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We have a lot of junk food snacks at the office, when I'm tired or stressed I eat them, when I'm rested and not stressed I can easily stay away.

This type of situation seems to exist in many different ways in my life, so its easy to see how I'd be healthier if I was happier.

Toronto maybe a special case, but 49.9% of the population is foreign born, and people are generally encourage to keep their culture... I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your homogenous statement.

Ha, seems that way.

Adjusting your values and convictions is seen as a flaw, so in a sense we have disincentives evolving of thoughts.

Once heard that Vice was an millennial neoliberal apologist, didn't believe it till seeing this article.

To be honest, I wouldn't want a stranger driving my car, cause only I know how I drive and treat the car... If someone else is driving it, I run the risk they are hard on the brakes, or driving fast on the highway, or don't stick to the right lane, or are less cautious in general (cause its not their car).

That could be part of it, but I figure most of the people who are interested in WL already have a problem with HRC. While all those who love her won't change there opinions.

We were using a 'car share' program for the last couple of years, we decided to get a car instead and ditch the program.

My biggest problem was that the cars always had 1/4 of a tank of gas, so I was always filling the tank and using 30 minutes to find a station and fill the tank. Whenever I needed a car I needed to plan ahead significantly. Also, there is a stop loss incentive, so you get stressed about having to add extra hours to the car. We found if we are using the car more than 2 times a month its better to own a car.

Also, I hate the concept of calling it 'sharing' there is no sharing here, its a short term rental, all-be-it more convenient than traditional rentals.

I bet the October surprise is that no one cares.

The author also talks about reading literature.

I feel that I'm cynical about facts like you are, but quality fiction is an amazing view into the world of the past or of different people. The thing about fiction is that it's not trying to convince you of something, its not true or false, its a story with some historical and cultural backdrops.

Read some Camus, Hess or Hemingway. Read literature that wasn't originally written in english like Season of Migration to the North, The yellow sofa, I am a Cat or something by Naguib Mahfouz.

Reading physical books is a great way to maintain your focus, you think differently when you are digging into a real book. It encourages you to think deeply and avoids the surface thinking that we are so used to with all our modern technology.

I'm totally with you on the absurdity of 'facts' these days, but good literature is something else all together.

I did research paper on ecstasy for a chemistry class. It really isn't that bad for you, its pretty similar to taking a antidepressant. Most of the problem/concerns come from what is mixed in with the MDMA.

The negative side effects are a way to get you to stop drinking. With none of the side effects people will have no reason to stop drinking.

This seems like the kind of solution that actually makes things worse.

When will Facebook 'content creators'(users) get compensated for the value they create?

Until competitive cooperatives exist as legit alternatives we don't have any other option.

Destroy the world with your right hand, try to clean up some of the mess with the left hand.

Could be a PR scheme, makes him look good to be helping refugees, reality is, it is just 'business as usual.'

When I didn't have much else going on with my life, the excitement of getting a high score on a video game made me feel better and gave a sense of accomplishment.

Isn't it always a thing before a bubble pops where everyone says the bubble wont pop.

Last weekend I did a 60 hour fast, part of my motivation was research like this.

What I discovered after and into this week is that my self-control has increased dramatically.

It seems like what they really want is someone with twice the skills for half the pay.

My friend's dad always told me it was hard to find people to hire, but he also said to hire someone he'd need to be able to make 3x what they cost to keep around.

Whats to say the idea they would be stuck with wasn't there favorite, number 1 idea?

Seems like it would be hard to determine, but also, its against the interests of the drug companies that are selling the drugs. In addition, if it was publicly funded, how would we 'deal' with the conclusions?

Poor life situations are depressing, but as a society we think drugs are the solution. There seems to be little encouragement to live more meaningful lives, which in turn will make us more happy and less 'depressed'.

Note: There are clinical cases of serious depression, but it seems most cases aren't that.

Some people I know have 'depression', really they are miserable about their work and lives. They tell the doctor their problems, the doctor jumps on giving them drugs.

Realistically, if they changed their jobs they'd probably be more happy, but drugs is the default solution.

I get the feeling that many people are afraid of this, but really don't know anything about it.

I loved riding my bike, did around 1200km a year. Last summer I slipped in the rain, demolished my ankle, was non-weight barring for 12 weeks... That costs a lot of money.

I know this is personal experience, and not representative of everyone, but one accident on a bike costs a tun.

There is also a difference between state-capitalism and socialism, many of the socialist / communist examples we have are actually state-capitalism.

Sounds like one of Walmart's externalities.

Walmart at times at least gets tax discounts for "all the jobs they create"

According to Wikipedia: "Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production;"[1]

"social ownership" refers to the various forms of ownership for the means of production in socialist economic systems; encompassing public ownership, employee ownership, cooperative ownership, citizen ownership of equity[1] and common ownership.[2]

As far as the meaning of socialism, I'd see an evolution of capitalism leading to the employee/cooperative ownership with less government interference. It makes sense that the people doing the work have a say in the company they are a part of. There could be problems, there are always problem with any system. But a fairer situation for all workers seems overall more beneficial to society as a whole.

The issues you are describing in the US don't seem to be socialist, they are consequences of capitalism. As a process capitalism focuses on concentration of power, rent-seeking, limitation of competition (through corporate lobby). Basically what we have now is capitalism, there is no perfect ideal capitalism that we would be better with, and should move towards, we've already gone down that path and these are the consequences. This to me is the reason why we should be honestly talking about trying something else, something better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ownership

Generally the places we call socialist are state capitalist, meaning the state owns the means of production.

The evolution from capitalism isn't to communism, it would be something new, something different. What we should want is a better system that is more fair to everyone and doesn't by its very purpose destroy the world.