Leo Gura

@Karmadhi American culture is more ambitious than European culture. This comes with pros and cons.

Grey Goose is a good vodka. You don't need to be Russian to make basic alcohol.

Many fancy things are cheap to make.

@Vynce How does Grey Goose taste unacceptable? It's fine vodka. A bottle of vodka at a club here costs more like $1000.

Great work!

They def should. Just need to cut off their legalized bribery first to plug the hole before dumping money in them.

I would be in favor of raising government salaries signficantly as long as they aren't allowed to cozy up to lobbyists.

Sure, of course. But that way of managing a mass social economy cannot survive. It is akin to slavery. At the end of the day, a psychopath with a gun can fleece you with leverage, but a civilized society cannot allow it. A teacher has leverage over his students, but it is still wrong for him to use that leverage to take half their money.

Westworld I did not like.

I think a better solution than taxation is laws that force companies to pay their employees more evenly, so the CEO cannot make 10000x more. In the end socialism boils down to paying people more evenly.

I don't think horniness is a deep enough motivation. Personal development is the correct motivation. If I did pickup for the sex, it wasn't worth the effort by a long shot. But my development is worth any effort.

Most people are not woke enough to understand the structural problems of capitalism. Capitalism as an ideology runs very deep, even in poor folk. And socialism doesn't really offer a practical solution either.

@Hardkill Yeah, you can still find ways to get rich even today. But that doesn't touch the structural problem of late stage capitalism.

The best counter-argument to my post is that guys like Musk don't just offer labor, they risk capital. The reason Musk gets paid so well is because he risked his own $100M to start SpaceX, which he could have lost, while ordinary workers risk nothing. That is a valid point. However, their compensation is still ridiculously unfair even then. They are simply rationalizing hogging all the money.

Yes, that is counter-productive. Feeding those New Age fantasies. What Bashar's audience needs most is a lesson in basic epistemology. Stop believing shit.