Personal Finance Asceticism can be a tool of oppression. How should those on the left view personal finance ahead of the recession?

 

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-Interest rates are going up again, for now

 

-The narrative around personal finance is important

 

-Know the real causes of economic hardships and inequality – don’t blame yourself or fellow workers

 

-The connection between punitive class relations and personal finance “advice”

 

-Like I discussed on the episode about “just work harder,” employment is often designed to punish rather than to create productivity, and the same is true with financial advice. It is often not made to cause success but to be punitive to lower classes.

 

-Wealthy people often use debt to create wealth

 

-Cutting out Netflix might not make a big difference in your debt. This “finance expert” got dunked on for good reason:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRvk43Ng/

 

-Dave Ramsey-type austerity and total denial of pleasure might not work as well as they claim

 

-Entrepreneurship may be inhibited by a credit crunch

 

-NPR reports a credit crunch is coming: https://apple.news/Akz1MyXfMRTa5l07ad0I3KQ

 

-Good credit cards/financing offers like 0% financing and sign-up bonuses may be going away so you may wanna take advantage of them now if you are financially secure.

 

-The housing and auto market may be a bit confusing for a while. Housing and used cars have a little room to go down, so maybe think twice, but if you are in a great financial position, have those needs, and plan to use credit, consider those purchases.

 

-If your mortgage will cost less than rent, maybe buying is a good idea. Contact me if you are interested in buying, selling or renting a home and I will get you hooked up with the best real estate experts anywhere in the country: Greyson@OffSpeedSolutions.com or call 657-206-0736

 

-How to know if you can take on debt – highly over-simplified version:

– Do you have?: a very secure job/ income stream and at least 3-6 months of expenses saved as an emergency fund? If so and you absolutely need to finance something, you may want to do it now instead of waiting when credit conditions may be tighter.

 

-CDs can protect you from overspending because they have a penalty to withdraw. Listen to the prior episode.

 

-Building credit for beginners: get a credit card early on but barely use it. Maybe pay for one subscription, put it on auto pay, and file the card away somewhere. Same technique for adding new cards to increase overall credit limits.

 

-Keep extra credit cards stored away and some cash as well so it’s saved, out of sight, out of mind

 

-Credit line increases can help your credit, especially if you are holding a balance, but may be harder to come by when the recession hits

 

-If you have good income now, you can try now for a credit line increase

 

-The hidden perks of having good credit and using credit cards.

 

-Personal story: How a credit card saved my grandparents’ 68th wedding anniversary

-If you have a Visa Signature Card, you can use the Visa Signature Concierge to get restaurant, reservations, and all kinds of other special perks

 

-Super wealthy people seeing us enjoy stuff pisses them off

 

-Reprogramming the blame game around inflation and recessions

 

-Recessions are not the fault of workers, this is the capitalists retaliating against workers who have gained much economic ground

 

-For the first time in a long time, workers started to get what they deserved and safety nets were expanded to closer to what the need actually is

 

-Checking and savings account balances reached record levels

 

-The truth about how wealthy people get successful

 

-Deciding to have a last party to celebrate the current financial success before the recession hits

 

-Our overarching philosophy to personal finance: we believe you deserve to enjoy too, your life is miserable and you work hard enough that you have earned the right to have nice things (within reason, of course). As long as the game is the way it is, it’s only fair that you can play the game the same way the wealthy do.

 

 

 

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This episode is specifically designed for those of us who have done well through the pandemic era, have money saved up, and want to protect it. I will cover those currently facing hardships in a future installment.

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– Don’t gaslight yourself. Don’t feel bad. This is not your fault and this is not just nature. These are systems designed to do what they do and stick the burden on working class, middle class, disadvantaged populations, or even just those who those in power don’t like in the name of “saving the economy.”
– Recessions are a policy/economic choice
– We can choose to protect workers, families, and vulnerable people. This was proven during the pandemic.
– Policymakers’ choice to “bail out’ Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
– It was the right choice to ensure market confidence and protect payroll that workers were owed
– FDIC/NCUA limit is $250,000 per bank per person – most people will be more than fine!
– Review details on FDIC Insurance limits, including how certain accounts (like some retirement accounts) may be counted separately, allowing you to have more than $250k insured in one bank if eligible: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/financial-products-insured/
– Short-term access may be an issue though
– Potential dangers of banking with “app-based” FinTech banking services that are not banks themselves
– These are often tech startups subject to the current increased risk of failing, pull-back of VC funds
– If they are depositing your money in an FDIC insured bank, you’ll be covered, but the app/platform being unavailable, customer service being unavailable can be an issue for access if your FinTech provider goes out of business
– Maybe don’t use a FinTech/app-based banking service as your sole bank, diversify
– Consider putting your money in multiple institutions for higher rates, easier access, and behavioral reasons/impulse control.
– Keeping an emergency fund at another bank makes it less likely for you to spend it impulsively
– I considered First Republic for a business account but their fees are too much in my opinion.
– CDs can be a great option for those who have savings over and above an emergency fund that they won’t need to spend in the next 6-12 months+. Locks in your rate but withdrawals have penalties. Read the fine print.
– Some Institutions offering higher CD rates on shorter rather than longer durations
– Will the Fed start dropping rates?
– Small increase in rates rumored in the very short-term
– Extended Sweep Deposit Accounts from brokerage firms that allow $1 million or more in FDIC insurance on one account
– Brex applying this to business banking
– I prefer credit unions for lower fees, better rates, and investing in communities
– IntraFi deposit program for banks: https://hub.intrafi.com/rethink-uninsured-deposits
– The vital role of credit unions and community banks in helping communities thrive
– Avoiding investment fraud and “safe money” scams when markets decline, a cautionary tale from my real life
– Regulation D/private placement investments are the highest risk – AVOID unless you are okay with losing your money.
– Financial advisors should be “fiduciaries”
– Covering tips for when recessions “hit” and cause job losses on a future episode.

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This episode was inspired by a video on my TikTok about the Biden student loan forgiveness plan and the many comments therefrom, where ordinary people (I presume) fought so hard against the idea of a policy that helps others like them: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW28eAb/

 

• Student loan debt forgiveness
• Supreme Court saying “it’s not fair” and has to be done by Congress
• Government effectively forgives hundreds of billions in taxes owed by the wealthy every single year: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for-a-robust-attack-on-the-tax-gap
• Why working-class people go against their own interests:
• People decide against their best interests based on a false sense of morality and desiring superiority in any way possible
• Concepts like “responsibility and character”
• People want to say “I Am Better Than You” and “you can’t take this from me!”
• Conservative commentators use this contrived sense of morality to talk you out of doing what you know is right
• The conservatives pitching these ideas know they have gotten assistance, PPP loans, filed bankruptcy, etc.
• The wealthy are working you into believing that you are better than other people and are a temporarily embarrassed millionaire
• Dave Ramsey is a top perpetrator of these oppressive ideas
• The morality of conservative rhetoric seeks to subvert what you know is right
• Would you tell a family member who filed for bankruptcy these things? Would you hate on them or would you want them to get the help they need?
• Everyone is flawed, there is no perfection on this side of heaven
• The words “I Earned It” are a double-edged sword
• People think that assistance is coming from earnings/taxes
• The “home budget analogy” theory of political economy is wrong – learn modern monetary theory
• Student loan debt forgiveness does not mean increased taxes!
• People thinking “I’ve got mine, nobody can take it from me.”
• Not wanting to help others or make the system fair just because you had to go through tribulations to gain what everyone deserves to have is a sign of a fragile ego
• Fixing the system doesn’t negate your accomplishments
• Why working-class people oppose minimum wage increases  – they think they may be a business owner at some point
• Minimum wage increases statistically don’t hurt small business owners
• It’s hard to accept that “I have a job, I have a boss, and that boss is against me”
• Employers collude to keep wages down
• Class consciousness hurts, but you can fight back against what is hurting you
• Take the pressure off yourself!
• The value to society of professionals and even “worthless” degrees
• The next great scientist or artist is performing below their peak because of the weight of student loan debt
• We are not taking anything from you. We are proud of your accomplishments.
• Make sure the ladder is wide enough so others can come up – Rick Smith
• Fear instilled by the upper class that anything we do to help others can hurt you
• Automatic response driven by the rhetoric you have heard your whole life
• The power of conservative talk radio causing citizens to be repeatedly exposed to these ideas
• Abstraction – it’s a big number, a specific program, I will never need this
• Always make your arguments personal, bring it to the individual or family level
• Lots of possibilities open up when we help others to reach their full potential
• Fear vs turning it into creative flow and abundance toward others
• People who want to stay on top are putting that fear in you
• Turn that fear and feeling weird about changes in how things are done into thinking about the possibilities for a better world

 

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– Homelessness and housing was a clear narrative throughout the whole issue of the LA Times this past Sunday

– Article on heat deaths of unhoused people: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-19/la-me-homeless-heat-deaths

– Other short-term solutions like cooling centers

– 5 in 12 heat deaths are homeless people

– Impact of climate change on homeless people

– Heat is leading cause of weather-related deaths

– Fluctuations in the housing market, problems for home buyers, not making things better on net

– Extreme variability in prices, games home sellers played during a better market

– Sellers starting to accept FHA and down payment assistance

– Having houses for ownership rather than rental is far more protective against homelessness and protecting wealth for the working class long-term

– Article on large-scale housing development, builder’s remedy, and zoning/NIMBY issues: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-19/california-housing-developers-los-angeles

– Zoning laws advocated by NIMBYs preventing housing from being built is the main cause of the shortage and lack of affordable housing per authors

– Are large-scale developments by big, for-profit companies really the answer?

– LA Times editorial authors, Edward Glaeser and Atta Tarki, call for large-scale development firms to lead, but we need to think about economic equity

– Versus small scale development with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) with fewer than 1 in 5 applications approved in LA

– We don’t want a situation like Invitation Homes, which used to be Blackstone, just building for rental homes only

– Homelessness and housing issues occur on a continuum – starts with a smaller issue, then you wind up in your car or on the street

– Landlords arbitrarily raising rent, bragging about it

– You can even die of heatstroke living in your car

– Capitalists’ development efforts can help the rent-squeezed upper middle class, but those who’ve fallen off the ladder need specific help and collective action

– Huntington Beach mayor says CA is losing population, 120,000 people lost, hence no new housing is needed

– There are kids of locals with good jobs priced out of housing market with 60% going to housing even if they have a higher-paying job, so they have to leave out of state after living in town their whole life. See Times OC letter to editor about Huntington Beach.

– The lack of housing is literally killing people. But how do we solve it?

– Regulation is what helps to make housing development a meaningful, possibly equitable solution

– These people who live on the streets often have jobs and work in the communities rejecting them from having housing

– The mechanics of buying a new construction home, including cross-qualification for mortgages or “mandatory” use of developer’s lender, agent issues, etc.

– Policy could ensure new housing is on the market for the public and specifically available to FHA, VA, and down payment assistance buyers, working-class people who stand to benefit the most from buying a house

– Homeownership creates generational strong protection from homelessness

– Builder’s Remedy in Manhattan Beach

– Affordable housing set-asides are great, but come with interesting caveats, like a minimum income

– More housing in richer neighborhoods would reduce inequality

– “A child who grew up in a low-income household in Los Angeles’ affluent Brentwood neighborhood earns on average nearly four times more at age 35 than someone who grew up in lower-income central L.A.” – Census Opportunity Atlas, LA Times

– Tell this argument to NIMBYs upset with the homeless: A nice public housing building looks way better than homeless in the streets

– The NIMBY attitude, not just the zoning policy, is killing people

– Homeless people are kicked out of places where they can get air conditioning and bathroom access, like coffee shops and fast food restaurants

– It’s all about who looks like they will spend money and Karens complaining

– Lack of third spaces that are not shopping and dining

– Homeless people create community just like you and I

– Letter from Flathead County, Montana Board of Commissioners upset with “networked community” of homeless people: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration/comments/10kofvr/homelessness_insight_from_kalispell_montana/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

– Structural inequality created by capitalism feels inescapable but the correct use of government power can help

– The future: non-profit, cooperative, mutual aid-style groups, and collective housing ownership powered with government funds

– Homeless communities’ resourcefulness shows they can reach self-sufficiency and self-governance with the right support

 

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Quick State of the Union analysis:

Biden did very well in handling heckling
Democrats delivering for middle America, doing in reality what Trump claimed he’d do
State of the Union shows the current political state of “extreme moderation”
We are fighting for the bare minimum, but it’s a worthy fight for sure
Moving the Overton window to more progressive ideas on policing and climate change
Gradual changes do really matter and do help

Impulse Politics:

People want to take quick action, especially in the face of a crisis
Making action such as signing a petition or donation easy is a good thing, but it can lead people to occasionally make bad decisions
California ballot measures and referendum process
In a referendum, a petition is circulated to get an already passed law to be blocked and then voted upon, and a minimum number of signatures must be gathered to get it on the ballot.
This is similar to a ballot initiative for a new law, which allows for some confusion since circulators can say it’s “to vote on” this issue
Article in LA Times about deceptive California ballot referendum petitions regarding AB 257 and AB 1137: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-02/inside-fast-foods-push-against-california-ab-257-higher-minimum-wages

CA AB 257 represents a major step forward in helping fast food, workers who are among the most vulnerable workers today
Restaurant industry wants to stop higher wages
Petition circulators are using tricks, claiming this petition to stop the law and take it to a vote is actually supporting higher wages
My easy rules:
The people spending the most money, and using the most effort to convince you are probably the ones who’s ideas you don’t agree with, so approach flashy and pushy campaigns with extreme caution
Know what you’re signing!
Online petitions, which are largely a symbolic gesture have condition people to believe that signing petitions is no big deal
These wet-ink signature paper petitions are actually super significant. They stop laws that legislators already agreed to from coming into effect.
Walmart and shopping malls are the public square, really, and there’s nothing they can do to stop petitions
Petition workers committing fraud, and being aggressive with voters
They must show you the petition itself and a list of major supporters
Know who’s supporting an initiative
CA Prop 30 situation – a good measure is supported by a big donor, but rejected partially because of it
Volunteers who live in your community and you know are (usually) more trustworthy than random petition gatherers
This is why long term community engagement matters! Have someone to ask when this happens

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This episode was born out of seemingly unrelated current events: the impending economic crisis and the tragic death of Tyre Nichols.  I’ve found that the oppression of the working class through layoffs and recessions and the oppression of racial minorities through police brutality have way more in common than you think in the subtle mechanism by they hijack our minds, change our political attitudes, and influence behavior. The episode is also a bit of a botch, since I recorded a much better take of it but my microphone was somehow not feeding audio into the software and I had to re-do the whole thing. 

Notes

• LA Times article on layoffs “The real aim of big tech’s layoffs: bringing workers to heel”: https://apple.news/AhbHrrkzxT3Kol0DQn4RL7Q

• The cruelty is the point
• How our minds internalize subtle cues
• Police give impossible, confusing

commands to justify excessive force

• Tech companies are using layoffs to keep workers in line and stop them from getting what they have earned through collective action and bargaining 
• How small groups get more power than they merit through random actions of oppression
• Talk of recession keeps workers in fear and erodes their gains
• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need

• How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need to

• Making things look like a “force of nature” or just what happens on its own because of an external force

• How politicians and bosses make us blame ourselves for bad things
• Tech workers are starting to realize the benefits of unions
• Giving into petty tyrants and oppressive ideas will not keep you safe or leave you better off in the end.

• You must learn to think differently!
• Media programming people to only consider certain solutions

• Generational divide in views of alternatives to policing
• What actually works to keep communities safe

• Success with reduced police intervention
• Workers better off now and with more power than they’ve had in years
• Republicans’ debt ceiling threats and their non-specificity are deliberate
• Creative thinking driven by crisis: George Floyd and COVID economic crisis
• Flow states and political change
• Tyre Nichols was a great skater
• What skateboarding taught me

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I have noticed a troubling, growing trend of conservatives finding every way possible to take up space on broadcast television, just in the same way they have done with AM talk radio. This is partially being done with an interesting combination of Christian broadcasting and conservative political media, which opens up yet more avenues for funding right-wing media, while the left remains far behind.

– Discussion of left-wing media ecosystems and infrastructure versus the right
– How is the left really doing? Good on content, low on infrastructure
– Great examples in Means TV, Street Fight Radio, etc.

– Conservative talk radio’s prevalence
– Right-wing media taking over broadcast sub-channels
– Article on One America News Network entering over-the-air broadcast after being kicked off cable and satellite: https://www.nexttv.com/news/misinformation-finds-a-way-oan-goes-ota-re-invents-itself-as-broadcast-subchannel
– How OAN and NewsMax are staying in business
– Large Christian broadcast ownership groups buying up stations, first radio, now TV
– How conservatives seem to be using church monies to prop up right-wing media
– Christian evangelism shows funded by 501c3’s on right-wing TV networks
– Dangers of relying on digital and social media only
– Some direct response TV advertisers will buy almost any network/station with a conventional broadcast signal somewhat indiscriminately
– FCC rules are way less strict than social media platforms
– A televangelist organization that is worth almost a billion dollars
– Political content and endorsements from 501c3 televangelists
– TV channel leasing
– One example in Los Angeles of a station leasing out to conservatives is KFLA-LD channel 8. http://kfla.tv
– TikTok is a growth channel for progressive causes
– Communicating with your base and keeping them entrenched 24/7/365
– Media spend by churches on conservative stations is actually counter-productive
– How to protect your advocacy organization from social media bans
– The importance of minority-owned media and LPFMs

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Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process.

In our life, we have a choice to Carry On, even as we are seen as Wayward Sons or Go To Sleep and tap out in the fight for our goals and the change we want to see in the world. I choose to Be Elite and Carry On. Hesitating in whatever you are doing can ruin both your experience and your success, but reluctance is often caused by relationships and material conditions of a punitive society without adequate social safety nets wherein minor failure results in catastrophic results one cannot recover from. We have a choice in how we structure systems, to allow failure and let people learn to fly or to force people to just give up and Go To Sleep. A progressive approach that includes systems that allow people to recover from failure enables greatness and maximizes the potential of individuals and the community as a whole. We must respect the Right To Fail.

In this episode:

– Attending AEW Dynamite in LA
– Get the best experience out of major events (like wrestling shows) by setting yourself up for a flow state.
– Lean into and use your anxiety to heighten excitement rather than pushing it down. Bonus tip: Choose the right music around the event to set the mood
– See also the Manufacturing Stoke episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/02/15/manufacturing-stoke-using-anxiety-and-negative-emotions-positively/
– Post-wrestling show motivation surge
– Social anxiety
– When your high-class parents disagree with your hobbies
– My family doesn’t want me around wrestling fans
– Getting on national TV for a brief moment, sort of
– My sign on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliteanxious/status/1616639451039686657?s=21&t=aQ-waef71RDdPhXasNO3LQ
– Fighting for a better life versus tapping out to your circumstances
– Getting the best quality of life with health issues or disabilities
– Playing it too safe
– Hesitation explains my whole life. Mike Bennett’s blog on this topic: https://therealmikebennett.com/blog/f/dont-hesitate
– Learning to stop hesitating is key to recovering from and preventing relapses in major mental health issues
– The right to fall down and get back up again is fundamental and should be a leftist or socialist ideal
– Tony Hawk’s philosophy: You must learn to fail in order to learn to fly.
– Bad doctors and concussions
– Recovery practices are important for peak performance
– Your intention in all things matters
– Feeling like I am going to lose my fitness progress by taking some time off
– Woke does not have to equal weak
– Progressive ideas allow people to achieve success by making it possible to overcome failure
– Overly reactionary wokeness
– Giving people grace
– Why skateboarding culture is what brought me to the left
– Narrative therapy as a possible ideal therapy theory for those who like pro wrestling redemption storylines

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The left has come up short in looking for answers to the likes of Andrew Tate, but pro wrestlers like Adam Page have found a way to empower young men and help them feel their strength and constructively use the warrior in them while advocating for a broad set of progressive policy ideas in a relatable way. Creating solidarity is possible and beneficial to society and to the young men that are being more harmed than helped by toxic masculinity influencers, and whose issues would be better helped by left-wing policies and workers’ rights.

More on Adam Page here:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/07/28/can-a-millennial-cowboy-wrestlers-ways-save-our-social-and-political-discourse/

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/12/adam-page-for-president/

– The Power of “I Earned It”
– Contrasting the conventional mental health narratives
– Incorrect interpretations of the left by young men
– A candidate you can have a beer with
– Blending traditionalist aesthetics with progressive ideas
– Imperfection and vulnerability
– Taking a strong but grounded, moral, and ethical approach
– Lots of great progressive examples in wrestling
– Better storytelling
– Not repressing masculine desires
– Anxious masculinity – read my article here: https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/adam-page-shows-how-to-wrestle-with-anxious-masculinity
– I highly recommend Adam Page’s book Adam and the Golden Horseshoe if you are dealing with not feeling good enough
– Who people like Andrew Tate target and how they do it
– Intersectionality and Incels work together?
– A society where you are able to fall and get back up again
– Finding your peace

Adam Page’s Inspiring Entrance with Dark Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsfEiZ_IY2U

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– The key difference between the left and right from my experience as a Tea Party organization leader

– Will a local reporter know who to call for a progressive perspective on an issue?

– Will members of the community know where to go with an issue?

– Recessions are the Super Bowl of conservative organizing and when the working class starts to lose gains

– Just being active online and semi-anonymous isn’t a strategy

– Setting up proper legal documents and procedures

– What happens if something goes wrong with your main leader? You want to have a plan.

– The networks of innumerable conservative entrepreneurs across the country willing to throw money and expertise at their cause

– Organizations should be formed legally and have separate bank accounts once they bring in money

– The chaos that happens when key people leave a progressive organization

– The dangers of using Cash App, PayPal, and similar for philanthropic, social entrepreneurship, or organizing efforts.

– Conservatives being overrepresented at school board meetings

– On the ground: Does your group feel safe and a friendly place to be in?

– Media infrastructure

– Building a progressive Andrew Tate

– Embracing entrepreneurship and expertise

– Campaign and PAC bank accounts must be separate and you need legal counsel.

– Work with experts who get you – who care about your values, follow your culture, and will not overtake your agency

– Maintaining your grassroots, self-organizing structure

– The better you create your practices and infrastructure, the more freedom and success you will have

– Be ready to deal with professional stakeholders and to take in opportunities for funding as they come

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