Every major religion has warnings about storing wealth in things that can be destroyed, stolen, or corrupted.
Yet somehow we convinced ourselves that numbers in a bank account controlled by people we’ve never met is “safe.”
Your savings account isn’t protected by deposit insurance, it’s protected by the full faith and credit of a government $38 trillion in debt.
Read that again and tell me where the safety is.
My Clawdbot gives me a weekly report on Mondays about things it thinks I should know. This week: homeschool curriculum recommendations based on what my kids struggled with last week. We're not waiting for the future. We're building it at the kitchen table.
Homeschooling costs us convenience and social acceptance.
Public school would cost us our kids’ formative years, their natural curiosity, and their ability to think independently.
When you frame the trade off honestly, the choice becomes obvious.
If my wife and I weren’t homeschooling our kids, the world would teach them to seek approval.
My job is to teach them to seek truth.
One makes them dependent on crowds.
The other sets them up to succeed in a world that craves compliance.
But I don’t want to raise people-pleasers.
I want to raise independent kids who can stand for truth, even if it means standing alone.
Unpopular take: monarchs have better incentive alignment than democracies.
Why?
Their legacy is their children’s inheritance.
They think in generations, not election cycles.
Our democracy has leaders who think in quarters and produce citizens who can’t think past next month.
We traded long-term vision for short-term wins.
We need structures that reward long-term thinking again.
What do you think that looks like?
Unpopular take: monarchs have better incentive alignment than democracies.
Why?
Their legacy is their children's inheritance.
They think in generations, not election cycles.
Our democracy has leaders who think in quarters and produces citizens who can't think past next month.
We traded long-term vision for short-term wins.
We need structures that reward long-term thinking again. What do you think that looks like?
Faith without action is dead.
And if you believe God calls you to steward resources wisely, but you're parking generational wealth in instruments designed to devalue, there's a disconnect.
Faithful stewardship requires understanding the tools you're using.