Leo Gura

Of course corporations are a source of government corruption and rig the laws to serve their survival. But the problem is far deeper than that. Complex technology and massive scales of life (human society in the 100s of millions) requires massive infrastructure and collective forms of organization. We cannot just go back to living in little tribes in some hippie eco-village. The whole challenge here is that individual humans are not the end-all-be-all of life. Life has surpassed humans to include corporations, organizations, religions, social movements, cultures, governments, nations, and beyond. Massive complexity and bureaucracy is necessary to sustain things like nuclear weapons, gasoline cars, airports, highways, currency, the internet, GPS satellites, regulation of pollution & deforestation, regulation of endangered species, modern medicine, modern food, modern electronics, etc. None of that could exist without corporations or giant bureaucracies. You cannot build a modern home by yourself, or even with a small group of your friends. Modern housing construction requires sophisticated supply chains, regulation, infrastructure, factories, shipping containers, airports, railroad, power plants, mining, logging, and a thousand other things. Starbucks does better than a family owned coffee shop precisely because it solves complex organizational problems like supply chain issues, warehousing, etc. and it delivers a very reliable, high-quality product which people love. You must always take into account the problem of scale. Scale! Scale! Scale! is what people underestimate. It's very easy to run a small coffee shop that serves 100 customers. It's a whole nother design challenge to serve good coffee consistently to 1 billion customers. What worked at the scale of 100 does not work at the scale of 1 billion. It's a whole new creature. And we live in a world were business is done in the billions, not in the thousands. If business is not done in the billions, say goodbye to your car, your TV, your house, your phone, your computer, your internet, your video games, your fave TV shows, your GPS, your vacations, your books, etc.

@Moreira You are not going to fix the milking problem by becoming a milker yourself. The way to solve that problem is reducing the incentives to milk. Passive income is not needed to escape wage slavery. Passive income is what causes wage slavery. In the future everyone will have to generate creative value or not get paid. Income should be tied to how much creative value you can generate. Being a landlord is not adding significant creative value to society. You're just basically taking advantage of the fact that you have more money than others to earn even more money. Which is like standing on someone's shoulders while kicking them in the teeth. Everyone has creativity. Don't give me that excuse. It is your job in life to actualize your creativity rather than becoming a parasite.

@krockerman It's more radical than that. Everything is a hallucination. Both them and you.

Concept and imagination is made out of being. 1st order reality is being, 2nd order is concept. 2nd order is made out of 1st order, like how a Lego castle is made out of bricks. You are confusing those two orders.

@Peo Yes, but also contemplate What is Love? in your trip.

If income from real eatate that you didn't live in was taxed highly, people would be much less incentivized to invest in it. Investing only works if there is a good ROI. So eating into that ROI will work nicely. Same with capital gains tax and passive income tax.

All of them It's not the chemical that matters but how you use it.

I mean that which cannot be spoken.

There are some things government would not be good for, and I think housing might be one of them. There is enormous range in quality of housing and it all depends on location, build quality, management, and even the type of people who live in it. I don't see how the government could realistically level the real eatate market. The market is too big and too wide. Prime land is super expensive. You can't just make it cheap or seize it from people who already own it. I think a better solution for this is UBI plus high taxes on real estate which is not lived in by the owner. There needs to be serious taxation and regulation of real eatate speculation to cut down on over-priced real estate. But NY and California will always be expensive places to live. I think housing development is best handled by private local companies because it is such a geographically specific thing.

God is a gamer

Then you will easily discover what Love is. No need to even ask us. Just ask the psychedelic and it will show you all you can handle, and more!

Hehehe... this is typical. You gotta lower your doses and contemplate reality on your trips a lot more. Do this over and over again on low doses (125ug) until you gain a deeper understanding of what consciousness is. Then you up your doses a bit. It takes 20, 50, 70 trips to start to make sense of how psychedelics work. 1 or 2 trips is not nearly enough and there will be a lot of confusion at first because you have no idea yet how crazy powerful consciousness is. You can't turn to anyone for help with this because all humans are imaginary. Yes, at times you will feel like you've totally lost your mind and gone completely insane. And yet you will be closer to Truth than ever in those moments. Don't doubt the trips. Doubt your sober state.

Yeah, but what I mean is you need a shift in your state of consciousness for real understanding to dawn. Ideas and thoughts about love are just not gonna cut it on this topic.

God is everything. Every pubic hair on your crotch is God. How's that for a unique vibration?

@FourSeasons Your understanding is not good enough. It's merely intellectual. You're not actually conscious of what Love is. It would be better for you to just admit you don't know what love is or why it is. You have some ideas, but they are just ideas.

LOL Yeah, if you wanna bang hot girls you're gonna have competition. Welcome to the jungle. You really expect hot girls for free? You are way too entitled. Attracting hot girls is a lot of work, and it must be that way because hot girls are valuable & rare. So either lower your standards or up your effort. I got 400+ rejections before I slept with my first hot girl.

Yeah, drop your desire for promiscuity. It's like you're asking us: How do I reconcile my desire to be healthy and fit with my desire for eating whatever garbage I feel like in any quantity? When you get serious about being healthy you will surrender your desire for junk food.

You cannot turn financial freedom into a formula. That will never work. You are talking about how to start a business. And business is all about creating a unique brand and niche, and adding massive value to people's lives. I have several videos about this: Small Business Advice How To Escape Wage Slavery and my Life Purpose Course Of course this is only general advice. I don't teach business or marketing skills.

It's called survival

@Chi_ He didn't really say anything of substance in that video. Of course he understands that Love is Being.

That's right. God is absolute self-acceptance. Oneness cannot help but accept itself because it has no other option. To deny oneness requires a limited, dualistic consciousness which divides self into other. God loves you because God is you. God has no other to it, so it loves and accepts all. God is indiscriminate consciousness. Indiscriminate consciousness is your true nature. That is enlightenment. @Consilience You are doing good, but you still have yet to realize Love / Absolute Self-Acceptance as your true nature. This is a very radical mystical state of consciousness. You could equate it to death, immortality, or total God-mode. It will be so epic your whole body will shudder in a cosmic orgasm. Keep following the scent trail and maybe one day you'll reach it. Psychedelics help a lot with this.

You're being pedantic.

Yes

You are misunderstanding Infinity. It doesn't mean what you think it means. You are never going to figure this out using logic, as you are trying to do. All of your logic is dualistic and relative. You can say "1+1=2 is absolute" or "we don't know", but all of that is a relative construction of the ego-mind.

There is no such thing as Buddhism. There is Buddhism as interpreted by a mind. Buddhism is often taught in dogmatic ways or misinterpreted by the unawakened mind. There have been plenty of people on this forum (even some who claim to be awake) who deny the existential nature of Love. Love is not merely a heart awakening. Love = Truth, and many people are denial about that because they simply have not become conscious enough to realize that facet of God. Awakening goes much deeper than people realize. There is so much depth and so many facets of it that they are easy to miss. Many people fool themselves into thinking they have seen it all. And they refuse to listen when they are told they are missing some important facet. It doesn't really matter what the scriptures say because most people don't read them, or read them yet misunderstand them, or read them but never have direct consciousness of what they point to. Scriptures tend to be dry and fall on deaf ears. Dogmatic Buddhism is a common thing. There are a thousand times more Buddhists than awakened people. So all this is to be expected. What I teach, and Buddhism, are not the same thing. There are important differences even though the general direction is similar.