If you want a label "newspeak" is what you are looking for.
If you want a solution, ignore it. It can only affect you if you let it...
A já právě zjistil. že ještě pořád existují a jsou samostatně na GP. Ale mají na mobilu úplně dementní ovládání.
Ovečky byly nejlepší. Občas mám chuť si je znovu napsat jen abych si je ještě mohl zahrát.
That is very interesting. For me, it's kind of the reverse. By embracing economic freedom I am swayed towards more empathetic positions.
Yes, the feeling of undeserved privilege is dangerous. I wasn't born filthy rich, but rich enough, that my parents did not have to take a loan to buy a second house when I was a teenager. It was exactly the feeling of undesired privilege that led to me making terrible decisions and eventually to me being homeless and struggling even way more than I secretly wished to. Even now, years later I am still paying for that.
If anything said here today helps you grow in any way, I'll be extremely satisfied. :)
I believe you are correct. Most people do not understand, that freedom comes from within. Surprisingly even most anarchists do not understand that. (in my experience) Or maybe they don't understand the implications of it. (for instance the impossibility of forcing people to be free, to want to be free)
I don't think that the covid mania was (still kinda is) specific to NZ. I saw it pretty much across the entire developed world. If you said CZ instead of NZ, it would apply to a letter to my home country of Czechia.
On the financial note, I am bit hesitant to agree. Unless there is something I am missing, struggling to make ends meet does not, imho, reduce freedom. It reduces luxury. I believe I am as free now, that I make over 2x the national average, as I was when I was homeless and literally begged for food money. Both inregard to the outer and inner freedom.
In fact I dare to say, that even people who struggle to make ends meet today still have a more luxurious lives than literal kings just a couple hundred years ago. (at least in developed countries)
I suspect the problem is of cognitive rsther than economic nature. What I mean is that in absolute terms, even the lower income classes have way more than we actually need, but we see, that other people have even way more than we do. The problem IMO is that we too often consider relative wealth, not absolute wealth. That pushes us to imitate lifestyles of those who have more than us, to compare ourselves to them instead of comparing our needs to what we already have now and what we possibly can have in the future.
So is it more like a social pressure thing?
Maybe we are using the word "freedom" in a different way. Generally, when I say freedom I mean the outer freedom. Basically whether or not your natural (negative) rights are being limited or respected.
Lots of people when talk about freedom, they mean the inner freedom, meaning whether or not you are allowed to think for yourself, whether you can even comprehend thoughts contrary to popular belief and so on.
Is that it?
Well, yes, consumerism is a problem, but in my experience it is equally spread among (almost) the entire income spectrum. The only major difference I see is about what kinds of goods and services do people blindly consume depending largely on their income. Two exceptions I see are both the extremely rich and the extremely poor.
In fact that's why in my personal life I first and foremost differentiate consumers and producers and seek out producers. I can't be bothered to endlessly engage in conversations about watching movies, vacations, new gadgets and so on. I want to know what people create, regardless of what it is.
Lately it seems more and more as the most important categorization tool at hand. Not wealth, not beauty, not intelligence, not anything else, just whether a persons most intimate, passionate desire is to produce or to consume.
Mně nejvíc dostává pláč kolem karet a EET. Už zase hon na čarodějnice, teda lidi co se nechtěj nechat okrádat a znají svůj byznys.
V cashi mi jeden barman zvládne obsloužit cca 90 lidí za hodinu. s kartama cca 60. S kartou platím poplatek z každé transakce, poplatek za pronájem terminálu a ještě lidi při platbě kartou dávají o dost menší dyška, nebo dokonce žádný.
Restaurace bude mít menší rozdíl v množství obsloužených zákazníků, ale taky menší marže a dýška a polatky je budou bolet o dost víc.
Jsem fakt rád, že už jsem se podniku zbavil.
Going to work on my car today. Wish me luck.
#shitpost
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9695781705231127301688988604.webp
As my country's central bank director said about inflation: "That just happens every now and then."
Huh. that is very interesting. Pretty much everything makes sense to me. but the first sentence. I for the most part dont see a connection between wealth and freedom. Is there such a thing? (possibly exclusive ro NZ if I get it right?)
You have almost absolute control over what you see here. To avoid most of politics, simply follow people who rarely post politics.
I for instance use this npub for shitposting mostly.