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My worldview is disagreed on my many.
If you remove the few interested in only money and power, people, while collectively stupid, do care about eachother. We can and will collectively do great things not based solely on money, but connection and social upbringing.
Ultimately I think people except for the select few would rather see all of us in comfort rather than just themselves. There are some experiments that show this too.
the few interested in only money and power
Narcissists. Narcissists who refuse to acknowledge their issues just need to be taken out back and shot. End.
Every single problem with humanity can be traced back to narcissists.
I like that view. I am of the opinion that currency, while a successful solution to trading - when the buyer has nothing of interest to the seller, money and the valuation of both parties’ skillsets can be an intermediary, allowing amicable trade for otherwise incompatible trade - it has long been used to cause harm through greed, exclusivity and control etc. and has caused widespread avarice and obsession. Few people seem to recall what community and life without this enamour and worry with currency was like. Before all land was claimed and monetised by those who claimed power, and before every human was financially and heavily indebted to the applicable governments simply for existing.
Currency without malicious control shows promise. At some point society will need to figure out how to restart without currency becoming misused again.
I have thought a lot recently about how every thinker in ethics and moral philosophy seems to think that only elites matter. The definition of “elite” can be narrow or wide, but fuck it seems like the most enlightened amongst us do not even realize ordinary people exist beyond in an theoretical, academic sense.
People have various degrees of bigotry and stupidity, but you are 100% right that the vast majority of people just want to help each other and live a decent life.
I disagree with the first part of your statement. Ethics and moral philosophy are why I have this worldview. The theoretical, academic and intellectual are how we improve that connection.
Historically, (like before the 1900s) only the elite COULD afford to be academic. In modern times, the rise of public education has vastly increased the quality of life amongst the non-elite.
Additionally, the modern elite are almost exclusively anti-intellectual. There is no professor in existence who would want their knowledge to be kept to themselves, there is no writer who wishes their works shared, for them to go unpublished.
The modern elite are the anti-everything that keep us together.
In my experience it’s the boomers that base their own worth entirely on how hard they work.
It’s people captured by capitalist cultural norms (including things like the protestant work ethic).
Of which many are boomers, but not all. And there are some boomers who escaped it.
How hard they work, or how many hours they punch in?
I was told it was actually a good thing that I’m currently doing the work of five people–while the federal government is still deciding we don’t actually need to hire people–because everyone will notice and I’ll definitely get a raise and a promotion.
When I do get a raise and promotion it’ll be because of the one or two more important projects I haven’t been able to work on because of less important but more urgent tasks that I would normally delegate. So technically, I’m not even performing at my current level.
I also am of the opinion that discrimination based on intelligence is ableism, but I seem to be in the minority. Happy to be there.
I don’t discriminate against idiots because they are idiots. I discriminate against them because they do idiotic things. Big difference.
You can be an idiot all you want, just acknowledge it and stop doing things where your idiocy will harm people. Like voting.
Yes but smart people are able to do dumb things too, I was talking more about lower educated people earning less and it being hard to do you taxes when you have a lower IQ.
The questioneis where does worth come from
Empathy and selflessness, but not done to be noticed.
being a living creature on this planet, is my personal opinion. i think all living things have value. existence is rare and fleeting. all life has value.
now dont get that confused with some “all lives are sacred” pacifist talk. im not gonna say the life of a nazi has value. it used to and it could again, but people who are nazis have thrown the value of their life away
Net worth can be positive or negative
This is true, for example Nazis and others ableists are an obvious negative as their innate positive value is overriden by the despicable lifestyle.
