My Actifit Report Card: May 11 2021

Not quite as much activity today as yesterday, but in my defense I also was much better about my eating habits. According to my Fitbit, I’ve burned just about 2850 calories, and I’ll probably wind up having gone through 3000 by midnight.

I’ve eaten about a thousand less than that.

Did a lot more writing today, too, and hit my daily goal with plenty of words to spare. That’s good, though I need to get systematic about completing projects again.

I’ve been kind of pessimistic about the future. I’m not necessarily convinced it’s going to be Mad Max and doom, but it’s probably not going to be rosy (and not just in the realistic “life is suffering” way but in the “we’re going to see things get measurably worse” way).

One reason for this is the economic situation.

We are all truly in bad shape. Maybe not so much the readers of this, since you’re all at least passingly familiar with cryptocurrency (which isn’t necessarily a great investment, but is built on better foundations than the US dollar).

It’s not that we’re heading into a new Great Depression (I think), but rather that Washington has bills to pay for decades of incompetent management and bad fiscal policies and I think they’re going to come due this year and in the future.

There is a chance that the government makes everything worse, but I’m also about equally certain that we’re going to see the US break up, which would limit the ability of the centralized federal government to create an economic catastrophe.

This doesn’t mean that things will be good, of course, since there will be major social and fiscal consequences of that.

But it’s not doomsday. And sometimes that’s all you can ask for.

This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io

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