I recently talked with my brother about currency and how not all currencies are equal.

I Googled how much people in China make per month in euros, and it seemed to be around €160–€250.

If a person earns €160 per month, that’s basically the price of about 10 kebabs in my country.

That’s also why many Chinese and Indian people come to our country—here the minimum wage is around €800, which is roughly 44 kebabs.

When choosing work, you shouldn’t just look at the numbers, but at what you can actually buy. I personally measure it in kebabs.

So Lithuanians are earning roughly three times more value than some workers in China, although of course prices there are different too. Unfortunately, I can’t ship kebabs here. 😀

If I moved to China now, I would be relatively rich since I receive a €560 disability payment.

So you could say working isn’t really a choice for me. Still, I keep producing blog posts just to stay productive and not feel like I’m doing nothing. I receive money passively, but I also work without pay—so in a way, I “earn” my disability income indirectly.

When I first started blogging, I used Blogger.com in Lithuanian—you can still find a backup of that blog here. I thought 4 million people should be enough for a blog to get some views, but that wasn’t true.

Later, I moved into video and made around 40,000 videos.

With the experience I have now, I feel like I should have started this blog years ago (about 17 years ago, to be more precise). I never should have created videos, but at the time, it was fun.

Looking back, I’d tell aspiring bloggers: start a blog while you’re young, and don’t drift into video just because it feels more exciting or visible. Even if you start with either video or blogging, don’t constantly reset your progress. I did that many times—I kept chasing different paths, but now I’ve settled with blogging.

Instead of doing things that get more views, do things you actually enjoy. If it’s blogging, then blog. Neither video nor blogging will automatically pay you unless people are genuinely interested in what you do. But most people will simply be indifferent.

All living creatures have infinite lives within infinite matrices.

This comes from understanding nonexistence as non-experience. When something does not exist, it does not register nonexistence as an experience.

That said, all lifeforms can be seen as moving through infinite cycles of matrix states, because there are only two things: the matrix construct and the matrix itself.

In that sense, all lifeforms go through a sequence of matrix construct → matrix → matrix construct → matrix → and so on.

Since a being is already within the matrix, it cannot defy its existence from within it.

When something does not exist, it does not experience time. From that perspective, time does not “pass” before birth—because there is no subject to wait through it.

Of course, this is only speculation, but it forms a consistent internal idea.

Everybody would like to have fun and make money, but that rarely happens.
Most people work jobs they hate just to pay the bills.

I never really worked full-time—maybe three months with a friend—and I realized the jobs I was offered felt like bullshit to me. So instead, I decided to work for myself.

Instead of doing what people expect, I do what I want. I rarely get paid for what I enjoy doing, because there’s a mismatch in demand. People don’t really need what I create; if they did, they would support it—but most of it doesn’t find an audience.

That’s the harsh reality of modern life.

If fun activities translated directly into money, nobody would hate their job. But most jobs feel meaningless to the people doing them—they do them just to get money and pay the bills.

I started blogging about 17 years ago. I blogged everywhere and tried to make money, but no platform really paid me for the views I got. Over all that time, I made a bit over €2,000 from donations—which isn’t much.

Money from blogging is more of a dream that keeps people going. You probably won’t make much, if anything—sorry if that sounds harsh. A small minority of bloggers do make money, but most don’t.

Blogging is more of a creative outlet than a money-making machine. It’s a platform for publishing, not for earning. Even when you publish on sites like KDP, you usually earn little to nothing, no matter how much you produce.

I have over 100 titles on Kindle, and they bring in just €1–€2 per month—completely passive income.

The truth is, a lot of people want a life where they sit at a computer, do easy work, and get paid. Blogging often feels like that kind of work—but it rarely pays.

The world has run for thousands of years without your product, so when you come up with something new, it often isn’t truly needed.
It all comes down to persuasion—you have to convince people that they need what you’re offering.
In that sense, many of our desires are shaped by the influence of others. Fundamentally, we don’t need much, even though we may still want more than basic living.

Years ago, I found this nicotine mouth spray, Nicorette Coolmint, and it’s really good.
Now I’m trying to switch from cigarillos to the spray, but it’s not that easy to quit cigarillos.
Overall, the spray is good and tasty, and it satisfies the urge to smoke—but you have to decide not to smoke anymore, which is the hardest part.

Many people believe they can achieve their goals just by working hard—or harder than everyone else—but in reality, it’s not hard work you need; it’s clients, donors, and buyers.
If nobody is willing to pay for your work, you can work as hard as you want—you still won’t earn anything.
That’s why work is bullshit.

If you started a blog recently, you should know that simply piling up blog posts won’t change anything.
Many bloggers just pile up content without distribution—nobody is going to find a leaf in autumn among other leaves.
You can create as much content as you want, but you won’t get traffic from Google that way.
Today, Google Search is very demanding, and its standards keep rising.
It’s not the amount of content that matters, but distribution. Blogs don’t have a built-in flywheel where followers instantly see your posts.
Blogs without marketing won’t grow—period.

I created 40,000 videos and wrote thousands of blog posts, only to realize it was a waste of time.
There’s absolutely no reason to blog unless you genuinely enjoy it.
Many people start blogs hoping to get rich, famous, and so on, but they end up disappointed—because none of that happens.