archhn

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by archhn 4y ago
Why aren't bonuses for bankers more popular with the hoi palloi?
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by archhn 4y ago
Nothing. I love my fate--let it eternally recur!
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by archhn 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA-jOLF2T4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7pZi6peD4
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by archhn 4y ago
I've been watching some geopolitical strategists on YouTube. They seem to be expecting a collapse of the global world order. This means they need to flood North America with fresh labor to compensate for the loss of global labor or ine
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by archhn 4y ago
I would call it a labor caste system. You're the one speaking like we're living in another time. A time where people were freer and there was more economic opportunity. 40% of Americans don't even have $1000 in savings. It&#x
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by archhn 4y ago
An investment? Don't go to college and you'll be drowned in the flood of third world labor that has been allowed to invade the country. This is not the 1950's. You aren't going to graduate high school and support a famil
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by archhn 4y ago
Billions of dollars in military aid given to a foreign country where Biden had shady interests. Response: I stand with Ukraine <3. Billions spent in failed foreign wars, which created seas of generational enemies. Response: I support ou
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by archhn 4y ago
This attitude is the product of an insanely competitive and violent environment. People have learned that this is how you have to be to make it to the top. Also, what's the fun of being rich if nobody else is poor? The lower the low, t
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by archhn 4y ago
The game was rigged to begin with. Individuals can't make sound choices within this insanely dysfunctional system. You can work hard, be the greatest model citizen, and still end up in a horrible place due to circumstances beyond your
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by archhn 4y ago
I don't know what's going to happen in the future. No one does. I don't have all the facts. And even if I did, I would need a galaxy brain to integrate them all into an outlook. Not everything is publicized. There are many gr
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by archhn 4y ago
You choose homeostasis. Feeeling good about the future makes you feel good. This leads to immediate improvements in one's quality of life. People are attracted to those who have a "positive outlook." No one likes hanging arou
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by archhn 4y ago
It's called "class warfare." America isn't one nation: it's a hierarchy of classes. The managerial/administrative class is superior to the proletarian educator class in the hierarchy. They don't want to li
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by archhn 4y ago
There are drug addiction pipelines. Get in a car accident -> hurt back -> prescribed opiates -> get addicted -> prescription stops -> seek street alternatives -> move up the food chain, from buying pills to fentanyl ->
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by archhn 4y ago
I think the poster is interested in this case as an example of how delegating a task to technology leads to skill atrophy. We do it more and more every year. Technology may be making us stupid. It all leads to WALL-Eesque retardation and de
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by archhn 4y ago
Even if that's the case, corrupt politicians and institutions will use the disgruntled proletariat to gain power. Also, many corporations are pushing for central government too. Walmart now is a private company. In the future it may be
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by archhn 4y ago
It's the best of times and the worst of times. Some are taking joyrides to space. Others are struggling to keep a roof over their heads. The inequality is real and tremendous. You may blame people for their lack of work ethic, etc, but
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by archhn 4y ago
You feel well connected through your family. That's all people really need. As you say, your children are your world. Some people don't have this family structure. Many come from broken homes with no good role models to look up to
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by archhn 4y ago
Most of us feel it. It's real. Don't let anyone gaslight you. You aren't sick: our culture is sick. (For those alone and struggling). Social alienation is the source of much mental illnesses. Poverty itself isn't the sou
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by archhn 4y ago
It is for me in Connecticut.
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by archhn 4y ago
There are whole regions of America that are almost post apocalyptic. People dying of drugs everywhere, rampant hopelessness, mass murder and gang violence, millions of people in prison, etc. Then there are other parts of America that look l
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by archhn 4y ago
Nothing is more important for survival and thriving than belonging to a tribe. An isolated man is a dead man. Also, we don't need neuroscience to condescend to us like this. Isn't it obvious? Surely, most people have engaged in te
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by archhn 4y ago
This thread offers us an opportunity to understand why it does. Look at how many comments ordain the practice out of a callous disregard for those who incur the unfortunate label of "criminal." A criminal can be anything from a m
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by archhn 4y ago
That high cost is bureaucratic bloat which ultimately gets funneled into the pockets of the wealthy and powerful who make decisions against the wellbeing of the poor, contributing to the perrenial cycle of incarceration. Some people defini
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by archhn 4y ago
Let me guess, middle class upbringing with little to no contact with the living conditions of the poors?
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by archhn 4y ago
Slavery is legal as a punishment in the home of the free.
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by archhn 4y ago
If you don't already understand and can't see plainly what is happening all around you, nothing I can say will enlighten you...but I'll say a few words anyway. Life is a dream lived over an abyss. We invent all sorts of distr
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by archhn 4y ago
The west is in the midst of a spiritual crisis. No economic policy will fix the prevailing nihilism.
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by archhn 4y ago
Incidentally, I remember young Kirkegaard writing that he didn't want to pursue science because each scientist is like a corpse that just fecundates the soil of science for the next generation--paraphrasing. That's why he went int
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by archhn 4y ago
Why do so many scientists tend to be utterly dogmatic when new research challenges their fundamental assumptions? Their close mindedness terrifies me because they are increasingly relied on in decision making -- like vaccines, for example.
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by archhn 4y ago
For free speech to serve its function, certain conditions must be met. One such condition is that the population must be educated. If this condition is not satisfied, demagogues can easily abuse free speech by playing on people's weakn

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