Added page on mon, updated books

src/html/root.rs

@@ -26,10 +26,7 @@ use super::{
     blog::{self, get_articles_date_sorted},
     projects,
     templates::{
-        AboutTemplate, AiTemplate, BlogrollTemplate, BooksTemplate, ContactTemplate,
-        CookingTemplate, CreationTemplate, GiftsTemplate, HomeTemplate, HtmlTemplate,
-        InterestsTemplate, LinksPageTemplate, LoginTemplate, NowTemplate, ResumeTemplate,
-        SignupTemplate, TechnologyTemplate, TimeTemplate, UsesTemplate, WorkTemplate,
+        AboutTemplate, AiTemplate, BlogrollTemplate, BooksTemplate, ContactTemplate, CookingTemplate, CreationTemplate, GiftsTemplate, HomeTemplate, HtmlTemplate, InterestsTemplate, LinksPageTemplate, LoginTemplate, MoneyTemplate, NowTemplate, ResumeTemplate, SignupTemplate, TechnologyTemplate, TimeTemplate, UsesTemplate, WorkTemplate
     },
 };
 
@@ -64,6 +61,7 @@ pub fn get_router(pool: PgPool) -> Router {
         .route("/cooking", get(cooking))
         .route("/creation", get(creation))
         .route("/technology", get(technology))
+        .route("/money", get(money))
         .route("/login", get(get_login).post(post_login))
         .route("/signup", get(get_signup).post(post_signup))
         .route("/logout", post(logout_response))
@@ -200,3 +198,8 @@ async fn technology() -> impl IntoResponse {
     let technology_page = TechnologyTemplate {};
     HtmlTemplate(technology_page)
 }
+
+async fn money() -> impl IntoResponse {
+    let money_page = MoneyTemplate {};
+    HtmlTemplate(money_page)
+}

src/html/templates.rs

@@ -158,3 +158,7 @@ pub struct SignupTemplate {}
 #[derive(Template)]
 #[template(path = "admin.html")]
 pub struct AdminTemplate {}
+
+#[derive(Template)]
+#[template(path = "money.html")]
+pub struct MoneyTemplate {}

templates/books.html

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 <p>
     Bit Tyrants by Rob Larson for non fiction.
 </p>
+<p>
+    Slow Down by Kohei Saito as an audiobook.
+    It is on degrowth similar to Less is More, and a subject that I am finding very interesting and compelling at the moment.
+</p>
 <p>
     River of Gods by Ian McDonald for fiction.
     A science ficton book taking place in India and through their cultural lens.

templates/interests.html

@@ -92,11 +92,15 @@
     Just book stuff.
 </p>
 
-<h3>Thoughts on how I spend my time</h3>
+<h3>Philosophy</h3>
 <p>
     Some thoughts on <a href="/time">time</a>.
     I catch myself coming back to this subject pretty regularly.
 </p>
+<p>
+    Have started thinking more on <a href="/money">money</a> lately.
+    How we use it, how we interact with it, what it means.
+</p>
 
 <h3>Making things</h3>
 <p>

templates/money.html

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+<!-- prettier-ignore -->
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+
+{% block content %}
+<h1>Money</h1>
+<h2>Money is just a tool not a god</h2>
+<p>
+    Humanity is a tool making and using species.
+    It is one of if not the main thing that defines us.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Tools are amazing, and for me one of the main things that define my life.
+    I love tools, I collect tools, they allow me to do so much.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The tool is never the point though.
+    Tools are by definition a means to an end and not an end in and of themselves,
+    and it is pointless to grab a tool without having a final goal in mind.
+    The goal can change over time, but there must always be something.
+</p>
+<p>
+    I bought my desktop originally to play games.
+    Now I use it to program, write, learn.
+    But at no point was it the goal to have a computer, it was something that it would let me do.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Which brings me to money.
+    We as a society, and I think because of capitalism and the focus on creating more "value", we have made money the goal.
+    In "Less is More" by Jason Hickel (a book on the philosophy of degrowth), he points out that "value" is too general.
+    That we actually need to clarify 2 different types of value.
+    "Use value", the value of what something allows us to do.
+    "Exchange value", the monetary value that we could get in exchange for something.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Exchange value, by virtue of only valuing what money you can get for something makes money the final goal.
+    There is no other goal explicit or implicit when this type of value is being used.
+    This puts money up on a pedestal.
+    An idol, and ideal, a god.
+    Everything and anything is to be sacrificed in pursuit of this.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Which when I think about it makes no sense.
+    Exchange value was supposed to represent something.
+    It was supposed to just be a layer of abstraction on use value to make it easier to trade stuff.
+    Money was supposed to be a tool to make trading useful things easier.
+    That is all the use value that it can actually provide.
+    I can't eat it, maybe if in Canada we still had paper bills I could burn it to cook with or stay warm.
+    It is one step removed at least from any actual utility other than making trading easier.
+</p>
+<p>
+    However our markets have in so many cases completely decoupled exchange value from use value.
+    Complicated financial instruments traded back and forth, not actually doing anything for anyone other than to make the number go up.
+    Actively making things like social media or search less useful (reducing use value) to make more money (increase exchange value).
+</p>
+<p>
+    A lathe is a fantastic tool, good for making all sorts of things.
+    Having money with the only goal to make more money is the same as having a lathe only to make more lathes.
+    Not actually making anything that is directly used like a chair or a bannister, maybe a piece of art.
+</p>
+<p>
+    With money our end goal is more money, same thing.
+    Number go up, GDP must grow.
+    When we ask what we should be doing with this money (if we ever get around to that) there seems to be no clear answer other than "make more!!".
+    We are doing it backwards.
+    Sit down, have a chat, and decide what we want the outcome to be first, then figure out how much money we need to do it.
+    Make sure that we are making that money and we don't need to keep going after that point.
+    Often pursuing these goals will actually provide a nice chunk what we need for them anyway, either in money or in directly usable things.
+    As we add some more goals, as we are certainly wont to do as needs are satisfied, then we can up the amount that we need then.
+    Once we are making enough to meet our needs, live well, then we truly have freedome to choose.
+    Do we want something else? Do we need more money to make that happen? Then up productivity.
+    Or if all the bases are covered we can just take more time.
+    Spend time with loved ones, read books, learn something new, go for a hike.
+    Whatever.
+    If we actually treated it like we do our other tools, we would have the freedom to make that choice.
+</p>
+{% endblock %}