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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Creating stability for ourselves and loved ones really can be demanding and force us into positions that make impossible to be as ethical as we’d want to be.

    That said it is crazy how many people in the “first world” view themselves in that category while the demands they have are “a room and bathroom per person in the household”, keeping the house 69 during the summer and 72 during the winter, a new 1000 dollar phone a year or two, a game system or two total a few k, a newer car because they’re last one is just over 80k miles, several subscriptions to constant instant entertainment, etc.

    Like yes, there really are people that have to beg for more hours to keep a two bed room for themselves and their kids, those people don’t really have a choice. They are also the rest of us that really can just have a little less “treats” and be perfectly fine.


















  • To me the invisble hand really shows off a really cool phenomon. It is pretty cool that with some agreed apon currencies and a market you really can get a scale of human coopetation not seen before in human history.

    Calling it infallible is as stupid of “the divine right of kings” was even if feudalism was almost a remarkable improvement from war bands before (you know long stand multigenerational peace agreements and mechanisms to enforce bilatteral enforment).


  • The amount of times people failed to undetstand economics at this point should be shammed about.

    Wealth isn’t a matter of deserving it. Any wealth earned by entertaining certain elites visions of what you ought to do is and always will be a function of those elites discretionary spending, and thus always at their discretion.

    If you are trying to convince a group of people to give you their wealth in exchange for something, the something is almost always something that is comparitvily easier for you to provide but more importantly something that group needs or wants.

    If you spend 3 decades earning certification that you know something, great. What does that give someone? Nothing. It is at best a signifier that you have a comparitive advantage, but is that true, do they people giving their wealth to you belive that? If no to either, its probally not worth it.

    Etc etc etc

    This isnt just capitalism btw. This is true in intetpersonal relatiinships, mutual aid groups, intertribal bartering, etc.