It depends, if you are in a minimum wage job then absolutely try and raise your income and improving skills is the obvious way to do it. On the other hand if you are already progressing through a career I suspect it's easier to trim spending than work further up the ladder. The Starbucks thing is a red herring, most people overspend on cars, housing and food.
One can literally not overspend on food. Good food (i.e. fresh fruit, vegetables, good meat and fish, etc) are 100% worth the investment in my view. But to each their own priorities in life.
You can definitely have a healthy diet on a budget.
The only way to be truly happy is to be ignorant of all the ills we are inflicting on the world and each other. Once you attain this awareness as part of growing up, the only way to drown out the awareness of this deplorable state of the human existence, is to numb the mind with drugs or to damage the brain to such a degree that it stops mattering to you.
Does it require ignorance of those ills, or can knowledge of them but with resignation be sufficient?
The only way to be truly happy is to be ignorant of all the ills we are inflicting on the world and each other. Once you attain this awareness as part of growing up, the only way to drown out the awareness of this deplorable state of the human existence, is to numb the mind with drugs or to damage the brain to such a degree that it stops mattering to you.
I think there are two sides to this. Either ignore it, or embrace it and accept it as part of the human experience. If you accept that suffering is inevitable, you recognize the positives in life more readily. To me, this approach allows me to be present in life, as opposed to numb with drugs, waiting to expire.
The main problem is that no matter what, those positives are only tiny points of light in a big pile of shit.
That there is no free will. (and a few things deducted from that, like how anyone is innocent in some way and how this relates to criminal justice (protect society, resocialize, but never revenge)).
I agree completely! It is my experience also that things just happen without anybody being in control. Given the same circumstances, all individuals would act in exactly the same way. Of course, "the circumstances" include a lot of hard-to-describe factors, like the mental model of an individual, as it was created during their life so far. Naturally, this point of view attracts a lot of criticism, most of all from pe…
Achievement and guilt help regulate those environments. A person who is successful because they live in a place that has plenty of food might work to bring food to places that don't in order to feel a sense of achievement. That would improve the environment of others. Likewise, someone destroying a place's food stores would damage that environment but guilt makes it less likely for that to happen. The exact things that cause feelings of achievement and guilt are defined by consensus (like you said, social construct). Also, if there's a genetic factor in how we come to that consensus, those genes are more likely to survive multiple iterations if the consensus results in more survivable environments, so there is substance in the sense that these rules are well tested and proven.
That we are all part of a macro-organism. we all act as parts of the body and the more we organise the more we collectively grow. populations that are decimated lose massive amounts of knowledge and only increase in numbers increases the complexity of the technology. in a lot of ways we act like cells in the human body. nothing tells them to be what they are, they find an opening and fill the role required of them. t…
I believe this too and my biggest fear about it is, that globalized humanity is a single specimen (at most a single pack).
1) Destiny exists: events of our life are pre-determined 2) There is life after death to transit and prepare before your next reincarnation
Why do you think most people don’t believe this? Aren’t those major points of the most popular religions? I feel (I haven’t searched for hard data) those views are shared by billions of people.
That you don't need to eat three or four meals a day. You can compress all the meals into one and still stay productive, energetic & healthy. ( Speaking from 2+ years experience of daily fasting and strength training )
I don't think there are any actual benefits of fasting like that and there might be a few downsides (nothing major).