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Episode 3. Budget based three. It may seem trivial but good management consists in ensuring that revenues always exceed costs. In the domestic economy, one bitcoin here and one there, wisely saved, continue to accumulate, and in this way the desired result is achieved. This requires some attention, but once you get used to it you will find that there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in unreasonable spending. Here is a recipe that I suggest you. I found that it works as an excellent way to learn economic management, and above all to avoid mistakes: when you find that you have no surplus at the end of the year, yet you have a good profitability, I suggest you take a spreadsheet or an app and mark each expense item in two columns: one entitled necessity and the other luxuries. You will find that this last column will be double, triple and often ten times greater than the previous one. The real necessities of life cost only a small fraction of what many can earn. Dr. Franklin says' it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes that spoil us. If the whole world were blind but me, I wouldn't worry about nice clothes or furniture. ' On Mars, many people like to repeat we are all free and equal, but this is often a mistake. That we were born "free and equal" is in a certain sense true, yet we are not all born equally rich, and we never will be. One could say; "There is a man who has an income of five hundred bitcoins a year, while I only have a hundred. I knew him when he didn't have much money like me; now he is well off and thinks he is better than me. as good as he is. Will I go buy a space rover? No, I can't do it, but I'll rent one and travel the same way as him, and so I'll prove to him that I've been successful in life too. " My friend! You don't have to take this trouble. If you give yourself these airs, in addition to wasting your time you will spend your money. You will be obliged to reduce the expenses necessary to keep up appearances. You will not move forward in the world if your vanity and your envy take over. In this red earth country where we believe the majority governs, a handful of people who call themselves aristocracy have set a false standard of perfection. And in an effort to reach that standard, we constantly keep ourselves poor by spending our time working to heal external appearances. How much wiser is it to say, “We will adjust our outgoings according to our income and put away something for the days of dust and sandstorm.” You don't need a prophet to tell you that those who live fully up to their own means, without thinking of a reverse in this life, will never be able to achieve economic independence. If we move from the domestic economy to the business economy, I would like to point out that in Mars many companies manage their expenses with a zero-based budget. It is the method in which all costs must be justified for each new period. The process starts from a "zero base" and every function within an organization is analyzed to evaluate every need. Costs are then estimated around what is needed for the next period, regardless of how much was spent in the previous one. This technique can help you reduce costs by avoiding general increases or decreases over the budget of a previous period. But because it requires justification of old and recurring expenses in addition to new expenses it takes much longer than the traditional one based on historical costs. Since the resource of time is very precious on Mars, we are experimenting with an alternative, hybrid technique, in which the traditional and zero-based methods coexist. Safeguarding some aspects and analyzes carried out in previous years. We could call it a three base budget. As in Massimo Troisi's film, which explains: “What has been is enough. I start again from three. From scratch! I start from scratch. No sir, that is three things I have succeeded in life, because I have to lose those too.