Brett

I have now. Care to respond?

Purposely obtuse. That was in relation to my thoughts that you were putting the effect before the cause, that money makes these people what they are i...

You haven’t supplied any.

I’m asking the same question Xtrix asked. And that is not the question.

This is what creative is. Yes, no? “think in the abstract and form images of realities that are not present “ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21...

Yes, this is right. Which means that life does not have to be competition.

Yes, I’ve noticed that in previous OPs.

I’m aware of this. But the builders did not make it from scratch. Carnegie took the risk of borrowing to begin his venture. There was nothing before t...

Quite so. Many people fall along the way, their dreams in ashes. Nor am I suggesting that the wealthy are innocent or that there are people who don’t ...

It’s odd that someone as smart as you would think the effect is behind the cause. So someone is given a pile of cash and then they become more extrove...

Can you support that statement with evidence? I mean it’s not a fabrication is it?

Once man had witnessed the results of his creative act then the act had an intent, he could apply that act over and over. Then it was given a purpose....

That’s a very good point I think, and most discussions get bogged down by subjectivity. Making use of fire; Is that new knowledge or is it just reinte...

I imagine TiredThinker was hoping for a bit more than that. It’s still possible to discuss what exactly this creativity is. Edit: Does it help us find...

There’s been a lot of discussion in this forum about creativity, but more often in the sense of art, which I presume were not talking about here, nor ...

So you disagree with my “supporting evidence”?

This is quite patronising. You’re suggesting that having the philosophical position that life has no purpose, that it is meaningless (and I think that...

What motivates a billionaire to keep working? Status is a very big part of it. They want to win. That’s part of the motivation. We’re all competitive ...

“So what makes wealthy people different?” 1. More extroverted. 2. More conscientious. 3. More emotionally stable. 4. More self-centered. ‘The "entrepr...

What sort of support would I need to satisfy you?

How is that different from;

The use of optimist/pessimist tends to skew the meaning towards happiness and unhappiness, or positive and negative. From a Kantian point of view the ...

This then is the fundamental political question because it determines what sort of institutions we build or hold onto, what sort of communities we wan...

What’s a “prediction error”? In the meantime we have to live this life. And I don’t see that what @"schopenhauer1" and I are saying is halting all att...

I think being a certain kind of person will determine just how someone becomes rich. Pablo Escobar was rich, something like 30b. But like minded peopl...

But I did give evidence. I put up information on the early life of Carlos Slim, Larry Ellison and Sheldon Adelson. I know that’s only three individual...

It’s a big challenge. It’s the sort of challenge someone who likes a big project might take on, someone with real ambition. Of course if you believe t...

No, but I see how you might think that. What I’m saying is why not one of those 1% being given the challenge to fix it, even if it was a 50 year contr...

Now at the risk of name calling I’m going to suggest that the someone who could make this happen is someone who everyone seems to despise.

My problem is I largely agree with you but it’s the mechanic of it that I find problematical. Because to bring and end to the renting situation as it ...

Thanks, I’ll have a read of that later.

That is my point. How does it get started? I think home ownership for those who want it would be a good beginning. It’s an asset you have to look afte...

Who are these people working for that pay them so well that they have enough excess money to save and eventually pool their money for some other colle...

So you don’t yet know what the answers are, which is why you want research, but you know I’m wrong. How do you explain that?

Sure they can pool their own savings, but it’s unlikely to be enough to buy a factory and machinery.

Then as Banno would say “Fuck off”.

In none of those characteristics have I mentioned the “profit motive”. I’m talking about the nature of people to work hard, to work with like minded p...

Just tell me none of this is true. 1: They’re very hard workers 2: They’re very good a setting an objective and then making a plan to get there 3: The...

Giving myself away as what? And speaking of assumptions what about:

Like the idea that they work hard. Hardly fabricated.

Okay, my apologies for thinking about it.

Pathetic response. Just delete the ones you don’t agree with.

Isn’t that what’s being done here?

Well tell me which ones are incorrect, just do it instead of waving your hands around.

Tell me where I’m wrong then.

No, it’s a group of people with opinions discussing something.

Then you have to know who they are instead of just determining it from prejudices.

The argument was that the rich are rich because they inherited money. So I gave some examples of where that is not true.

What is being called for then?

A bit of experience, a bit of reading, a bit of reasoning. If you like you could post which ones you think are wrong or don’t make sense.