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PROMPT: Cryptocurrency

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What are your thoughts about cryptocurrency?

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Cryptocurrency is the ultimate symbol of the absurdity of our species. People are using tremendous amounts of electricity to “mine coin,” running up everyone’s electricity bills and hastening climate disruption for a something that can lose value in an instant in any number of ways from governments enforcing a monopoly on minting money to buyers realizing that not everything that is kept scarce has inherent value. (One-armed juggling midgets are rare, but there’re not any giving Elon Musk (Vladimir Putin?) a run for his money for the highest net worth slot.) It will have a prominent role in the second great depression, mark my words. Ballooning pseudo-value may kill us all.

PROMPT: Financial Success

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How does your mindset affect your financial success?

Nonlinearly. First, positively with increasing marginality. Then, with decreasing marginality. And, finally, negatively.

PROMPT: On the Street

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What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street?

I’d like to say common courtesy, but – honestly – a hundred dollar bill.

PROMPT: Unlimited Budget

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If you had an unlimited budget for 24 hours, what would you do?
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I’d buy a round-trip ticket for a place distant and interesting. I’m presuming I could spend money on that day for something the benefit of which would come later (i.e. that nothing turns into pumpkin at the end of the day.) I would not want the inevitable cavity search that would come from buying and flying on the same day.

PROMPT: Budgeting

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Write about your approach to budgeting.
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First, use what you’ve got to put food in your face. If there’s left over, acquire suitable shelter. If there’s some left, buy a book.

PROMPT: Coolest Thing

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What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?
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I once found a $100 bill half frozen into the snow on a random stretch of sidewalk in a not-so-great neighborhood. It’s only now occurring to me that it was literally the coolest thing I’ve ever found because it was encased in ice and snow. I acknowledge it’s not so “cool” in the colloquial sense of the word.

PROMPT: Million Dollars

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If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
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THE POOR.