I don't speak down to investing across the board. I have investments myself, and a few posts above I described my ideal world and how investments fit ...
They'll spend it on whatever they think is most worth the money, whatever their highest priority is, whatever gives them the most value in their lives...
The borrower is also taking a risk, many times a greater risk. If you take out a mortgage to buy a house, and the market changes, or you lose your job...
Rich people generally don't horde their money per se any more, if you mean that to be contrary to investment, because inflation means uninvested money...
If we do not have the riches, we will not have those things, but we don't need those riches to be in the hands of just a few people. And economically ...
I'm glad to hear that. :-) Because there are more unoccupied homes than there are homeless people, and still tons and tons of undeveloped land. I live...
Coercion has to be acceptable in order to prevent coercion otherwise there would be unrestrained violence (e.g. we need to be able to use force as nec...
If he really is a god. That's the point of the comparison I made to Tolkien elves and magic: the elves are totally doing a thing that humans call magi...
If I may try to paragraph @"jorndoe"'s overall point, as I understand it: "Hey God(s), if you're up there, a bunch of people keep telling me contradic...
Rent is coercive for exactly the reasons you describe. You are not free to just exist somewhere except on someone else's terms, payment or otherwise, ...
If I'm understanding @"jorndoe"'s point correctly, it's not about the credibility of reports of direct revelations, it's about how, if you take religi...
Those are such broad questions, it'd be paragraphs to answer, and I've already got those paragraphs written: the relationship between wealth and freed...
Not ideally, but while there are still other less direct but still coercive wealth redistribution systems running in the opposite direction (like rent...
In the active religion it is, but in the holy texts of such religion it is not. In the holy texts, everyone just already knows that God exists. Nobody...
Besides Newton himself. In contrast we don't even have an account in the Bible of the first person who learned of God's existence. It's always treated...
From what I recall there are nefarious motives behind a lot of Bill's charity, like it somehow helped his own investments, but I don't recall the deta...
Even a painless death is a harm to someone who is still alive and facing it. If we were living in a simulation as uploaded minds and there was a way t...
"Atheist" can be an adjective to, and his name is obviously a joke. (Though it also reminds me of the Elves of Tolkien's legendarium, who insist that ...
No problem. Looking back at the OP again, I think @"jorndoe"'s point in bringing this up is that whatever god or gods there might be, they apparently ...
My point is just that @"jorndoe" didn't say there are no accounts, credible or otherwise, of gods ever appearing to people, but that there are no acco...
Who said the religious left are not spending their money on the needy? You really seem to love your straw men. Religions often operate social services...
The "...without them already having been informed thereof by other humans" part is important. Off the top of my head I can't think of any accounts in ...
My sympathies. I haven't been through anything nearly as objectively bad as that, but I think the past five years or so of constant family and work cr...
This exactly. There are several times more unoccupied homes in the United States than there are homeless people in the United States. Likewise with fo...
I think the core issue in political philosophy isn't so much power, but authority. That is, it's not so much about who has the ability to force others...
Being happy and being struggle-free are not synonymous. Some people can manage to keep their spirits up amidst struggle and that's great for them. Tha...
I am not convinced that it is overpopulation at fault but you are definitely right about the skyrocketing cost of living and I’m more concerned to exp...
I had a shitty day at work and you seem weirdly obtuse about this topic. You said "compelled". That suggests a degree of force I didn't insinuate, lik...
you are not compelled but there are obvious social psychological pressures to support an organization of which you are a part. have you studied no psy...
religions provide social services. people turn to religions in part for those things. secular governments also provide those things sometimes. if they...
Religions aren't competing against the state to BE the state so how many resources they have in that capacity is irrelevant. Religions want to influen...
In the sense I already described. If the state implements social programs, people have less need to turn to the church for their social support. So th...
Religious competition against secular society is the same as its competition against other religions. Any given religion would be against any other re...
It is widely accepted that Nazi Germany was a result of German people’s fear of loss being exploited by right-wing populists all too eager to give the...
Subtract 3 from 0 and you get -3. Subtract -3 from 0 and you get 3. You very well can pull 3 and -3 out of 0, just as you can add (un-subtract) them b...
That’s why the religious right is so antisocialist. They see secular society as a competing religion. If the only social support system is religious t...
Is a refutation itself an argument? Can a successful refutation be refuted in the future? I ask because, in the case of irrational numbers, the proof ...
I think that in a general philosophy discussion in which anyone of any education level is welcome to participate, those with more education should jus...
Time is a four-sided simultaneous four day cube unlike the round earth one-day educated stupid the lizard people teach in schools these days. j/k, tim...
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