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I mean it depends on what your goal is, for me its long term investment, putting it into things that can hold and grow value . Crypto, apart from being highly volatile is not really tied to anything of value, for example a property or a company, in my personal opinion its not far off a ponzi scheme, although i accept that some form of it might become currency. So yes you can make money from it but that completely dependent on someone else losing money, at the moment anyway. Its just my opinion but i see it as a gamble and im not really much of a gambler, at most id put in 5% of my capital but really just out of fomo and in all honesty i dont even think i would do it.

Nope

Leveraging credit is fine if you have a proven strategy that you want to scale up. In your situation I would start small with what you have and try and put some kind of strategy together, really this is the testing period so if you make mistakes with $200 and lose it, it's not the end of the world. Whereas if you borrow money to run experiments and you lose that it will be even more difficult and take even longer to recover. So I would say either work with what you have or save up more and work with that. The knowledge is the most important thing now so just get started and things will become clearer

Because its infinite, so everything has to exist

Out of one matrix and into another, it's funny what we go through as humans

I hadnt actually got to the last bit of it and after watching it i think youre right. The problem is Jordan is stuck with this ideas you can see hes very inflexible, even when he saying them theres an anger and tension that comes with holding on. He cant really go against his normal points because his fan base is basically built on them, but you can see how impractical they are in this conversation. Of course the bystander effect is what keeps racism going, having grown up in London myself i know this first hand, its when you let it go thats the problem. The individual of course should be punished but people 100% need to take responsibility for allowing an environment where racism can even exist. For example there are many white households where the odd racist remark against black people might happen, however everyone involved might be very careful not to say this in public, if this is the case is it not likely that this racist sentiment will spill over in various aspects of peoples lives? Going by Jordans take, thats irrelevant as only the person who says something in public that could be deemed racist should be addressed not the system, in this case the household. This is obviously flawed, the public racism is just a spill over of the systemic.

Im not really a Peterson fan but i wouldnt say he embarrassed, i just dont think hes that educated on UK political issues, but he didnt pretend he did he was asking questions which seemed to be to understand more which i think is fair enough. There maybe a question of why he was even on there but i actually think it was interesting having an outsider asking obvious questions.

This sums it up perfectly

I think the issue is if you tell disenfranchised people that 'it's all your responsibility and you need to sort yourself out' it just doesn't produce results. If you think in terms of a child and a parent, if the child is being bad and disruptive, it would be ineffective for the parent to just say 'you need to be better, work out how to do that'. What might be more effective is if the child is given the tools to be better, support, love, community, positive role models etc. I agree that it doesn't help just to blame others for your situation but I think it is necessary to be aware of the past and the context of things, this in itself can be empowering because there are legitimate reasons for your situation. However once aware of this it's important to not use it as a crutch and take responsibility for it. But you have to appreciate this is not easy, most people even in wealthy circumstances, don't take responsibility for themselves, it just so happens if you don't in a poverty stricken area you will be heavily affected. To me it doesnt really matter what the left media says, I'm more concerned with solutions, most people in those situations probably couldn't care less, as I said in my personal experience the cuts to funding for youth services is definitely a masdive driver in inner crime and general disenfranchment. You cant really cut things like that which are proven to have a positive impact and then say 'well it's their own personal responsibility'. In theory it would be great if everyone could take responsibility for themselves that are in poverty but numbers wise, it just doesn't work like that, some will and some won't and its not really the case that it's even a choice, some are just not aware enough to make that choice, in which case there has to be help on a social level. Basically it's a complexed problem and you're not wrong, I agree in principal but there's just a lot more to it, which I can say from first hand experience.

I see this view a lot, that it's just personal responsibility, of course its very important but the fact is to change mindsets where people do take personal responsibility there needs to be education around that. I've worked in youth services and yes usually the family is at fault for having a negative mindset (this was not limited to black kids btw), but what created the really naughty kids was the whole environment which included teachers telling kids they'll end up in prison from about the age 7 or 8, having no strong, positive role models, having the school system basically give up on them, having criminals in their area groom them for crime. I don't think you appreciate how hard it is to get through that when your mind has been skewed essentially to think what is negative is good, it's hard to just say 'yeah I'm going to take personal responsibility', when you're not even aware of what that means. You need role models and people that care for you and can give you good advice and keep you on track. Also, in my country, UK, they cut youth services budget buy a massive percentage which led to the closure of youth clubs which then correlated to higher crime statistics. So there's an obvious link that once less effort is made on a social level with kids from poor neighbourhoods, there is more crime or at least more poverty mindset. Saying essentially, people just need to get hold of themselves and take responsibility, really minimises the problem and doesn't take into account the full context of it. The answer includes personal responsibility but is not limited to it. Kevin Samuel's has some good points as to what the problems are and possibly becoming aware of them, but his content is very simple, he has no idea about socio-economic factors or doesn't really look at how the mindset develops, usually he's talking to black, somewhat wealthy women, which is very specific and different to the issue of poverty mindset, it's it's own thing.

You have to learn how to deal with the defence -

By definition conservatives are trying to conserve the status quo, that naturally would bring more fear, anger and hatred as youre essentially fighting against progress which must be crazy stressful.

During the pandemic I let my hair grow out into a decent sized afro, it felt good in the same way the monk is talking about, didnt really have to worry about it, felt more free etc, one thing i noticed though is that i did get almost shamed by a few people for growing it out, not in any particularly insulting way, but to make me aware that this was not smart or like what everyone else is doing. It didnt really bother me but it is interesting how people put pressure on each other to conform to whatever is 'cool' in society and i dont even have large social groups but still felt a bit of pressure. I did end up cutting it if youre wondering, but just cos i got bored of it, had it well over a year

lol It really isnt, its just a thought experiment for both sides to look from a different perspective, if it was whataboutism I would have to say an actual thing that happened. But thanks for your reply though, i mostly agree

The flip of this is - what would be your opinion if a 17 year old Liberal kid went to protect the capital building from the protesters on Jan 6th and ended killing a couple people in self defense after being attacked? Would you say he had a right to be there or that he had as much right as the stormers, would your view be any different in that case?

In theory it would be self defense, he didnt randomly shoot people, but of course he shouldnt have been there with an assault rifle. If you go into a heated, protest situation of course walking around with an assault rifle is going to make things worse, theres a reason why you cant just be a vigilante on the street, its bloody dangerous. The argument that the protesters shouldnt have been burning things down is completely irrelevant for the same reason that anyone else committing a crime shouldnt be doing it but its not the place of random, untrained people to try and stop them and if they do its obviously going to cause problems which is why you have trained law enforcement in the first place. If you do try and stop someone committing a crime you need to weigh up the risks and accept the dangers, not travel however many miles to specifically put yourself in that danger.

This thumbnail and title is a great example, its so clickbaity and literally designed to get you angry and outraged, explosions, exclamation marks, money, missiles, Joe Biden framed in a devilish way. Its very hypocritical because its what Brand called the mainstream media out for and theyre not even close to these kind of images. I think if you are going to call out the media you have to hold yourself to a higher standard.

A question popped up looking at this post, lets say you want to attract money is it more useful to read a book about law of attraction 15 times or is it better to read a very practical business or investment book specific to what you want to do to make money? What is going to produce better results?

Hes very left, but i think somethings happened since covid where hes realised that if the titles are a bit controversial or alarmist he will get more views, i think its something to do with him probably hiring a team to do all the titles and promotion of the videos, a lot of them d split testing and put out whatever thumbnails and titles get the most clicks. Also even the topics he talks about go toward this theory, most of the time hes actual content is not that extreme it just looks at both sides and has an anti-government slant, but once you get into the youtube algorithm a lot of content gets skewed

I see where youre coming from but there is an argument that the service your providing is someone wanting to get rid of something who doesnt really have the time or the inclination to find a good buyer and your then providing the good to someone who is looking for that item. Obviously it can go to an extreme where you buy out the product and make it scarce and then sell at a mark up, like what happened with the ps5s. But I think the idea of finding value and selling at a higher price elsewhere is pretty central to business, even if youre employing people you are arbitraging their work, paying them one amount and reselling that for a higher amount or value. I do get where youre coming from but i think its just part of what keeps everything moving.

You can honestly make a lot of money from facebook marketplace, not necessarily free stuff, i havent done that anyway, but lets say you knew a lot about vintage action figures, if you searched them on fb youd find some good deals and you could also negotiate with the sellers, who most of the time just want to get rid of the stuff. You sell that to collectors or on ebay, you can make a lot. So that advice i can vouch for you can legit make money from it, i have.

Its true, theres some footage of the meeting in this vid - To be honest it did kinda change my opinion on him, although its very possible to be centered in orange and have at least some of the higher levels as well. I think hes realised that giving a lot of value (or at least seeming to) is not just some woo woo thing, it actually gives better results and he probably rationalises charging 15k for a 10 min meeting by saying that he gives so much value people are willing to pay that. Its also possible that hes using some tenants of green and above to just make more money and get more status which is another level of manipulation, but who knows for sure

There is higher consciousness in any and everything, Ill tell you one thing, ive been in basically a transcendent state going out and talking to women probably more than just meditating. I went speed dating one time and was basically in no mind for about an hour

I thought this was quite revealing about Gary V, its basically a guy from here in the UK who has made a lot of money in business and his channel exposes fake gurus and entrepreneurs. Hes not necessarily exposing Gary V but it just gives an insight into him that you might not normally see. I dont actually dislike Gary V i think he has some knowledge esp around giving value that i think I think is very helpful in business, in fact almost an advanced way of doing business than traditional orange. But of course theres some other stuff I dont really agree with but anyway here are the clips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXjv_Oz4EKQ

Just came across this term in a book i was listening to, semantic stop sign (or thought terminating cliche) basically a cliche phrase that is used to halt the conversation from going further because the person using doesnt want to think further as it might question their held beliefs, some say its a way to ease the cognitive dissonance theyre feeling through the conversation. An example could be 'thats just your opinion' falsely equating all opinions as the same or 'you think too much'. These phrases can be used in a valid way of course so it only qualifies as thought-terminating if its used to dismiss dissent or justify fallacious logic. Its one of those things that I see all the time on social media and even on this site so its interesting that theres a name for it. We probably all do it but its good to be aware of it. My favourites are 'orange man bad', 'media/statistics cant be trusted', 'baa sheeple' Which ones have you guys come across and what do you think of the phenomena?