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Because value in either of these companies is not Bezos', but thousands of workers, decades of developing infrastructure, billions worth of physical materials and fuels and millions of their clients giving them data. It's a matter of who you ascribe the value to. I ascribe it to people and Earth, from which people have extracted the resources. You ascribe it it personalities and abstract companies. If Bezos never existed there would be many other valuable things created with that value, if big companies had limits to growth, there would develop some new interesting, creative dynamics on a lower scale. We don't need competition in every field, on every scale. What makes humans unique is cooperation, and government should in my opinion do everything to support cooperation between humans. I see existence of giga companies like Amazon as a residue of a progressing change towards their break-up or heavy, heavy regulation. They are descendants of company cities and other power-hungry forms of societal organization from the past.

I have. I have watched your video and I think you miss a point. You think about value from a personal perspective of a worker, or a user of a service. I think of value as net positive or negative effect on society. Your Bezos by creating so much value can be creating a net negative effect on society by fueling resources and human life hours towards useless pursuits like faster shipping or another pointless space travel company. I know it's hellishly difficult to compute. That's why we are having this conversation and why I am sure you neither know what are the real results of big capitalists' actions. Take it as a feedback Leo. I am not a lefitist and I am not sold on many arguments in that video. It's just not that good. Because they also want fair wages and normal working conditions. They just lack vision to compute that they have to choose, but once the choice is visible, then it's kind of obvious what is really valuable, which systems should be upheld and not given away to all-consuming Amazon amoeba.

I disagree, people produce value with at most 3x rate. But some people have access to leverages and they leverage these to differences to absurd degrees, like you say million times difference. But speaking from an avsolute perspective people are not that much different in intelligence and neither creativity, nor productivity. We are all stupid copycats, and if there are some exceptional people, they are not Musks, Jobses, Gateses and Bezoses, they are the people they all have copied from.

Not much. The thing is Jeff Bezos doesn't create that much value, he is a master at siphoning it from other sources. If Bezos and his company didn't destroy their competitors, they would still exist and would still pay and treat their workers better than Amazon, as they did in the past. "Oh if Amazon didn't destroy them then something else like Amazon would have bought it." That's the point, something like Amazon shouldn't exist. Yes we need big capital to make investments and long-term projects. In our system it's giants like Google or Amazon, Elon Musk, etc. that invest in big projects. But you know who else does big projects? The government, the creators of the Internet and guys who put man on the moon. The government can do everything that big companies can do. We can have big companies, but not too big. It all comes down to how much you value human life, I value it highly. So values, cultivating similar values in society. Aiding individuals and societies in development on the Spiral.

@Leo Gura it doesn't matter if you are mediocre, when you get more control of your work, when you get more responisibilities, you grow and grow happier, too. Education is not required in the beginning. The point of creating Tier 2 workplace is exactly thinking about how to accomodate average people in that system. Saying "oh, it's education and genetics" is begging a question, a kind of conceptual laziness. Creating a Tier 2 workplace that functions, accomodates average stage Blue and Orange people and doesn't collapse quickly is a life purpose in itself. The book "Reinventing Organizations" by Laloux is a good exploration of this topic. There's also Corporate Rebels and a few more not as well-written.

@QQQ for 5-meo-dmt there is some shop that sells from Czech Republic.

@Tyler Robinson logic is a construct. There are many different logic systems. So yeah, it's not logical, in a sense that there's some underlying logic that rules the universe at all times, in all cases. Humans would like it to be so, so they could ground reality in something, but no.

Edit, ah misread, you have talked about the dumbest, then it might have an effect. I have written a reply with selecting for the smartest in mind. Yeah, but from what I have learned intelligence works by a different set of rules. It seems to be increasing overall in population, regardless of the outcome of any particular mating. Like there's a mechanism, deeply hardwired, that's been responsible for human brain's capacities development in the past, and still working within us, assuring that every generation of humans is more and more intelligent overall. I don't know the details, I haven't studied evolution nor cognitive science seriously. But the existence of such mechanism adds many interesting dynamics, like for example that you need to measure progress over generations, because maybe by selecting the smartest individuals you have also chosen a lot of people with slowly working that aforementioned mechanism, so over 100 generations they are stupidier than a general population, because the effects of selecting of what is on the surface are slower than the underlying mechanism responsible for humans' and humanoids' boom in intelligence.

@Hardkill one factor is that the West has always had a headstart in development. Another is that the East has been producing food for Europe, so there was less incentive to move towards new social structures, serfdom has been ideal for food production and the whole Europe had to eat something.

@Majed They are abstract categories, but they serve a purpose, they are not for nothing. They were created, because there was a need for them. And there are rules around them, because they also have been needed.

@Greatnestwithin DIY retreat with friends or a commercial one? I don't get the appeal of paid for psychedelic retreats. People leading them can be lacking in knowledge, as in this example, you don't know what the hell you are consuming and at what exact dose. You give up some control, you have to smell some shitty sage/palo santo or some other lung-irritating incense, and THE WORST OF THEM ALL you have to deal with nonsense-spouting hippies who have chosen to participate in the same ceremony. Lighting up a bonfire with your friends and sharing a DMT pipe in circles is soo much better than any of this commercial bullshit, IMO. Unbearable, hippies are unbearable. What's even better take your gf/bf on a trip to mountains, go on a hike into the wilderness and take a hit in a serene scenery. No people, no spiritual cosplay, no distractions. Just Love.

Yeah, the same, it's maybe even easier to vape, but harder to dose, because freebase can get sticky and oily when you store it in imperfect conditions. Vaped freebase oil also sticks to cold glass, making cool patterns. Te coolest looking psychedelic "dirt" to scrap off the pipe. So glass pipe works, parsley works, e-vape works, etc. Vapes that use cotton are cool to use. With DPT, I don't recommend to use the e-mesh method people use for DMT.

@Darodos I would vape it. Plugging required high dosages for me. Do you have an idea on how to vape it?

@LSD-Rumi I haven't encountered anything sinister either. But DPT for sure tingles the part of mind that sees faces everywhere more than other psychedelics. So if that's scary for someone, then DPT might not be for them. It also gives a lot of physical sensations, so if someone is scared of it then it might be scary for them.

@LSD-Rumi your experience sounds normal. I think even as high as 150 mg plugged is a way to go, and something around 250-400 mg oral. Vaping DPT freebase is the most effective method. Works best in form of eliquid, qnd then you just toke bit by bit until you are satisfied with strength. You don't need to do one big toke as with DMT. You can vape once or you can vape for hours. Normal cheap eliquid vape device. Not some elaborate glass and gas torch combo for perverts. That's what you vapor genie guys are, perverts

It does a lot of other stuff, too. So I am not sure what your comment has meant to convey. They are not 1-to-1 experiences with the exception of one just being longer.

Podcasts are popular because you can just listen, you don't have to watch anything. That means you can consume them on a walk, while cooking dinner or driving a car. Simple as that. Same reason as why audiobooks are getting more popular than reading paperbacks. You can listen to them even at work and no-one bats an eye.

@Socrates yes, he has just said he is having as much fun as people drinking alcohol without actually drinking any every other night.

Podcasts are the thing like for the last 10 years I think. Dunno when Apple added them to their apps, but that's around when they have started gaining a lot of traction.

@Breakingthewall it's easy to criticize Sadhguru from that position. I don't know how to name this postition you are voicing, but it's quite common, spread even in India, because the whole world quickly modernizes. But apart from all this, I have to say I have some admiration for Sadhguru. He is a man who has had a long period of existential reflection in his life, practicing asanas and deepening his realization, who then went and became one of the most famous activists/non-profit organization leaders. Quite an enviable life path, similar to one described by Om Swami in "If Truth Be Told", but the other way around. Your comment sounds like something Vandana Shiva could have said. She's an Indian sociologist with a sharp blade against Bill Gates'es and Sadhgurus of the world. This adds nothing to the argument, but it is an interesting fact that Vandana Shiva's campaign against GMO had seriously agrreviated Sri Lanka's food crisis, becuase the government there had had accepted her claims about pesticides and fertilizers. Sadhguru to me seems like way way more reasonable and practical (that's why he is working with the party currently rulling India) than other environmental activists of his caliber of outreach. The supernatural claims, I don't care about, no matter who spews them, Sadhguru, Leo, masters of the past, scientists like Rupert Sheldrake, I don't care. I neither care for the opposite team. I feel like staying open-minded for supernatural things happening in your life and weighing lowly other people's claims about magic in your own decision-making is a rational and skillful stance.

Proper meditation is what enables to shift and underwhelming/underdosed trip into a breakthrough. It was not needed for OP's girlfriend, it seems, but I am curious to hear opinions of some more experienced users with both meditation and strong psychedelics if they agree. Maybe there are other options, maybe it's random, maybe it's dose dependant. What are you thinking?

I don't like that perspective on meditation, because meditation works even when you are on low-medium dose of psychedelics. So meditation is rather a skillful usage of mind. I deem that angle of looking at it more important than considering whatever it might be doing at the body chemistry layer/level. I understand that you probably have meant "works" as in "works and permanently shifts your level of awerness a few degrees", but I believe that this other definition of meditation is more important and deserves highlightning. Meditation is Mind skillfully bending the Mind.

I have read 85 books in a year and it's not hard. This was while having a full-time physical job and most of reading hours were audiobook listening. Up to 200 books a year is possible, I have tried to sustain that tempo, you need to read while eating a breakfast and dinner, you have to listen to audiobooks when driving and doing tasks with idle time, etc. But it's doable, and the books I have been reading were all scientific. Around 40-50 this year and I work as a tutor half-time.

@How to be wise Good one. The 5th stage sounds more like cosplay than a real stage. Too much of cultural baggagee for it to be considered some possible universal stage of development. And what if I dislike Eastern spirituality, can't I have transcendent sex?

@Leo Gura To start a cult or something. Editing wikipedia to give yourself credence is not a good signal. Paywalled church website also. And also maybe from ignorance, thinking it must have worked, but maybe in fact it didn't and they just only got a weaker version of normal mushrooms and that's where their lack of visuals come from. I have no idea, I am not the one making the extraordinary claim. I would have to see people not associated with that group to repeat the experiment or them having some solid lab results.