LoneWonderer

I never got around to watching her content. I had first contact with spirituality through Ralph Smart from infinite waters. I was 18-19 and one of his videos popped up about loneliness. I remember watching some collabs between him and Teal Swan but that's about it. Then I found Leo and moved on from Ralph smart around the time of the pandemic when he started going hard on the conspiracy theories.

Thank you! Love the blog.

I don't doubt there is a huge drug problem in the US. When I was living in Denmark I wasn't doing much with my life. I ended up seeing a lot of the dark underbelly of the society as a result. It was a lot more "in my face" at the time. I don't know what the exact statistics are for unemployment. Note you can be employed and alcohol & drug addicted. Lot's of those people in Denmark like that too, they have, like most Scandinavian countries a drinking culture from as young as 16. We had a full blow bar serving alcohol to both teachers and students built right bang in the middle of our gymnasium building in the area where everyone passes by to go to their classes ( gymnasium is how they call highschools there) for parties and social events. Tell me what school in Italy, France or in the US serves alcohol on premise and teachers and young students (some as young as 14) get wasted together on school grounds and it's seen as normal. Before that I'd been in an American international school where if you were caught with alcohol or smoking of any form on school grounds it was instant expulsion. Yes, you "should" manage your money if you live in Europe, but do you have to? As long as you have full time employment not really. Will your life be shit? Yeah sure.

Pretty please with a cherry on top? 🥺 Nah jk, jk! Respect.

🙏🙏🙏 No excuses

These are all good points as well. One thing is that living in the US forces one to be much more mindful of money. You either learn to save money or you're f**ked. You are forced to go out and find employment or the student debt will eat you for dinner. Living in the US builds the character of it's citizens while in the EU we take things such as free education, healthcare for granted. I used to live in Denmark and one of the biggest issues in this stage green Utopia was a large portion of the population being drug, alcohol addicts who lived off the system and recieved good money too from the government. Why work in that case? If I had been in the US for example I'd be fucked right now because I don't manage my finances well. Getting an injury in the US would be a real wake up call for me. I do have faith however that a small minority in the EU will take advantage of the free education system, free healthcare to then go out and work on incredible projects for the benefit of others being free of the debt burden in those young oh so important early adulthood years. The US and EU have xontrasting systems with advantages and disadvantages. I like the EU system because I do believe when shit happens (imagine high paying ceo becomes redundant, loses everything) there is a system to protect the most vunerable people in society. Who is considered vunerable? Oh so many people out there my friend not just leechers on the system.

🙏🙏🙏. I've heard cases of whole families going broke in the US after a loved one is hospitalized in end of life care and they are unable to pay for the healthcare costs. Here in NZ I only have a work visa but am granted free healthcare. I ran a ultra marathon in March, fucked up my legs and couldn't go to work for over a month and the system paid for everything! I am very impressed and thankful.

I agree with you on people should do everything in their power to be healthy and how few take responsibility for their health

The day you break your arm or suffer a malady outside of your control you'll be thankful it's there.

That money the goverment took away from you provides excellent public works in the EU. Is there corruption and laundered funds? Sure, but too much money starts disappearing and people begin asking questions. Higher education and university is basically free, and free healthcare. Stops most of the bottom of society falling through the cracks. I am aware that this argument comes from a "middle class" mindset but guess what...I don't care, I think it's great people taxes pay for all this stuff. Would love to see free dentistry too though...alas it is not the case 😞

Thank you for sharing your Journey.

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Just saw this post, thank you

China is becoming a global superpower and the hype is real in terms of their advanced growth. I believe their biggest limit moving into the future would be the CCP and their centralized authority model. Up to now the CCP has had final say in what gets funded, where resources are allocated and distributed. Anyone opposing the CCP or perceived a threat has been systematically opressed or eliminated (the uyghurs, tibet, freedom of speech etc). There could be a case made that this has worked really well for China for achieving it's "5 year plans" with a single minded focus up to now. It is also not clear to me if moving towards democracy is a good idea for the country but I also wouldn't know what an evolution of the current CCP system would look like either. Making China a democracy would result in similar issues currently plaguing the west (AI algorithm addiction, drug addiction, homelesness, purposeless, laziness and lack of innovative spirit from a state of abundance, extremist movements etc). China may well end up westernized as the population of China emerges from poverty and a majority strong middle class emerges and who won't stand any longer for their lack of freedom of expression (will this happen in next 10,20 years? Quite possibly a lot longer 50+ years I believe) but modernizing in the same way the West has may also bring China all of the same social issues plagued currently in countries in Europe and US. If in the future the CCP isn't removed it will become the bottleneck that will stop China from advancing to a new level of development. What form the new post CCP China will take? that is the million dollar question.

@Ponder Look mate, something about you just feels really off and you feel very disingenuous to me. Like if you and I were in class together we might not be best buddies. Either you are what you claim and in that case really wish you all the best, F**k if I know what stage Coral feels like, or you've got some serious delusions which is what you come across to me as. A small hurt human hiding behind a huge spiritual ego. If such is the case I just ask you question this. I may be wrong ao I'll keep tabs on this thread, might learn something from you.

The NY times, The guardian and BBC news are my go to. However I skim through articles to just keep up with workd events. News truly are 95%+ shock factor random calamities happening on the other side of the world. You'd do well and keeping an emotional distance when reading the news. It's like an emotional vampire on steroids.

Alaska. Clean air, wild nature, high salaries, great natural expanses. I'm assuming beautiful cold snowy winters and friendly people. Great place for introverts I imagine not so sure about extroverts who need the city life and more people.

@Ramasta9 It's South Korean my man but yeah, it's great, they make good shit.

I'm going out to play with some friends ma! -Oh with that lovely neighborhood girl? Ok, but behave and be home by sundown yes ma!

@Natasha Tori Maru Good question. Right back at ya. What proof would you like to see? You've had experiences. Seen some stuff so as to say...Gone there, done that and got the postcard...would you say what you have experienced serve as definitive proof for you?

Hahaha I'm stealing this

@Breathe Thank you for sharing your story

Ok seriously though. Most of us will not become the top 5% in our field to be able to secure a job when AI really takes over. So what happens? Wars? Massive conflict? UBI? The end of humans? I can't see a clear path foward on this one. I keep hearing become a massive value provider, but honestly I don't know if that'll ever be me, I'm just an average dude. I have a good job but eventually AI robots will come for it too. Most of us are in this camp. What will happen to us? Is there any chance all this free time will push humans towards an evolution (people finally have free time to think, contemplate, meditate, do psychedelics etc) or is it Mad max and most of us are fucked. Knowing what I now know about corruption it feels like most definetly it'll be the latter. A few very talented, self motivated, ambitious and visionary people will win and most will be left behind. Because we seem to live in a winner takes all society inequality will become MUCH worse than it currently is. I see people who run businesses today and have that personality profile getting ahead aswell because it is advantageous in such a world to be self reliant and having a "can do, I create my own future" mentality, but I'm not that personality type. I work so that I can focus my free time on my goals. My work is not my life purpose. I don't know which direction to take, and can feel scary at times. It's like there's this storm in the distance and you know it's coming but you're not preparing properly for it. I keep up to date with all AI advancements but that's not really being ready for when shit hits the fan. Keeping up to date with AI progress is like the finger pointing at the moon. I have listened to David Shapiro's full post-labour Economics series but not sure how viable this really is. Also that is just the US. What about the other western countries? What about people in emerging economies? My life is great now, but it doesn't feel stable because of this looming automation future. I'm afraid of losing the life I've worked so hard to get because I wasn't prepared, I didn't take massive action in the right moment, because I wasn't mature enough to do what I had to do in order to win big in this AI era. I have massive respect for many users on this forum, some are running teams, working in think-tanks, running and setting up businesses etc. You guys are awesome and I see many of you thriving in these coming uncertain times.

One thing this episode has helped me realize that fundamentally even every thought that I have is not entirely based in truth, only partial truth that assists in my functioning as an ego in an "external world". I shall dedicate time to function in a not knowing state.