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True it is glib, and it basically does amount to that, but it's more about exploring this idea. More specifically, I am interested in all the intricac...

Get off your high pony dude. I've known you since the last forum, and I'm sure you hate my posts just as much as I hate your style. It does speak to y...

Perhaps I too quickly judged this as an ad hom on me. If you were commenting on the descriptions of the conservative/liberal ways of thinking in the p...

Oh right. I thought this was a philosophy forum. Apparently your posts are helping the starving Africans.

The impersonal means in which we survive gives us practically no efficacy for change. "It" is so big, we just go back to staying in our lanes as descr...

If you read the whole thing, I'm getting at the fact that we are so specialized as to not know how it is that we subsist on a whole. Obviously how we ...

Most people live "unremarkable" lives.. By this I don't mean that they aren't doing things they enjoy or striving for some goal but rather that they a...

I actually would have to agree with you based on what I've seen. But what is your solution to the seeming need to gamble your resources and time and w...

I think the counter to this is small businesses. Small businesses use capital to make and sell goods and services and perhaps make a profit. It sounds...

Yeah, was saying something similar here: So are you both saying "inaction" does not itself count as an action? How about if I said, "The action of not...

Added more to last post.

The CI confuses me in its application sometimes. Why is theft a CI then? Some people let's say wont' mind certain things being stolen... But that isn'...

From a pragmatic-psychological point of view, someone will say that you should cultivate activities which put your mind in a flow state so as not to d...

Why can’t s we seem to stop reproducing more sheeple for you to exploit? What illusions of grandeur make you want to be leader in the first place? Wha...

Yeah mentioned that earlier. Not gonna happen any time soon.

Im thinking that with all the technology we only have higher consumption. How is it in 80 years, 40 hour norm isn’t commensurate with the efficiency i...

This one's for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI8RuhW7q0 Haha.. No, I am just giving you their arguments so you can knock em down. I agree larg...

I’m not disagreening that this is perhaps the only way it can ever be. Rather, if that is the case, I don’t make the very political decision for someo...

And yet creating more people and calling them shitty for not killing themselves or otherwise following the proper course is moral? Ya know my knee jer...

Straw man. One is harming no actual person and quite the opposite, preventing a lifetime of accumulated harms. The other is definitely harming someone...

Rebellion through boycott. Don’t give the system more workers. Don’t give yet another worker the system to deal with. All we can do is make hard work ...

That was my whole point. People don’t inherently ALWAYS want to do “productive” jobs somehow “inherently”. More like “hobby-like” things. A lot of gru...

But air conditioning, medicine, heating, cars, radio, satellites, all the technology.. They will just say that you're gonna take it an like it and wor...

Then they would just say that this accumulation would not occur without the incentive to make money from it. We can scowl at it, but it's true. There ...

Rhetoric only hurts if the audience takes the bait. Work is necessary to survive. But the assumption is that this is good in the first place. You imme...

Now you’re getting it..using one word to define what is right and good without argument.

No shit. Yes the implication is if you tar and feather as juvenile (by definition not mature) you don’t need an argument.

Anytime someone says “juvenile” as if a law of some sort, I immediately get red flags of a straw man argument- that is an argument based on false and ...

Do you see a differentiation with a plutocrat that that invented a new product and ones that just found themselves as heads of industry by luck? The o...

Hey just saw this. Cool real world examples, thanks for sharing. What do you think the construction trades like electrical, plumbing, construction, br...

As long as we consider antiwork, anti-life, we’re fucked. Or, less dramatically, the problem is intractable. I’m ok with that being that my solution i...

@"Bitter Crank" I thought you’d appreciate this one https://existentialcomics.com/comic/418

Absolutely. Having a child is an ascent to the current system. It is saying "I want to replicate/continue what is going on currently". The problem is ...

Fair enough, Ford's model of 40 hours lead to the Fair Labor Act in 1938 and 1940. The problem is the problem with most of these type of experiments.....

As I told you, because once already born, there's still a life to live. We are not promortalist, If you are going to ad hom/troll me, do it somewhere ...

Is this sarcastic? It's off because people have no imagination and fear change. Your mortgage says, "Can't fight it!".

@"Bitter Crank" My sympathies and criticisms of all the forms of Marxism are nicely summed up by Bob Black here:

Yes. I can see it working for some.

I answered here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/625140. So stop trolling ad homing or contribute to thread.

Exactly. If it is not entertaining, and especially if it makes people question existential deep topics, and especially if it might lead people away fr...

It's something most people deal with.. Why wouldn't it be discussed?

Yep, this all makes sense. Can't add too much more to that surrounding CRT. It was hatched in a think tank and people followed the message, both left ...

Don't put people in the situation in the first place.. This is all post-facto stuff of course.

Certainly like a dystopian novel come to life. This is certainly true.. It's like hired guns that they bring out with predictable talking points neces...

That I am, but this is more from Socratic methodology.. Consider opposing points, so they can be overcome and see if there is a stronger argument once...

I agree 100%. But who sets the agenda here? How is it done in the executive rooms behind the scenes? For example, when would antinatalism ever be a to...

I'm not sure if you've seen a lot of US schools.. but a lot of them have nothing to do with the kind of education needed to engineer weapons.. Are we ...

I think there should be more radical change. Income and employment should be severed. They are at odds to human happiness but are quite good for econo...

Advertising is a way for the little guy to get ahead and be heard. Some people might ask what is wrong with this? Otherwise all you would know is X an...