We could be spending a few billion or trillion and actually end the age of willful alienation we have been enacting on one another.. Amongst the things that could possibly happen, inequality could vanish-, The weight of poverty and indifference could be removed from our collective conscience-, everybody could fully take part in the system creating greater value, there would be no haves and have-nots only those who have-, and the Injustice of which poverty creates would possibly vanish-, economic slavery could finally come to an end-, or we have found another way that it didn't work. Unless tested we will never know how great and good we as human beings can be… We talk of the value every life intrinsically represents so if we never act out our truly good collective values then how honorable and righteous have we treated the only value we represent .The value of a person is talked about in all of the founding documents of this great nation one way or another....Today we take the human value and crush the person the value comes from... We and our environment are one....Take the Human being out of the supportive environment of this planet and the human dies.... People have intrinsic value and if that value is stolen...every person not being allowed to be creative or the actions of those who would limit anybody else's opportunities creates economic and opportunistic slavery making more harm than meets most people's eyes...Homelessness is a symptom of a much deeper and more taboo subject...How should we in the affluent 1st world assign value to the priceless gift of life and how do we treat that priceless gift...after all, our most valuable commodity is not money...it's human beings. how much is your time worth to you??? Funny how we always seem to want a dollar value there, when in fact our time is priceless....And who has the time to do as they choose??? The masters seem to have that time... Dollars and time sheets have collared and shackled our fundamentally understood rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.. The sad truth of today is everyone is so distracted by their distractions that no one gets to see what's going on. That's a difficult place to get out of. The communal blind spot is one of the most deadly and vacuous places to have to pull one's life out of. The weight of indifference and inaction, The constant efforts that get little attention or rest. The only thing that keeps the self going is the need. I speak in the third person not to sound cool but to gain a distance from a very emotional subject that if I reference in the 1st person, it is so overwhelming and out of control, that it becomes impossible to communicate. Communication is connection, and if there is any connection from my perspective then the responsibility I have in it is reflected in the environment I find around me. I see it and wish to point out that the responsibility of that environment is everybody's responsibility. Every person who effects that environment is responsible for the outcome of the aggregate actions that we as a whole enact. Not just myself in where I have found myself. If I have a choice I have to know that I have a choice to be able to choose. That is true for everybody. And if you have no context to understand a choice,then you don't have that choice. Argument is a choice; as is not arguing. Today there are more arguments than ever. And I find few arguments I agree to because the arguments being voiced are of a quality most questionable. If in making an argument that the homeless are themselves the reason for its existence then I would bring to mind the act of wilful alienation. To make a person an alien all you have to do is learn to see them as “other” and not like self. As a consequence of the acceptance of this argument then the value of that person or persons becomes vacated. An additional consequence of this is, in extension to the argument of making that person ‘other’, you can conceive of taking the “other's” value for the self. I argue that a person who holds this position, of the constructed argument, no longer considers the “other” a person in their mind. This constructed argument is the problem. The problem in today's world is not that there is homelessness, it is the fact that as people, we, are willing to use an argument of willful alienation on one an”other” then in extension assume the value of that “other” for the personal value of oneself. Given that problematic set of circumstances that we as people act out, the “other” is no longer a person in the perception of the person or persons enacting the argument of willful alienation. Jason M. Decker
How many road intersections are there in the US? Why can't we test better different technology for smarter traffic lights at these tens of thousands of intersections? Why if at 4:30am I drive up to a stop light and there are no other cars at the other sides of the intersections should the traffic light not know I'm just sitting for a full traffic light cycle?
Yuri Ivanov that "game" is irrelevant and doesn't prove anything except what usually happens in that game and that money is a ridiculous, dangerous, concept and that IT(money) makes people "selfish"! not that it's our human nature!?, he kinda said that the game is different than real life and he's totally correct on that. Money is what the problem is. Can you even imagine how life would be if there was no monetary system? No i'm sure you can't because you've never experienced it. IF there was no money, people wouldn't have to steal it. The reason people steal money is because people are FORCED to NEED money to SURVIVE period. If all people needed was water, air, shelter, food etc to survive and those were payment for work then IDK maybe they would end up stealing those things too tho? There have been studies tho trying to prove/disprove the tragedy of the commons and stuff like that. way back when, when the guys were defining the tragedy of the commons, it was a totally different world/environment than we have today, especially with no technology. As James Madison said in 1788, "If men were angels, no Government would be necessary" (Federalist, no.51) That is, if ALL men were angels. But in a world in which all resources are viewed as limited, a single non angel in the commons spoils the environment for all. BUT that was centuries ago and resources/knowledge/environment/etc are all different. We have the ability to control a lot more than anyone of those old farts could have imagined, and in reality the monetary system IS terrible for our modern times and not working for our huge population and it's basically causing a sort of tragedy ofthe commons. For example, a lady in an office made cookies, and it looks like enough for all coworkers to have one. So when the tray gets passed around people will just take one so that everyone can have one. now the lady makes cookies to sell. what do you think happens? Not all the coworkers will end up with one, it's first come first serve to whoever has MONEY. when someone has money they feel entitled to whatever they can buy and that is selfishness. No rich person unplugs everything unless it's being used so they can save electricity/save coal from being burnt because that's how electricity is made because they have MONEY to be able to be wasteful....ya get where i'm going here? even though most of us know that we burn coal for most of our electricity and that we have a serious carbon problem and should conserve and use as little electricity as possible and the poor people do this anyway since they don't have enough money not to too but now with our knowledge about the situation, think if there was no money, wasting electricity would just be disrespectful and who wants to be viewed as a rude inconsiderate person?....I just don't think the tragedy of the commons would apply now, like now we know more, and our knowledge of others globally the sustainable technology and knowledge about the environment is so advanced and IF people COULD be mindful or it was more respectable to be using only your fair share(at least until everyone got some and wait to see if there's extras) or were just even able to know what the tragedy of the commons was and how to prevent it from happening and if everyone had what they needed to survive, then this wouldn't be an issue. So many children die from starvation, and IT'S NOT because we don't have enough food on earth to feed everyone!! I feel that the ONLY way we could truly know the answer to whether having no monetary system would work or not, now a days, would be just to eliminate it set down a few rules and see what happens. If we had a system that was based on the earth's resources instead, and that everyone was entitled to their fair share in order to survive, then I belive that would be the best way to go. and you wouldn't have to get rid of things like fancy cars or extra clothes, once everyone got what they needed I'm sure there would be some extra things and if someone wanted something extra then maybe have a lottery or maybe they would just have to do extra work or something like pick up litter or whatever, then since they did something extra they could have something extra. (I bet there would be a fundamental shift in peoples' views on material possessions, what was respectable, and sustainability) IF everyone was able to have what they needed to survive then no sane person would have any reason to steal anything nor to be selfish. When there are people who will go to jail for money laundering, cheating on taxes, robbing banks or other stores or people's homes, when someone will risk their entire life, they risk dying, just to get money, it's because they are desperate to survive and that's the reality, not some game nor because people are "selfish" by nature or that people will always put themselves over anyone else. Think about complete strangers risking their own lives to help someone out of a burning building or help some homeless person by giving them some money. maybe levitt never got any money on the train because he never asked nor never really NEEDED it because he had enough to survive.....js
We could be spending a few billion or trillion and actually end the age of willful alienation we have been enacting on one another.. Amongst the things that could possibly happen, inequality could vanish-, The weight of poverty and indifference could be removed from our collective conscience-, everybody could fully take part in the system creating greater value, there would be no haves and have-nots only those who have-, and the Injustice of which poverty creates would possibly vanish-, economic slavery could finally come to an end-, or we have found another way that it didn't work. Unless tested we will never know how great and good we as human beings can be… We talk of the value every life intrinsically represents so if we never act out our truly good collective values then how honorable and righteous have we treated the only value we represent .The value of a person is talked about in all of the founding documents of this great nation one way or another....Today we take the human value and crush the person the value comes from... We and our environment are one....Take the Human being out of the supportive environment of this planet and the human dies.... People have intrinsic value and if that value is stolen...every person not being allowed to be creative or the actions of those who would limit anybody else's opportunities creates economic and opportunistic slavery making more harm than meets most people's eyes...Homelessness is a symptom of a much deeper and more taboo subject...How should we in the affluent 1st world assign value to the priceless gift of life and how do we treat that priceless gift...after all, our most valuable commodity is not money...it's human beings. how much is your time worth to you??? Funny how we always seem to want a dollar value there, when in fact our time is priceless....And who has the time to do as they choose??? The masters seem to have that time... Dollars and time sheets have collared and shackled our fundamentally understood rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..
The sad truth of today is everyone is so distracted by their distractions that no one gets to see what's going on. That's a difficult place to get out of. The communal blind spot is one of the most deadly and vacuous places to have to pull one's life out of. The weight of indifference and inaction, The constant efforts that get little attention or rest. The only thing that keeps the self going is the need. I speak in the third person not to sound cool but to gain a distance from a very emotional subject that if I reference in the 1st person, it is so overwhelming and out of control, that it becomes impossible to communicate.
Communication is connection, and if there is any connection from my perspective then the responsibility I have in it is reflected in the environment I find around me. I see it and wish to point out that the responsibility of that
environment is everybody's responsibility. Every person who effects that environment is responsible for the outcome of the aggregate actions that we as a whole enact. Not just myself in where I have found myself. If I have a choice I have to know that I have a choice to be able to choose. That is true for everybody. And if you have no context to understand a choice,then you don't have that choice.
Argument is a choice; as is not arguing. Today there are more arguments than ever. And I find few arguments I agree to because the arguments being voiced are of a quality most questionable.
If in making an argument that the homeless are themselves the reason for its existence then I would bring to mind the act of wilful alienation. To make a person an alien all you have to do is learn to see them as “other” and not like self. As a consequence of the acceptance of this argument then the value of that person or persons becomes vacated. An additional consequence of this is, in extension to the argument of making that person ‘other’, you can conceive of taking the “other's” value for the self. I argue that a person who holds this position, of the constructed argument, no longer considers the “other” a person in their mind. This constructed argument is the problem.
The problem in today's world is not that there is homelessness, it is the fact that as people, we, are willing to use an argument of willful alienation on one an”other” then in extension assume the value of that “other” for the personal value of oneself. Given that problematic set of circumstances that we as people act out, the “other” is no longer a person in the perception of the person or persons enacting the argument of willful alienation.
Jason M. Decker
Venezuela, China, USSR provide contraexamples. MAGA
How many road intersections are there in the US? Why can't we test better different technology for smarter traffic lights at these tens of thousands of intersections? Why if at 4:30am I drive up to a stop light and there are no other cars at the other sides of the intersections should the traffic light not know I'm just sitting for a full traffic light cycle?
TBH, I dont sit through full cycles at 4:30 am and I am the only one around.
With the dictator game he talked about around 25:00: I wonder how the students would have behaved if there was no one there watching them
I always think that
Yuri Ivanov that "game" is irrelevant and doesn't prove anything except what usually happens in that game and that money is a ridiculous, dangerous, concept and that IT(money) makes people "selfish"! not that it's our human nature!?, he kinda said that the game is different than real life and he's totally correct on that. Money is what the problem is. Can you even imagine how life would be if there was no monetary system? No i'm sure you can't because you've never experienced it. IF there was no money, people wouldn't have to steal it. The reason people steal money is because people are FORCED to NEED money to SURVIVE period. If all people needed was water, air, shelter, food etc to survive and those were payment for work then IDK maybe they would end up stealing those things too tho?
There have been studies tho trying to prove/disprove the tragedy of the commons and stuff like that. way back when, when the guys were defining the tragedy of the commons, it was a totally different world/environment than we have today, especially with no technology. As James Madison said in 1788, "If men were angels, no Government would be necessary" (Federalist, no.51) That is, if ALL men were angels. But in a world in which all resources are viewed as limited, a single non angel in the commons spoils the environment for all. BUT that was centuries ago and resources/knowledge/environment/etc are all different. We have the ability to control a lot more than anyone of those old farts could have imagined, and in reality the monetary system IS terrible for our modern times and not working for our huge population and it's basically causing a sort of tragedy ofthe commons. For example, a lady in an office made cookies, and it looks like enough for all coworkers to have one. So when the tray gets passed around people will just take one so that everyone can have one. now the lady makes cookies to sell. what do you think happens? Not all the coworkers will end up with one, it's first come first serve to whoever has MONEY. when someone has money they feel entitled to whatever they can buy and that is selfishness. No rich person unplugs everything unless it's being used so they can save electricity/save coal from being burnt because that's how electricity is made because they have MONEY to be able to be wasteful....ya get where i'm going here? even though most of us know that we burn coal for most of our electricity and that we have a serious carbon problem and should conserve and use as little electricity as possible and the poor people do this anyway since they don't have enough money not to too but now with our knowledge about the situation, think if there was no money, wasting electricity would just be disrespectful and who wants to be viewed as a rude inconsiderate person?....I just don't think the tragedy of the commons would apply now, like now we know more, and our knowledge of others globally the sustainable technology and knowledge about the environment is so advanced and IF people COULD be mindful or it was more respectable to be using only your fair share(at least until everyone got some and wait to see if there's extras) or were just even able to know what the tragedy of the commons was and how to prevent it from happening and if everyone had what they needed to survive, then this wouldn't be an issue. So many children die from starvation, and IT'S NOT because we don't have enough food on earth to feed everyone!!
I feel that the ONLY way we could truly know the answer to whether having no monetary system would work or not, now a days, would be just to eliminate it set down a few rules and see what happens. If we had a system that was based on the earth's resources instead, and that everyone was entitled to their fair share in order to survive, then I belive that would be the best way to go. and you wouldn't have to get rid of things like fancy cars or extra clothes, once everyone got what they needed I'm sure there would be some extra things and if someone wanted something extra then maybe have a lottery or maybe they would just have to do extra work or something like pick up litter or whatever, then since they did something extra they could have something extra. (I bet there would be a fundamental shift in peoples' views on material possessions, what was respectable, and sustainability) IF everyone was able to have what they needed to survive then no sane person would have any reason to steal anything nor to be selfish. When there are people who will go to jail for money laundering, cheating on taxes, robbing banks or other stores or people's homes, when someone will risk their entire life, they risk dying, just to get money, it's because they are desperate to survive and that's the reality, not some game nor because people are "selfish" by nature or that people will always put themselves over anyone else. Think about complete strangers risking their own lives to help someone out of a burning building or help some homeless person by giving them some money. maybe levitt never got any money on the train because he never asked nor never really NEEDED it because he had enough to survive.....js
who was that irs gut he was talking about? I couldn't Google him.
John Szilagyi. There's a page on Snopes about the Disappearing Dependents.
They others know, they also treat, why would they wanna innovate...