@MsWired I don't know if I agree with this. People so often get their goodwill taken for granted and their malice is allowed to slide.
A better outlook is realizing that accountability takes effort. Nature always finds balance, but that balance is usually not symmetrical.
@MsWired Mindless laughter.
It's so often followed by ruthless anger or melodramatic crying. People who don't think before they act are playing the lottery and lose far more often than they win.
@MsWired Mmm... to be fair, people aren't gods. We're only capable of so much.
There comes a point when civic responsibility enters the equation. That's the basic difference between living under the rule of law versus anarchy.
You will get more laughs from this app than everything else combined
But I have to warn you β¦ donβt be shocked β¦ thereβs some negative stuff too
The only way to avert this is by adapting to randomness, not predicting it. Randomness must be seen as naturally mindless, not artificially mindful. It does not care, and pretending it does is only getting caught up in self-delusion.
The future is looking remarkably bleak.
We are living in a world where people want to reduce others as deserving respect based on whether they're randomly compatible or not.
The problem is randomness does not approve. Random compatibility now doesn't lead to the same later.
These collapses can take anywhere between 5 and 25 years to happen, but when they do, the previous social structures people depended on take people totally by surprise. They result in people not knowing what in the world to do, and they just say nothing can be done about it.
So profoundly annoying that so many "educational" debates in the US are not about getting an education but about getting some sort of elite status.
An unintended consequence of American pragmatism, I suppose.
After the civil war, black per capita wealth increased 5% every decade relative to white people, all the way up to 1970 when the progress stopped.
Had that rate continued past the 70βs we would have seen racial wealth parity by the year 2040.
But something happened in the 70βs... The great society programs began to take effect, we went off the gold standard, and expanded federal regulatory bureaucracies which were harnessed by lobbyists to create barriers to entry for less connected competitors, leading to massive banking and corporate consolidation.
In 1970 the top four companies in any given industry made up on average 20% of the market share. Today the top four companies in any given industry control roughly 80% of market share.
While black people were making fast progress before the 70βs, the vast majority of black owned businesses were not in the top four. So when the top companies consolidated 80% of businesses, it effectively wiped out the majority of black owned business.
There were enourmous challenges pre civil rights era including legalized segregation, lynchings, redlining and other forms of open discrimination. Despite all those roadblocks there were growing and thriving black cities, black owned businesses, banks, hospitals and more.
Black people made more economic progress under intense racism than under an expanded progressive government. Black people donβt need white saviors, they need freedom just like everyone else.
We donβt need affirmative action to solve past inequalities. It isn't racism that is responsible for the halting of relative progress in the last 50 years, since racism was significantly more present before the stagnation.
It wasnβt only black people who suffered from this massive consolidation and increase in inequality. Small businesses were wiped out for all races, broken families increased for all races. It is no consolation to the white people who also lost out on opportunities that the few massive businessβs dominating the landscape are run by other white people.
The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.
I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.
This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system.
If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.