“Bentoism, Billionaire Logic, and the Case for a Richer Life”
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Title: This Could Be Our Future
Author: Yancey Strickler
Category: Culture & Society, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance & Investing, Mindfulness & Wellbeing
What if the only score we're keeping is money, and everything else is invisible? Sam and Sophie open Yancey Strickler's This Could Be Our Future with that uncomfortable question, and neither of them comes out of it unchanged.
They walk through Strickler's critique of billionaire logic, the mindset that treats profit as the only rational goal, and the bento box framework he offers instead: present self, future self, present collective, future collective. The pair test it against real decisions, from voting to how you spend your money, and Sam pushes back on where the framework gets vague. They also trace where billionaire logic came from, from Friedman and Reagan to the Enlightenment's faith in measurement, and land on Strickler's real lever: stories.
If you've ever felt like your values and your choices are running on different operating systems, this episode names the gap and gives you a small daily practice for closing it. The takeaway is smaller than you'd expect and more useful for it.
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00:00Billionaire Logic And The Invisible River01:27The Four Compartments Of Bentoism02:15Using The Bento Box On A Tuesday03:11Where Billionaire Logic Came From04:04Stories, Kickstarter, And Small Choices05:12Skepticism And The Takeaway
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