26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
The mean teacher in Harry potter that all the kids hate and feel was jealous of Harry's dead father or something because he "got the girl" that was Harry's mom.
Turns out the kids perspective was warped because of their lack of awareness, context, and history.
While they begin to believe Snape is acting on behalf of what is parallel to a literal terrorist organization they (and the reader) eventually finds out (by the 6th? Book maybe the last) that Snape was doing recon and espionage as a white hat.
Snape always had Harry's best interest in mind at all times but often was.hard on him only because he knew Harry's life would be difficult and there was little time for weakness.
Snape was the asshole when he had to be because he didnt care. He loved Harry's mom. He respected Harry's father even though there were obviously feelings of jealousy, however - since they literally got murdered over night Snape gets over it and acts as a "silent" God father for Harry without the kids ever knowing.
He was so above/over everything he was never worried about perception. At the root of it the same evil he looked like he was aligning himself with was what killed the woman he loved - so externally while it looks as if he is succumbing to the evil, he is only patiently enduring and waiting to get close enough to the evil for his own personal revenge.
Snape the dastardly cuck. GOOD GUY THOUGH
I am in aggreance with detecting multiple voices.
No credentials for me save for a passion for literature, and alrhough decidedly against majoring in English in my youth-- there was a time when studying fiercely the many wonderful western canonical works while also disecting poetry and religion and history all the same a great writer was what I had aspired to become.
of course we all have a dream deffered
Hell even if SS and Medi just went UNDER income tax and not as separate additional taxes it would be a really big raise.
SS and Medi-anything should be paid from regular income taxes and budget should be allocated in such way to make that happen.
Retard to have triple tax on paycheck.
Yeah this is an ACTUAL hate crime / terrorist act. Like what value could even be extracted from this crime?
This is not Alladin stealing an apple from a market do the workers with their moral relativity doesn't hold here.
These fucks are just violent and need to be met with violence as well. Deus vult.
Yes. This is the primary reason people should invest.
ALL publicly traded companies are striving to profit and grow and as a prerequisite MUST consistently outpace inflation.
Invest in basic etf's/index like :VOO with your spare dollars, it will, in the long term, outpace inflation.
If you already are contributing consistently to 401k this is already happening although you have no access to the money before 60 without being penalized.
Well in my day (2006- 2010) the rule was that only like 1% of interest users contributed to the internet more than casual posting on social media or chat usage and even those numbers were abysmal across the gen pop.
(Consider smart phones are rare, remember?)
And so now days it seems to me some clever marketing/sociology/data/think tank fucks got hired out and have realized exactly what numbers of humans really contribute actively to the internet and have been able to also find the number of touchpoints lurkers need to have to sway their opinion over time
Think the 7x rule in sales or marketing or whatever
So then it's fairly easy to calculate the multiplyer of regular humans/bots you would need so that on average, the lurker humans would see an idea say 7x over a month.
Could even factor things in such as virality/word of mouth effects/etc .
Calculation on all this is all relatively simple and I'd think the execution would be much harder.
However bots + post scheduling + llm ai would make this all too simple actually.
Would take some time to work out the dine details but once the process was figured out initially it would be easily repeatable for anything.
Hm. And if my dumbass is thinking of this right now... bet your ass people have already done it.
We've abstracted it too greatly and too many generations have passed since the initial idea.
Currency is a representation of a ratio between energy and desire we say things like production and demand.
But the source of all value is from another humans mind and energy applied over some time to create something or perform a service.
Other humans can want or desire this service or product and the level of their want can measured in objectivr units of currency instead of subjective things.
Capitalism allows humans to alleviate other humans pain or solving problems and I return absorb some of the units of they have spent their energy accruing.
Unfortunately. Things like financial interests banks and the federal reserve printing these units without real restriction has diluted and opened what is intended to work as a closed system.
However, capitalism, currency, and even the legal system are things we have created that serve as an abstract proxy in the western world to substitute direct and immediate violence and disincentivise the primary of strategy of simply using force to obtain things. This allows for innovation and incentivoses humans to problem solve to create things that alleviate pain or generate value by improving efficiencies as the quote states.
Anti-capitalists are fools and should be careful what they wish for.
It does not take money to make money although it can help.
The first step - that will always exist - is that one can always utilize there physical body to provide a service for the elderly who's physical body is wearing down.
This is mutually beneficial and allows anyone to obtain capital. Clean the homes of the elderly. Provide food for the elderly. This will always be an option.
Slowly utilize this capital in order to educate yourself. Explore interests and talents you have. Educate yourself broadly. Read books, attempt things. Thus step can take some time but there is no rush.
Once you find something you are very passionate about and is something people have a want or need for begin narrowing down your education to just this topic and begin ascending vertically and narrowly rather than broadly.
Learn enough to create or generate a service of value. I always appreciate mechanics or handyman, again this will always be a need because a fact of life, much like the human body that wears down over time, so does everything. As you learn about something like mechanics just as an example maybe as you become more educated in it and take on more work you may discover if you are smart that you enjoy more abstractly, math or engineering. Maybe one day you wake-up and instead of wishing to repair you wish to create.
This is good. Now utilize you capital you have accrued from repairing to thinking how you can create.
Once you can create something people want you will be able to obtain capital indirectly.
Once you are able to make capital indirectly as well as make capital actively, use your capital to increase your efficiency by making it easier for you to create or by teaching others to create and repair.
Give capital to others to clean your home and repair your things. Perhaps you have the ability and knowledge to do it yourself but now your time is better spent on creating more things to help humanity, or training others to benefit humanity at scale. Also. Don't forget it is mutually beneficial for you to provide someone some of your capital for them to clean your home as they may have little and the only thing they can provide right now is their labor. This is a fair exchange.
Continue like this on and on.
When you see others entering each stage provide some capital in exchange for what they provide. When you see someone in need of capital with no skills find a use for them. When you someone with a budding skill, exchange your capital they can hone their skills for you. When you see someone learning to create and repair provide them capital for the resources they need to create and repair in exchange for some benefit of their creation. When you see someone training others to create and repair and provide value provide them capital so that they may do this for you friends.
Eventually you will have such an abundance and have helped so many that at a certain point you will have forgotten why you needed capital in the first place. You have eaten all this time you have been clothed and sheltered all this time, you have gained friends and loved ones, mentors, and students throughout this path, your life is full.
Did it start because you wanted money? Or because you wanted to help?
Who knows anymore.
There are many paths to take but the issue we have with capital in America is no one sees any path clearly. It's not about the currency. It's not about the capital. It's about alleviating suffering. Creation. Iteration. Innovation. Generation. Mutal benefit. The scaling of the human mind and energy, interconnected by all of our skills and experiences working together trying to improve this indifferent world to bring humanity more comfort, more joy, less suffering. But like so many things our hearts betray us, we lose sight. You don't want money. You want safety and security and love, respect, a full stomach and a warm bed, a purpose, knowledge. You can obtain all this by learning how to obtain money in an ethical way. But don't lose sight.
Don't let the world today blind you with its complexity.
This all comes from somewhere good.
Edit: to any few who have read this and are sparked, I am saying nothing new. But only rambling about something our society needs to be reminded of more than ever.
Please direct attention to - https://iep.utm.edu/smith/#:~:text=Adam%20Smith%20is%20often%20identified%20as%20the%20father%20of%20modern%20capitalism.
Read; The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Spend a few days.
Pull out the smoker