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September

What makes the world better: stricter rules or no rules at all?

September 16, 2021

By B

What makes the world better: stricter rules or no rules at all? Neither. The world is made better through rules made by the people (through their representatives) to stop injustice against them. No rule, no matter how “good” it appears, should bring injustice to another. This is what...

September

In politics, what can the masses learn from the elites and vice versa?

September 16, 2021

In Governance, Quick Observations

By B

In politics, what can the masses learn from the elites and vice versa? That the elites don’t know all they think they know, and … that the masses, individually, know much more than they believe they know. And finally, that the masses, when well informed and properly empowered,...

September

What would you change to make the world a better place if you had all the power in the world?

September 15, 2021

In Governance, Quick Observations

By B

What would you change to make the world a better place if you had all the power in the world? I would order a plan to take me to a desert island, because … Nothing of merit can be accomplished by one person with all the power....

September

How can authority and power be diminished?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

How can authority and power be diminished? I can think of these ways: Decrease the individual’s dependence of the government (where power is centralized and then unjustly wielded);Increase and empower an adversarial press or governmental disempowering media mechanism (i.e. citizen press)—More free speech;Increase an individual’s self defense...

September

My uncle recently told me “all of the money is made off of the backs of the poor and the desperate.” How accurate is his observation?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

It is an emotional (and irrational) statement. Does it really make sense that ALL money is made off “the Poor”? Yes, I think that desperate people, in their irrationality, are often exploited. My belief is that their irrationality makes/keeps them poor too. But some capitalists, bring value as well: Agricultural revolution...

September

How do you escape capitalism?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

How do you escape capitalism? Move to North Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_North_Korea#:~:text=People%20in%20North%20Korea%20suffer,ideology%20of%20Juche%20and%20Songun. Or, China … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide ...

September

Can society become too complex?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

Can the advance of a society in innovation create an unfathomable gap between the advances and the basic fundamentals that kids in such a society won't have time to learn so they could function in the society before their hair turns gray? No. Complex systems become...

September

The modern society has become a very strict, the world is getting worsen, how to change it?

September 14, 2021

In Governance, Quick Observations

By B

The modern society has become a very strict, the world is getting worsen, how to change it? Increase the reasonableness of the people inhabiting the world. It IS the only way. The strictness you observe is a result of control. If people were reasonable, they wouldn’t need to be...

September

Why can a stupid person live in this world?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

Why can a stupid person live in this world? Because we all start out that way. Some get smarter than others sooner. Often, schools apparently do not help. Why? ...

September

What is meant by the following quote, “There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity”?

September 14, 2021

In Quick Observations

By B

What is meant by the following quote, “There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity”? I don’t know because I would not say it, and, I do not think it is true. Life, in the real world has responsibilities … like making...