Long Thoughts
Things Which Get Better Over Time, Things Which Get Worse Over Time?
Thinking car interiors
I’ve always been passionate about cars ever since I was a kid, and even now as an adult, I am still very interested and passionate about them, even Seneca loves them!
Seneca and I have been spending a lot of time touring different cars, and their interiors, like the Lucid air, all of the Tesla cars, as well as even the more recent Polestar cars.
This is the big thought I have:
All of these interiors, and the touch screens will get dated very quickly.
For example, the UI/UX of the lucid touch screens, as well as the polestar touch screens are insanely ugly, make no sense, and not intuitive. The Tesla touch screens are better, yet even though I find navigating them to be insanely confusing.
Even when you inspect the Rolls-Royce cars, all of these buttons and levers in the cars will get dated, and probably will sooner or later break.
Why all cars are bad
All electric cars are bad insofar much as the battery technology quickly get dated. Can you imagine if you bought a $100,000 iPhone, can you imagine using it for 30 years?
Also with gasoline cars, hybrid cars, plug-in hybrid cars, etc., sooner or later all of these motors and moving parts will require maintenance and will break sooner or later.
Even a superficial thing; when I bought my 13 inch MacBook Pro touch bar in 2017, refurbished and maxed out, now the battery only lasts about a minute or two before I have to charge it in. The thing says I need to replace the battery, but I don’t have time for that.
Speculations and investments for the future?
There are certain trends which are very obvious. If you think long enough.
As time goes on, think to yourself,
In the next 20 to 30 years, will Americans become fatter, more obese, more overfat, or more fit?
As time goes on, will more people get into photography as an artistic outlet, or fewer?
As time goes on, will the iPhone camera get better, or worse?
As time goes on, will freeway traffic get better or worse?
These are some simple obvious long-term thoughts we can make.
In the next 20 or 30 years, will there be higher crypto and cryptocurrency adoption or less?
Even inspecting some crypto.com marketing news, apparently adoption of people purchasing crypto has gone up!
Economic forecasts
I don’t predict a “recession”, however what I do foresee is that the price of simple stuff will go up. Why? For example, I see that McDonald’s is now hiring for $16.50, starting salary an hour! Also looking at gas prices, the standard is now five dollars and up a gallon.
What does this mean? I think first of all, these starting salaries for menial labor jobs are no longer enticing people. I think the new young generation would probably just prefer to stay at home, smoke weed, play video games, binge on Netflix, and squat in their parents house.
The rich are getting richer
Going to the new Balenciaga collection, seeing the new Adidas and Balenciaga collaboration, I love that you can now buy a pair of cotton socks for $200! And these things are selling like hotcakes.
