I've never seen a definition of violence that didn't involve a physical act of harming someone

Swapping away from capitalism doesn't make businesses open in places that they don't have customers, or make people eager to spend large chunks of money they won't get back

The vast majority of improvements made to neighborhoods come from financial incentives. People aren't opening new shops and restaurants and businesses for the heck of it, they are doing it because there is money to be made when people with higher incomes move there. If people with low incomes all stayed those things wouldn't open because there wouldn't be money there to support them... And in terms of improvements to the houses themselves, a massive number of those happen because they see the neighborhood growing and think that they can buy low then eventually sell high. Even of people who are just improving and upgrading things because they want to have improved things, a whole lot wouldn't do so if those improvements weren't reflected in the value of the house. Spending $100k remodeling your kitchen and bathrooms makes a lot more sense when it increases the home value $80-100k. Not nearly as many people would do it if it was just a sunk cost that you never recouped.

No, I'm saying that eliminating capitalism from housing would also keep neighborhoods from improving.

Then the neighborhood doesn't improve anymore again.

Then it doesn't improve...

What definition are you using?

Damn, sounds like you are absolutely killing it! Congrats!...

And smart move posting this. Seems like you already know this, but I've found that for me personally writing something down makes a massive difference in when I get it done. Keep a little moleskin notepad/calendar dead on me at almost all times, and when something needs to get done it always goes on there. For some reason physically writing it down with a pen on paper goes further than putting it down digitally l

What people think of me is literally like half of my actual business

Eh, with bitcoin at least its back to being up 50% from where it was just a month or two ago... I've been riding that one a good long while. Have been buying $10 a day for like 3 years and bought a solid chunk like 2 years before that, so have been on the roller coaster for like 5 or so... Definitely a good few times that my stomach has dropped, but it's always worked itself out

I went camping up there a few years back. That was 1 of only like 3 or so places I've ever been where I legitimately felt like I'd stepped in to some fantasy world... And this picture managed to catch that feeling perfectly.

This one can be pretty tricky, especially since working harder now can mean resting harder later. Not to mention nobody's priorities are identical... I spent most of my 20s working insanely hard. Barely had a single week between 22 and 29 that was less than 70 hours, and there were a couple of years in there where 90-100 hour weeks were the norm. But doing that when I was able to made it where now in my 30s I'm able to get a whole lot more while still resting and spending time with friends and family. And trading a significantly rougher time in my 20s for a significantly better 30s, 40s, 50s and on is a trade I'd make every time.

I think you're misunderstanding what non-locally real means

I always run in to this at work. Job is heavily commission and bonus based so I've always busted my ass to do the best I can. But quotas are based on past performance to an extent, so when increase how much I choose to do it increases how much I have to do. To the point that now I'm stuck working 60+ hour weeks and spending 100 nights a year in hotels because I have to instead of because I want to, instead of being able to get away with 10-15 hours fewer when I feel like it. Shit really sucks

I always prefer to do it that way, but my most difficult task is usually wrangling in displeased clients, which usually ends up creating me like 5 new tasks, so now I try to schedule those for later in the day so that A, I can do the rest of my stuff without those new things on my plate, and B, the clients can't be like "I need this by end of day" when it's already end of day

This varies tremendously based on what you are doing. There are plenty of situations where, yeah, I'd prefer to be fully immersed in something, but there are also plenty where being able to effectively multitask is absolutely a virtue. If i weren't able to multitask I'd be working 100 hour weeks. And it's not like I really want to be fully immersed in a conference call, or preparing slides, or grinding through spreadsheets anyway.

The world is pretty unequivocally not all in the mind. Arguments like that seek to make up a majority of the reason a lot of people look down on philosophy

I mean, ya never know. I had my whole life changed by winning $3,500 on a scratch off at 21

Yeah there is just no chance of us agreeing on this one

Commissioning a guy to make a hoe is drastically different than taking your entire fortune (that you made from a company that you started and did the majority of the work on yourself) and putting it towards a goal that betters the world.

Musk may be a complete schmuck, but it's a massive stretch to say that he hasn't done a whole lot of meaningful things... He did a decent bit to revolutionize usage of the internet in his early days, he's been at the absolute forefront of both the push to EVs and the push for green energy production and storage, and he has revolution travel and access to space and provided strong internet to a whole lot of places where it wasn't previously an option, which wad a game changer for a lot of people?

Massive tool? Definitely. Massive meaningful impact? Also definitely.

Who determines what is and isn't a higher ideal? And who says higher ideals can't also make you happy?

Eggs are $7? I got a dozen for $3.50 today

I'll definitely have to check that out later! Looks interesting for sure

I can use what I sold over there as an example. Sold corporate financial analytics software...

In the U.S. you're almost always selling bottom line. "This software will make your employees get work done faster so you save money". Over there you're much better off with "this product will reduce human error, making your results better". And over there you never say that it can replace employees. You say that it gives employees a tool to make them better at their job...

I had one particular company that had people inputting thousands upon thousands of blocks of financial data by hand. A software that they already had could have automated it, so without them even needing to pay anything I was like "in 10 minutes we can have your software set up to draw data automatically and input it from place A to place B, so that you won't have to pay people hundreds of man hours in salary to do it". And their response was basically "we can't do that. Inputting that data is someone's job, and to take it from them would dishonor both us and them". Where obviously pretty much anywhere in the West the response would be "hell yeah, sign me up"...

And they are really really focused on tradition. Like every company I worked with over there (and this was just like 3-4 years ago) would fax documents to the front desk at my hotel to get them to me instead of emailing. Because fax is what they've always done...

It takes a lot of getting used to, but they are so religious with it that once you are used to it you can count on expected responses almost 100% of the time .