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It won’t ever be so black and white. Certainly some cultures place less emphasis on the future, but western culture definitely revolves around long term goals o

by mym1990 3y ago

It won’t ever be so black and white. Certainly some cultures place less emphasis on the future, but western culture definitely revolves around long term goals of building a family/retiring, etc… I think a lot of people are choosing not to have kids mainly for 2 reasons: it is getting extremely expensive to raise a child, and the uncertainty of the next 20-40 years makes people hesitant to put their kids into that environment. Social and economic welfare is not a zero sum game, I don’t need to ruin the lives of all of my competitors in order to win, that would actually be disastrous.

araes 3y ago
Except personal preferences are mostly irrelevant from the momentum of society. Because of acting that way, an immediate disadvantage in America results. The Kardashians, Swift, Santos, Thomas (also every other Supreme Court Justice [1]), Kalanick, SBF, Trump, Bezos' yacht, Musk's Twitter strobe [2], Epstein [3], Harvard making more than the NSF while taking NSF money [4] (+corrupt professors and lawsuits for bonus points [5]), flat wages since 1980 [6], preferential exploitation of loyal workers [7], and 42 million on food stamps [8] say that machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopaths generally get rewarded in America. [1] https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-it-very-clearly-us-supreme-court-corrupt https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA [3] https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/22/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black... [4] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-surges-11-3-billion-university-surplus https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-su... [5] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sullivan-gino-whistleblowers/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sulliva... [6] https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_gap_1973_2014_sept092015.jpg https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_g... [7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221... [8] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-u-s/sr_2023-07-19_snap_2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-...
- mym1990 3y ago
  Idk what you going on about to be honest. I was talking about society in general, not the 1%. You're also just letting survivorship bias take over. Just because the cherry picked examples you picked out got to the top doesn't mean there aren't 100000 people behind them that failed extravagantly.

araes 3y ago

Except personal preferences are mostly irrelevant from the momentum of society. Because of acting that way, an immediate disadvantage in America results. The Kardashians, Swift, Santos, Thomas (also every other Supreme Court Justice [1]), Kalanick, SBF, Trump, Bezos' yacht, Musk's Twitter strobe [2], Epstein [3], Harvard making more than the NSF while taking NSF money [4] (+corrupt professors and lawsuits for bonus points [5]), flat wages since 1980 [6], preferential exploitation of loyal workers [7], and 42 million on food stamps [8] say that machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopaths generally get rewarded in America. [1] https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-it-very-clearly-us-supreme-court-corrupt https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA [3] https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/22/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black... [4] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-surges-11-3-billion-university-surplus https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-su... [5] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sullivan-gino-whistleblowers/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sulliva... [6] https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_gap_1973_2014_sept092015.jpg https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_g... [7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221... [8] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-u-s/sr_2023-07-19_snap_2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-...

mym1990 3y ago
Idk what you going on about to be honest. I was talking about society in general, not the 1%. You're also just letting survivorship bias take over. Just because the cherry picked examples you picked out got to the top doesn't mean there aren't 100000 people behind them that failed extravagantly.