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In order to fund UBI, conditional welfare programs need to be killed. In the presence of UBI, most conditional welfare programs are redundant and wasteful and counter-productive. Also, america doesn't need any one president. If it's dependent on one person, it's going to fail. UBI shouldn't depend on a specific presidential candidate. I don't care who among Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, etc, ... becomes the president. Germany would have caused world war 2 without hitler. If there was no Bernie Sanders, someone else would be saying the exact same shit. UBI is a stronger social safety net than norwegian one. I think Bernie Sanders would also talk about bulldozing existing conditional welfare programs to fund UBI if he wants to implement UBI. Every UBI proponent I know talks about replacing conditional welfare programs with UBI. I can see devilry in you. Capitalists are not evil. They are regular people doing their best. You are not different from them. Everyone is an artist. Everyone is a capitalist. Everyone is also something else. If you were suggesting that Andrew Yang is a con artist who has no intention of implementing UBI, that would be another story. I have no problem with other people making a lot more money than I do. I care about my own basic living. You seem to be interested more in bringing the top down than in raising the bottom up. I want the bottom and the top to go up. UBI can help lift the bottom and the top. You also seem to suggest that a solution that raises the top should not be adopted even if such a solution is better than other solutions for raising the bottom. UBI is going to help the rich protect themselves from hungry jobless mobs. It is also going to keep the poor away from hunger and desperation. It's a win-win scenario. Let trillionaires enjoy their wealth.

"Everything is art." by Leo Gura

So, norway seems to be actually better than most other countries. If it removed compulsory public education and added UBI, it'd be the first utopia.

It's not my country. I'm on the opposite side of the globe to USA. Since nobody speaks english in my region, it was difficult to bootstrap my english. Your limited expertise in english cannot distinguish native speakers from non-native speakers. Although my country sort of has universal medicare, it's never going to even discuss UBI for the next 20~30 years. At least, in USA, presidential candidates are openly talking about UBI. Here, people don't even talk about problems of automation. Even in my country, attending high school is optional. Until elementary school and middle shcool become optional, public education is not optional. 9 years are long enough to wreak havoc on one's life schedule. The cutting edge of education is hundreds of years ahead of public education. To rise above statistical mob, you should disavow public education system.

Right now, adding UBI to USA would make USA a better place to live than most other countries. If I was offered a choice between USA with UBI and norway without UBI, I'd definitely choose USA. Plus, norway has conscription which I'm not a fan of. At least, USA doesn't conscript young men anymore. Lack of conscription itself already makes USA a better place for me. Whatever abtract notions about equality you talk about, in the end, it's direct personal experiences that matter. An ideal place for me would tick the following check boxes. No conscription No compulsory public education No jury duty Truly unconditional basic income that's enough for basic living. Talking about equality without talking about these things is meaningless for me. A supposedly fairly equal place can have none of these things. Basic freedom matters.

@Commodent It's better to say that there is less inequality in norway than in USA. Equality can mean different things to different people. I hope the bottom is comfortable in norway. It sounds as if it were difficult to rise above the average but not difficult to descend to the bottom in norway.

Caprica is a TV drama. People are very dogmatic about monotheism and polytheism. Monotheists and polytheists kill each other over mere ideas of god. Does it really matter? It doesn't. Deciding whether or not there are gods is not important because it is what it is. If there is a single God, it is what it is. If there are gods, it is what it is. If there is no god, it is what it is. The truth doesn't change just because humans change opinions. Also, those who thought they knew god were actually devils. Devils label each other as devils. Devilry is at the center and front of the TV drama. It was quite boring.

It can be true, but it can also be just an overblown concern. The only kind of equality I know is shared misery at the rock bottom. At the rock bottom, everyone is more or less equal. Norway is far from the rock bottom. The rock bottom means the stone age. Do you want to nuke the world back to the stone age? The richest people in Norway are probably million times as wealthy as you are. That's also far from equality. I also think USA's inequality won't become too problematic if UBI is in place. In my humble opinion, inequality becomes problematic only when the bottom truly sucks. UBI makes the bottom suck a lot less. It will give people enough room to breathe and launch themselves up as long as they are not lazy.

Let's say that I'm an Orange asshole. However, I'm weak as Orange. I'm weak from Orange down to Beige. Am I even Beige if I screw my sleep schedule and food consumption over and over? The lesson from Beige is the importance of food and sleep and meditation. The lesson from Purple is the importance of family and friends. That of Red is personal drive. Blue teaches us the importance of decisiveness and clear rules. I am going to stop here. I'm saying whatever stage of Spiral Dynamics you think you are at is probably not where you are. Sometimes, your development is as strong as your weakest link. If you weakest link is at Beige, your development is actually at Beige. My advice is to focus on strong development of foundation rather than fast progression. If you find yourself constantly messing up sleep schedule, start over as a beginner.

I think Teal Swan might have a video about pity.

@Commodent Unconditional free money is still far more humane and far better than getting none. Remember that. There's a vast difference between $0 and $1000 per month. You are free to not take UBI when it's offered. I'll take it.

@Commodent My argument is that I don't care about equality much. I care about absolute level of life quality, not the relative one. I'd rather be a poor person in futuristic heaven than an equal member in a shit hole. I know human ego wants to be equal to others and then become superior to others. People don't really care much about equality. They actually care about superiority. When you become superior, you don't care about equality. Equality doesn't necessarily lead to better life quality. Equality may or may not coincide with better life quality. And, norway is nowhere near equality. The paradox is that people are equal and unequal. Don't get hung up on equality too much.

I prefer an inequal society where everyone is free from jobs to an equal society where everyone has to work their ass off. Inequality is relative. Having to work one's ass off is not. Let's say that in the year 2200, even a poor person is free from a job and has a robot servant and the richest people own spaceships. I'd prefer that to a primitive egalitarian tribe where everyone is more or less equal but has to work their ass off everyday. A poor person from that future civilization is far richer than the richest person from such a tribe. Inequality is relative, man. Inequality doesn't tell anything about the absolute level of life quality. What if being the poorest person in a specific region means being able to fuck a hot girl every day without worrying about making money? History tells us that equality often means everyone is at the rock bottom. I value freedom and absolute wealth more than equality. What's important is to have a good life, not to be equal to others and then surpass others.

http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq will probably answer every question you might have about UBI. In hindsight, I think Andrew Yang can become a friend with scott santens. Whether UBI redistributes wealth or not, I like it. I'm going to benefit from it. It's going to lift pressure off of me. It's going to give me relaxed free time. I would spend UBI on my projects. UBI is going to be definitely friendly with personal projects. It's venture capital for the mass.

Your imagination attracts itself If you keep imagining a house full of foods, you will soon have that. Your current reality attracts itself more strongly If you are a professional tennis player, you will be attracted to tennis for a long time. If you are rich and know how to not lose money, you will attract more money. If you are famous, you will attract more fame for a while. If you have been practicing No-Fap for months, you will probably practice it for longer. Your behaviors attract the like. If you keep behaving like a jerk, you will attract jerks. If you are productive, you will attract results and more productivity. The messages you tell to yourself If you tell yourself that you won't be bullied by standing up to bullies, you are more likely to take responsibility for defending yourself in the future.

@Dumivid I think spiral dynamics can be simple. Spiral dynamics overlaps with maslow's pyramid of needs.

I don't know the details of implementation. But, you can first liquidate most conditional welfare programs to partially fund UBI. Don't ask me about where the rest will come from. Ask the experts.

UBI is a very good form of wealth redistribution. It gives poor people wealth in terms of money and time. Free time is also wealth. Free time for human kind. Just think about the kinds of projects you can launch with your free time. I want to get UBI for myself. Right now, a lot of rich people also have jobs they would rather not have. UBI might give them free time, too. it's a safety net for the poor and the rich.

Look, you are doing it wrong. This is just another form of addiction. Leo wants you to cure addictions.

If you spend half of your day thinking about where to find dumpsters that have food, your operational/effective center of gravity is brought down to Beige. In that situation, you will soon stop thinking about higher-level concerns like achieving excellence in a field. Your potential center of gravity in a comfortable situation can still be at Orange or Green. I can feel the downward pull toward lower stages. How do you think it works otherwise?

Right now, I'm striving to be strategic and not react to my emotions. Love and being the best are out of reach for now.

The problem is my lack of execution prevents me from enjoying life. Doing nothing is execution of emotional labor. To enjoy life, you need to exert emotional labor, first. If you are merely interested in meditation and solo retreat, you would do them when it's convenient. If you wait for when it's convenient, you are not going to do them much. I suggest that you are as effective as your weakest link. If your weakest link is at Purple, your effectiveness is crippled by Purple. A loner who doesn't have friends can have very hard time if one is not already making money. It's very difficult to escape poverty trap when one is alone. Poverty trap forces you to be at Beige. You are going to search dumpsters for food. Lack of strong foundation at a certain Stage often makes you do things at that stage and below. In a sense, the universe is making you focus on your weakest links. I'm technically Orange, but I often find myself addressing concerns of lower stages because I don't have strong foundation at lower stages.

@ValiantSalvatore I think you are conceptualizing too much. `What is` can be simple. `What works` can be even simpler. Although understanding what is is important, I also focus on what works. Noticing the difference between interest and commitment helps you live a better life. If you are interested, you do what is convenient. If you are committed, you do what it takes to achieve what you are committed to. I'm going to focus on commitment and consistency of execution. I think SSD metaphor is apt for consistency. I can learn how to improve latency and throughput of my task management system from SSD performance techniques. If latency of your task management system is too high, you greatly suffer. For example, if you focus on one thing for too long, you forget to exercise, and you become weak. If your task management system's latency is too low, you suffer from lack of throughput. If you check emails every 30 minutes, you don't get anything important done. You need to strike a balance between latency and throughput. To achieve the balance, you need to exert a lot of emotional labor because it's difficult to stop thinking about something sometimes. This is just the productivity part. To learn to ignore criticisms, you need more techniques. Leo's videos can help you ignore criticisms. Productivity + personal growth + insensitivity to criticism = superhuman.

If a woman is not particularly interested in you, then you are not attractive in her eyes. It's that simple. Solution // don't be unattractive.