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@Husseinisdoingfine All the normal people won't come, but I wouldn't be so sure about the psychos.

I am always scared right before the breakthrough. I don't know if it's the best solution, but I just force through it. I ignore being afraid, I treat it as the price to pay for the experience. No music, no fighting, letting the fear just be. It passes rather quickly.

@The Don You said in capitalism only highly needed business survive. I gave you a few counter-examples of parasitic businesses. You then proceed to tell me a discourse on life not being safe. What the heck man? I am not against capitalism if by capitalism you mean our current global economic system. It is what it is, an outcome of hundred of years of evolution of human labor organisation. It's not in it's ultimate form in any way and needs improvements to keep up with the tempo of technological change. What I am against is treating our economic system as it really was capitalism as described by liberals like Milton Friedman. Nope, the real world doesn't behave like that. It's liberals who actually live in a bubble by believing that market decisions are always right and profit is always justified. There was data even in their times that theses ideas might be wrong. There is even more data nowadays, proving most of liberal thought is bullshit. No-one says business owners don't work hard. And he fucking shouldn't. Why would someone think it's desirable for anyone to be constantly stressed? That's the point of introducing reforms like Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Services, so no business owner is scared of losing their livelihood or causing difficulties for his employees if his business fails. Tell me, who has more freedom: a woman in our current system who has to slave 10 hours a day working under a sexist boss at a bottom of the barrel job, worried she might became homeless if she lost that job, OR a woman living in a country with UBI or UBS implemented, who can say "fuck you" to such offer and look for something better, because she doesn't have to worry about paying for food or health insurance? You see, I am the one who cares about real fredom in that conversation. Freedom to express yourself, create beauty and share love. Not a freedom to oppress, which you are an advocate of. And with space mining, fully-automated shopping, self-driving cars, 3D printing, cheap energy & battery revolution, progressing automation, smarter AI, etc. we don't really have a choice. A turn toward more sociallistic policies is needed, otherwise the whole system would collapse.

You mean like a 20-year old marketing company selling bogus penis enlargement pills, earning millions? Or maybe patent trolls who do nothing with their capital but buy intellectual rights and sue others? I will stop there for simplicity, there are countless other examples of "highly needed" products. What I am afraid of is that Jeff Bezos really beleieves this, but doesn't see that by pushing prices down 10% he pushes down benefits and wages of all hires in his supply chain by 20%, effectively still generating wealth by charging more, but it's more time, not money, that low-earning workers have to spend at their job to earn enough for basic neccesities. The thing is: what we have in reality is not capitalism, neither socialism. And it will never be any of these two. It would be great if the world behaved as Hayek or Friedmann have described. Their ideas would then work and they would be right. Yet, sadly, it doesn't. What we have now is more akin to Feudalism 2.0, rather than capitalism, with elements of both capitalism and socialism. The underlying systemic dynamics still mirror feudalism closely. You can read Piketty's "Capital" to see what I am alluding to. The thing is, to be a classic liberal in 2020, you have to lag behind on science, A LOT, mainly in fields of economics, sociology, history and anthropology. A lot of reasearch and development has happened in the last 50 years, liberalism is out-dated. Those people lived in different times so their blindspots are understandable, yet we need to move on from their faulty theories and rhetoric. I would recommend you to read some Kate Raworth for economic thought, or David Graeber for anthropology, his "Bullshit Jobs" book is a great read. You know, to really challenge yourself.

Radical Honesty - Brad Blanton

You talk as if there was any variety. The healthcare in the US is constantly getting centralized with every year into the hands of a few corporations. There is no real choice. Those few oligopolists or even monopolists in some niches make it worse for every party involved, the patients, workers they hire, and the government. The whole system is very ineffective. It's well-known that the American system costs more for the same results, compared for example to Canada or any European country really. Even Obama had admitted that the only reason Obamacare and his other health reforms had not been more radical is that he didn't know what to do with a few million workers who would lose their jobs if such reform was introduced. They would lose jobs because they are not needed in a properly working system. A few million workers who are not needed, but are employed in the private health industry right now to help leech value out of your pocket, working their bullshit bureaucratic jobs that drain their souls.

I see an extra-big picture and... ...that's why I want to live simply. I know where this money ultimately comes from, it's either raping the Earth or your fellow humans. There's a small percentage of conscious profitable businesses, and most multi-million dollar comapnies are not that. They are keeping in place a system that pushes down wages of everday people, forces them to work 8 hours per day when we already have the technology to lower that to 4 hours per day and exploits the commons, resources we all own collectively. I aim for impact not personal income. Being uber-wealthy is not sustainable in the long-run. What would do more good in the world, funnelling the income of the company to your own personal account or using it allow your employees work shorter hours, freeing up their time for creative endeavours? I believe in our collective power, individuals are over-rated

You have said that and later talked about ultra-wealthy billionaires and multi-millionaires. I am not sure if you meant for that statement to apply for them too, or just normal entrepreneurs. I will assume you did. Yes they pay themselves 1-5%, but give out to charitable cases only like 0.1%, the rest of the money they use to lobby, stay in power and keep their fortunes intact. There are statistics that relatively billionaires are donating to charitable causes much less of their wealth than the poorer citizens.

@Hello from Russia we differ in values, for sure, haha. No-one forces to live you in the States, in most countries in the world $2000 is an income level of a programmer or a doctor with a few years of experience, far away from scraping by. If you up it to $4-5k there's really no reason to have more. It's enough to have family, car, modern housing, vacations abroad, etc. You don't get qualitatively better stuff for more, just more pricey. You call bullshit on my desire to live frugally and say that an $1 million in art is a good investment purely for the reason of inspiring one self. I call bullshit on that, there is no way that you having a $1m piece of art would do more good in the world than donating $998 000 to a non-profit fighting malaria.

Because they both were paid and lobbied by the same companies with the same agenda. If they don't do that they will lose their campaign budgets in the next elections. On the other hand, Justice Democrats get most of their money from individual donors, who support them on the base of values they represent, so they have freedom to push for progressive, enivronmental and anti-monopoly policies.

I think some of you guys are missing the point. One can be paying themselves humbly and live simply, while still having a lot of capital on command. For example, let's say I have a business and am a humble yogi. I pay myself a maximum of $2000 per month and the rest of the profit stays in the business and can be used towards realizing the purpose of the organization. Just because my personal income is low doesn't mean the company has to have low margins, etc, it can still be a very profitable venture. Yet, the extra profit wouldn't be used towards satisfying personal needs, other than doing good in the world of course. And yes, one still has to be careful to make sure that his business is doing more good to the world by fulfilling its mission than harm by extracting the resources of people and the planet.

They do, and both parties are so to speak "bought". But this particular kind of support, big corporations' money from SuperPACs, Republicans get more. Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2020&chrt=P&disp=O&type=S Dems also need more money to win anything, because they have to win by bigger margins, due to the electoral college and other weird solutions in their voting system.

@Hardkill Nowadays, it's often not the parties that campaign, but coroporate SuperPACs. Sometimes those PACs finance both sides at the same time to make sute they have some politician enthusiastic to them regardless of who wins. Yet the corporations tend to finance Republicans more often, as they are more lax on tax regulations and don't push progressive policies that moght hurt the bottom-line. If Republicans hurt corporate profits then it's probably a result of a mistake caused by them being stupid. So yeah, Republicans campaign better because they don't actually campaign. Big corporations with access to your data do it for them. Republicans also love to undermine voting rights of minorities, so that also helps to keep them in power once they get there.

The Evangelion anime movie. It covers topics of life and death, focusing on the ultimate meaning of life. There are 4 parts of the movie, the last one set to be released in the January 2021. Here's the credits song from the movie. "It's only love..." I think it really nails the point.

You mean the other way around, the red pill ideology takes anything of value it offers from books by David DeAngelo and other early pick-up artists. Although, some of those other guys back in the 2000s were pretty toxic, so the red pill people might have taken the toxicity from them too and then exaggerated it.

I mean, Logan Paul has interviewed Sadhguru. Who has had Leo interviewed? Peter Ralston, but who knows this guy? I think it clearly shows who is a teacher of a higher caliber and who has a higher chance to make a collab with the master of them all Tai Lopez, that person is Logan Paul.

Yup, but Ken Wilber is hard to understand sometimes, for me a non-native speaker at least. He uses unusual academic words that I have to check in the dictionary, while Leo uses everyday language. I find Rupert Sheldrake to be very similar to Leo, but with less emphasis on practical spirituality and more on science and epistemology, which makes sense, since he is a professional researcher.

There's a lot of firms in the finance sector that focus on doing good. Mainly in sustainability focused investment, but also local banking and micro loans for communities in need. Also, basically any conscious organization that gets big and successful needs people to manage its finances, so it's only a matter of choosing your desired niche and making connection with people working in it, so they can introduce you to opportunities you want.

Agreed. You still have to admit it's better there than on Reddit, haha. If you know some quality discussion forums or similar, then please share, I think it's allowed on here to do so.

@The_Alchemist XDDDD curb your ego, bro Exactly how he has described it himself. He has started a fast food restaurant chain and this is its promotional campaign. Guys, giving away money and charity work is not a sign of being stage Green. Andrew Carnegie, the guy on whom the Scrooge McDuck character is based, apart from being a filthy rich stage Orange ideologist was also a philanthropist. The same with the Rockefeller, an absurdly rich philanthropist who also happened to be a dick. Heck, even today we have the Sacklers family, billionaires who spend a lot of money on charity but earned this money by orchestrating the opioid epidemic in the US, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of people killed.

I don't know what's an issue with Windows laptops. I have bought used 2014 Dell for $160 and installed Windows 10 on it. It has great keyboard, trackpad and runs lightning fast for the purpose of browsing web and writting. The only thing I can't do on it is play newer games like Trackmania 2020, but this PC was cheaper than my smartphone, so who cares.

I feel you, I really feel you @Striving for more. I have some money saved and love Spain, too, but want to sample countries in Europe first by doing a few workaway volounteering trips and maybe meditation retreats.

Being scared of someone being of other skin color just because you haven't seen that. That's purple.

@cle103 I don't test psychedelics. I mainly use research chems and source them from shops that have a reputation to lose if they ever make a mistake. The important thing is to start low. It can save your ass if the vendor actually made a mistake and has sent you something else. You don't have to worry about fentanyl, but there are other kinds of fuck ups that can happen where reagent testing won't save you. For example, I have heard of 5-MeO mixed by mistake with some crumbs of 25C-NBOMe, imagine preparing for a 1-hour long trip and ending up with a 30-hour one. Crazy, and nothing can save you from that if that happens. You can't test for it, even starting low doesn't help. A trusted provider is a priority.

If you are asking about plugging, then only synthetic. Don't plug toad venom.