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[XtremeJibber2001]

I thought of you yesterday, Asher.

A relative asked if I could help them file their taxes. She and her husband were drug addicts for years. Found out she was pregnant just days before she was arrested and put in jail. Her jail sentence was a blessing ... helped her kick her drug habit and saved her son's life. When she got out she moved with her husband to rural America. They lived in a trailer on food stamps. She and her husband got their GED, but no other schooling.

Fast forward to today, she made 6-figures for the first time in 2022. She keeps her head down and works hard. It took years and moving a few times, but she made it work. She now has a second child and bought her first home in 2020. Incredible story of recovery, resilience and perseverance.

Not sure where/when I jotted this down, but this is probably from some seminar or book I read a decade or more ago. It jumped out at me because I graduated Highschool at the bottom of my class and couldn't get into college. My positive personality and work ethic has always differentiated me from my peers ...

90% of your long-term happiness is predicted not by your external world but by the way your brain processes the world. If you change your formula for happiness and success, you can change the way it affects reality. Only 25% of job success is predicted by IQ .... research shows that 75% of job success is defined by (1) optimism level, (2) social support level, and (3) ability to see stress as a challenge instead of a threat.

[asher2789]

the higher ones are social democracies, which still regrettably retain capitalism but they just export their exploitation to the global south rather than the imperial core.

marx had great things to say about capitalism, how it lifted many out of poverty. but its over. it needs to be replaced. capitalism can't last forever. adam smith would be horrified at todays capitalism, hed probably be railing against it if he were alive.

It sounds like your quarrel is not with capitalism itself, but how capitalism is implemented in the U.S. Like I said earlier, I'm down for replacing capitalism if you found something better. But you haven't. So I think the best approach is to work with what we have to make it better.

no, because it inherently cant be reformed, this is the end stage of capitalism we're currently living in. capitalism will eat itself, and people have the option of turning to some form of socialism or it will devolve into fascism.

based on how things are going, it looks like were sprinting towards fascism.

[asher2789]

I thought of you yesterday, Asher.

A relative asked if I could help them file their taxes. She and her husband were drug addicts for years. Found out she was pregnant just days before she was arrested and put in jail. Her jail sentence was a blessing ... helped her kick her drug habit and saved her son's life. When she got out she moved with her husband to rural America. They lived in a trailer on food stamps. She and her husband got their GED, but no other schooling.

Fast forward to today, she made 6-figures for the first time in 2022. She keeps her head down and works hard. It took years and moving a few times, but she made it work. She now has a second child and bought her first home in 2020. Incredible story of recovery, resilience and perseverance.

Not sure where/when I jotted this down, but this is probably from some seminar or book I read a decade or more ago. It jumped out at me because I graduated Highschool at the bottom of my class and couldn't get into college. My positive personality and work ethic has always differentiated me from my peers ...

90% of your long-term happiness is predicted not by your external world but by the way your brain processes the world. If you change your formula for happiness and success, you can change the way it affects reality. Only 25% of job success is predicted by IQ .... research shows that 75% of job success is defined by (1) optimism level, (2) social support level, and (3) ability to see stress as a challenge instead of a threat.

so people with depression should just go f*** themselves, i guess. gotta love capitalism. dont fit the mold? go f*** yourself and die. youre a drain on society. that really helps the depression.

[Bubba]

the higher ones are social democracies, which still regrettably retain capitalism but they just export their exploitation to the global south rather than the imperial core.

marx had great things to say about capitalism, how it lifted many out of poverty. but its over. it needs to be replaced. capitalism can't last forever. adam smith would be horrified at todays capitalism, hed probably be railing against it if he were alive.

It sounds like your quarrel is not with capitalism itself, but how capitalism is implemented in the U.S. Like I said earlier, I'm down for replacing capitalism if you found something better. But you haven't. So I think the best approach is to work with what we have to make it better.

no, because it inherently cant be reformed, this is the end stage of capitalism we're currently living in. capitalism will eat itself, and people have the option of turning to some form of socialism or it will devolve into fascism.

based on how things are going, it looks like were sprinting towards fascism.

I think we’ve heard this song before, most recently in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The system will adapt via evolution not revolution.

[asher2789]

the higher ones are social democracies, which still regrettably retain capitalism but they just export their exploitation to the global south rather than the imperial core.

marx had great things to say about capitalism, how it lifted many out of poverty. but its over. it needs to be replaced. capitalism can't last forever. adam smith would be horrified at todays capitalism, hed probably be railing against it if he were alive.

It sounds like your quarrel is not with capitalism itself, but how capitalism is implemented in the U.S. Like I said earlier, I'm down for replacing capitalism if you found something better. But you haven't. So I think the best approach is to work with what we have to make it better.

no, because it inherently cant be reformed, this is the end stage of capitalism we're currently living in. capitalism will eat itself, and people have the option of turning to some form of socialism or it will devolve into fascism.

based on how things are going, it looks like were sprinting towards fascism.

I think we’ve heard this song before, most recently in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The system will adapt via evolution not revolution.

there was a lot of turmoil in that time, but we did not have nazis walking out in the open emboldened like we do today. with multiple major crisis piling up on top of each other and the technology we have today vs then for propaganda and influencing of public opinion... this isnt going to end well. history rhymes it does not repeat. evolution would be preferable but i dont see it going that way.