I have to travel a lot for work for a sales/finance role. We usually have a little mini class before going to a new country that's just like the "here are differences between here and there", some basic "drive on the other side of the road", some "don't make small talk", some "don't break these laws that they have". But we've had a couple of specific sales trainings on selling in other countries that were really wild, and ended up being entirely true... Like if you pitch something in Japan the same way that you do in the U.S. it will fail every time. They just don't care about the same things. Like in some countries you basically just pitch dollars saved/made, in some you don't really even touch on that and just pitch "it will make your company operate more smoothly", in some you focus on the impact on people, etc... And you can tell that it is because of some fundamental difference in people's core beliefs that they have built their entire society on. It's always been really cool to think about.

This would be a lot easier to get behind if it didn't push things to such extremes. Saying that life has similarities with squid game is one thing, but trying to claim that it is literally exactly the same loses me. It was genuinely difficult for me to continue reading when I got to "the condition of the human person surviving in the real world is different only in the respect that it is worse while masquerading as better".

> does not address the fact that higher green areas also correlate with higher incomes

Source?

I don't think it drops back down on the other side. I think you get to the top, see another mountain, and realize there is more to climb. Or at the very least you get to the top and have to keep fighting off wind gusts and yetis trying to knock you back down.

Happy people buy plenty of things

Depends on what you're trying to succeed at. I'd wager people with a lot of money average both more failed companies and more failed marriages than without it

Kinda sounds like you just want something to be up in arms over.

Take just the absolute basics of food and shelter. Hard to have a good day when you are starving and homeless. You have to do things to avoid being starving and homeless, and taking no action whatsoever will lead to both. All of the prerequisites of somebody having a good day require action being taken. No action has to be taken to have a bad day.

Yes. There are a decent many externalities required to have a good day, and none to have a bad one.

Right, and the ones who don't also don't wake up to nice days. It honestly kind of blows my mind that this is even a debatable topic. You aren't just magically going to have good days when you haven't done anything to ensure or create them. Literally just surviving requires work.

Kids have other people take care of all their needs though. Adults don't. If you're having a good day it's because you've done everything needed to and put yourself in a position to do so.

Because nothing just materializes out of thin air

How on earth is that toxic?

By buying things on credit?

If nobody is coming to save you, choose you, or validate you then you are in desperate need of a better support system.

Ive never had a problem with a case on. I have a Z fold and the camera sticks out a good bit, but with the case on the thing us actually lower than flush, not higher.

Right. I'm saying that the latter isn't really authority by most uses of the word.

This seems pretty full of circular reasoning, and half of the arguments seem to be based on redefining words...

Seems to get stuck in one major loop of "nobody can dominate anybody unless that person is dominating somebody, in which case they can be dominated"... Expecting a world where nobody has any say over anyone else's actions seems both impossible and wildly impractical...

Then it makes the claim that authority would still exist, they just can't tell people what to do. Which in most uses of the word would mean that they aren't actually an authority...

Then since it lists exceptions where it is OK to dominate someone and control their actions (stopping murders, thieves, etc) that opens up a pretty big problem of who decides when it's OK and when it isn't.

Also, the opening line of "Anarchism is the only way of life that has ever worked or ever can" is beyond a stretch, and is likely a great way to lose 90% of your readers before the first paragraph is over.

Help can come if you're proactive and look for it. Definitely don't have to handle everything yourself.

I'm pretty sure that doing this would have cut the amount of success I've had back by like 80%. The knowledge that things weren't in my favor had a massive amount of responsibility for my actions and decisions that got me where I am.

> It doesn't fit on a poster (or does it ?)

I have the whole story of Call of Cthulhu written on a poster making art from the story, so I'm betting it'll fit!

Whenever we have an issue my wife gets upset that I'm not freaking out, as if it means I'm not bothered. Think she finally realizes that, no, I'm bothered, freaking out just won't help anything.

Just gotta reach out to embrace whatever randomly comes.

Please tell me this is satire

I'm sorry buy you are just blowing scenarios far out of proportion to the extent that virtually no experts are claiming that what you are will happen, to the point that there really isn't even any point trying to respond to it... Think whatever you want obviously, but I don't really see any point trying to discuss it with you after that one