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only the very poor from what I see. At those levels of poverty you get a "UBI" in Sweden.

ChatGPT: An ambulance ride → $1,000–$4,000 ER visit for something non-critical → $1,500–$3,000 A simple broken arm → $5,000–$15,000 depending on X-rays, casts, facility fees Stitches → $500–$3,000 A night in the hospital → $10,000+ These numbers aren’t extreme cases — they’re normal. If you’re uninsured or underinsured, that’s catastrophic. Insurance doesn’t magically protect you. People imagine Americans are safe because they “have insurance.” Not even close. Many Americans have: High deductibles ($3k–$7k they must pay before insurance helps) Co-pays Coinsurance Surprise bills from out-of-network providers inside an in-network hospital You can have insurance and still get hit with a $10k bill. aaa.... mhm.

The West is so rich because it sits on the back of the third world countries. Your country used to be our petrol station and natural gas pipe

average employees who do meaningless work or are paid for full time but don't even work part-time. I have a friend in Switzerland who does a cumulative of 5-10 hours of work per week from home and gets paid 10k dollars after tax/month. It is due to bad management mainly. There is such stuff happening in the state system, but most of them work privately in corporations.

The very rich can avoid heavy taxation in the EU also. Sweden has more millionaires and billionaires as percentage of population than the US. The rich live worse in the US than the EU. It doesn't matter how rich you are if the roads are shit, public transport is shit, urbanism is shit, most food products are shit, everyone around you is just a working zombie who takes drugs just to not suicide. How cna you keep your millions in your bank account when you hear people around you working to death in order to pay for their past medical bills? France is the example of socialism gone wrong, the state borrowing money in order to pay pensions and benefits.

I think the construction workers have a shit salary but when I see them breaking their bones in freezing cold to build our housing, it does not look like "leeching" to me. The leeching is done by those corporate emplyees who fap under that desk all day at work and get paid a premium for that. If you meant it though the "survival of the smartest" paradigm not the meritocracy one, then I get your point.

+1 you'll never know when you'll fall into poverty. It could be 100% outside of your fault. Sudden cancer or other ailment that will cripple your ability to work attl all. But I get Leo's point, give people 1 finger and they will take the whole hand. That is socialism in a degenerate culture. In a healthy culture like the 60s healthy Blue culture of work ethics, socialism works great. But in this man-child "I play counter-strike all day because I receive money from the state" culture and broken work environment, around half of people work hard and the other half either works some bullshit job that does not help society or receive benefits from the state or parents. Keep in mind that the leeches are working privately too. Why do you think your brand items are so expensive? Because they employ tons of people who don't work shit and you as a customer are paying their salaries by paying the extra price for their products. This is for the libertarians who say leeching happens only through the state.

Sorry but it is simply not true. It is a matter of skills. They suck with women because they have shit social skills and 0 emotional intelligence.

If we compare an average leftist westerner, let's call him Bob, with an actualizednaut, a person who seriously follows and applies Leo's teachings in a non-ideological manner, we notice some serious differences in day to day life quality. 1. The actualizednaut understands all the main chemicals that can seriously damage the body and avoids them as much as possible: microplastics in foods and utensils, non-stick frying pans, heavy metal dense foods and cosmetics (eventually doing chelation if needed), PFAs, mercury dental fillings etc. Compared to Bob who may not understand the whole story and might get some heavy metals in his body and not knowing how to get rid of them. Possibly crippling his life. 2. Bob knows that processed foods and cheap bread are bad for him but believes that his fancy sourdough bread is healthy and does not pose any health risks. The excess bread consumption might lead him to some serious health complications. 3. The actualizednaut understands what a man and what a woman is. This is HUGE. Bob has no clue about it, he will probably not manage to develop into a man. This aspect alone will cripple his and his partner's life quality. Bob will try to find a reason for all this suffering but none of the soy therapists and influencers in which he trusts will manage to help him. Because those therapists (eg Dr. K) have no clue about it either. They will tell him that it happens because of trauma, because of low serotonin levels or similar. 3. Bob got introduced to some post-modern ideas and started to see how modern rational people construct things and then believe in them as if they were real. But poor Bob does not understand that some of those constructs have a base that points us to some truths. Maybe some commonly known aspects of the "man" social construct helps us understand what that hairless monkey who owns a penis really wants from life. The actualizednaut understands the limitations of post-modernism and analyses carefully which aspects of our social constructs really point to some truths and which of them are nonsense. 4. Bob thinks his group of hippie hipsters have managed to get rid of paradigm lock and they can't get fooled by group think anymore. But poor Bob does not understand that they also have a paradigm, and if someone have taught him about Spiral Dynamics, only then could he maybe realise that the illusion of paradigm lock will slowly end around Stage Yellow, not Stage Green, where he and his soy buddies are situated. The actualizednaut understands that there always will be a higher stage to be reached, so they keep their mind open. 5. Bob watches politics with disgust, he simply cannot understand why conservatives can't see what he sees. Why are people so selfish? Bob asks himself this every time he watches Kyle Kulinsky. The constant disappointment created by the incongruence between how he wants society to be and how it actually is creates great suffering in Bob's life. The actualizednaut understands that most people in the US countryside are barely growing to Stage Orange, Green is alien to them. That’s why the actualizednaut has low expectations and accepts what is. Are there some advantages of being a Bob? Of course, you will find people like you who will comfort you with social goodies and support, you will fit well in the progressive groups without having to withhold too much stuff. While the actualizednaut goes on a lonely journey, probably never met a Tier 2 person like them in person. But they know that social sweets are no match compared to the cake of discovering God.

Orange science religiosity. They have to explain everything through studies and neuroscience shit. Imso happy I did not get indoctrinated into this neurochemical bullshit. Imagine your woman comes to you and touches you and you think. Aha. I feel better now because she raises my oxitocyn. Now I have to raise my serotonin by doing blank to her, then we will raise our dopamine through that activity. Gosh. Relax dudes. Even if they can surf the world with this paradigm, it kills the beauty of it idk, it is so forced.

Omgomgomgomg. Well i knew that I will need those money I saved one day😂

how long the retreat? Sober or trip retreat? If you already told us I missed it sorry.

@Basman yes, in a way I won't call nordic culture to be feminine, it is a blend of equality and conformism of femininiety but with a flavour of logical dead-serious way of interracting. It is a paradox of individualism ina very coformist/collectivistic society.

People form different times used to feed their egos in different ways. Reading books is a good way to feed your ego. Meditation and spirituality is ego's another favourite. Academia and presenting studies, another. It is amazing to me that most people who do these things wake up with more ego not less, especially if they get successful. Tell to a vipassana rat that they are not enlightened or even if they are, their epistemology is shit because they only how to stop thinking and not how to think. Tell to the coolest academic professor that they are full of shit. Tell to a person who read 3000 books that their behaviour is the same as before they read those books.

No doubt why people roll their eyes when i tell that my passion is philosophy. I need a more fancy term for what I really do, we do here. Pure understanding? Meh. Personal development? Mmmhh. Maybe something like non-shit philosophy.

The most annoying thing about those pseudo-thinkers is that they gaslight you by calling you uneducated enough to understand their deep shit. If a youngster cannot grasp what you say there it is probably shit, or it is too advanced for 99% of people so little to no effect in helping society.

You are massively exaggerating the situation in Romania. We have great programmers, well educated doctors, engineers etc. We have programmers that earn more money than the engineers in Sweden. Those barbarians are found in the countryside and resemble the typical third world dynamics. Your rethoric reminds me of my childhood when I was afraid to go out and play because some "barbarian" group might beat me. Of course they are toxic as hell, no arguments here. Yea I would still maybe open a business in Scandinavia because there are better regulations and opportunities. I did not say that Scandinavians are bad at their job or at business, in fact the opposite, they are killing it. They are world class at hard skills: design, innovation, engineering etc. the problem is with the soft skills and mainly in men. Social skills, body language, tonality authenticity, EQ, humour etc. they have to play less videogames, go out socialize, dare to be and say what they want without intoxicating themselves with alcohol. They have to unbraiwash themselves from gender blindness ideology, from the law of Yante bullshit and learn about healthy masculinity and so on. So that women find them attractive and they won't be forced to passport fish women from Thailand. It breaks my heart because they are good guys, really good souls and willing to do their best, but they got brainwashed into mindless conformity and post-modern gender nonsense. We cannot force everyone to behave the same. Some people are born with a chill, laidback, feminine personality that fits the nordic overly polite, consensus culture. But guys like me, an ambitious, spicy introvert who sees problems everywhere does not fit this. Why did Kid A say that they don't make any new friends after a certain age? Because it is very hard to create a connection if you only talk about positive and polite shit, it is the controversy and negative shit that shows the real face of a person, and that encourages the other to open up too. Why should I choose you to be my close friend over another if you talk about the exact SAME boring shit that I heard at 1000 more people before? Yes conformism comes with benefits, it makes people stick their head into the sand and collaborate, to build a boat together. This is why Sweden works so well while Romania is shit, because in Romania everyone builds their own small boat for their family and friends not for the whole country. Vulnerability is key, without vulnerability, connection is absent. For example I make myself vulnerable right now by sharing these controversial opinions, this behavior is appreciated by serious mature people while the kids might avoid me because it disturbs their fantasy lollipop world of toxic positivity and avoidance of vulnerability. Even quality playfulness, teasing, and humour requires vulnerability. You risk offending the other with a bad joke, not all the jokes land well, especially with new people you meet. Dare to joke around, dare to talk serious shit, and the serious people will appreciate it while the snowflake kids will run to their mommies. Things that put you in a bad light done with the hope for connection is some serious vulnerability. It is saying: "look! I am not perfect, I am human" and that creates connection not fake perfection performance done by these fucking whimps. Vulnerability is real diversity not this snowflake bullshit.

@Daniel Balan yes dude I lived with those people too, and they are the opposite extreme. If Scandinavian people live in a systemic fakeness and emotional suppression, most romanians live in an uncivilised circus, traumatizing and hurting each other with aggressive words and behaviour.

@Kid A highest rates of depression in the developed world says something about it. The fact that they open up when drunk says something about them, it shows that something was suppressed. This is a very insidious problem, it is not like someone explicitly tells you to conform and fit in, it Is that you learn it through the pain of being avoided/rejected/ghosted. When I came here I was very interested into meeting new Swedes, but now it's not that wow anymore, I feel like getting a girl that did not get completely brainwashed into this madness and live happily with her and just let the others play their fake game together.

@Kid A I agree, I mean this is a thing in the whole first world but here it is just too much. This law of yante of not showing vulnerability and authenticity with people for the sake of social consensus is a big factor. People are brainwashed into fakness and lack of personality from day 1.

It is hard to earn good money from a wow profession that will keep you floored with passion and enthusiasm all the time, especially in this fucked up economy where a few winners dominate the markets. You can find some job that you like doing and gives you enough money without spending lots of time at work, and in this way you'll have time for side projects that might grow into something. Or use that time for growing yourself, it is fine to not "kill it" in business and to find a way to just live life happily and grow yourself. If you live in a poor country without a welfare state then you need to find a way out if wage slavery unfortunately, in countries like the US or third world (same thing), you have no choice, you need to kill it in business, otherwise you'll be a wage slave your whole life.

@MightyMind forget muslims, even traditional romanians cannot integrate. I know people that worked 10 years in Sweden and did not make 1 Swedish friend. They just avoid you if you dont fit the frame of "the friend" they look for. They want to help them but from a distance, through taxes.

Well, if weather and social Climate affects you then you have to move. Sweden will not be your place then. Rainy climate and cold people.

That is very true. They are ruthless when dating but overwhelmingly indulgent when already in a relationship. Maybe this is a reason for being ruthless when dating, because they foresee that.

@Butters i don't know that much about dutch people but I assume they are quite Green and somewhat snowflakes if they resemble the germanic people today. My question is how many immigrant background friends do you have if you are dutch? How many immigrant background friends, like from middle east or so, does the average dutch have? What I notice in Sweden is that these people live around each other, they don't really blend, no matter if they are zoned together or not. They might make some swedish friends at work but that is minimal and aquantiance level usually. So, there has to be some caution about immigration. Now don't get me wrong, we need immigration, but in a way that will make people blend and assimilate culture. Stage Green is a special stage, quite easily offended and picky, they want to take in people but I will ask them how close do they really keep them. It is like me taking in refugees and keeping them in my garage.