there's an old quote, and I don't know where it came from: "It's possible to become a millionaire through hard work and honesty, but not a billionaire"
Virtually no billionaires on earth became so by providing good and services to people for fair compensation. Pretty much every one has links to overgrown states who have either directly paid them or created an uneven playing field that can only have one result.
Rail Barons got special monopolies granted by the state giving them unique powers to build through other people's land. Same with phone and power companies who got special access to people's yards to build their power lines. The Internet is one of the most government funded things in the history of the world. Banks get so much special legislation and government backing that it's absurd once you start looking into it. Elon Musk's entire fortune is entirely contingent on various US government programs.
It's actually already unfashionable to be super-rich, which is why fancy clothes and fast cars are no longer considered status symbols, and we get a proliferation of "luxury beliefs" where the rich and powerful express opinions that are as beautiful as diamonds and just as impractical. Such beliefs if acted upon by the poor would lead to destruction, but not if you're so rich it doesn't matter.
Virtually no billionaires on earth became so by providing good and services to people for fair compensation. Pretty much every one has links to overgrown states who have either directly paid them or created an uneven playing field that can only have one result.
Rail Barons got special monopolies granted by the state giving them unique powers to build through other people's land. Same with phone and power companies who got special access to people's yards to build their power lines. The Internet is one of the most government funded things in the history of the world. Banks get so much special legislation and government backing that it's absurd once you start looking into it. Elon Musk's entire fortune is entirely contingent on various US government programs.
It's actually already unfashionable to be super-rich, which is why fancy clothes and fast cars are no longer considered status symbols, and we get a proliferation of "luxury beliefs" where the rich and powerful express opinions that are as beautiful as diamonds and just as impractical. Such beliefs if acted upon by the poor would lead to destruction, but not if you're so rich it doesn't matter.
I decided to start reading again a few years ago, and since then according to bookwyrm I've read about 70 books. I also wrote and published a book of my own (the Graysonian Ethic, buy a dead tree copy today).
I had ADD as a kid. It doesn't mean you dont have attention, it means you have an inability to regulate attention. Give a kid with ADD a video game and theyll play for days. The key is figuring out ways to use your disregulation to your advantage. Maybe you cant pay attention to a lot of things, but figure out how to become fixated on important stuff and that disregulation becomes a superpower. I finished a 400 page report for work earlier this year singlehandedly.
One key is at the beginning, setting up a workflow for an ADD mindset. Instead of trying to do one big thing, turn a big job into many small jobs that are achievable within your attention span, so you end up doing 4000 things you can do instead of 1 you can't possibly do.
This is relevant for a lot of people because we live in an ADD society.
I had ADD as a kid. It doesn't mean you dont have attention, it means you have an inability to regulate attention. Give a kid with ADD a video game and theyll play for days. The key is figuring out ways to use your disregulation to your advantage. Maybe you cant pay attention to a lot of things, but figure out how to become fixated on important stuff and that disregulation becomes a superpower. I finished a 400 page report for work earlier this year singlehandedly.
One key is at the beginning, setting up a workflow for an ADD mindset. Instead of trying to do one big thing, turn a big job into many small jobs that are achievable within your attention span, so you end up doing 4000 things you can do instead of 1 you can't possibly do.
This is relevant for a lot of people because we live in an ADD society.
In the 1950s, many of the people not looking for work were women who didn't need to look for work because they were supported by a husband. Today, many of the people not looking for work are able-bodied men who found ways to get paid by the state to sit at home surfing the internet or playing video games. I know a lot of men like that.
I'm not saying women shouldn't be allowed to do what they want, not that men should be forced to do something they don't want, but the current situation is a pathogen and it started before covid. That's just the latest thing.
I'm not saying women shouldn't be allowed to do what they want, not that men should be forced to do something they don't want, but the current situation is a pathogen and it started before covid. That's just the latest thing.
"we're so open minded that if we see anything we disagree with we need to silence it and anything remotely associated with it because otherwise we might realize we're actually wrong and that's unacceptable" - defederators
Terrible! They should have done what politicians do today and just get money by being more corrupt!
If you look at the data, water tends to absorb most wavelengths except for this little spectrum in the visible part of the spectrum.
When you get an ir or uv camera it's interesting seeing that a lot of clear things turn opaque, and a lot of opaque things turn clear.
When you get an ir or uv camera it's interesting seeing that a lot of clear things turn opaque, and a lot of opaque things turn clear.
One thing that pisses me off about modern economics writers is they keep claiming unemployment is at all-time lows. This is absolutely false. In the past, you had a 5% unemployment rate with a 70% workforce participation rate. Today, you have a 5% unemployment rate with a 60% workforce participation rate. These two things are simply not the same!
Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate for men has dropped from 95% to 60%! That is pretty meaningful by itself.
Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate for men has dropped from 95% to 60%! That is pretty meaningful by itself.
One key to making Samsungs suck less is you can use adb to disable dozens of packages in one shot. Stops with a lot of the dumb Samsung features, really cleans things up.
There's registry entries that bypass some of the checks, but you can go one step further and use rufus to build install media that'll run on pretty much anything.
Ironically, the people launching the lawsuit seem to be the sort of people you'd want to protect your kids from. "I know what'll be good for a child, their parents owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to some crazy bitch!"
The way I look at it, people focus on that 12 years old point but the real Poison starts long before that. I think that if you give a child a moral foundation to stand upon early on, then they are going to be able to deal with stuff in their teens where honestly the parents' current voices are going to be substantially silenced by puberty.
That's one reason why I've started with my son's moral foundations basically from birth. I'm assuming that I only have about 10 years to lay those foundations and then after that, the loudest voice that he will have besides his peers will be the voice that was instilled upon him when he was a child.
I think that's why a lot of people were exposed to the internet as relatively Young people, but it was mostly fine because at that point in the early times, the internet wasn't being counted upon to lay the moral foundations, and once you let a bunch of random strangers do that, a lot of really bad stuff is going to sneak in.
That's one reason why I've started with my son's moral foundations basically from birth. I'm assuming that I only have about 10 years to lay those foundations and then after that, the loudest voice that he will have besides his peers will be the voice that was instilled upon him when he was a child.
I think that's why a lot of people were exposed to the internet as relatively Young people, but it was mostly fine because at that point in the early times, the internet wasn't being counted upon to lay the moral foundations, and once you let a bunch of random strangers do that, a lot of really bad stuff is going to sneak in.
Certainly mistaking the cause with the effect. I didn't have very much self-esteem when I hadn't done anything to deserve self-esteem. Later on in life, I found some self-esteem because I'd done some things worth being proud of myself for.
Teaching a bunch of useless people who lack virtue in any way that they are good just by virtue of existing is stupid and bad. If you want them to have self-esteem, teach them to be virtuous people that they have a reason to be proud of being by deed!
Teaching a bunch of useless people who lack virtue in any way that they are good just by virtue of existing is stupid and bad. If you want them to have self-esteem, teach them to be virtuous people that they have a reason to be proud of being by deed!
5 pairs of Crocs?
Normally I think it's bullshit, but I would believe this is a trans woman. Because what man has/wants five pairs of shoes, let alone 5 pairs of crocs
Normally I think it's bullshit, but I would believe this is a trans woman. Because what man has/wants five pairs of shoes, let alone 5 pairs of crocs