theneverfox

Exactly.

Money makes everything horrible. I loved every moment of volunteering, I've done so many off the wall things because someone needed help and I have a wide skillet. I love saving the day. I don't even like praise, I just like the satisfaction of knowing I helped

But money makes me feel yucky. I hate talking about it, I hate asking for it, I hate using it... I'm ok with having it, but only if I don't look at it. I'm even conflicted about rewards for my work

I want to help people. I want a place i can make my own. I want to be free, to have a place where I can build unrestricted

That's one of the big lies of capitalism. Everyone likes to work. We just don't like being told what to do, and we especially don't like to be exploited

My best interaction today was helping someone pick up the peanut butter stand he knocked over - I only picked up like 4 jars, but I lived up to my morals and that felt nice. I turned an embarrassing event into something communal, we exchanged like three sentences, and at least three people's days were made better for a minute long event

It feels good to help. It feels good to do. The money (and implicit coercion) is what makes it feel bad

I mean, honestly? If you do anything hard enough capitalism will yield enough to make it a living... Eventually

Capitalism wants us all to be interchangable cogs, but humans are humans. People like passionate people, if you want to weave baskets out of trash, you could just refuse to accept "that's not a job" and do it all day every day

By sheer force of will, you can turn anything into a job. It's probably not going to make you rich, there will be hard times, most everyone in your life will almost attack you for it every step of the way, but if you refuse to bend eventually the world will

Well, seeing as it already flooded...

And that's why Zohran is great. He answers questions like this so well that interviewers stop asking, because they'll just be teeing him up to explain his platform in simple, easily understood detail

This is fucking stupid. It's when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it's, it's always horrible

A sane society wouldn't create a currency based on debt

Our entire economy is balancing on infinite growth, because it's all made up of chains of debt that all siphon off money upwards, at every step

Yep... It's amazing how hard it is to convince people that China is just capitalism and the government doing things

Things the US (and most) governments have explicitly defined authority to do already, they just pretend that it's unthinkable

You get hit by a baseball. Then you're cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who's entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

It's because they become an avatar for their money

Every tweet Elon makes affects his horde. Every single one - and usually it's just a few hundred thousand and balances out- but occasionally it's hundreds of millions in the red

And Elon can't help himself. Most of them can

They can only be themselves in locations with tight information control, which is generally resorts with other billionaires. Who seem to be consistently in a pissing match with each other about their wealth and influence

And that's why they're fucking inhuman dragons

Nah, Mars sounds great. A tiny prison of their own making, as the corners they cut slowly come back to bite them? That's poetic

Anyone who says that is pretty stupid, but I don't think I've ever met someone who actually held that position

I will say that working to colonize Mars will teach us to fix the Earth... But it would be real nice if we stopped fucking up the Earth in the first place