Why Following the Money Is Vital to Level Up part 1

Hello Queens,

In my contemplations of late, I have sought to elucidate a bit more clearly how following the money, a common expression amongst those in my esoteric branch of existence, is vital to success; or in the parlance of FDS, leveling up.

When one attempts to consider the definition of personal success in modern society, it becomes difficult to arrive at a satisfying conclusion, since, well, everyone has differing preferences, goals, and dreams right?

One would think.

But when one ponders instead a slightly different question of who are the most successful people, well, a different response emerges.

People of varying experiences, backgrounds, and age groups will unexpectedly find a common response.

Skilled athletes.

Why this association?

While sports are well documented to provide a multitude of benefits to participants, including increased social capital and healthy well-being, it is not a career pathway that encourages associations of equitable participant entry, societal utility, or financial longevity; factors long considered necessary components of personal success.

It should also be stated that sports have fixed rules that affirm strict limitations as to how skilled athletes can be designated as such, and thus, how their contributing value to their respective sport is determined.

This is dissimilar to other professions where it is possible to multiply one’s skillset and thus exponentially increase one’s earning value for decades. Think attorneys, doctors, & engineers.

If athletics professions are also rigorously compared to other similar interpersonal professions, one might suppose that the value a skilled athlete can bestow upon society is sorely wanting in comparison to such professions as education and medicine.

In this argument, it is often argued that it is shameful that skilled athlete earns an exponential amount of compensation for their effort when compared to teachers, doctors, and nurses combined.

Others seek to point out that skilled athletes are primarily paid exorbitantly for their endorsement deals, which seek massive ad revenue returns for the endorsers.

While true, it begs the subsequent questions.

How did our world get here in the first place?

Where sports are well celebrated yet most participants are never so richly compensated?

Where most sports fans will not even actively participate in their sport of choice at all?

In my opinion, we follow the money (and the history of money trails).

When casually observing sporting culture and the sheer amount of time, resources, and energy devoted to the distribution of sporting events (and of course the advertising) to every section of society, I am reminded of the history and culture of Ancient Rome.

Specifically, how the governing bodies and wealthy elite of Rome made it a budgetary priority to ensure that every citizen and slave of Rome had some degree of access to a socially encouraged form of entertainment, sports.

This was done with the explicit purpose to ensure that the wealthy elite would not have have the volume of direct competitors to their immediate financial interests that would otherwise ensue.

And so that there would be sufficient entertainment for the members of government to be assured that there would be a lesser likelihood of revolution that could threaten to depose their power if the majority of citizens actively followed the actions taken by the Roman governing bodies with the free time that would exist without entertainment provided as sufficient distraction.

Thus, in modern times, to make it possible to exponentially level up as an individual, I believe it wise to not devote any quantity of one’s individual limited resources towards entertainment.

Expend all resources towards leveling up.

Your future self will thank you.

I know I do.