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That's like saying I'm a jew because I don't like eating pig or saying I'm a communist because I'm sick of hierarchy or saying I'm a socialist because I want UBI. Andrew Yang is anything but a socialist. A vegan is not a jew. I think that phrase is just a manipulative slogan to recruit people into feminism. A manipulative slogan uses inaccurate meanings of words to confuse people. A manipulative patent uses vague meanings of words to capture other companies.

That just puzzles me. I think a real man is not necessarily a feminist.

Do you learn turkish? Or, do you live in turkey?

Esperanto was created as one unified language to rule the earth, but it never gained momentum. There is no future for synthetic languages. I find that japanese is great for conveying certain emotions. You will not find one single language that fits every use case.

English is not the same language between two persons. I often think the other person uses different meanings for words and has different world views. Some people are not good at english, and their english feels like unique alien dialects of english on Mars that diverged from the mainland earth english 100 years ago.

Take SAAFE, and tell me your direct experience. TJ Reeves created SAAFE to measure personal development in many aspects of life. It takes about an hour to take the test and get the result as a PDF file. Reviewing SAAFE report on a regular basis has been helpful to me.

What is your definition, then? I use whatever definitions I feel are appropriate. For example, I often use TJ Reeves' deathproof scores to measure how advanced as a human I am. In any case, there is no joy to be had in comparing myself with the dumbest chimp in a zoo.

But, you are not the most advanced human on this planet. You should compare yourself with other humans. Comparing yourself with the dumbest chimp in a zoo is not inspiring.

Maybe, you should take up responsibility and make it better.

If he looked and behaved and felt like a woman, for all intents and purposes, he was her, and you were not gay or bisexual. You are still 100% straight. If you are calling him "her", he created a successful illusion of her.

I wouldn't consider that as working. That's barely coping with life. It's killing them from inside, but the marriage is tolerable from the moment to the next moment. I wouldn't consider that level of coping with life as working for any other aspect of life. Unless marriage is propping you up and raising other aspects of your life, you are not doing it well. If marriage is not dragging you down, it is minimally satisfactory.

Girls are attracted to non-neediness.

I researched into creating a company in estonia. I am not totally sure, but I read that the estonian banks are eager to close foreigner bank accounts and take money from foreigners because the estonian government closed banks for allowing foreigners to participate in shady financial transactions. Estonian government had egoic survival agenda to exclude shady foreign investors. Estonian banks had egoic survival agenda to survive government crackdown by closing foreigner bank accounts. Estonian banks usually don't like to open up bank accounts for foreigners, and they are eager to close foreigner bank accounts. I don't think it's safe to open a bank account as a foreigner in estonia. I also had to have a physical mail address in estonia in order to avoid reporting tax to my home country. That meant I had to pay for a private agency in estonia for receiving my business mails and scanning them for me. I was not comfortable with the idea of allowing strangers to open up my business mails and scan them.

I want to create a one-man company where my money is protected from the forces that are trying to censor the internet. Where can I create such a protected one-man company with a minimum hassle?

This video tells you that fault and blame are different from responsibility. Ego plays the game of fault and blame to distract you from solving problems.

That's because big corporate players don't want you to create businesses and compete with them. They want to create monopolies. You make drug illegal, and you keep competitors out of business. Making it difficult to create a new business is similar to making drug illegal. Throw as much bullshit as possible toward competitors.

It seems to me that not giving UBI to the rich will make less than one percent difference because there are less than 1% who make 200K per year. I am curious as to whether it actually makes real tangible difference. Perhaps, some experiments can reveal counter-intuitive insights. I guess a few millions are enough for most people. Give me a few millions, and I'll prove it.

It seems you will just waste a lot of money and time by going to college. But, I don't know what kinds of jobs you want to have.

Taxing a 5th home or a big house more is better because many middle-class people who are actually working-poor own up to 3 small houses just to defend against inflation and pay for end-of-life medical bills which serve as inheritance tax on middle class. A million dollars can evaporate within a few years if one spends the money in wrong ways. I saw a man burn through 5 million dollars and become a working poor within a decade. There's really not much gravity to single-digit million dollars. Taxing two-digit million dollars more makes more sense. It seems you give more rooms to corporations than to individuals.

It could easily cost more to find those people and update their status over time than to just give UBI to everyone.

If it doesn't go to the rich, it is not UBI. Food stamps are not optimal in the long term. It's good to make plans to cut it out in the future. The conditional parts of social security are humiliating and time-consuming and directly cause countless hours of bullshit work. Once UBI comes into place and becomes stable, people will stop using the conditional parts like TANF which will be cut down naturally because they are not used. Personally, I wouldn't get near things like TANF. I expect that even if Yang doesn't actively cut down conditional programs, they will be cut down gradually over time. They will be obliterated in a few decades once UBI proves to be stable.

Many people on actualized.org think ego is bad. It is not. It is necessary for survival. Without survival, you cannot be a human. Promoting passivity is not healthy for most humans. Samsara is not separate from nirvana. If you are going to be in Samsara, you might as well give it your best and learn to play it well. It is fun and enjoyable. Choosing to do nothing in samsara is not better than playing it well. You might also want to consider the possibility that you are just trying to escape life because it is painful.

I think minimum wage and UBI can work in tandem. Instead of raising minimum wage, raise the amount of UBI. I think minimum wage is a lesser substitute for UBI as long as UBI is stable. Also, after AIs take over jobs, minimum wage is going to be meaningless. Even by the most conservative estimates, it will take less than 200 years for AIs to obliterate the labor market. What do you mean by free college? Free harvard? Free stanford? By the way, I think college is becoming worse day by day. You don't get much by getting a dysfunctional education for free. It has run its course. Do you think americans can fund UBI without cutting welfare programs? How much do you think they can pour into UBI without cutting welfare? or without cutting military budgets? Do you suggest starting with a small amount such as 100 USD per month? I don't care much where UBI comes from. VAT can turn out to be a good stable source of UBI in practice although it can be bad in theory because the rich don't spend much. I think we better focus on how to stabilize UBI rather than on where UBI comes from. Trying to optimize as much as possible prematurely can significantly delay or kill UBI.

I think going all in or going hardcore on enlightenment as Leo does is an overkill and counterproductive for most people. While enlightenment helps emotional mastery, you also need to look into human psychology, too. Practically speaking, environmental control is also important for controlling emotions and getting results. Why do you think ascetics keep their environment clean and quiet? Why does Elon Musk work in his office? I think emotional mastery can be done in practical ways, too.

I didn't say Elon Musk isn't awakened. I don't know much about him. The impression I got from him is that he doesn't care much about raising his consciousness. As far as I know, drive doesn't necessarily come from awakening. Also, I think awakening is not a binary thing. There are degrees of awakening. I don't know how awakened in general Elon Musk is, but I think he is awakened in terms of work and business and life purpose.