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Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by chipsrafferty »

softfalcon wrote: post #253

The hardest thing to do in life is to care. It's easy to not care, anything bad can happen and you can blissfully wash your hands of it. You don't care, so it doesn't matter. I remember being a teenager, my defense against anything bad that happened to me was, "I don't care" with a snide attitude. I was lying, I did care, but I built up a mindset that not caring about anything made me stronger. As an adult, I know th…

This seems unrelated. I care very deeply about many things. I do not care about work.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by selimthegrim »

saubeidl wrote: post #730
nec4b wrote: post #729

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like what you wrote, because it demonstrates what kids in Yugoslavia were thought from a young age. There was this idea of a foreign enemy that it there to get them and any economic and political fault in the country was because of the sabotage of this invisible foreign enemy.

And they were right :-)

Surrounded by brigama doesn’t seem like a slogan from a trusting environment.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by nthingtohide »

greenavocado wrote: post #747
nthingtohide wrote: post #733

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I have question. If new value is produced in the system (say an iphone or google search), isn't it ok to produce more dollars to represent that value, which is also the reason why people didn't care for decades, because the system was working.

You're asking the right question but the answer isn't the Fed's money printer, it's the real economy's ability to back that money with actual productivity. Yes, an iPhone or Google search creates value but not all value is equal in monetary terms. The dollar's legitimacy hinges on scarcity and trust, not just raw economic output. If you could print money every time someone coded an app or assembled a gadget, Venezuel…

I think Fed's money printers make all the entreprenuers chase value creation. It's like accelerated Red Queen Hypothesis. They are keeping everyone on their toes to gather as much of future new money as possible (that will be printed in future) at the same time creating value. My problem is if people just sit on the gold and not allow it to circulate and suffocate the economy because the gold hoarders would be rest assured that value will be eventually created in the system and their gold would appreciate and capture that value so they don't even try.

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Post by BlueTemplar »

safety1st wrote: post #50
0_____0 wrote: post #5

I was just kvetching about this to my partner over breakfast. Not exactly, but a parallel observation, that a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs. The utility tech who turned my tiny gas leak into a larger gas leak and left. The buildings around me that take the better part of a decade to build (really? A parking garage takes six years?) Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible.…

I think it's inflation. And I don't just mean Covid era inflation. Inflation has been an on-again, off-again problem since the collapse of Bretton Woods. It's because of inflation that slowly and subtly, everything gets shittier all the time. It encourages businesses to cut corners, shave costs, and find cheap labor overseas. It encourages you to not give a fuck about your job because you haven't had a raise in 5 yea…

Inflation is mostly a symptom though. Of natural resources getting scarcer (harder to extract). As you can imagine the price of gasoline is quite tied with the worldwide market price of oil.

And overall we have in the West (and in the US in particular) been living way "above our means" for more than half a century. And this 'debt' is starting to come due. It will get a lot worse too, for longer, before it starts getting better again.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by softfalcon »

const_cast wrote: post #552
softfalcon wrote: post #253

The hardest thing to do in life is to care. It's easy to not care, anything bad can happen and you can blissfully wash your hands of it. You don't care, so it doesn't matter. I remember being a teenager, my defense against anything bad that happened to me was, "I don't care" with a snide attitude. I was lying, I did care, but I built up a mindset that not caring about anything made me stronger. As an adult, I know th…

Not caring can be a powerful tool. Anxiety and fear are the manifestation of too much care. Life is chaotic, and at times we must learn to swim with the tide. There's big things we should care about, and then there's little things we shouldn't. How the towels are folded, or the ring of water on the coffee table. When we give those things too much care, we transform the mundane into a battle. And then, every second of…

And yet, if you go further by taking great care and effort into the mundane, it can become meditative.

There is a sense of honour and zen in doing the mundane as perfectly as possible. Not to achieve perfection but strive towards the ideal within reason.

This is something I recently spoke with my father about. He was annoyed with trying to keep toxic mushrooms out of his yard. It was tedious and complicated.

Then he embraced the struggle, and looked at it the same way he used to train in martial arts. As a chosen striving towards an ideal.

He “monk-moded” his gardening and found joy in a mundane, repetitive task.

Through caring, he turned anxiety and annoyance into peace and acceptance.

He also won the battle against the mushrooms after 2 years of diligent effort.

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Post by azemetre »

chipsrafferty wrote: post #750
azemetre wrote: post #496

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Why do you feel the need to work a second job, why would that be better? Wouldn't you rather be a part of your local community and put effort there rather than a private enterprise?

Two jobs pay two salaries.

There's more to life than working. Why do you feel it's necessary to work two jobs in an industry that typically pays more than the median home income in 99% of cities in the US?

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Post by xnx »

1dom wrote: post #149

I read the title and it triggered something I've been thinking a lot lately: there's too much for everyone to care about right now. Article didn't really touch on it directly, but: > something that sounded like every other thing: some dude talking to some other dude about apps that some third dude would half-listen-to at 2x speed while texting a fourth dude about plans for later. It's not that the dudes don't care, i…

Concern for things beyond our immediate survival is a cursed luxury.

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Post by whstl »

azemetre wrote: post #756
chipsrafferty wrote: post #750

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two jobs pay two salaries.

There's more to life than working. Why do you feel it's necessary to work two jobs in an industry that typically pays more than the median home income in 99% of cities in the US?

There’s more to work than getting a salary.

Re: The Who Cares Era

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Post by Slava_Propanei »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #257
nthingtohide wrote: post #148

The Who Cares Inception. > As Elon Musk's DOGE rats gnaw their way through federal agencies, not caring is their guiding light. He wouldn't have used this wording if he had actually spent sometime on understanding how wasteful the previous governments have been. So in a sense, Elon was correcting the previous Who Cares mistakes and not actually committing new Who Cares mistakes. This shows that even Dan doesn't care…

Elon was doing no such thing. They didn't even take time to try to determine whether there was any waste in the things they cut. They just cut wholesale and claimed victory. This is, of course, on top of the administration claiming that Elon was in no way in charge of DOGE. He was evidently just one of the president's personal advisors.

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