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If the gov could channel more resources in the schooling system, the teachers would be better. I get the difference in culture, I was actually contemplating that deeply today. I was contemplating why USA and Romania are so much worse than Scandinavia. It is because on our shit home countries, is every man for himself. It is build your own boat if you want to float. I was mocking these Swedes for being a herd of conformist sheep. But this Law of Jante culture of sacrificing your individualism for the group's sake brought them a livable, functioning country. They build a big boat for everyone in the country. Well at least they did it in the past, because for the last years, the neo-liberal plague started to affect their countries also. In the end it is us moving to their country. No Swede moves to fucking Romania. Maybe they move to USA, but USA also grew because of the strong Stage Blue conformist culture of the 50s-70s and the imperalism of course. Just to be destroyed by excess of Orange craziness later. Counterintuitively, the countries who are more united are killing it on the capitalist global market. Look how China is kicking our asses. Of course Bezos will choose a fancy hospital in his country. But the thing is to make a system where everyone can afford it. 99% of people can't even dream of having his money and affording the luxuries he can afford. We have to strike the right balance so everyone is pleased. Not everyone is a Bezos or a Leo, to be able to outsmart and outcompete everyone. Some people are just born less ambitious and less masculine. They just want to follow the rules and conform. And this bullshit that comes from the right that there are not enough resources for everyone, that is stupid. Especially now with so much AI and technology, the productivity is amazing. It is just that we are too selfish to share the fruits with everyone. I am happy to pay for the sick and elderly in Sweden. They also paid for the infrastructure and the schooling of these smart people I have around. Not having retarded idiots around did not come from thin air, it came from the hard work of those before me who paid for high quality schooling that everyone could afford. They actually worked too hard for the actual teen generation here, it pampered them, it made them weak. A balance has to be found. Taxes are low in the US, wow cool. But you also have tons of uneducated morons who voted for a buffoon who is now tearing down the country. There are no functioning trains, healthcare is a scam, towns are car infested nightmares. People are so fat and sick it makes me sick to watch it. Big corporations lobby the gov so the thin public resources go where they wish: into war and shit

Let the private sector get too involved in inelastic demand systems like schools, healthcare, housing etc. and see how it plagues them like some sneaky parasite. They are in there for profit. I hope these neo-libs will understand some day that the private sector is about profit. If profit does not align with people's interests, then they need to be heavily regulated by the state or even kicked out completely form that specific "market".

Yeah, US healthcare system is amazing

Sorry to hear that. Good luck!

If you really do meaninful work that helps society in those hours, then you don't fit in what I said. I suppose you don't work in the "first" world.

only the very poor from what I see. At those levels of poverty you get a "UBI" in Sweden.

ChatGPT: An ambulance ride → $1,000–$4,000 ER visit for something non-critical → $1,500–$3,000 A simple broken arm → $5,000–$15,000 depending on X-rays, casts, facility fees Stitches → $500–$3,000 A night in the hospital → $10,000+ These numbers aren’t extreme cases — they’re normal. If you’re uninsured or underinsured, that’s catastrophic. Insurance doesn’t magically protect you. People imagine Americans are safe because they “have insurance.” Not even close. Many Americans have: High deductibles ($3k–$7k they must pay before insurance helps) Co-pays Coinsurance Surprise bills from out-of-network providers inside an in-network hospital You can have insurance and still get hit with a $10k bill. aaa.... mhm.

The West is so rich because it sits on the back of the third world countries. Your country used to be our petrol station and natural gas pipe

average employees who do meaningless work or are paid for full time but don't even work part-time. I have a friend in Switzerland who does a cumulative of 5-10 hours of work per week from home and gets paid 10k dollars after tax/month. It is due to bad management mainly. There is such stuff happening in the state system, but most of them work privately in corporations.

The very rich can avoid heavy taxation in the EU also. Sweden has more millionaires and billionaires as percentage of population than the US. The rich live worse in the US than the EU. It doesn't matter how rich you are if the roads are shit, public transport is shit, urbanism is shit, most food products are shit, everyone around you is just a working zombie who takes drugs just to not suicide. How cna you keep your millions in your bank account when you hear people around you working to death in order to pay for their past medical bills? France is the example of socialism gone wrong, the state borrowing money in order to pay pensions and benefits.

I think the construction workers have a shit salary but when I see them breaking their bones in freezing cold to build our housing, it does not look like "leeching" to me. The leeching is done by those corporate emplyees who fap under that desk all day at work and get paid a premium for that. If you meant it though the "survival of the smartest" paradigm not the meritocracy one, then I get your point.

+1 you'll never know when you'll fall into poverty. It could be 100% outside of your fault. Sudden cancer or other ailment that will cripple your ability to work attl all. But I get Leo's point, give people 1 finger and they will take the whole hand. That is socialism in a degenerate culture. In a healthy culture like the 60s healthy Blue culture of work ethics, socialism works great. But in this man-child "I play counter-strike all day because I receive money from the state" culture and broken work environment, around half of people work hard and the other half either works some bullshit job that does not help society or receive benefits from the state or parents. Keep in mind that the leeches are working privately too. Why do you think your brand items are so expensive? Because they employ tons of people who don't work shit and you as a customer are paying their salaries by paying the extra price for their products. This is for the libertarians who say leeching happens only through the state.

Sorry but it is simply not true. It is a matter of skills. They suck with women because they have shit social skills and 0 emotional intelligence.

If we compare an average leftist westerner, let's call him Bob, with an actualizednaut, a person who seriously follows and applies Leo's teachings in a non-ideological manner, we notice some serious differences in day to day life quality. 1. The actualizednaut understands all the main chemicals that can seriously damage the body and avoids them as much as possible: microplastics in foods and utensils, non-stick frying pans, heavy metal dense foods and cosmetics (eventually doing chelation if needed), PFAs, mercury dental fillings etc. Compared to Bob who may not understand the whole story and might get some heavy metals in his body and not knowing how to get rid of them. Possibly crippling his life. 2. Bob knows that processed foods and cheap bread are bad for him but believes that his fancy sourdough bread is healthy and does not pose any health risks. The excess bread consumption might lead him to some serious health complications. 3. The actualizednaut understands what a man and what a woman is. This is HUGE. Bob has no clue about it, he will probably not manage to develop into a man. This aspect alone will cripple his and his partner's life quality. Bob will try to find a reason for all this suffering but none of the soy therapists and influencers in which he trusts will manage to help him. Because those therapists (eg Dr. K) have no clue about it either. They will tell him that it happens because of trauma, because of low serotonin levels or similar. 3. Bob got introduced to some post-modern ideas and started to see how modern rational people construct things and then believe in them as if they were real. But poor Bob does not understand that some of those constructs have a base that points us to some truths. Maybe some commonly known aspects of the "man" social construct helps us understand what that hairless monkey who owns a penis really wants from life. The actualizednaut understands the limitations of post-modernism and analyses carefully which aspects of our social constructs really point to some truths and which of them are nonsense. 4. Bob thinks his group of hippie hipsters have managed to get rid of paradigm lock and they can't get fooled by group think anymore. But poor Bob does not understand that they also have a paradigm, and if someone have taught him about Spiral Dynamics, only then could he maybe realise that the illusion of paradigm lock will slowly end around Stage Yellow, not Stage Green, where he and his soy buddies are situated. The actualizednaut understands that there always will be a higher stage to be reached, so they keep their mind open. 5. Bob watches politics with disgust, he simply cannot understand why conservatives can't see what he sees. Why are people so selfish? Bob asks himself this every time he watches Kyle Kulinsky. The constant disappointment created by the incongruence between how he wants society to be and how it actually is creates great suffering in Bob's life. The actualizednaut understands that most people in the US countryside are barely growing to Stage Orange, Green is alien to them. That’s why the actualizednaut has low expectations and accepts what is. Are there some advantages of being a Bob? Of course, you will find people like you who will comfort you with social goodies and support, you will fit well in the progressive groups without having to withhold too much stuff. While the actualizednaut goes on a lonely journey, probably never met a Tier 2 person like them in person. But they know that social sweets are no match compared to the cake of discovering God.

Orange science religiosity. They have to explain everything through studies and neuroscience shit. Imso happy I did not get indoctrinated into this neurochemical bullshit. Imagine your woman comes to you and touches you and you think. Aha. I feel better now because she raises my oxitocyn. Now I have to raise my serotonin by doing blank to her, then we will raise our dopamine through that activity. Gosh. Relax dudes. Even if they can surf the world with this paradigm, it kills the beauty of it idk, it is so forced.

Omgomgomgomg. Well i knew that I will need those money I saved one day😂

how long the retreat? Sober or trip retreat? If you already told us I missed it sorry.

@Basman yes, in a way I won't call nordic culture to be feminine, it is a blend of equality and conformism of femininiety but with a flavour of logical dead-serious way of interracting. It is a paradox of individualism ina very coformist/collectivistic society.

People form different times used to feed their egos in different ways. Reading books is a good way to feed your ego. Meditation and spirituality is ego's another favourite. Academia and presenting studies, another. It is amazing to me that most people who do these things wake up with more ego not less, especially if they get successful. Tell to a vipassana rat that they are not enlightened or even if they are, their epistemology is shit because they only how to stop thinking and not how to think. Tell to the coolest academic professor that they are full of shit. Tell to a person who read 3000 books that their behaviour is the same as before they read those books.

No doubt why people roll their eyes when i tell that my passion is philosophy. I need a more fancy term for what I really do, we do here. Pure understanding? Meh. Personal development? Mmmhh. Maybe something like non-shit philosophy.

The most annoying thing about those pseudo-thinkers is that they gaslight you by calling you uneducated enough to understand their deep shit. If a youngster cannot grasp what you say there it is probably shit, or it is too advanced for 99% of people so little to no effect in helping society.

You are massively exaggerating the situation in Romania. We have great programmers, well educated doctors, engineers etc. We have programmers that earn more money than the engineers in Sweden. Those barbarians are found in the countryside and resemble the typical third world dynamics. Your rethoric reminds me of my childhood when I was afraid to go out and play because some "barbarian" group might beat me. Of course they are toxic as hell, no arguments here. Yea I would still maybe open a business in Scandinavia because there are better regulations and opportunities. I did not say that Scandinavians are bad at their job or at business, in fact the opposite, they are killing it. They are world class at hard skills: design, innovation, engineering etc. the problem is with the soft skills and mainly in men. Social skills, body language, tonality authenticity, EQ, humour etc. they have to play less videogames, go out socialize, dare to be and say what they want without intoxicating themselves with alcohol. They have to unbraiwash themselves from gender blindness ideology, from the law of Yante bullshit and learn about healthy masculinity and so on. So that women find them attractive and they won't be forced to passport fish women from Thailand. It breaks my heart because they are good guys, really good souls and willing to do their best, but they got brainwashed into mindless conformity and post-modern gender nonsense. We cannot force everyone to behave the same. Some people are born with a chill, laidback, feminine personality that fits the nordic overly polite, consensus culture. But guys like me, an ambitious, spicy introvert who sees problems everywhere does not fit this. Why did Kid A say that they don't make any new friends after a certain age? Because it is very hard to create a connection if you only talk about positive and polite shit, it is the controversy and negative shit that shows the real face of a person, and that encourages the other to open up too. Why should I choose you to be my close friend over another if you talk about the exact SAME boring shit that I heard at 1000 more people before? Yes conformism comes with benefits, it makes people stick their head into the sand and collaborate, to build a boat together. This is why Sweden works so well while Romania is shit, because in Romania everyone builds their own small boat for their family and friends not for the whole country. Vulnerability is key, without vulnerability, connection is absent. For example I make myself vulnerable right now by sharing these controversial opinions, this behavior is appreciated by serious mature people while the kids might avoid me because it disturbs their fantasy lollipop world of toxic positivity and avoidance of vulnerability. Even quality playfulness, teasing, and humour requires vulnerability. You risk offending the other with a bad joke, not all the jokes land well, especially with new people you meet. Dare to joke around, dare to talk serious shit, and the serious people will appreciate it while the snowflake kids will run to their mommies. Things that put you in a bad light done with the hope for connection is some serious vulnerability. It is saying: "look! I am not perfect, I am human" and that creates connection not fake perfection performance done by these fucking whimps. Vulnerability is real diversity not this snowflake bullshit.

@Daniel Balan yes dude I lived with those people too, and they are the opposite extreme. If Scandinavian people live in a systemic fakeness and emotional suppression, most romanians live in an uncivilised circus, traumatizing and hurting each other with aggressive words and behaviour.

@Kid A highest rates of depression in the developed world says something about it. The fact that they open up when drunk says something about them, it shows that something was suppressed. This is a very insidious problem, it is not like someone explicitly tells you to conform and fit in, it Is that you learn it through the pain of being avoided/rejected/ghosted. When I came here I was very interested into meeting new Swedes, but now it's not that wow anymore, I feel like getting a girl that did not get completely brainwashed into this madness and live happily with her and just let the others play their fake game together.

@Kid A I agree, I mean this is a thing in the whole first world but here it is just too much. This law of yante of not showing vulnerability and authenticity with people for the sake of social consensus is a big factor. People are brainwashed into fakness and lack of personality from day 1.