No matter what you do, you can't win.
You know this. You want to get a huge one up on life and devise some idea that will get you to that point.
However, you either don't go through with it, because it's too much work, or you would need money to do so.
The amount of work you would need would require you to quit whatever meaningless job you have. And I do know it would be meaningless, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to find something better.
The truth is that in order to maintain whatever lifestyle you have, you would have to keep up the monetary lifestyle you have.
It's hard to do so. Housing is expensive, travel is expensive, and food can be expensive (if you want to eat right and not have health problems). That's not even counting entertainment, or the costs for education to help you out of your circumstances.
But if these things didn't cost as much as they do, then how would those people manage their respective lifestyle.
Captialism is a dirty system that says you get paid x for doing y job. And while that seems simple, it becomes more apparent when you get to the discussion about non-work revenue, since this is where it goes wrong.
Non-work revenue is that someone else is doing the actual work for you, and you just check from time to time that it's working as it is supposed to. However, I suggest to you that this is unethical. Sure, you came up with the idea and put all of your hard work to get it going, but when it comes down to the numbers, you are pulling in a way different number than anyone else.
Is it fair? No, and it never will be. You could try to equalize all salaries to be the same, but there are people that don't put in the same effort. Maybe they don't know how to, or maybe they just don't want to. I don't know them! So, you create a graduated payment practice. Of course that is where it all goes wrong again, because you will always see the person at the top taking more share than anyone else.
Oh sure, we could try communism or socialism, but that means that you would end up doing a job you don't want to do, to support someone who doesn't want to do your job. To be honest, the idea we can reach a utopian type system is just impossible to maintain, without someone getting the short end of the stick.
You need to eat, you need a shelter from the harsh weather, and you need to occupy your mind. If you could do that without requiring any effort, you probably would.
But you can't. Nobody can. Sure, someone out there is going to say 'yes, we can', but that statement is a dream and nothing more. The more we manipulate things, the worse it will get.
Take grading on a bell curve for example. Even if your best would have numbers wise got you a B+, if so many others did A level work, then your B+ may be shifted to a D or an F. It's a brutal system, where if not enough students even do D level work, then it is supposed to shift everyone upwards. Here's a brilliant idea teacher. Teach better. If all of the students are doing A+ level work, that should be the goal. To say we should just arbitrarily assign grades based on what everyone else is doing, is unfair. You're just a lousy teacher. Any student who isn't keeping up, is the student you need to be teaching to! If everyone else is getting it, then why doesn't student x or y?
I am sorry to point the finger at teacher like that. I was just using that as an example. Teaching is a hard job as well, and you should be compensated better. But you're not and everyone except the people who administrate the schools and the finances are not helping the matter any.
It comes to how this situation graphs out, and where grading on a curve makes sense. To be properly fair, the compensation for jobs done, should not appear on a graph as anything other than a straight line. When it deviates at any point and resembles a curve, there's where the problem lies.
In my book, I use math to show the folly of numbers in an infinite system. If everything was equal, infinity would always point to infinity and nothing else. It is when we introduced the idea of nothingness, then it all bends into the arbitrary system we are living in.
The reality that we are in is not a fair one. If it was fair, then why is there so much suffering? Not just physically, but emotionally, and monetarily, we are suffering as a people. And all the people at the top of this who don't have these issues, they need to wake up more than anyone else, that this is the reality they are living in, and they are equally at fault as anyone else.
The only way any one of us wins, is if we all work together for the good of everyone. Not of ourselves, because in doing so, we will make it even worse. Until all of the systems equalize, nothing you can do as an individual will ever lead to an overall improvement. Sure you could change the location you do this, but it's still going to settle where you were before.
So, can you get rid of money, food and entertainment and be seen as an equal? Only if you never need for those things anymore. In this reality right now, that is the truth that you will never get there.
At what point, would you have enough? Think on that, because the only way to transcend this reality is to find that point. That place, is where we need to be and it's where we are not.
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Edit: Just thinking about taxes, if you want to make taxes fair, only tax those who aren't in debt. When you debts are greater than your household salary minus expenses(i.e. deductions), maybe you shouldn't be paying taxes. Because taxes are punitive when you don't have any money to begin with. Make it a flat tax, with no loopholes.
When you are in debt, it should be looked at as if you don't have any money to begin with. To not look at that, is ignorance on the part of the lawmakers.
However, you either don't go through with it, because it's too much work, or you would need money to do so.
The amount of work you would need would require you to quit whatever meaningless job you have. And I do know it would be meaningless, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to find something better.
The truth is that in order to maintain whatever lifestyle you have, you would have to keep up the monetary lifestyle you have.
It's hard to do so. Housing is expensive, travel is expensive, and food can be expensive (if you want to eat right and not have health problems). That's not even counting entertainment, or the costs for education to help you out of your circumstances.
But if these things didn't cost as much as they do, then how would those people manage their respective lifestyle.
Captialism is a dirty system that says you get paid x for doing y job. And while that seems simple, it becomes more apparent when you get to the discussion about non-work revenue, since this is where it goes wrong.
Non-work revenue is that someone else is doing the actual work for you, and you just check from time to time that it's working as it is supposed to. However, I suggest to you that this is unethical. Sure, you came up with the idea and put all of your hard work to get it going, but when it comes down to the numbers, you are pulling in a way different number than anyone else.
Is it fair? No, and it never will be. You could try to equalize all salaries to be the same, but there are people that don't put in the same effort. Maybe they don't know how to, or maybe they just don't want to. I don't know them! So, you create a graduated payment practice. Of course that is where it all goes wrong again, because you will always see the person at the top taking more share than anyone else.
Oh sure, we could try communism or socialism, but that means that you would end up doing a job you don't want to do, to support someone who doesn't want to do your job. To be honest, the idea we can reach a utopian type system is just impossible to maintain, without someone getting the short end of the stick.
You need to eat, you need a shelter from the harsh weather, and you need to occupy your mind. If you could do that without requiring any effort, you probably would.
But you can't. Nobody can. Sure, someone out there is going to say 'yes, we can', but that statement is a dream and nothing more. The more we manipulate things, the worse it will get.
Take grading on a bell curve for example. Even if your best would have numbers wise got you a B+, if so many others did A level work, then your B+ may be shifted to a D or an F. It's a brutal system, where if not enough students even do D level work, then it is supposed to shift everyone upwards. Here's a brilliant idea teacher. Teach better. If all of the students are doing A+ level work, that should be the goal. To say we should just arbitrarily assign grades based on what everyone else is doing, is unfair. You're just a lousy teacher. Any student who isn't keeping up, is the student you need to be teaching to! If everyone else is getting it, then why doesn't student x or y?
I am sorry to point the finger at teacher like that. I was just using that as an example. Teaching is a hard job as well, and you should be compensated better. But you're not and everyone except the people who administrate the schools and the finances are not helping the matter any.
It comes to how this situation graphs out, and where grading on a curve makes sense. To be properly fair, the compensation for jobs done, should not appear on a graph as anything other than a straight line. When it deviates at any point and resembles a curve, there's where the problem lies.
In my book, I use math to show the folly of numbers in an infinite system. If everything was equal, infinity would always point to infinity and nothing else. It is when we introduced the idea of nothingness, then it all bends into the arbitrary system we are living in.
The reality that we are in is not a fair one. If it was fair, then why is there so much suffering? Not just physically, but emotionally, and monetarily, we are suffering as a people. And all the people at the top of this who don't have these issues, they need to wake up more than anyone else, that this is the reality they are living in, and they are equally at fault as anyone else.
The only way any one of us wins, is if we all work together for the good of everyone. Not of ourselves, because in doing so, we will make it even worse. Until all of the systems equalize, nothing you can do as an individual will ever lead to an overall improvement. Sure you could change the location you do this, but it's still going to settle where you were before.
So, can you get rid of money, food and entertainment and be seen as an equal? Only if you never need for those things anymore. In this reality right now, that is the truth that you will never get there.
At what point, would you have enough? Think on that, because the only way to transcend this reality is to find that point. That place, is where we need to be and it's where we are not.
----
Edit: Just thinking about taxes, if you want to make taxes fair, only tax those who aren't in debt. When you debts are greater than your household salary minus expenses(i.e. deductions), maybe you shouldn't be paying taxes. Because taxes are punitive when you don't have any money to begin with. Make it a flat tax, with no loopholes.
When you are in debt, it should be looked at as if you don't have any money to begin with. To not look at that, is ignorance on the part of the lawmakers.
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