Leo Gura

People need to be trained for creative jobs. Automation is a great thing. Just train for jobs that aren't so dumb a donkey can do them. UBI cannot solve this problem. People need highly creative work.

It's not a matter of ideology. All these ideas would need to be tested at small scale to see which of them work. Some may not work. Or they may work at low percentages. We need to test what the right percentages are. For example, we need to test what the best corporate tax rate is. That number should be scientifically derived, not ideology derived.

Take a look at the cash reserves of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and such companies. Tens of billions in cash, not doing much. I propose most of that go to its employees who will actually spend it. Right now capitalists and investor class is hoarding most of the world's wealth and using it to milk the working class dry.

I use OneNote 2010, which is completely locally stored. For most people cloud storage is probably good enough. I like local storage because I'm a control freak. Unless you're a power-user or a control freak, cloud storage should meet all your needs. And it is technically more reliable.

That's easy to include. Just raise it to 2.2%.

But in my system your life savings cannot be invested in stock. That's the whole point! You would have stock, but the stock by itself would be worthless unless you're working in the company. All the stock does is pay you dividends as long as you work there. Your true worth would not be in stocks but in cash savings from years of work. This would effectively eliminate the stock market and its crashes. People will no longer be allowed to speculate on stocks. All the speculator sharks will have to go out and get a real job. Which will put more money in the hands of loyal workers.

I generally agree. Although a public option might be undermined by the American insurance cartel. It's tricky because if you compromise too much you end up with a system so bad that people hate it. But then again, nothing gets done without some compromise. The compromises have be strategic.

@Joel3102 Abolishing private insurance is pretty important because it's a cartel system. They have so much power they will try to dismantle and undo any public option. The American medical cartel is much worse than in any other country. There is simply no purpose for private insurance companies. It's a total scam. Insurance is the perfect function for government. Government already insures the most essential things. The insurance industry is basically a bunch of grifting middlemen screwing people over to make ridiculous margins for a commodity service. Insurance is as bad as loansharking. Government can easily create a monopoly on auto insurance, house insurance, disaster insurance, life insurance, health insurance. It would be a huge savings for people.

Almost certainly. It's just a question of time.

That's like saying, "And where are white people supposed to get their cotton?" Go pick it yourself you lazy fuck You will earn a lot more under my system because during your entire lifetime of work you will be getting dividends from the company you work for. By being an employee you will automatically be vested in the stock market. So you won't need a 401k. All you'll need is a savings account to hold your earnings. Imagine if every Walmart employee -- even the cashiers and janitors -- earned dividends for every year they worked at Walmart. That would be a just system and they would be a lot richer. Working at Walmart would be a lot more enjoyable.

It would not be a blanket ban. It would be gradually phased in over decades and you wouldn't lose all of your stock, maybe some percentage. This percentage could phase in. We could start with simple law that gives 5% of your stock to your replacement if you leave your company. Nothing would collapse this way. This would encourage managers and executives to actually care about the long-term success of their companies.

Yeah, it's radical. Some kind of alternative to Wall Street needs to be invented. The whole point is to break up the consolidation of capital in the hands of a few elites. There need to be systems and laws that push capital downward to average people. One such principle might be that if you leave the company, you lose most of your stock to the guy who replaces you, and holding stock pays automatic dividends if your company makes profit, but only if you work within the company. As soon as you leave, the guy who takes your position gets it. Passive sources of income need to be gradually eliminated. All passive income comes off the back of wage slaves.

Except Nothing is exactly what it is.

Many ways. Understanding IS practical. Science yes, materialism no. You can do all of science without materialism. Materialism is a false and unnecessary metaphysics. It's sort of like you're saying that ether, caloric, phlogiston, and miasma are necessary parts of science. They are not. Science works just fine without them.

None of those manufactures can design laptop hardware that beats a Macbook Air. The trackpads alone on Windows laptops are pure garbage. Apple makes good hardware. Just their software ecosystem sucks. I will happily play 50% more for a laptop if it has a great trackpad alone.

Locked for low quality.

@Soulbass Cyberpunk is a beautiful world. Too bad they didn't do that beauty justice with their rushed corpo release. This game clearly needed 1 more full year of development. Then it would have been a 9 or 10 out of 10 and sold 40 million copies. I'm guessing they will lose 10 million copies of sales with their bad PR over the game's full lifecycle. Stupid management mistake.

Because the girl only gets serious after sex. Until then she's gonna be a flake. Every girl loves humor and charm. There's no such thing as a serous cold girl. She's being that way because you got bad game or she's just not interested in you. Of course not all girls will be interested in you, in which case you just move on to the next girl. Attracting girls requires reaching a "hook point" where you can clearly see that she's attracted to you. Hook point is usually reached within 1-5 minutes. If the hook point never comes, then move other girls. Don't waste your time trying to get girls who can't reach hook point within 5-10 mins. Serious deep conversations can happen after sex.

You can't get any particular girl. Change your strategy to getting girls in general, not one specific girl. If she's difficult, go talk to 10 other girls and the problem will solve itself.

Many problems with capitalism could simply be fixed by passing a few rock solid laws. No ownership of stock without being employed by the company No corporate lobbying No corporate political contributions No buying of other big corporations by big corporations Salary caps for executives and management No arbitration clauses in contracts No criminal liability protections for executives No off-shore tax havens and corp tax loopholes All employees get representation on corporate board All employees get profit sharing Higher taxes on successful wealthy corporations Strict environmental regulations Severe fines for corporate fraud or mismanagement Simple laws like that, when rigorously enforced, would fix many problems. These laws are not that difficult to make work. It's just almost impossible to pass them in Congress.

@GroovyGuru There won't be Medicare For All because not enough people support it.

No, Win 8.1 modified to look like 7. Win 10 is shite.

I've always run Windows on my Macbook Air. Wouldn't even consider anything else. But if you are a Mac person running MacOS, I suggest you find an commonplace book software that works on your desired platform. OneNote is awesome for Windows, but it's not the only game in town.

Remember, capitalism is not just gonna go away. Whatever comes after it will build on top of it. The foundations of capitalism are too successful to ever completely go away. They will just evolve. Modern society is far too dependent on giant corporations today to get rid of them. So you need to find ways to run giant corporations in more democratic and equitable ways. But you can't eliminate them.

I'm inclined to say civilization IS guaranteed. But its quality is not guaranteed. A few nukes are not gonna kill civilization. Civilization is much more robust than people think. Even a massive nuclear war would not end it, just set it back. In the grand scheme of things the only thing that could end civilization is a large meteor strike or some massive freak natural event like a super-volcano or burst of solar radiation. Anything less than that will cause lots of suffering but not end civilization. The real question is how to reduce human suffering and how to elevate human consciousness in better way.