Being in debt means using up the future in the present. Essentially, it’s about how we manage our time. Therefore, the most valuable resource for debtors is time, and it depends on which side time favors. Paying off debt is like repaying borrowed future time early. When the ability to generate wealth over time decreases, the future time becomes a burden, and the debtor faces the pain of bankruptcy. Taking on debt is costly. It may seem like borrowed money is repaid with money, but the irreplaceable resource of time is also returned along with interest. With the rise of postpaid credit cards as a common payment method, we’ve become less sensitive to the associated pain and cost. There are two ways to spend money: using present time or future time. The costs and pain are much higher when the future is spent as if it were the present. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
A person adopts a position, and that position shapes the person once more. People form relationships, and those relationships, in turn, shape individuals again. In a system where cause and effect are continuously interlinked, it’s quite easy to embody either a bad person or a good person. Situations and relationships can influence individuals, but people remain at the core of it all. How are good people and bad people determined? Do good people and bad people genuinely exist within this feedback system? How do we distinguish between cause and effect? - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”