Wait, what?? Are you guys walking around holding back a savage animal through raw force of will?
Like...I've done lots of things I regret, but then later I don't want to do them anymore, because I know it'll feel bad
theneverfox
joined 2 years ago
Exactly.
Money makes everything horrible. I loved every moment of volunteering, I've done so many off the wall things because someone needed help and I have a wide skillet. I love saving the day. I don't even like praise, I just like the satisfaction of knowing I helped
But money makes me feel yucky. I hate talking about it, I hate asking for it, I hate using it... I'm ok with having it, but only if I don't look at it. I'm even conflicted about rewards for my work
I want to help people. I want a place i can make my own. I want to be free, to have a place where I can build unrestricted
That's one of the big lies of capitalism. Everyone likes to work. We just don't like being told what to do, and we especially don't like to be exploited
My best interaction today was helping someone pick up the peanut butter stand he knocked over - I only picked up like 4 jars, but I lived up to my morals and that felt nice. I turned an embarrassing event into something communal, we exchanged like three sentences, and at least three people's days were made better for a minute long event
It feels good to help. It feels good to do. The money (and implicit coercion) is what makes it feel bad
I mean, honestly? If you do anything hard enough capitalism will yield enough to make it a living... Eventually
Capitalism wants us all to be interchangable cogs, but humans are humans. People like passionate people, if you want to weave baskets out of trash, you could just refuse to accept "that's not a job" and do it all day every day
By sheer force of will, you can turn anything into a job. It's probably not going to make you rich, there will be hard times, most everyone in your life will almost attack you for it every step of the way, but if you refuse to bend eventually the world will
Well, seeing as it already flooded...
And that's why Zohran is great. He answers questions like this so well that interviewers stop asking, because they'll just be teeing him up to explain his platform in simple, easily understood detail
This is fucking stupid. It's when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it's, it's always horrible
A sane society wouldn't create a currency based on debt
Our entire economy is balancing on infinite growth, because it's all made up of chains of debt that all siphon off money upwards, at every step
Yep... It's amazing how hard it is to convince people that China is just capitalism and the government doing things
Things the US (and most) governments have explicitly defined authority to do already, they just pretend that it's unthinkable
You get hit by a baseball. Then you're cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs
This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who's entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)
It's because they become an avatar for their money
Every tweet Elon makes affects his horde. Every single one - and usually it's just a few hundred thousand and balances out- but occasionally it's hundreds of millions in the red
And Elon can't help himself. Most of them can
They can only be themselves in locations with tight information control, which is generally resorts with other billionaires. Who seem to be consistently in a pissing match with each other about their wealth and influence
And that's why they're fucking inhuman dragons
I feel bad because I've made the world worse, or that I've disappointed myself. But when circumstances force me to act in ways I find immoral, I just feel disgust
I want good things for everyone in general, but I'm not some endlessly patient Buddha.
I just try to understand people through their own eyes... And I try to understand myself too. I feel what they feel, but I can also just walk away
But it's not about them, not really.
It's about me - who am I? Do I make things better or worse? Do I make people better or worse? If you brought me into a perfect world, would I make that world worse?
If there were 5 billion of me, what kind of world would it be?