Leo Gura

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  1. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    32 minutes ago, gengar said:

    You didn't make the point about wealth, but about social change.

    "business is a much more powerful mechanism of social change than political activism."

    Yes. Social change requires wealth and resources.

    Wealth is power. Power is the ability to effect change within society.

    The reason political activism is so ineffective is that it gets counter-pushback and lack of consensus. You have to spend 50 years just to convince people to all row in the same direction. And even then you have half the country rowing against you. It's like a 50 year tug of war where neither side gets much traction, ending in a stalemate.

    The beauty of business is that you can create good things without being locked in a 50 year stalemate.

    You can spend the next 50 years shouting about climate change or you can build a $100 billion dollar green energy company. Which will help climate more?

    Who helped the climate more? Elon Musk or 100,000 screaming college protestors?

  4. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    4 minutes ago, gengar said:

    You're evading the examples I provided. Women should have worked harder and smarter in the 20th century, and not marched for rights and equality? Get real.

    There are rare cases where mass mobilization grants rights. But it does not grant wealth.

    Women's rights, black rights, gay rights were good movements. But we already got those rights. What next? Rights are mostly legally equal at this point.

  5. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    29 minutes ago, gengar said:

    which means doing socialist action is their best bet.

    Working harder and smarter is their best bet. Even if socialism wins, it will be a cold day in Hell before it puts money in your pocket.

    Wealth is actually created for average people when they run small businesses, like hotdog stands, village shops, small farms, bazaar shops, cafes, bike repair shops, candy stores, etc. Marxism confiscates and kills these small businesses.

  6. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    21 minutes ago, gengar said:

    That doesn't mean "social change" is not possible.

    Of course it's possible but serious people do not sit around hoping for a social movement to come along and save their ass.

    Serious people build what they want. Which is why powerful people do not join protests and social movements. Social movements are for the weak and inept.

    One man can build more than every Marxist in the country combined. Which is why Marxism fails.

    Good luck getting a leftist to understand that.

  11. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    16 minutes ago, gengar said:

    With abandoning luxury, do you mean always opting for the frugal options like that mp3 player you posted instead of an iPod for example?

    No.

    An iPod is not luxury.

    You guys here are so poor that you don't even understand what luxury is.

    When you spend $20,000 a month on fine wine, then let's talk.

  14. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    @Rezo gelenidze You're still so young at 24. You have a lot of time left to make yourself successful. Many people find success late in life.

    You don't need to be some football star to have a fully satisfying life.

    Don't give up so soon. Try to find creative ways to make your life work. Not just grinding but do things more intelligently. You can still make your life much better.

    You can't trust what anyone tells you about reincarnation because that's just belief and hearsay. Don't throw away your life based on the spiritual speculations of some confident fool. You can't assume that killing yourself will lead to something better.

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    1 minute ago, Xonas Pitfall said:

    @Leo Gura

    Hey, on a side note for this comment, could we perhaps get a blog post or a video on the insanity or delusional thoughts psychedelics can give you (both delusions that bleed through into your real life, like the one you just said, and ones that happen only during the trip)?

    I think that one would be insanely valuable, because at least for me, once I started practicing psychedelics, I was genuinely shocked by how much mixture and distortion my reality was getting from the drugs, and I had to pull myself out of it. I feel like in some communities, psychedelics are marketed as truth-revealers, or that only the wild, obvious delusions are insane, and they don’t follow you into real life. I had to battle through that, and still do to some extent.

    Maybe, if possible, a post or video with examples of personal or other people’s insanity - especially the more sneaky, tangible ones like that - would be amazing. Thank you! xD

    That's an interesting topic. Painful to talk about honestly.

  19. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    I acknowledge that the whole lot of them could just be high on hippie rationalizations and New Age fantasies.

    The woo is strong with those 3.

    I have fooled myself in the past that a girl was my divine soulmate when she was not even close. And psychedelics make that illusion 5x worse.

    They could be using psychedelics to brainwash each other. Hard to say. That's why I don't do collective spirituality and I don't mix sex with my spirituality.

  24. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    6 minutes ago, Emerald said:

    And I relate to her enough to recognize her vulnerability.

    The vulenerability is what makes it a genuine opportunity for love.

    The only question is whether they will be able to sustain it. That is the risk they are all taking together.

    It's an experiment in conscious love. Will it work? Who knows? But I think it's cool they are trying something bold and broadcasting it to the world. That's not an easy thing to do.

  25. Posted · Edited by Leo Gura

    2 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    Do you think the wife could possibly be brainwashing and gaslighting herself here

    Sure, that's a common thing women do when manipulated by men.

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    as evidenced by her perpetual need to 'work through accepting' the situation? Her initial reaction was negative to the situation.

    Yeah, but sometimes a crisis turns into an opportunity.

    Deep love works in unexpected ways.

    I feel that their love is genuine and deep. Could it all be an illusion they are bullshitting themselves with? Yes. But I am not that cynical here.