always suspicious of young people who are points guys. same with tax obsessive. lack appreciation of opportunity cost of your attention

Ppl afraid to take on lifes biggest challenges become ants. Find problems where they dont even exist. Find achievement in rearranging things. Dragging the trash bins up the driveway, folding their shirts, putting a dish away. Think being tidy & neat is winning

there's a kind of person that's *really* bad at imagining anybody being motivated by anything other than the most simplistic-boring notions of money, sex, fame, ie capital accumulation and conspicuous consumption