Recent content by philostam

Trump is the lesser evil. It was tight in 2020 and since then a lot of people shifted more negative on Biden and slightly more positive on Trump by comparison. Biden is the weakest and most embarrassing president ever so he should have no business being elected. But let's see...Sign of the...

Yeah, and how are we gonna achieve that? How are we gonna control for natural talents/defects, family environment and countless other factors? One idea might be to get rid of the whole "having parents" thingy as in Huxley's Brave New World, but I would prefer to avoid that. The faster men...

Maybe he contradicts himself (is it really possible to abandon all ideology?) but what is this ideology of the right that you speak of? He condemns both the extreme left and extreme left, and upon inspection I don't think his views would be very different from those of founding fathers or...

What exactly do you mean, how is he lacking self awareness in your opinion?

Hi, AJ. It's just an insane quote, isn't it. In my family we had a deep tradegy/trauma when I was around 5, and when I started investigating it later I found out that no one wants to take responsibility for what happened. Everyone is blaming somebody else. And in my opinion it's everyone's...

“There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all...

The biggest problem in the world, by far, is money printing that causes desirable assets to go up. We monetized real estate because no one wants to hold melding ice cubes that are fiat currencies, backed and constrained by nothing. From the perspective of investors and the rich it's completely...

I don't believe that's the "plan". I believe that the system adapts itself to the median voter. So if the median voter in the US is a boomer with a house, then rising housing prices was a good policy. Of course it's all a ponzi scheme but I absolutely don't believe that Gen Z and Millennials...

Meanwhile, since the debt ceiling was raised almost exactly 1 month ago, the US raised additional 1 trillion of debt. 1 trillion in one month - that's more than during the entire great financial crisis. https://www.usdebtclock.org/ If governments were a corporation, they would all have CCC...

Whaaat? Can you tell us more?

Things will break down and a new system will emerge. I don't think millennials will work until they die. That's ridiculous. There won't be enough jobs for us even in next 5-10 years. What jobs are you talking about in 20-30 years? There is an optimistic version of the future, people just don't...

Probably an exaggeration on my part, but I remember some examples where they actively proposed euthanasia as a solution for mentally ill, poor and the like. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11486239/Advert-Canada-promotes-euthanasia-Slammed-dystopian.html

A bit of a different angle on this topic, but I think countries will have huge problems with the biggest generation retiring (boomers). The pension systems/social security is basically a ponzi scheme. It relies on more now contributors (workers) to fund the existing members who are now retired...

Wait until all boomers retire and vote to raise taxes/social security so we can fund their retirement. One last trick.