Checkmate
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Watching a lot of true detective? Mankind, earth, universe, all are figments of consciousness, all are make believe.
"I know nothing about it all and see no difference between you and me. My life is a succession of
events, just like yours. Only I am detached and see the passing show as a passing show, while you
stick to things and move along with them." - Maharaj
<3 that quote. First time I've heard it. That's how I see things. Mostly detached from the drama I never agreed to be a part of. We truly don't know anything. We simply navigate the man-made games we were born into. And most people don't even understand those.
And yes, I've watched True Detective (and liked it), but Cohle's perspective doesn't scratch the surface of the mind-fuckery I've imbibed in.
It just validated some shit I've already considered since high school (antinatalism, human nature, blah blah blah PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL DEEP SHIT).
Also, I don't think all of existence is simply make believe. That's where the writers of True Detective lost me. I just think we're forced to subscribe to and participate in mass delusions for survivals sake.
It's the best we've got, and that says something about our existence.
Life insists upon itself. To what end, nobody fucking knows.
No wonder so many people are religious.
It's the best we've got, and that says something about our existence.
Life insists upon itself. To what end, nobody fucking knows.
No wonder so many people are religious.
Well then the obvious solution is to get the government to use their guns to force business to pay those people more so they can "progress."
In my youth I worked two jobs to progress. I lived in a cheap shitty apartment to progress. I had roommates to keep rent down so I could progress. I rode public transportation so I could progress. Quit being a worthless sack of shit who blames the world for your ills, and you will progress too. If you're not where you want to be in life, it's not because the universe is conspiring against you, it's because you're lazy.
If you are using the question as a lead on to the idea that increasing the minimum wage would increase worker productivity then it won't happen. They will get the increase whether they are productive or not, there is no incentive. They could become less productive and still get the increase in wage since its a mandatory increase.
Of course workers wages affects prices, that's why most of our products are made in China, where there is cheap labor. Even some Chinese companies outsource to Africa as they found labor even cheaper there.
Are you implying that there are people that would prefer to be forced to do things that they do not want to do?
I hope they do it, because when semi-skilled workers who are unemployed realize they can get paid $15 an hour for serving soft drinks, they will storm into the workforce and displace all the minimum wage cocksuckers who voted for this shit in the first place.
Good job idiots, you've voted yourself out of the fucking job market, read some economics before you starve to death.
I won't actually cry for these nimrods when that happens, but on the other hand, there was no economics class in their government-sanctioned schooling warning them about this. In fact, if they had an "Econ" class it likely told them to join a union so you can help get the minimum wage raised!
What else is there to conclude but that our masters ensure that many people get put into that situation on purpose?
It's extremely immoral... Not to far off from giving a starving man poisoned food... I cannot help but feel sorry for them a bit.
Just because a person's handicap is a lack of knowledge, doesn't mean that he deserves the penalty of that handicap... He might not have ever had the chance to acquire that knowledge.
Most of these 'handicaps' knew the name of Kanye West's baby before we did, so they've got access to the knowledge of mankind at their finger tips - the internet... At a certain point they have to take responsibility for themselves. It's not a lack of access to knowledge, is a lack of desire to rise, the reason why they are even working a minimum paying job well into adulthood, then eventually into the grave.
I get it; they have the tools and same access that we do... But it really seems to me that the thing they are missing here; the drive to succeed, has been literally stolen from them... On purpose, specifically.
Of course it's more obvious in some kids than in others depending on their parenting, but almost all gov-schooled kids are going to have less drive exiting school than when they entered it... And it's a far larger problem than just schools, too. It's societal.
For instance in LBJ's day, 93% of African Americans in the US had fathers in their household. Today that number is shockingly low, like under 20%, all because daddy government stepped in with EBT cards and relieved them of their duties.
This kind of shit is happening on so many levels, and the school-borne propaganda is now so thick (don't get me started on common core!) that It's literally amazing to me if a child in gov school today can escape with the ability to still tie his or her shoes.
If governments are allowed to keep control of schools much longer, humanity is going to evolve into the Morlocks & the Eloi soon.
