“The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.”
— Alain de Botton
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@WifeFinance Amen Its a fantasy for the poor thst wealthy live like they are broke. Maybe a few mental patient type rich do but its Basically fantasy to prevent a revolution
Given that those designing IQ tests aren’t geniuses, the problems are drawn from a finite set of archetypal classes—idempotent transformations, structural isomorphisms, invariance under group operations, compositional rule sequences, and inductive category formations.
So: IQ tests recycle a finite repertoire: idempotent patterns, structural isomorphisms, invariances, and compositional rules disguised as novelty.
This is sooooooooooo gamable with training: working on a nice balcony with a breeze, coffee, and nice background music (Rachmaninov) --if you have nothing else to do in life.
The age of consumer capitalism is over.
Consumer capitalism = produce goods to sell.
We now live in the world of financial capitalism.
Have a spare 10,000,000? You don’t build a factory to make goods, you simply invest in the stock market.
Why? Less risk and more return.
Money turns into money.
Why does that stock have value? Because they produce with their factory.
But nobody bothers to build competing factories.
This inevitably leads to the last few producers of goods being massive monopolies with unchecked political power.
They control everything, the media, the politicians - all of it.
And it is in their best interest to keep the common man and worker poor.
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