@ElstKoenraad It denoted the change in the mid-1800s when scholars stopped publishing in Sanskrit and switched to English. Nothing to do with language evolution.
Rock has this right, and the numbers make it even better.
Vanderbilt broke the steamboat monopolies by cutting the New York to Albany fare from $3 to 10 cents, then to free, and still profited on food sales. His Nicaragua route drove the New York to California fare from $600 to as low as $150.
Rockefeller: kerosene cost 26 cents a gallon in 1870. By 1885 it was 8 cents. Light after dark stopped being a luxury for working families.
Carnegie: steel rails ran about $160 a ton in the mid 1870s. By the late 1890s they were $17.
Ford: a Model T cost $825 in 1908. By 1925 it was $260, and he doubled his workers' wages along the way.
The pattern continues today. Jobs put computing power that once cost millions and filled a room into your pocket for a few hundred dollars. Gates put a computer on every desk and drove the price of software toward zero, and he did it decades before he took up preaching the morality of giving wealth away instead of the morality of creating it. Bezos cut the price of nearly everything you buy and delivers it to your door in a day. Musk cut the cost of reaching orbit by roughly 90 percent and forced the entire auto industry to build electric cars people want.
Every man on this list got rich by making life cheaper for millions of people he never met. These fortunes were earned by lowering bills on a scale no government program would even claim to be able to match. And the fact is that such government programs ultimately have the complete opposite effect.
@TeluguFilmFile@PimoliDheeraj@jayasartn Its not about belief. Its the fact that the entire corpus can be read coherently and grammatically and all measures show natural speech
Chinese and Westerners are spiritually deficient bug people in different ways:
Westerners
>narcissism
>addictions (sex, social media, video games, drugs)
>lack of group cohesion
>lack of family bonds
>lack of hospitality
>confusing personal freedom with freedom from responsibility
>hedonism
>performative morality
>virtue signalling
>cynism and nihilism
>treating personal comfort as the highest good
Chinese
>unnecessarily extreme striverism
>obession with status (including fake status)
>excessive concern with face
>treating education as competition rather than cultivation
>uncomfortable standing out
>emotional repression
>evaluating partners through too much through status & financial prospects
Now, if both people could learn from each other and achieve a higher level of cultivation together, then we'd have world peace in no fucking time.
And even the Africans would have enough to eat.
And Chinese factories and solar panels + American A.I. would solve global warming too.
And then we could team up against the dirty Klingons
Traditional Orthodox Jewish men recite 3 morning blessings everyday thanking God for:
Not making them a goy
Not making them a slave
& not making them a woman.
@grok
True or false?
Take your time.