to other people to sustain their own life, by monopolizing needs of others.

It's actually something that should be criminalized, but unfortunately in Capitalist society this is seen as a positive thing to use Real Estate as an income stream.

Someday Landlords will become some of the most despised people and will be at risk for their own tenants in unaliving them after rental increases.

But the main theme I notice with so many Men is how many of them subscribe to the system constantly to gain an advantage.

They spend hours and hours filing paperwork, paying fees, running around to do random ridiculous tasks even outside of work just to maintain their rights towards something.

For these Men it seems, the ends justifies the means and especially when it comes down to trying to chase that bag over all other Men, but they really live garbage lifestyles in general and have unbelievable amount of responsibilities, but perhaps what I hate most about them is the fact that they've helped to normalize this hustle culture and having 2-3-4 jobs or multiple income streams and it makes me sick that they identify so much with their careers.

To be honest, let me give you an idea of how much my work plays into my life.

Work is only about 10% of my life.

I notice that in America, work is like 90% of Americans lives.

The chances are high that when a customer calls me that I might be sunbathing in summer weather or drinking an energy drink or a margarita and probably listening to music or reading or doing some activity that doesn't even involve work.

I wait for the calls to come in, but I'm not actively at work and I have a knack for an attitude of "when I get around to it" to schedule them.

It's just amazing how much Men are obsessed with opportunity and there are definitely Men who see them and get them but the thing is they dedicate their whole existence to this shit!

Hey, we all like money there's nothing wrong with that, it's good to have it and bad to not have it, but I can't see chasing money, yet so many Men are constantly chasing money and absolutely do everything and constantly negotiate to try to make that happen.

I prefer a more passive approach by being the bait for money instead because I always intuitively felt chasing money would weaken me and make me become neurotic and seemingly desperate and out of my character.

Another thing about some Men who are financially savvy is that they invest in some really strange things.

There clearly is a very very different mindset in such Men versus Men like myself because one thing I've noticed is that the Men who tend to invest money, don't value it.

They prefer taking risks with it and aren't all that bothered by the idea of having money tied up in certain types of accounts or sitting somewhere that they cannot access it.

For me, that is just too weird of a thing and the idea of that sort of stuff bothers me and seems to volatile because I'm also the type who doesn't believe or take anything seriously if it's not something that's in my raw hands. I do not like having assets tied up.

This is probably why I also identified so strongly with Goatis since he somewhat lives in the same manner as I do albeit a bit more to the extreme side but eh.

In Goatis, I saw a Man who was almost like this response signal / confirmation from another side of the world who automatically believes and understands the same things I do, and I have not met any Men in my lifetime that I have found so many multiple identifying factors with about life than I have with him.

Even some enlightened people I worked with in projects from the past, while they were exceptional in the sense of maybe one arena of life where I could identify fully with, it was usually limited to just that only.

Goatis also is the only other person besides myself who had come to the understanding that Christianity is actually a Satanic religion and I was astounded when I realized he discovered this on his own life path.

Goatis basically brought to life many of my repressed sentiment for my entire life that has been met with nothing but overt and persistent hostility but in which I could never change who I was, so this is why I have come to identify and have so much great admiration for Goatis.

It's funny too because in so many of his videos it almost feels like he has my life script laid out as to what I was experiencing, almost creepy in a way because of how dead accurate he was and he described everything to a solid point even down to situations where he would relate about how "of course society will thin you are a psychopath for thinking this way" and that actually was my experience.

But what I have to assume in this is that Goatis went through many of the same exact scenarios I went through in life.

Even his videos such as Never Forgive Anybody, have also greatly resonated deep within me as I have always viewed forgiveness as weakness and as a stupid Christian value one which basically is about empowering the abuser and where I saw revenge as the most natural urge to right the wrong.

If there is another thing Goatis really opened my eyes too, a perspective he gave me was also when he voiced that fact that 99% of people around us are starving and don't even realize they are starving and both through the help of his knowledge and also confirming other details, I have definitely discovered there to be a huge truth to people who eat little to no meat have almost zero compassion for other Humans and I have even witnessed so many people coming out talking about this when they were vegan.

In earlier times I was not very knowledgeable about such things or gave much thought to that.

Much of my life has been spent having to be confined to myself with my viewpoints as they were especially considered completely not acceptable and the punishment for them in earlier times was harsher.

So while I identify with a Man like Goatis, I can't identify with Matrix oriented Men who always are thinking about money.

With Goatis, there are numerous things that he has described word for word about either my own experiences, theories and beliefs in this life.

For example, with the gym, you have no idea how bad the shaming was if you were refusing to dress appropriately for gym or not participating, especially as a Man, back in the day. And here we have Goatis who has been speaking endlessly and tirelessly against Gym and Fitness lifestyles.

The other thing is that for much of my life I also tended to avoid anything that made me extremely uncomfortable, stressed and not good.

And I am thankful that my own self-awareness and emotions revolving around these things completely superceded anyone's opinion or regards towards me, because I could never ignore the way something made me feel.

Yet we see people today doing things that make them feel horrible, thinking it's good for them.

One time a guy I used to hang out with tried showing me these trading options things he used to do and I couldn't believe how much the guy studied and wrapped his life around what he did and seemingly knew every term strategy and stuff he talked about and I couldn't connect or relate to anything he showed me and it made no sense to me and I actually had to tell him I can't listen anymore because I can't concentrate or follow this stuff and it's too confusing and complicated for me and he basically thought I was lying to him and couldn't understand how I could not possibly understand what he saw in the stuff he did.

I also ran into another guy recently who somewhat tried doing the same thing and he tried showing me this stuff online, and the funny thing is they talk to me as if I must already know all this stuff.

Truthfully I don't, and it's also because I'm really not that money motivated as many others are.

My comfort and perpetual enjoyment are paramount over that noise.

And I hate the idea so much of being a busybody with work and constant pressure and to learn all that financial nonsense that I'd be more content sitting along bored to death in a room.

I'm really not meant for this world, and the systems we live in are absolutely hostile to someone like myself and yet will reward the obsessive hustler.

The other thing I notice about most of these Men I don't get along with who chase money is they seem to always have nervous habits like smoking a lot of cigarettes or being unable to be somewhere for too long of a period, always feeling the need to be on the go or changing things up.

I really think that if you are someone who is very passionate and emotional, if you need constant stimulation, that this world is a much more difficult place to live and where the modern society is not in any way accommodating to us.

I can spend hours literally admiring the way something tastes or the way certain Music sounds or how the Sun beams down the way it does and get lost in it, while the financial guy looks at it as a lost opportunity where one can be making more money and researching new goals, and viewing these activities as a waste of time and non-productive.

What a world's difference our mindsets are.