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I've been thinking about it more, and I think that if you are willing to take somebody's life, you should be ready to lose yours. Still not sure if this idea should be implemented in the form of death penalty. My biggest concerns mistrials and corruption.

I mean that if somebody was trying to attack your salary and question whether you deserve it or not, you would obviously want to defend it as well. What do you expect them to do? Action = Reaction

I think that this is a projection. Some might actually believe that, some might not. My point is that it's not necessary to hold any statements about other's worth to believe that you deserve something. And regarding defending your salary, this is a simple survival situation, I think it has little to do with their philosophical beliefs.

Ok. I just don't understand why you would want to follow somebody as a teacher when you don't even respect them. There is a million people you can learn from.

@yetineti lol. You are the one hating on Leo. Maybe you should leave this forum and find yourself another teacher.

This is funny. From my perspective, for you to look at it like this, you need to believe that compensation is reflective of a person's worth. You are basically saying: "Oh, so you think you deserve to earn 1000X more than this person, you must think that you are worth 1000X more than them". But those are your own words. There is no reason why that CEO has to see things like that. In fact, he doesn't need to have any belief at all about other people's worth to believe that he deserves something. Just because I believe that I deserve to live in heaven doesn't say anything about what I believe you deserve / don't deserve.

If you were interested in understanding, you would know the answer to that question. From what I can see, you are interested in hating on things and people

Who do you think has that position?

why do you measure people's worth by their salary?

You do seem to be emotionally invested in it though

I see

@The Renaissance Man so basically if I've had 100GB of storage, even with images and videos, I would have to try really hard to fill it all up, right?

I don't remember where or what exactly you've said, but it was something along the lines of you practicing not wishing death even on horrible people like Putin or Trump. Is this somehow different to death penalty, in your opinion?

Got it. I do generally think that you are right, but I still think that we could find a better balance of strictness without going all the way to the death penalty. I feel like what's causing the most backlash is not some crazy serial killer getting a life sentence instead of a death sentence. It's seeing a bunch of thugs go completely unpunished or severely underpunished for much smaller crimes. Like random thugs doing street takeovers with their cars, or vandalizing public property, or harassing people and then seeing how nobody does anything at all about them. At least that's what causes me to have this feeling of emotional backlash the most.

Do you mind elaborating on this?

And? It's what would actually happen. The only reason why your average company isn't paying you less money or is paying you more money is because they can't. Either due to the market conditions or government regulations. I don't see what's so defeatist about stating the facts. It's responsibility of the government to make sure that people are not treated unfairly and are paid enough money. You can't give that decision to individual companies and then just try to moralize to them and cry how evil they are for paying their CEOs millions of dollars. Even the CEO salary issue could be systemically resolved by simply introducing a 100% tax over a certain net worth level. How is this in any way relevant? A company is not some rapist who attacks you in a dark alley. You are willingly getting employed there, with all the terms laid out in front of you beforehand and usually work there for many years.

True, but I was asking more in terms of storage space on your hard drive. Now I actually wonder what's a file size limit for a word document, lol.

@The Renaissance Man that's a cool idea

This doesn't seem to align with actual data though. What do you think about the fact that 9 out of 10 least corrupt countries (according to the CPI index that you've shared yourself) have abolished the death penalty?

But it's true. Most people who make a lot of money are not somehow supremely intelligent, they are just really cutthroat/bold/shameless/audacious.

@fabger Why does it matter to you how companies handle their finances? This shouldn't matter as long as there is no tax evasion or other illegal practices. Most companies goal is to make profits for shareholders and to be as efficient as possible. So even if they stopped paying millions to CEOs and instead used AI that does CEO's work for free, those extra money still wouldn't go to you. If you think that your company is paying you unfairly, you should leave them and work elsewhere or create your own company, that treats ordinary workers better. Otherwise, you are enabling them by providing them with cheap, underpaid labour.

@Emerald Do you think there are more bisexual women then there are men? If so, do you think it's because women are just more universally attractive so it's easier to be into sleeping with them, no matter the gender, while men can be seen as ugly unless you are actually biologically wired to be into men?

I see, that makes sense, thanks for sharing.

I've decided to settle on Obsidian after all and I really like it so far. For filing system, I've watched this video And am using a plugin that automatically creates pseudo folders for the tags you have. This allows you more flexibility and also allows one note to be in multiple "folders". I just hope that it doesn't get discontinued and causes issues in a few years, lol.

Yeah, that's bad.