dimreepr

Everything is lunch for something, how does it help to know something one can't change? The only difference is, context... Define wealth...

If I'm harboring a parasite, how does it help me to know that?

Poetic licence, the assumption I'm making is, people that chase money as their meaning of self worth, which is like trying to punch smoke as a means of keeping score, it's always tomorrow that I'll score the point that means I win; I can't think of a more disappointing thing to realise on one's death bed, surrounded by all one's scrabbling offspring, who are all to eager to repeat one's missed opportunities; a christmass carol, that I tried to condense into a sentence. Parasite's aren't evil, they just don't understand the benefits of symbiosis...

Then we're no better than a worm...

I don't think recognising who has more money than me, needs a time stamp or much intelligence, but I suppose it depends on one's definition of ubiquitous in this context. LOL, indeed... I'm judging everyone on how they look and how they behave, but I smile at everyone and say hello; if they don't respond to my liking, I just shrug and think karma will take care of that prick and, "as if by magic", they vanish from my mind and I feel wealthier for it... My argument is, all people can be wealthy, not, all rich people can't...

Probably, not...

Indeed, but we are talking about 'evil'...😇

Sorry, but the first bit is still true, across the millenia...

It's not about evidence, it's about belief; if I choose to believe, I feel better about what seems unfair. But if it's evidence you want, just google something like 'winning the lottery didn't bring me happiness', I'm not saying it's ubiquitous; I'm sure there's many a rich person that defies the trend, but as a builder who's worked for Lord's and Ladies and through all the levels of supposed wealth; I've yet to meet someone who thinks they're rich and are happy to breack bread with me. I look like a tramp... 😉

Indeed, the question is one of balance; how many people can the government afford to piss off, before they all get uppity?

It's always obvious who the rich are, it's also obvious that their action's will not bring them peace of mind and will end in a cul-de-sac for the many that worship them. When I was a builder, I'd always prefer to work at a poor person's home, I knew I'd get a cuppa and a biscuit; never at a rich person's home, they'd make themselves a cuppa and come and check on my progress; have a guess, who I worked harder for? The rich often learn their mistaken perspective of wealth, on a lonely death bed. Surrounded by people, eagerly anticipating the value of their last breath.

The fundamental difference, I believe, is that we're analogue and digital has limitations when trying to mimic reality, it can only appoximate; like trying to compute a random... That basically means, you can't have a meaningful conversation with it... IOW my point... 🙄

Yes, be human... Indeed, not every human is a genius, but how many machines are? I'm not saying machine's can't be better, I just wonder what they can be better at...

You're missing the point, e.g. how does a machine express love or pain or hunger etc.? People are trying to make machines with a humans ability to philosophise, they have yet to achieve this; my point remains, you're introducing an unnecessary complication in an unending search for an understanding of reality.

Nothing about the soul is mysterious, it's basically Newtonian, but with a quantum twist...🤞

Of course not, you just think they are; or does the queen that gets to think for everyone???

Indeed, but culture starts from the family, in a fractal sense there is no scale; a successful society always impose a scale that includes them.

Not strong enough to convince a PHD panel, so not a doctor; join the club... 🙄

They have been, that's the point; from Socrates to Trump... 🙏 You have to have a compelling reason to think otherwise... If you can't expand our understanding of the knowledge we have, then you can't be a doctor of anything... 😉

I lived in a prefab concrete home, it wasn't very friendly to my ecology.

Hubris often blinds us...

This reminds me of the moment I clicked on a link, that asked if anyone knows anything about a 'pictured flower' that's unknown to science, bc I was a professional gardener (self taught) for a couple of year's; What did I imagine I could contribute? That there is what I call a 'tulip'... 😉

Congratulations your moral compass is well aligned, for whatever reason (usually luck); unfortunately your, lucky, bias mean's you can't imagine the motives of someone with a less than lucky up-bringing. The only problem with hell is that no-one believes in it, other than the poor soul's trying to avoid it...

Who's???

It depends on the scale at which one view's the issue, given enough time and all becomes clear... 😉