No two snowflakes are the same.
Not are two flames.
Different ends of the spectrum, still just as unique. Enough snowflakes douse the flames, enough flames evaporate The snowflakes. I reckon we could do with a bit more fire in our bellies these days, a little more passion rather than complacency. Not more outrage, not more explosions, not more forest fires. Controlled burn.
There should be anger involved.
The anger we have about current circumstances however, is largely directed at each other, blaming opposing groups for the state of the situation. Yet the targeting system we have is poor, because the groups we should be angry at are the corporations and the governments that enable them. Both have failed us as a species at so many levels, that we should not only be livid, but be passionate about pushing back on all the ways they use their position to control and harm us. It should be clear that the "profit at any cost" model leads to catastrophic failure, yet we keep bearing down the same path, expecting that it will improve.
It isn't going to.
While we are arguing with each other about who is the most special snowflake that needs protection, we are all continually harmed because the rewards of the economic model aren't tied to the wellbeing of humanity. Because while individual wealth can buy a much higher quality of life for a small group, the distribution of wealth means that the average person is left poor. For example in the US, the average wealth of a household is over 1 million dollars. However, the mean wealth per household is about 190 thousand. If there was even wealth distribution across all households, the average wealth would be over 470 thousand. Mean is the middle score, meaning that 50% of the people are below that amount. The wealth at the top heavily skews the average.
But redistribution can't come through artificial means of just taking from some and handing to others, because that just isn't going to happen, nor would it work. What has to happen is that the road to being wealthy has to come through offering goods and services that make society healthy. If this was the underlying rule, by default there would not only be better distribution of wealth through better compensation, but also the health and wellbeing of society would significantly increase alongside it.
It would be fundamentally better.
But to do this, would require dismantling all the many channels of wealth accumulation through harmful and unhelpful mechanisms that have been established to maximise wealth at any cost. We would have to go back to a more direct value estimation, rather than derivative practices that don't add any value to society, but give growing access to resources that are used to manipulate and control, in order to gather and control more and more.
It is a fundamentally broken system, designed to push resources to the few.
And the "few" are not benevolent benefactors for the positive growth of society, they are greedy and manipulative as they are conditioned for a system that is designed to benefit the greedy and manipulative. Even if they are "good people" as individuals, the structure of the economy is designed to be harmful to society, as it is about wealth creation and artificial scarcity, underpinned by the core belief that winning is how many imaginary tokens are collected.
If winning in business was defined by how much wellbeing was generated in society minus how much harm was caused, the vast majority of companies and corporations would not be winning. They would be delivering a net loss. And if their value as an organisation was based on how much wellbeing they delivered to society, no one would be buying their stock. But, it isn't based on wellbeing, so people buy their stock because individuals want to "get rich" in the broken system too, which means supporting companies that do more harm than good for us as people, whether the impact be on the environment, or the health and wellbeing of people.
Yes, I am idealistic. But if we are going to succeed as a species, we have to actively change the way we manage and organise ourselves. The current structure leads to conflict and aggression, and a waste of resources spending the time attacking each other in many multiple ways. Instead, we need to find ways to use the same resources to grow each other and in so doing, ourselves along the way. Protection from aggression doesn't come through the highest walls, it comes from not requiring walls at all. And that comes from building a model where there is no way or reason to build an army and even if someone tried, there would be no way or reason that anyone would choose to fight in that army, and no way to force people to fight.
We are a long way away from being civilised.
Too much snow freezing us in place, and not enough flame to burn away the complacency.
Taraz
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This is just what they want though. If we are divided against each other we can't be divided against them. The masses are playing right into their hands.
Absolutely we are playing their game. And they have increasing influence to keep us at it.
What trap could be more disguise as these?
I read first paragraph like if it was write in verses Then, I red the entire post with rhymes
Ha!
Just reread it and it is prose-ish.
I agree, but apparently the large majority doesn't. Or isn't even aware. Or doesn't care. Whatever it is, they won't change anything. "Success" has successfully be redefined from values to feeding egoism. And there's a lot of movement in the world to push that further, be it in the name of "progressiveness" or "traditionalism", both being just empty shells to rally behind.
Better the devil you know. The redefinition of success from value is pertinent. Success used to be tied to the capabilities and welllbeing of the tribe. Now, it is accumulation of tokens that are disconnected from the tribe.
That's a better way to put it, exactly what I was thinking but didn't formulate like that. Accumulation of tokens disconnected from the tribe/community. Thank you!
Left right, republicans Democrats, they are just different faces of the same medal, what's better than push people to two different extremes so they are busy hating other and not caring for all the rest? That's how politics works, and it's working even more nowadays than years ago
The US system is even worse, as there are only two parties. Not that the rest are much better, but at least there are some different perspectives. Within those two parties, there is a massive range of perspectives - but you have to vote for one. No, that is wrong, you don't have to vote in the US at all - which is another tool of manipulation that makes it look democratic.
I always found it weird that in the US there are only 2 parties you can vote tbh
We need Robin Hood modern, a man who distribute the income between all people, it is not posible, do you know Fidel Castro he tried in the past and do not was a good idea or maybe yes.
The middle and promiddle, it is a joke.
All people are in the bottom of the gaus bell, and they affect the result very hard.
Averages and means aren't a reliable measure . Look, life expectancy and hope are two totally different things. They're measuring something that's not real... hope is high, but reality's completely different. Same with household income averages and means.
You know, we could have a much better world with a few changes, yet those changes will make a few people far less rich over time with far less power. And it is because of this, we keep playing this stupid game that harms more and more.
In Lithuania some idiot shot at the public transport. It seems that he did this few days in row. Luckily no one was hurt and he was was captured.
I was reading in the news the other day that food delivery people (all foreigners) have to speak Lithuanian fluently enough. Perhaps if they were paid more? The same issue here with them - they get paid so little, but people expect them to learn the language as well as trudge through snow when it is -25.
There's always a positive result when we direct the anger at ourselves, it gets us into doing stuff that will change our lives. The problem is how to get ourselves to direct the anger at ourselves because I don't think it's something that can be faked or forced.
The bigger issue is, when we see ourselves as victims that are powerless - as is the incentivised situation now.
The counter argument to this narrative would be that in Soviet Union the resources were distributed way more evenly, were the people better of in the Soviet Union than they are in the United States of America?
xD were they? I was under impression it was more of a "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Compared to the wast wealth inequality in USA, USSR everyone was pretty much equal.
I think there was something to it that is valuable. A CEO should be salary capped by the salary of the lowest paid person in the supply chain, not just the company.
Have you read the book "Red Notice" I think you will enjoy it based on your interests and background.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744
The goal is to be the most loved animal. Like a dog, or a cat.
Maybe a panda or a quokka would work too.
That is not the counter argument, as it was a centralised authority distributing to Moscow first. It was a monopoly. Communism in that form is the epitome of capitalism.
If we can redirect our collective frustration into positive change, we could potentially break down the damaging systems that keep us apart and in conflict.
The problem is, too many want to win playing a game they can't.
"It should be clear that the "profit at any cost" model leads to catastrophic failure"
Yes, it always leads to catastrophic effects as history will always show but future generations keep repeating the same thing. Why is that?
Because we are retarded as a species. Our brains are built in ways that we are unable to overcome certain behaviours, and those behaviours are leverageable by profiteers.
"Leverageable by profiteers"
I agree
I agree with you about anger, but the right kind. Not the type that makes us fight each other online, but the kind that wakes us up and pushes us to actually care about what kind of world we are helping to build. Too often we blame people close to us who are struggling just like we are, while the real decisions that shape our lives are made far above us.
That isn't anger, it is posturing. Meaningless activity to make someone feel like they are important and relevant. Most people are irrelevant, because they do nothing that makes a positive impact.
If a company's stock price was tied to the actual wellbeing they created rather than just extraction, the world would look completely different overnight.
Absolutely it would. The markets would be obliterated first of all.
Everything about how we live and interact would shift. Our priorities would move from competition and accumulation to cooperation and contribution. Success would be measured not by how much we have, but by how much we improve the lives of others, the health of our communities, and the sustainability of our environment.
Values like empathy, integrity, and responsibility would naturally rise in importance, because actions that harm society would directly reduce one’s measure of success. Conflicts would likely decrease, as scarcity and inequality major sources of tension would be minimized, and people would focus on shared goals rather than zero-sum gains. In essence, society would move closer to a model where human potential is nurtured collectively, and the pursuit of individual gain aligns with the good of all. I must say am still entitled to my opinion.
Doesn't sound too bad, does it?
Not at all
yew, no walls, but sometimes.. i remember how much i hated when my daughter would always shut and lock her bedroom door. why? if u ask her, im sure, it was for privacy and gave her a sense of safety? idk. i almost took her door off the hinges a few times.. :P
Perhaps it is because she didn't want to talk to you? ;P
yea.. sometimes.. i do have some anger issues.. but she is 20 and i never laid a hand on her, so she made it. :P
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