How to choose a profession to become rich
Global Macro Research's recent blog posts are interesting, so I'm compiling them as personal notes. The latter half might be somewhat unrelated.
Jim Rogers: How to choose a profession to become rich
World's Largest Hedge Fund: Will America Default?
Druckenmiller: US Economy Will Recover with a Hard Landing
Druckenmiller on the Pension Problem: Why Are Today's Elderly More Important Than Future Elderly?
Druckenmiller Significantly Increases NVIDIA Holdings, an AI and Crypto Stock
The Impact of a US Economic Hard Landing Will Be More Than Twice That of the Lehman Shock
Druckenmiller: The Possibility of It Being Worse Than the Lehman Shock Cannot Be Denied
Druckenmiller: Hard Landing in Six Months, Corpses Piling Up in the US Economy
In reality, it feels like the companies that have been leading the way will change.
Students and Young Engineers No Longer Aim for Big Tech - Business Insider Japan
As mentioned above, the companies that have profited have largely shifted, centered around Taiwanese companies.
Digital Gold Rush – Repeating the 18th-19th Centuries?
World's Largest Hedge Fund: Why Richer Countries Get Deeper in Debt
As for the remaining Japanese companies, Sony's camera business is strong due to its image sensors being used in the majority of smartphones worldwide, and its gaming industry also benefits from its uniquely developed manga and anime industries.
Speaking of emerging companies that have grown, there are those dealing with VTubers, and Vocaloid, which is close to its origin, I now think of as a unique invention.
It might be a culture that will last for a long time, just like the birth of a new musical instrument.
It feels like it has completely crossed borders, become loved by many people, and still has room to expand further.
It still feels like there are many Japanese people who have resistance or aversion to two-dimensional culture, and similarly, even though the developer of Bitcoin has a Japanese name, "Satoshi Nakamoto," they tend to be prejudiced against “otaku” and such. However, even if I ask dozens of people born in the 1960s, many seem knowledgeable about various things, and the stories that come up regarding music and computers are overwhelmingly rich in information.
Everyone says in unison, “Because there was nothing else,” but the flip side of that statement is that their time wasn't being taken away. Nowadays, there are countless things that can take away our time. Perhaps we need to think about that time, especially now in a consumer society.
For this reason, I canceled all my subscription services.
If the staff at PC Shop Captain in Akihabara (which now seems to regularly sells junk) hadn't introduced me to The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash," I might have stopped at "Sticky Fingers," and if I had only gone to large chain stores, I might not have had this value system.
Sadly, that shop also seemed to have closed in 2021.
I learned about this shop because I had been following a personal blog called "Junk PC Optimization Project" throughout my junior high and high school years.
At the very least, it is clear that the wisdom of our predecessors is great, and the products they created by burning their lives, like OS (Slackware) for me recently, or shops in the real world, should be preserved in some form or another.