“There Will Be Blood” is also one of my favourite movies, IF NOT my favourite movie, for the precise REASON that I find it so easy to relate to Daniel Plainview’s misanthropy. (although I am not a misanthrope any more and haven’t been since leaving high school) However, I’m not an INTJ. I am VERY MUCH of an INFP. That being said, I still don’t see how we NF types are very useful for predicting changes just due to our collective unhappiness. We get unhappy about things ALL THE TIME. In fact, we often gwet really unhappy because of the dissapointing fact that so many of the things about society that make us unhappy DON’T seem to ever change and that they CONTINUE to be a problem for people around us. So I still don’t see how we NF types make for good “canaries in the coal mine”

And this is an interesting turn on your blog. I would say most of your blog focuses on past and present. i.e. How we got to be here… What to do about it now…

But I agree wholeheartedly with you. Things can and will change. The only future talk I hear from you (maybe Im missing some stuff) is that if you pursue this strategy, no matter what happens in the world, you will be fine because you are more self sufficient then the rest.

Again, if the stock market completely collapses everyone that means everything is in shambles.

Look forward to hearing what you have to say about 2030.

Cheers,
Jeremy

Now, off to look for your predictions… (I have a few of my own too, of course, but I need to build up the courage first before posting them!)

@shanti – a post revealing the personality type of the bloggers in the pf world is underway.

@steve – LOL I gotta see that movie. My refrain when it comes to people tends to be “I told you so” Apparently I’m not selling the message very well the first time I try.

“Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Plainview: …There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.

Plainview: …I see the worst in people. I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I’ve built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry… to have you here gives me a second breath. I can’t keep doing this on my own with these… people.”

Sure, this man is losing his connection to creative side of humanity and deeping that to the destructive side. But what NT doesn’t relate to at least the outer edge of Plainview’s sentiments? ;-\

I am with you on the Schadenfreude of consumer failure. I don’t wish to see people suffer, but I am downright inspired when I seem them struggle (and overcome!)

Steve Austin INTJ sends.

It’s an interesting perspective you have on personal financial bloggers! Where did you get your statistics? What are the PF bloggers MBTI profiles? WANT TO KNOW

I am actually looking forward to the time when the standard consumerist lifestyle falls because only then will society actually change.

@elizabeth – You know 2030 is only 22 years away.

I’m looking forward to the 2030 post, too…I find it impossible to predict how my financial strategies will turn out when I’m 50 (2031), much less when I’m 80, so thus far I mainly focus on the 10-20 year outlook.

2030 predictions sound fun. Just remember to always remind us (and yourself) not to take your predictions too seriously. ;-\ Not that any prediction isn’t a possibility — just that making a wide-scope prediction doesn’t make it any more likely to unfold than it was before you predicted it. I only mention this because I’ve spent some time thinking about how people respond to predictions. Not only are predictions fun, but sometimes people almost seem to psychologically need them. What’s the MBTI descriptor for susceptibility for believing in predictions?