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Asylum Sidepots. How to Escape the Matrix and Stay Out | goodalexander

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When I started trading, I was in it for money and pride. My father lost a lot of money starting a hedge fund and we lost our house when I was a kid. I got into trading as some kind of redemption arc. My father is a renegade. He viewed markets as a way to escape the simulation. He wasn’t around much but he did buy us long leather jackets and took us all to watch the Movie the Matrix at a formative age. Once I had money, I sought freedom from control. I had to take a lot of abuse from my bosses to learn the arts of trading. Eventually I figured out how to combine data, markets, memes, and my own judgment into a cohesive whole and reached financial escape velocity. With line of sight to financial freedom, I left these mechanisms of control. At this point, I understood that my father’s financial losses - the thing that caused us to lose our home - came from delusion. And so I started viewing markets as a way to ensure your rationality. If you do not lose money, you are by definition sane.

Copy Article Copy and paste into your favorite LLM. Table of Contents Sidepots in the Asylum Escaping the Asylum What are the Mechanisms of Control The Simple Plan What Other Mechanisms of Control Are There Peaceful Integration: Part 1- Establishment of Intention (Valid Reason) Peaceful Integration: Part 2: Avoiding Tilt Peaceful Integration Part 3: Participating in the Overseer Economy (Work Pass) Conclusions from the Matrix Escaping the socio-spiritual prison from the starting position of a speculator Sidepots in the Asylum # When I started trading, I was in it for money and pride. My father

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