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@Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 I don't think most people are evil. In fact I think all people consider themselves kind and fair and it takes some major trauma or disorder to change that.

The problem is that it doesn't take people to be evil to create such systems. I think other things in human nature are responsible such as competitiveness and strive to have better life.

However everyone can't live better than average by definition. Everyone wants to live in their own house on the waterfront. So people compete.

We can make it all a bit fairer and it already happens but I am not sure this game ever stops. There always will be less nice things than people wanting them because the most always want more.

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro

I think the main human problem is: Humans like to organize in tribes/groups. Those who are "in" are the good ones, the friends. Everyone else is the enemy.

We managed to have kingdoms and countries through a mix of propaganda (distributing a "common understanding" of living together instead of renegotiating it all the time in your group) and stuff like laws and law enforcement (the danger of punishment when you don't conform to the common understanding).

So instead of people with big clubs (the wooden kind) we today have people who are good at gaming the system (state, country, society) on top.

@Huntn00 @shuro @Radical_EgoCom

This was more in the style of "let's discuss human society mechanisms", less direct suggestions to change our society

@Huntn00 @Radical_EgoCom @shuro

I think by transforming a company more into a group/tribe/family (the actual kind, not the one with shareholders) could improve a lot of things.

Maybe with more "kindness" in the local group we could better motivate that people elsewhere also want to live.

@wakame @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00 > transforming a company more into a group/tribe/family ... could improve a lot of things.

It is difficult after certain level of complexity is reached. E.g. I currently work in a company having around ten thousand people in core staff and there's also contractors, franchises, etc.

Sure family-like relations are pretty common in smaller startups but it is hard to maintain them when size and complexity grows and a couple of hundred people are coming and going every week.

Same for societies. Smaller collectives often are anarchist in their nature even if they don't call themselves that. Now scale it up to size of France. And I am not talking about just wine and cheese but also running and developing railroads, nuclear power plants, aviation and such.

@Huntn00 I think it explains everything that's happening in the US & UK. The KGB routinely monitored wealthy & influential people who arrived in Russia or satellite states. Every single room was wired for video & sound. Guess who visited often? Trump. Musk. God knows how many more. Rachel Maddow did some excellent deep dives into this.

#fourthofjulyweekend
"We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men & women are created equal"
-Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
It's that simple:
America stands for equality, liberty, & justice for ALL of US
We stand as one & PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE to these truths

everyone knows that the kohl’s lot is for drugs and dq is for hand jobs ffs

NEW: A mass shooting at a Baltimore block party early Sunday morning left two dead and at least 28 injured, city officials said. https://t.co/zOFTnB6Gfs

A new day, a new chance to succeed.

Something I noticed this year:

I've almost eradicated "need to do" from my lexicon. Now I have a list of things I "want to do" every day.

Even the chores that used to drag on have become new moments to be in.

Can I do it better? Is this the right thing? Are there alternative ways to do this?

The repeated tasks become challenges revisited, a journey toward mastery of simple things.

I hope you get to do at least a few of the things you want to do #today

“The Court of Foolishness”by Gerard de Lairesse.

The accused, pursued by Hatred, is led by Calumny, Envy and Perfidy before a judge with donkey ears, surrounded by Ignorance and Suspicion.

#SupremeCourt

Republicans scream to the rafters about how they love America.

But goddamn, do they ever hate Americans.

#Republicans #America

Trickle Down economics is BS

Trickle Down Kompromat is not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nor6T4-hmc

#GQP #Trump

Nuke Panic as Putin Evacuates Russian Troops Amid Claims He's Preparing to Blow Up Europe's Biggest Nuclear Plant
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

https://knewz.com/nuclear-plant-explosions-evacuation-russia-ukraine/

Russia is getting desperate, conscripting pensioners now.

https://t.me/liveukraine_media/11013

https://t.me/militarnyi_eng/1018

Two new holes dug in the lawn. These plants were transplanted from a seldom visited side yard. Making the lawn dissappear one hole at a time

#NoMow

See previous post for more pics

@shuro @Radical_EgoCom @Huntn00

I implicitly assumed that the "important" part of exploitation would not be natural resources, but humans/human labor.

I agree that someone could become a stronger opponent if you, for example, take nutrition and materials for weapons and armor into account. This would be only based on resources.

My argument for your example would be either "Who cares for the US?" or "If you really wanted to eliminate a single person, why not just pay for it?"

In the second case, I am not talking about having more money/resources than Bezos, but just enough money/resources to pay a motivated person somewhere in his vincinity to throw him off a cliff.