I agree to an extent, but wealth is the symptom, the cause is there's just too damn much power floating around and so too many damn opportunities for corruption.
The richest people on earth were all put there by the US government, whose agents in turn get funded by the richest people on earth. It's a dog eating its own shit off the ground.
The richest people on earth were all put there by the US government, whose agents in turn get funded by the richest people on earth. It's a dog eating its own shit off the ground.
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I wish I could disagree, but it's impossible to argue against.
The hatred that society has against stay at home mothers is a perfect example. All the data shows they're incredibly valuable for raising good people, but they don't make money so they're considered freeloaders. Really terrible state of affairs.
The hatred that society has against stay at home mothers is a perfect example. All the data shows they're incredibly valuable for raising good people, but they don't make money so they're considered freeloaders. Really terrible state of affairs.
Trying to think long an hard about what lessons to teach my son, I've also realized that we treat hedonistic pleasure as a virtue to pursued as a good in and of itself rather than a vice that feels good on the way to more deeply satisfying pursuits, those pursuits being what I like to call "building something". Building families, communities, making safe and comfortable places to live, it's all stuff you don't put a dollar value on, but it's so much more important than dollars and cents...
The west needs to either create a new ideological foundation in this regard or it needs to return to an older one, but if we continue on the nihilistic path we're on there won't be anything left. Eventually some other culture will come in and it will become dominant.
The west needs to either create a new ideological foundation in this regard or it needs to return to an older one, but if we continue on the nihilistic path we're on there won't be anything left. Eventually some other culture will come in and it will become dominant.
The white pill to me is that the population will shrink, and when that happens, the power of the individual grows. When the power of the individual grows, that's good for most people, even if the economy as a whole shrinks.
I think it's always important for us to remember that we don't get paid in economies, so if the economy shrinks because the population shrinks, you can have some really good stuff come out of that, including a huge increase in the potential to make sustainable economies. My son or his kids could have a really good future. In fact, we might even get to see the millennials and Gen Z catch it in their last few years.
I think it's always important for us to remember that we don't get paid in economies, so if the economy shrinks because the population shrinks, you can have some really good stuff come out of that, including a huge increase in the potential to make sustainable economies. My son or his kids could have a really good future. In fact, we might even get to see the millennials and Gen Z catch it in their last few years.
I think it should be really simple. Such people have often had important roles in the community, and people are starving for a return to real communities.