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“Things many of the doge staffers are too young to have experienced yet” This I think pervades the zeitgeist of the moment. Regardless of age, we have fabulous

“Things many of the doge staffers are too young to have experienced yet” This I think pervades the zeitgeist of the moment. Regardless of age, we have fabulously wealthy (mostly men) who have experienced little to no suffering in life. Now they come into power and bring that arrogant attitude you have before life shows you that it owes you nothing. I used to think “why do I pay school taxes” when I bought my first house, before I had kids. I used to think “why does anyone need help” before I lost my house to a forced short sale. I used to think “who cares about healthcare” and then my wife almost died of sepsis contracted through surgery for breast cancer. Too many people in charge have zero empathy because their lived experience is becoming fabulously wealthy and pretty much nothing else. No wonder we are living in a terrible timeline.

pfannkuchen 2y ago
> who have experienced little to no suffering in life Money is basically coupons that let you tell someone else to do something instead of you doing it. Is all suffering in life removable by telling other people to do things? I don’t think so. Certainly some things, but probably not even a majority, let alone all. In fact I think a common pattern is where someone chases money for years, gets it, and then realizes it doesn’t actually solve most of their problems.
- ipython 2y ago
  I didn’t say money didn’t remove their suffering, only that they managed to become fabulously wealthy without encountering any suffering along the way, mostly cause they’re so young when they become wealthy.
  - pfannkuchen 2y ago
    The words you are saying here are qualitatively different from the words you said in your original post. Like there are no explicit (i.e. directly stated by the words and not implied) contradictions between the two, but it just squeaks by on that account and there are implied contradictions.

pfannkuchen 2y ago

> who have experienced little to no suffering in life Money is basically coupons that let you tell someone else to do something instead of you doing it. Is all suffering in life removable by telling other people to do things? I don’t think so. Certainly some things, but probably not even a majority, let alone all. In fact I think a common pattern is where someone chases money for years, gets it, and then realizes it doesn’t actually solve most of their problems.

ipython 2y ago
I didn’t say money didn’t remove their suffering, only that they managed to become fabulously wealthy without encountering any suffering along the way, mostly cause they’re so young when they become wealthy.
- pfannkuchen 2y ago
  The words you are saying here are qualitatively different from the words you said in your original post. Like there are no explicit (i.e. directly stated by the words and not implied) contradictions between the two, but it just squeaks by on that account and there are implied contradictions.