I see no difference between the principles underlying a financial system that builds products to please a few, and a social system that allows anybody to be anything to please a few.
Both serve a relatively small number of people. Both are based on a kind of freedom of expression that puts the individual in the center. One has been proven to be a very unreliable system that has been leading to crises and human suffering. The other one, will just be a matter of time.
There is a proliferation of too much freedom, meaning no freedom.
I think most of the people on LW can not see it. I believe the reason is due to social class. The average poster on LW comes from a relatively privileged economic and social environment that has led them in positions to rule over the others.
The consequence is that few people, mainly due to luck (for a random event that happened in the past), end up setting policies and ways of thinking upon the rest of the people.
As an example, there has been a lot of talk about creating programs that push for more professors/executives from a certain group of people. I can see today that they just ended up pooling from the same middle-upper classes that has been filling universities for years. On the other hand, the people with no voice are still in the same situation. You have no idea of how harsh life is for lots of people.
There seem some sort of air going around that we are a better society compared to the past. People grab random numbers, like the number of people above some poverty line, to say that we know better.
Even if we might have more technology compared to humans that lived one thousands years ago, I doubt that we are wiser.
The are books that have been written and rules that have served humans well, as a society as a whole. There are mistakes that humans have repeatedly done in the past. Why did we forget?
One of the consequences of this kind of thinking in this law-less society is that not everybody is born equal. I am disgusted by the disregard of the ruling class that they know better.
A lot of this is implicit, but I can see this around having interacted with people from privileged and not privileged backgrounds (and everything else in the middle).
We need to come back to fundamental principles. And the first one, is the importance of traditional family values, that see people in the unit of the boat.
If you do not see the catastrophe that is upon us as humans, then I hope you wake up.
I see no difference between the principles underlying a financial system that builds products to please a few, and a social system that allows anybody to be anything to please a few.
Both serve a relatively small number of people. Both are based on a kind of freedom of expression that puts the individual in the center. One has been proven to be a very unreliable system that has been leading to crises and human suffering. The other one, will just be a matter of time.
There is a proliferation of too much freedom, meaning no freedom.
I think most of the people on LW can not see it. I believe the reason is due to social class. The average poster on LW comes from a relatively privileged economic and social environment that has led them in positions to rule over the others.
The consequence is that few people, mainly due to luck (for a random event that happened in the past), end up setting policies and ways of thinking upon the rest of the people.
As an example, there has been a lot of talk about creating programs that push for more professors/executives from a certain group of people. I can see today that they just ended up pooling from the same middle-upper classes that has been filling universities for years. On the other hand, the people with no voice are still in the same situation. You have no idea of how harsh life is for lots of people.
There seem some sort of air going around that we are a better society compared to the past. People grab random numbers, like the number of people above some poverty line, to say that we know better.
Even if we might have more technology compared to humans that lived one thousands years ago, I doubt that we are wiser.
The are books that have been written and rules that have served humans well, as a society as a whole. There are mistakes that humans have repeatedly done in the past. Why did we forget?
One of the consequences of this kind of thinking in this law-less society is that not everybody is born equal. I am disgusted by the disregard of the ruling class that they know better.
A lot of this is implicit, but I can see this around having interacted with people from privileged and not privileged backgrounds (and everything else in the middle).
We need to come back to fundamental principles. And the first one, is the importance of traditional family values, that see people in the unit of the boat.
If you do not see the catastrophe that is upon us as humans, then I hope you wake up.