That's only true if you live in a meritocracy. Right now degeneracy = reach. That's the sad state of things.
If by study you mean read approved books or go to school, no. If you mean understand religion, philosophy and psychology through childhood, experience and story and philosophical teachings and reading and watching videos online then sure. I'm getting the impression here that if I haven't read what you've read you are very exclusive of what you are willing to listen to. I notice how you talk in name drop and I talk in ideas. You even talk in named ideas and strawman them. "zero sum" is one example. If it isn't named or doesn't have an author you approve of them you aren't very receptive and that's very limiting imo. I think I've said enough to get my point across regardless of whether I met your approved reading quota. This is all based on an argument from authority which is a logical fallacy. It's doesn't automatically make you wrong or something but it's not great for communicating ideas. You seem to be more receptive to poetry but I find that to be manipulative so I don't do it.
I'm getting the impression that you aren't listening at all. That's okay. Keep ignoring the pain of comparison and ignore it's lessons.
I'm into all of them. What they will teach is to not be jealous, stop thinking about yourself so much, and to try to take care of your fellow man and actually put them ahead of yourself. You can't do that without comparison. If you can help others you are actually making them better off than you in a lot of cases...if your goal is to ignore that comparison then you don't know if you've done any good at all. I would say service to others is the number one thing taught by all of those. They don't decry comparison at all. Actually if anything they say compare yourself to God or an ultimate ideal, find yourself lacking and do your best to help everyone else around you.
He's saying it's a culture. An American culture. But it's not. It's all cultures. Everywhere. All the time. Because it's a reward mechanism for finding your place in your tribe that's built into your head and you are trying to make it irrelevant and will ultimately fail at the task. That part of the brain is what builds all cultures. The problem isn't with American culture. It's with the idea that you can eliminate a serotonin based reward mechanism from your brain and that by doing so, living as if you have 8 billion friends is suddenly possible. It's not. Dunbar's number is a real thing. It exists for a reason. I'm not talking about zero sum survival or anything like that. I'm talking about a social heirarchy that's built into your brain to help you recognize your place in the world. Ignoring it will get you into a lot of trouble. Using it to find your place in 8 billion people is a losing game. Using it to find your place in a community of about 150-500 people works most of the time. Modern technology has wrecked our idea of who we are and where our place is. That doesn't suddenly make comparison and bad mechanism. It means we need to limit who we compare ourselves to to people that we will actually interact with in person day to day and find a way to fit in with them.
I never said anything about "zero sum" or anything like that. All I've repeatedly tried to get across is that you are attempting to live in a way your brain is not wired for and you think if you ignore it it will go away. It's there for a reason. Once you realize the reason is finding your place in a social heirarchy and that our current social system is too expansive for most people to find their place in...then you see the solution. It's creating a social circle you fit in and can grow in. Some call it an "echo chamber" or "tribalism". I call it family and community. If you are having a hard time with comparing yourself to others...it's because you aren't living up to your potential or you are comparing yourself to people that are so far out of reach that it's a waste of time. You should be able to compare yourself in a way that's healthy within your tribe instead of trying to convince yourself you don't need to change for the better because comparison in and of itself is evil.
Not only this, people you can learn from and improve yourself...but also people that need you for your skills as well. Making yourself useless is the biggest way to spiral.
No it doesn't, it involves accepting a valuable place and allowing others to be better than you in their places. Why do you think dolphins swimming better than you doesn't affect you the same way? Because you automatically remove dolphins from your social circle. They aren't your friends and never will be. You need to do the same for people you will never meet.
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a mechanism of the brain that's directly linked to the feeling of well being. If you study psychology it is known that social heirarchy is a real thing you cannot escape. You have to accept the reality and limit your social interaction to a few hundred people. Unfortunately with the advent of social media we are comparing ourselves to the top .000000000001% of the population of the planet constantly. That's the problem. The comparative mechanism is useful and it's dangerous to remove it. It's what keeps you from getting killed by thinking you can take on someone twice your size or not take advice from someone twice as smart. Thinking about yourself all the time is a sure fire way to become miserable. Think about others. Be good at something in your group that no one else is good at...and you will be fine. We were made to live like this.
Your brain is built on social hierarchy. Serotonin works exactly like this. You can't program it out. You accept it.
Reward content and you will get content.
Social media is over. Decentralized media is the only uncorrupt thing left.
Not extensively but I have seen the plans for it brought up in the news from time to time. Also, Intel is following suit. Nvidia would use either.
Basically speeds up everything...whether you think that is positive or not really depends on your imagination and biases more than anything. I'll use it for things I think are positive. It's like asking what's positive about a hammer. It's just a tool...a transformative tool...it turns your hand into a metal smasher. That doesn't sound positive but it's what you do with it that's positive or negative.
Everything worth being hyped about gets overhyped at some point. That doesn't discount it as a transformative technology. Your favorite band didn't get shittier just because they became more popular. You're just a hipster.
TSMC spending billions to build in Arizona might tip some people off...idk
ah...found your real bias...makes sense now