My 100 INs and OUTs for 2025
The only path to freedom is money.
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I’m back from a month-long holiday in sunny Australia, and no, I’m not glowing with newfound purpose or refreshed energy to get back to work.
I feel like I would very much like to never work for survival again. For pleasure and curiosity, yes, but not because I have to.
Every time I return from a holiday, I’m reminded that I am profoundly slothful and have little tolerance for a certain type of suffering. Or actually — I have an intolerance for a life that doesn’t sparkle.
Let’s be real: most jobs you find on LinkedIn are glorified labour — selling your time and skills to benefit someone else. It’s not interesting to me, art and personal expression are.
I demand a life I love, not one I endure because of bills.
In Australia, I had a banal but profound thought:
The only path to freedom really is money.
Not freedom to spend your life on a beach in Bali, but freedom to say, “No, I don’t want to,” and have that be the end of the conversation.
Money may not buy happiness, but it does buy avoidance — avoiding the things you hate, the tasks you dread, and the compromises you’d rather not make. That’s enough to make me pretty happy, to be honest.
So this year, like every other year, I’m focused on adding more zeros to my bank balance — all to buy avoidance.
But first, let’s ease into 2025 with a little reflection on the habits I’m keeping and the ones I’m leaving behind. Here are my ins and outs for the year ahead. Tell me which ones resonate with you the most.
INs and OUTs for 2025
IN: Dogs with useful jobs (therapy, police, bomb/drug sniffers).
OUT: Humans with useless jobs (paper pushers, middle managers etc).
IN: Courage and delusional confidence
OUT: Being a realist
IN: Universal Basic Income.
OUT: Having to work to live.