nontoxicmaxi on Nostr: This is a great fucking question. I think about this a lot, and my best answer to ...
This is a great fucking question. I think about this a lot, and my best answer to myself is "you're only allowed to not be able to afford to eat well if you can't afford anything else."
My framework of spending money is this hiearchy:
1. Time and health (equally important for obvious reasons I think?)
2. Financial investment in the future (basically stacking sats and upskilling)
3. Lifestyle / pleasure
Since eating well goes under health, it's more important than stacking sats (2) and definitely more important than driving a nicer car (3).
Say I didn't have a car, and I *needed* to commute 3 hours a day in order to stack sats, and I could cut that down to 40 minutes, which would make more time for upskilling and actually working, id put that in the 'time' category and thereby possibly making it more important than stacking sats.
I love this framework and it has made it easier to make many decisions, but more importantly is has made me aware of decisions I needed to take that I wouldn't have been aware of without this framework.
Eat meat if you believe it's better for you than what you currently eat. There must be something you spend money on in category 2 or 3 that you couldn't justify under this framework if you're on an unhealthy diet.
My framework of spending money is this hiearchy:
1. Time and health (equally important for obvious reasons I think?)
2. Financial investment in the future (basically stacking sats and upskilling)
3. Lifestyle / pleasure
Since eating well goes under health, it's more important than stacking sats (2) and definitely more important than driving a nicer car (3).
Say I didn't have a car, and I *needed* to commute 3 hours a day in order to stack sats, and I could cut that down to 40 minutes, which would make more time for upskilling and actually working, id put that in the 'time' category and thereby possibly making it more important than stacking sats.
I love this framework and it has made it easier to make many decisions, but more importantly is has made me aware of decisions I needed to take that I wouldn't have been aware of without this framework.
Eat meat if you believe it's better for you than what you currently eat. There must be something you spend money on in category 2 or 3 that you couldn't justify under this framework if you're on an unhealthy diet.