NewKidOnTheBlock

I dispute the idea that life is healthy

@Ishanga I can agree with the lack of consciousness part, and that people should be better. Noone wants suffering and noone wants people starving. I am definitely proponent of making capitalism better by making people's characters better. However, you are never getting rid of capitalism and inequality. People with talent and no talent, people with ambition and no ambition. Lucky and unlucky. However, you can make billionaires and millionaires more charitable (some of them are), make them less power hungry. Donating to charity is fine, volunteering is great. 3d world countries focusing on improving their own countries would be a long term solution to a lot of their problems, of course easier said than done. Everything is easier said than done

I was talking about resources, not money

There may be enough maybe, depending on how you quantify a person's needs (like a good little socialist, deciding how much of something everyone actually needs instead of letting them decide LOL), there MOST CERTAINLY isn't "more than enough" though. All of our resources are very finite. If you think otherwise, just look at the stats. I really don't understand what you are trying to say in these 2 sentences it makes no sense to me. How does being able to spend 1 billion dollars equate to everyone suddenly having all these things you have mentioned? Do you mean to spread amongst the whole population 1 billion dollars or give 1 billion dollars to everyone each? Regardless which one of those it is, the former is just plainly wrong mathematically and the latter is just kindergarden logic worthy of being said by Billie Eilish. Not understanding how economy works at all, how human behaviour works at all. Not worthy of further comments People are being paid exactly the ammount other people think they deserve, if you think someone is paid way too much or way too little, thank human nature for that instead of capitalism. It's not a fault of capitalism that we do not care about the garbage men very much but care very much about stupid things. Furthermore, socialists only know how to criticize the capitalism but would do nothing to improve anything, would do no innovations to society whatsoever. They would just entrench themselves in the all powerfull goverment and stomp on everyone's head. And this is regardless of what kind of socialism we're talking since there are many kinds of it. Some better than others. They're all the same in this aspect.

If there really was so much food and medicine at our disposal, the prices of these comodities would have already plummeted to zero, there is no way this is the case. I call BS on that. Industrial revolution was followed by a huge population boom and we currently have 8 billion people worldwide, we might have enough food for everyone to get fed and I think everyone should have access to food, but that doesn't mean that food is an inexhaustable resource and it's not necessarilly the fault of capitalism that things are this way. Maybe the poorer countries should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and actually work on bettering their economy, infrastructure and feed their populace as a byproduct and consequence, instead of doing whatever shit they're doing. Most likely waging petty civil wars and blaming everything on the oh so bad meanie imperialist west. Apply the same thing for medicine. You support society throught your efforts and give away value in capitalism as well, and society rewards you in the form of money. The ammount of money you get depends on the degree to which you give people what they want. It is actually a much fairer system than to wait for the daddy goverment to give you stuff for free whilst producing very little output. Guess who ends up benefiting in such a system? Nobody. You'll just end up dragging everyone else down and there is still going to be a ruling class dictating what you can and can't do and what you can and can't buy. Or sell. How do you know that those billionaires haven't earned that money? However dirty the process might have been, they had to provide some value to society, the kind of value most people aren't able to provide. That's the core reason why they are rich. Individual regular working person doesn't provide irreplacable or hardly replaceable value to society, so they have much less money. That's the way it is, is it unfair? Yeah probably, but life isn't fair This is cope. Most human talent is very much monetizable and I bet most of human talent has been monetized. Unless you have the kind of talent nobody cares about or you aren't actually that good, or you are not good at promoting yourself, you'd find a way to become successfull and rich as a byproduct. Most people are talentless LOL

I'm not sure how we are meant to be and not sure if there even is an answer to that question, however visits to nature always feel pleasant. Each of our individual selves definitely would benefit from living in nature and living a natural lifestyle. May it be so, for all the people from this site at the very least

Society is not a charity. You can't change the system just by "gimme gimme pls" kind of attitude

Yeah you're right, tbh most of the days I'm just running on an autopilot, and not exerting much intelectual or physical effort nor am I exposed to nature that much, only once per week since that's all I can afford time wise and money wise so far. I've also got some specific insecurities that are just gnawing me from the inside and making me feel like shit often, I've had them for so long and there seems to be nothing I can do against them, that I've just gotten used to them at this point and to that shitty feeling. But I agree that those feelings of peace are where the happiness is, given that conditions are right ofc. I'm gonna have to start exerting some effort

Perhaps I am stage blue. Community is very important to me

Going down the path of a veterinarian might not be a bad idea, especially if you really enjoy spending time with and taking care of pets or animals in general, you can only really find that put by direct experience. Might be a better idea to become a doctor if you got the stomach for it, as they are surely decently paid in any economy (in proportion to that particuliar economy ofc) and you might avoid getting picked for direct action in case things go south, you know what I'm saying

People keep using this model for literaly everything here, from dating and politics to psychology, in an almost autistic manner, and then claim you're being stupid if you refuse to join in their autism. It's like no, I'm just refusing to categorize everything the same way all the time, and mostly for the same constantly repeating range of topics

In nature, all species either grow or they slowly (or abruptly) die. Human species is no different. If you just let the economy and humanity stagnate, in reality we would all start to slowly suffocate and humanity would descend into idiocracy

I'm a comformist throught and throught - and proud of it!

Using games to escape reality is a form of investment. Into your sanity

That's a hell of a thing to be listening to on a run lol very motivational

What's the point of doing all that "self improvement" if you're going to end up being alone anyway? Sounds like a cope to me. A bit of a delusion as well.

Not gonna lie, I don't know what tf I would do without these technologies, how I would entertain myself. Life is just too sad and bleak on it's own. Unless I'd somehow manage to be living in ideal conditions - meaning I wouldn't have to work cause I'd have fuck-you money, I'd be living very near beautifull nature with very little human toxicity and clean air - but also not far from civilization as well, a lot of opportunities for social life etc. etc. Let's say everything would be ideal for me like that. Then under these circumstances I think I would be able to drop various habits deemed generally negative. But since that shit aint happening, one must cope. As Plato once said "A measure of a man is how well he's able to cope" yeah, I'm pretty sure that was his quote

This philosophy might be true on some level but it's just not practically feasable to think this way. As much as I may always be among the first ones to notice and point of all the ways in which life sucks, or just anything sucks. However, this is sort of like admitting defeat in life because non existence would be better than existence, and makes any kind of motivation for self improvement very limited or essentially impossible, it is similiar to being a socialist in this way, except on a much larger scale. I don't think it is very probable that I will ever produce children, however I cannot seem to concede the idea of ever having one, or ever having a family, it is sort of like yielding to life and/or being anti-life, it is just not feasable to think this way for me.

Let's not pretend like vegans are some edgy people capable of doing this. It'd be much more fun and drama inducing to watch vegan protester reactions of a meat eater eating a steak

This is the only horror game I might actually end up playing

At the very least we can clearly see there's been some progress in robotics in terms of their mechanical design and movement, being able to perform tasks that require a bit more finesse than just lifting objects in a warehouse or being able to do basic acrobatic movements. Even if the A.I. part is masivelly overhyped, that's already something. Although maybe stuff like this has already been out there, idk I'm not following it. If you have a large house or you own multiple properties and want to have the properties you are not living in mantained, then robots such as these would certainly be a huge assets. For a smaller living spaces however, they'd become just another obstacle and a thing to take care of

Kamikaze is a perfect way to describe his actions actually, similiar to fanatical Japanese pilots trying to delay Americans as much as possible, Navalny literaly sacrificed himself. He probably also viewed it as a sacrifice himself

Is it benefitial to cope? I would say so, yes

By what metric do you judge they are happy? Because some of them smile, grin and point at the camera as it was recording them? People from the 3d world slums with ghasthly conditions would do the same thing today, even the ones addicted to toluene lol

Yall just keep repeating these types of generalized advice. Yall not really bout that life yo. Real gangstas memorize Sun Tzu - The Art of War and respond only with quotes from that book