Free Download Aaron Clarey, "Zero World Problems: New Standards of Living for the Post-Materialist Economy"
English | ASIN : B0DWJGMTF5 | 2025 | 150 pages | PDF | 890 KB
What would you pay to have a wife who doesn’t argue or nag?
What would you pay for a husband who’s actually in shape?
What would you pay to have a clean garage?
And what would you pay to be able to get up every morning when you wanted to?
The problem is you can’t pay for these things as they cannot be bought in stores. But they are definitely attainable in life. The only question is whether you are going to give up your current pursuit of traditional economic standards of living to attain them.
Whether you realize it or not, traditional measures of economic success are rapidly becoming obsolete. While your grandmother would be happy with a simple handbag in her day, you’re not happy unless it’s a $75,000 one. While your grandfather was happy with a reliable car after the war, you’re not happy unless it’s a $100,000 one with heated seats and a stupid logo. This blind, middle school pursuit of "more, better, fancier, and pricier" well beyond its practical economic use, has come at the cost of a dramatically wealthier and happier world we could have achieved had we pursued more reasoned and sane economic goals instead.
Alas, instead of actually cleaning your garage, you spend your time working to make an SUV payment. Instead of going to the gym so you can have great sex with your spouse, you work to pay for your kids’ laughably stupid liberal arts degrees. And you could have retired early, waking up whenever you wanted. But you decided to party it up in your 20s and not save a penny in your 401k. Sure, US "GDP per Capita" wouldn’t likely be $81,000 per person, but you wouldn’t be stuck in a stroke-inducing commute for 50 years trying to earn it.
This calls for a rethinking of current day economic standards of living, and replacing them with new ones. It also calls for new economic goals and objectives; goals that people should spend their money and time achieving, instead of buying their "third boat." It’s just a matter of waking up, seriously thinking about what we want in life, identifying these new, higher standards of living, and pursuing them instead. It’s just a matter of replacing our truly stupid "First World Problems" with more thoughtful and practical "Zero World Problems." And if we do that, we can enjoy a much higher standard of living than what conventional economics permits us to have now (and at a fraction of the price!).
Your McMansion cost $575,000. Your SUV cost $75,000. And your divorce cost $387,000.
This book costs $17. What would you pay for a wife who doesn’t nag?
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