pusher_robot
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
5d ago
Our economic ideology is rooted in jealousy, and the jealous rise to the top to be crowned "billionaire".
No, the desire to create more wealth and power is not necessarily rooted in jealousy. I don't go to work and save my money because I'm jealous of other people that have houses and cars. I do it because I want these things for myself, independent of what other people do or don't do. Because having those things is better than not having those things. That's a totally different motivation.
pusher_robot
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5d ago
Is this soft power?
pusher_robot
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5d ago
I disagree with this take. The natural human tendency will be to either invest it conservatively or spend it on lifestyle. For a person with that kind of wealth to plow ~100% of it on self-run high-risk, high-reward business ventures is actually quite rare and should be lauded.
pusher_robot
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5d ago
No you're not crazy. Not only is our GDP much larger now, we also spend much more of it on welfare than we used to. Yes, at levels that even approach western Europe. That doesn't prevent people from being jealous, though. Even under hard core communism, the preternaturally jealous personality will covet the smallest things with equal resentment.
pusher_robot
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6d ago
But over all this time, I've kinda synthesized a superstructure that I don't think is gonna change, that I think is not on the left right axis, but on another mysterious plane: I'm jealous of china.
Any ideology rooted in jealousy is likely to be catastrophic in its application to society.
And yet people voluntarily sign up to live on submarines for stretches at a time, under military rules and discipline, and with the knowledge that other people may try to deliberately kill them. I think you are engaging in far too much typical-mind fallacy.
I also think that you would only need a relatively small cadre of pioneers to establish the core infrastructure that would enable building out more comfortable living for larger numbers of people. Submarines are unusually cramped due to the tremendous forces needed to protect the low-pressure space. Using cut-and-cover construction, building larger-volume spaces is fairly straightforward (and structurally easier than on Earth due to the lower gravity).
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
6d ago
Like what?
I loved and still love Dredd for its absolutely relentless pacing, Verhoeven-levels of over-the-top action and gore, and its ability to play a fundamentally somewhat silly concept (from a comic book, after all) completely straight.
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