Some realizations of boss, work,money, power, values recent time

I’ve come to realize that your boss isn’t really your boss; he’s a customer because he pays for your services. Your supervisor, on the other hand, doesn’t have to pay you but can influence your income, leaning more towards “absolute power.”

For me, there is something called “absolute power”: which doesn’t require providing any value but can strip away a person’s value.

Money talks & Money = Power

Money equals power, and when your boss gives you money, it’s equivalent to granting you power. Through purchasing your services to make money, your boss gains more power and at the same time granting you his power (money).

It’s not an absolute power like the Nazis, who possessed violence, demanding everything without giving anything in return. This is absolute power.

So, when you look into your boss’s eyes, your boss isn’t your boss; He is your customer. When he loses his temper unreasonably, he’s like a bad customer.

The reason we fear our bosses is that we have only one customer, and having just one customer means that if we lose them, we lose our income. Hence, we end up complying with everything to keep them. Therefore, it’s essential to explore additional ways to make money and increase our sources of income.

Adjustment

There are also lots of thing that I realized in life. I am also trying to adjust my viewpoint of life and how I see this world. I guess there might not be an ultimate form of viewpoint. After I started investing Crypto currency, I have a weird feeling. It seems to me that money is fake because it makes me feel that money doesn’t represent values all the time.

First wave is like Earthquake

For a long time, I believe that money equals value. It’s like how much you earn that how much your value and hard work is. You work harder you get paycheck bigger. I have zero clue how this idea has been planted in my mind. When I went abroad and chat with different smart and hardworking people, I realize that there are many people who works less and not that smart like other group of smart people in other country, but they still make a lot of money and then I get to know the idea of minimum wage. I saw the salary structure of global society.

Second wave is like Tsunami

I really like to read history, I have heard that there was a period of times in Taiwan, the inflation was so high that they must use a sack of banknote to buy few eggs. For a long time, I really think that money is money, don’t know about the inflation or even deflation, don’t know the role that central banks plays. I read it on books and can understand it, however not until I put my money inside crypto currencies, there is no “value investing” like stock market, like what Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett says inside this world. It goes up fast and come goes down fast. There are also chance to be mega high also mega close to zero. All have no concrete clues. I wouldn’t suggest you guys all-in this thing.

Decoupling money with value

It’s chaotic but who knows if it is gambling or if it might be one of our future ways of digital paying? Anway, I saw that as a ticket of the bus driving toward human future, and I bought it. Just only the fluctuation makes me feel so fake of these money. So, I can feel and realized that even deeper, it doesn’t represent value, it just represents the supply, demand, and market.

In the end, I want to share a diagram

Most of us all had heard about “passive income”, According to our ai friend ChatGPT 3.5 “Passive income is money earned with minimal effort or active involvement. It typically comes from investments, real estate, or businesses that require little day-to-day management once set up. This income stream allows individuals to generate money without constant hands-on work.”

Recently, I came out with an idea of this diagram, maybe I read it somewhere (A book called FIRE), but somehow, I memorized it or there might be a synchronicity, so it shows up somewhere else or someone already download this idea from the universe. (laughing) But I still share mine. A four-quadrant diagram of how to evaluate money income.

The vertical axis shows the volume of your income.

The horizontal axis represents physical or mental engagement for earning income.

Myself as an example

As a sales manager my full-time job’s salary income consider decent in Taiwan. However, it takes more than 50% time of my awakening hours. It located in Quadrant 1.

Crypto Currency, unlike other traditional investment. It fluctuated drastically and of course you don’t have to take care of it too often, at least if you do it in a traditional “wait until the price get high and sell it” way.

I used to buy foreign currency when the exchange rates changed, I sell it, I make money. Most of OECD country aren’t fail state, wouldn’t fall or be overthrown overnight. Therefore, the currency rate is relatively stable. So, it will be putted inside Quadrant 3.

My side job UberEATS delivery with road bike, is something worse. If you don’t count it with health perspective, this might be worse ever. Because it has its high physical demand, nevertheless, pays even worse than the minimum hour wage NT183$ in Taiwan. So, it fits Quadrant 4 perfectly.

Wish you guys do well in 2024 !

Please note that, it changes from your environment and personal value of hard working and high or low income. You guys could create one diagram for yourself and then think about how to manage it. So that you could manage income carefully, in order to achieve your personal life goal or things you would like to get.