Thoughts

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Humans, as a species, have achieved extraordinary things—Beethoven’s symphonies, Picasso’s masterpieces, Einstein’s theories, and countless other feats of creativity and intellect. Yet, we also excel at two less admirable traits: destruction and greed.

Since the dawn of civilisation, humankind has eradicated approximately 83% of mammal biomass and half of the world’s plant biomass. We have fought hundreds of thousands of wars among ourselves, leaving devastation in our wake.

The richest 1% of humanity controls nearly half of the world’s wealth. If you live in a Western country, your income or assets, even if modest by local standards, likely place you among the top 10% of the wealthiest people on Earth.

Money is essentially an illusion because there isn’t enough physical cash to back all the money in circulation. The same funds are referenced multiple times. For instance, if you deposit £1,000 into a bank, the bank can loan that same £1,000 to someone else. Now, you, the bank, and the borrower all effectively claim to have £1,000.

If people collectively stopped believing in a currency, its value and function would collapse entirely.

Money is an abstract construct that operates like a Ponzi scheme. Those with wealth, through interest and accumulation, continue to acquire far more than they need, while those without it struggle, receiving far less than their fair share.

According to a recent Oxfam analysis (September 23, 2024), the richest 1% now holds more wealth than the combined total of the bottom 95% of the world’s population.

The Constants of Life:

1. Reproduction

2. Evolution

3. Death

The Constants of Humanity:

1. Technological progress

2. Greed

The only thing you can truly own is time. Everything else—possessions, wealth, even status—is borrowed or rented. But time itself is an enigma. It doesn’t exist in the way we think it does; it’s influenced by gravity and is fundamentally a human construct—a system we’ve created to make sense of our fleeting existence.

Ultimately, as much as humans strive for sense and order, the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy, or the measure of disorder in a system, tends to increase over time, meaning all things naturally progress toward greater chaos and disorder.