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How would working solve my survival issues, if that were the case it would mean i have control over my survival situation, so i'm my own boss? Sure then yeah but at some point if the situation isn't solved i'll look for an alternative instead like a different job or rioting

Not really, i've know many people like this who were bottom of their class and had edge over me in chess, fun games like it or random specific trivia, they don't do it to feel intellectually superior they do it because it's more enjoyable to them than studying

They're not dumb they're just not trying altogether, and when i talk with them about the topics they enjoy they actually show great understanding on them, it's all just people with interests

If they were trying, say in a debate and they're deliberately refusing to follow simple proofs they themselves use, yeah then they're dumb, but i've never come across someone like that that still managed to be good at something, it's a core part of learning as a process

Sure there are people with useful interests and ones with useless ones, but i refuse to call the useful ones smart and useless ones dumb, it's demeaning to those people's capabilities, i don't hold anyone to this way of thinking it's just mine

True, and it actually makes up the majority of the skill as well, i just don't like to look at people as gifted or lucky because it's unfair, it's kind of sad hahaha

I get easily conquered by defeatism if it's done through pure logic and there's no doubt about luck being a huge factor in skill! And in life in general, So i just kind of look away and continue grinding what i enjoy, because it's the only thing you can do to enjoy competitive activities

Even without lobbying, just the act of becoming a representative gives you power, at that point what's holding you to uphold any promise towards people, the people are held to the contract using the policing, but the representative is just trusted, even without lobbying or outside influence the motives and power dynamics don't make much sense

Both sides are just people with interests, i never understood the smart/dumb distinctions, there's just interests, dedication and morals

Brilliant! i'm stealing this, thank youu

Companies, Community and People are under no incentive to just fairly rotate money around. All three want a bigger share of the flow to stay alive and the bigger share you get the more it can be used as leverage

Also what does each node offer here, Labor-Goods-Policing? It feels like the community node has a bigger say in the table by default because of their service so they're under even less necessity to honor the flow

Plus aren't Goods and Policing self fulfilling, you need policing because people self policing is outlawed by Community, and you need goods because Companies kill or buy out people's competition, Labor can't be self fulfilling because it's the source of the flow, without it neither goods nor policing would be around let alone not need it

Something is very sketchy here, it feels less like a natural flow of money and more like an artificial one held together by the community with grumpy cooperation from the companies

4 is deduced from 1,2,3 the deduction is just using definition and the fact both parties lead to the same outcome to come to a contradiction

Both parties have been elected (1), both led to (2), both aren't representative (3), You can't blame voters if they have no power over the outcome, there's no democracy in US

If the point you're trying to make is that outcome is irrelevant and only voting itself is what constitutes a democracy then this needs to be applied to other countries as well, North Korea is a democracy

"Occupation kids (wait a little) stopped us in the road... protected by the military obviously... (on god, move it already)..."

The world has been turned to profit generating machine, but some parts of the machine are still actively under construction

So it's pointless to sour the mood by talking about the completed parts until it's all completely finished, we should focus on the unfinished parts, not to mention profits can be good if we ever end up getting access to them in any state and at any price

Option1: (that's why we should start demolishing every part of it) Option2: (so it's not all bad, we can live with the machine)

(1)In a democracy the people elect a representative of their ideology to govern them in fair elections

(2)Both parties in the US in the 21st century start wars on foreign countries, lie about policies, submit to corrupt lobbying

(3)Both parties in the US are not representative of the people of the US

(4)The US is not a democracy

Which of these is wrong?

Work to change it, how?

By illegally taking away capital from the people illegally fighting back against that change?

You're not in a democracy, stop solving your problems democratically