ERIC KIM

This is the way : https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/26/bitcoin-free-money-hack/

Super simple — buy and ride up MSTR MICROSTRATEGY, cop the profit, buy Bitcoin! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/26/eric-kim-infinite-money-hack/

The hardest thing on the planet and universe? https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/25/bitcoin-universe/

video: https://videos.files.wordpress.com/d3mhV94k/my-project-22.mp4

Audio: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DIGITAL-CAPITAL.m4a

PDF, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BRAVE-NEW-WORLD-OF-DIGITAL-CAPITAL-5.pdf

# BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DIGITAL CAPITAL

Capital, capitalism, assuming you own an iPhone, any smartphone, assume you have Wi-Fi at the house or a 4G or 5G connectivity thing, assuming that you have a car an automobile etc.; and also, assuming that you don’t grow your own vegetables and groceries etc., then what that then means is you are a part of society and capitalism.

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## Don’t be a hippie 

I think I figured it out… The notion of being a “hipster”, essentially it’s just a hyphenated form of saying hippies or hippy--

Funny enough, studying a bit of the etymology of the word hippie, comes from the word hip, like same hip as in hip hip-hop. Although now, we think of that weirdos vegan cults flower worshiping and war hippies and the like, not the gangsta hip-hop rappers that we think of today.

And actually what is very interesting, considering I was born in 1988, and grew up in the East Bay Alameda Oakland, Bay Area 510 rap hip-hop KEAK DA SNEAK, E40 hyphy movement ,,, my flavor of hip-hop and rap culture that I grew up was very different than the strange hip-hop culture today, and also a bit different from the mainstream 50 Cent gangsta idea that was popularized in the 2000s.

Anyways, I think what is so fascinating to me about capital, digital capital, digital capitalism and the like is how insanely paradigm shift it is.

## Why?

So the first question is… Why or why does this all matter?

First, assuming you’re a photographer, digital photographer etc.; what that then means is you and all of us we are all implicated! And I think this is a good thing; **digital is good, digital is better!**

For example, besides what all these virtue signaling hipsters say, I really do think that **digital photography is 1 trillion times superior and now more virtuous than film**. I think film was a good fling, but now in the year 2024… And now that the new Lumix S9 Camera is out with the phenomenal 26 mm F8 pancake lens, there’s almost 0 reasons to shoot film anymore. And zero reasons to shoot any loser Leica camera.

## Your opinion will change with technology and the times 

Technology does matter; for example, in the past, it did make a difference. For example the original Leica M9 camera was a big deal at the time because full frame was simply too big, too bulky, not very accessible. At least in a small form factor. But now, in the year 2024 and beyond… **Technology has changed and shifted**.

## 2024 -- everything has changed!

For example, for a long time, film photography did indeed look superior to digital photos. But now with new digital technologies, I would actually make the bold claim that digital photos with the right image processing filters, can actually look superior and *more supreme* to film photos. 

For example, on the new Lumix S9 camera, we essentially have this “dynamic Leica monochrome” filter, with high contrast, grain added… the photos look phenomenal! Even deeper and richer contrast than my beloved Ricoh GR cameras?

Even a random thing that I never really expected… there’s this new “LUT” concept -- I think it’s from cinema or video or something, which I think is just a fancy word for color preset or film grading for cinema and media.

Anyways, one of the built-in included LUT filters is like this really lovely cross processing color filter which shifts and brings out this really lovely orange cyan hue -- the photos look beautiful! And also, when shooting 24 FPS video on it, it looks so beautiful and cinematic! **I call the new Lumix S9 baby Godzilla!**

30 years or nothing — https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/23/eric-kims-razor-2/

happy is best! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/22/it-doesnt-cost-anything-to-be-happy/

Crafting the most supreme body, the most sublime body, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/21/zen-body-2/

audio: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/How-to-get-rich.m4a

Rich goals pdf: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/How-to-Get-Rich-7.pdf

# How to Get Rich

I think I might be the richest millennial I know, or at least anybody who is born in 1988, besides Mark Zuckerberg.

## How and why?

First, I think I am the only millennial I know with literally zero debt. Like zero mortgage, which is debt, zero car payments, zero college loans etc. Actually if I think about this in retrospect, growing up poor might have been the most beneficial things: seeing the evils of gambling via my dad, and crushing debt bankruptcy through my mom… Was probably the best indicator or learner that I had in terms of real life experience, in terms of how terrible the evils of debt is.

And also, even going to college… Essentially being able to go for “free”, because my family was poor, I got all these scholarships and grants, and work-study loans, which essentially means that I still have to work, but at least, I had to take on zero debt to pay for my dorm apartment etc.

## Voluntary loans

The Only money I borrowed was about $10,000, more for fun; I used that money to backpack through Europe, travel the world in between my junior and senior year etc. But that was optional.

And also, I think the really really big thing; never spending more than $2500 USD on a car? I think that was the sticker price for the last car I purchased which was a 1990 Miata, when I was 21 years old, it might’ve been $3000 USD, getting it used on craigslist, ironically enough because the man selling it had a child on the way, and sold it because it was no longer useful to him having to raise a kid. Funny that I am in similar shoes now, now that Seneca is 3 1/2 years old.

## Mindset

I think the number one critical thing is to just change your mindset. One thing which I have learned after the almost 15 years of being self-employed, ever since I was 21 until 36… Is truth be told, **nothing in the world is really worth it**. No amount of money eating out at a restaurant is ever worth it; purchasing beef ribs at Costco and baking it at home is at least a 100X superior yield than any restaurant, or even all all you can eat Korean barbecue; currently, my favorite spot is *Chubby Cattle*, but even though they issue there is they have a 90 minute time limit, I think my current record is about **70 plates of beef tongue**. I just went to the recent little Tokyo branch which just opened, and the servers, their jaws dropped; asking me whether I was a bodybuilder, given how much I ate, even on the last call I asked for 20 plates of beef tongue, they were skeptical, but I finished it all quite easily.

## Spartan is sexy.

True insights ,,, take real risks:

> Y’all niggas still taking advances huh? Me and my niggas were taking real chances huh! - Jay Z

The ultimate mindset I suggest is going spartan. Just watch the movie 300, think about King Leonidas. Would King Leonidas blow his money on a Tesla, cybertruck, Lamborghini or Porsche? No! He would know that these things were just for the Persian slaves, those giving fellatio to King Xerxes.

> Do you want to be one of the 300 Spartan elite, or do you be one of the million Persian slaves?

There is a motto in the US military, freedom is not free. I would refine this saying; **freedom is expensive, very expensive**.

## The price is sacrifice

True freedom is what you decide to give up, forgo, or sacrifice. This is embodied via the fact that you never eat out, you don’t drink alcohol, you don’t smoke weed or do drugs, you don’t go on trips to Vegas, you don’t watch pornography, you don’t watch any media, you don’t listen to music, podcasts, etc. You don’t watch YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.

Exploiting your creative vision: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/15/how-to-become-a-visionary-2/

The Archimedes Lever Principle to Success

If you know where to put your fulcrum is, then you can and shall move the world!

So I’ve been making some insanely great returns from micro strategy, micro strategy stock, MSTR-- for example, in just a month, I was able to take $150,000, put it into micro strategy, and I saw it go up to $200,000! A $50,000 gain, in just a month. Pretty awesome.

Currently reading the Bernstein interview that Michael Saylor has, and the gist of the news is that the general goal strategy is that micro strategy will become the first native bitcoin bank.

## The first shall win

So the first thought was, what is the point of a company, continuing to leverage debt, borrowing money at very very low interest rates, to just keep buying more and more bitcoin?

But then again maybe the same question is what is the point of a company or a corporation, buying up scarce in desirable real estate in New York City, in Manhattan…? In fact, assuming that you’re a rich elite New York City family, the goal is to buy as much property as you possibly can on the main island, and you keep accumulating it, forever, and pass it down to your kids kids kids kids kids.

Assuming that bitcoin is the first true *digital* property, then what that then means is if there is a hard cap on the amount of digital property you could ever buy, let us say that it is 21,000,000 square blocks in Cyberman Manhattan, then once again, also the logical goal right now is to accumulate as much property as humanly can right now… Within your means.

For example, assuming bitcoin is currently trading at around $60,000 a bitcoin right now, if I could’ve told you 30 or 50 years ago that you could buy one square block in Manhattan, on the main island for only $60,000… Wouldn’t you borrow as much money as you possibly could in order to do it, assuming you had 100% perfect foresight, like Bluff from back in the future? 

Anyways, big thing I’ve been thinking about is for myself… What is my true our comedian lover? Simply put it is photography. It is the thing that feels like breathing to me, and I think I really do have a gift in a talent for it, which supersede possibly anyone else on the planet?

For example, my ability to see photos scenes opportunities, analyze compositions for photos, to understand things visually… Perhaps this is a gift that I want to share with humanity, the whole planet… I don’t want my insights to die with me when I’m dead. 

## ERIC KIM AI?

So one fun idea I have is what if I could just create some sort of bot, in which you could just upload a picture to it or a bunch of photos to it, and it could automatically within seconds, analyze the picture, and embed all these compositional Insights to the photos?

Or even another funny thing, assuming that you have an iPhone or iPhone Pro or whatever… And let us say that you’re just walking on the streets, and you could just open up the ERIC KIM photo app, and as your actively real time scanning the scene, the ERIC KIM voice can either talk to you via speakerphone or your AirPods, and encourage you; taking step forward, taking a step back, how to arrange or rearrange the scene.

The reason why I feel that this might be such a great idea is that I guess the future of AI is here. Even the new iPhone, iPhone Pro; maybe now in the year 2024, AI has finally arrived. ChatGPT already right now is fucking amazing, don’t be a cheapo, make sure to get the $20 a month version.

## Becoming a publicly traded company 

Now that I’m already dumb rich, and also, I’m the most spartan person of all time; I might be the sexiest, most handsome, most intelligent person in terms of being frugal; **I only spend money on meat and barbells, nothing else**. 

why Bitcoin? https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/10/12/bitcoin-warrior-2/