I miss the daily interactions with the people i liked and the fun of being a dickhead to strangers i disagree with, but i know that everything in my life is better than being on social media.
Also, since having my mind blown by studying power and how it works, i just can't get that worked up by the day to day punditry. What's happening in the news isn't as interesting. I'd rather just lift weights and play with my kids then argue over the latest sub commitee hearing that isn't going to matter in 5 minutes
Seriously, the freaking licensure and regulations it takes to do anything immediately cuts down any entrepreneurial endeavors people could have...simply look at how much shit you'd need to do to open a barbershop where the only hair cut you gave was a buzz cut. It takes very little training/skill/equipment but do you have a business license? How about any of the other 'necessary' things your city/town needs? Do you have your barber's license? How about the building; up to date on your property taxes? Up to code? It's absolutely mind boggling. Then scale to whatever complexity you're trying to accomplish.
Secondly, I view the purity attacks as pure smooth brain, mid-wittery. The mark of true intelligence is being able to understand and hold opposing thoughts in your mind and make the correct value judgement for when each is applicable. It is simply asinine to not participate and take advantage of the systems we're all bound by. It's also stupid to not wish and push for better ways, but like you said, playing the hand we're dealt we must make trade offs.
The tragic thing is that you fail to grasp the difference between "start your own business/control your own income" and "build your own Amazon." The former is essential and admirable, the second is stupid. Learning to overcome the obstacles in your path is vital if you want to protect yourself. You sound like you are making excuses for locking yourself in a cage.
Exactly. Starting an Amazon is a vocation, albeit an impossibly fantastical one. You either have the calling to attempt such a stupid thing (and the funding/connections) or you don't. But to insist that everyone who wishes to shop online out of the convenience of holding down their current vocation and supporting their family MUST abandon their current vocation to do something that's never going to happen is retarded. Dumbest implication ever.
Haha! I was thinking more along the lines of, “I know! I’ll just quit my lucrative career and start over with nothing to chase the pipe dream of having my own Amazon just so I don’t have to order toe nail clippers from them! #LifeGoals2023
I know a couple people who never order from Amazon but they are in jobs with nice hours, pay VERY well, they have no little mouths to feed, and aren’t trying to homeschool and take the kids to swimming lessons or cook 3 meals a day and keep up with laundry for 4 people. They have the time and money to hunt around, pay more and buy shit elsewhere.
Not to be rude, but I think you missed the point. The barber shop is an extremely SIMPLE example of the hurdles in place for relatively basic businesses and skipping any of those steps can put you on the wrong side of our jacked up/corrupt legal system. If it's that hard to play within the rules just to shave some heads then what kind of extreme complexity and 'gotchas' exist for everything else? What if you wanted to scale up your shop to a multistate franchise? How many local zoning boards do you need to grease?
To be rude, your comments is the perfect example of how people make excuses for failing instead of tackling obstacles and finding a way to be successful within the parameters of the time and place where they find themselves. People like you sit in the corner and bitch while people of action find a way.
The barbershop is also a good example of how misguided your take is. It is extremely easy to navigate the regulatory hurdles to open a small business like a barber shop if you are determined to do it. Treating this as the equivalent of some massive scale business is just plain silly. How many businesses have you started? How many have your run? If you focus on developing valuable skills, it is not difficult at all to start and run a business that provides you with a good living and a higher degree of control over your own income and future.
I am at the point where I have made my own online tribe, outside of the little cultural weirdos. I won't befriend (closely associate or give care about) anyone online that won't willingly pursue an offline relationship with me. If we can't talk on the phone or invest in seeing each other in live chats or something to that effect (if distance is an issue), fuck it. Also, if people are willing to treat me as expandable to get me back in their little "this is how we think, you must assimilate" bubble or just act like people act towards people online that they never have to talk to in person, total waste of time. But, I am rather brashly myself, not playing the Orwellian doublespeak of ANY online clique, so most who hang with me online, already accepted this about me or are just hanging on hoping I come to see the light. In the case of the latter, they reveal themselves somewhat quickly and are easily removed like stinky trash.
I miss the daily interactions with the people i liked and the fun of being a dickhead to strangers i disagree with, but i know that everything in my life is better than being on social media.
Also, since having my mind blown by studying power and how it works, i just can't get that worked up by the day to day punditry. What's happening in the news isn't as interesting. I'd rather just lift weights and play with my kids then argue over the latest sub commitee hearing that isn't going to matter in 5 minutes
I saw a good comment recently, “if you have to rely, you will comply.” Makes me realize my talk of not complying is mostly a cope.
Love the "build your own X" = open handed slap.
Seriously, the freaking licensure and regulations it takes to do anything immediately cuts down any entrepreneurial endeavors people could have...simply look at how much shit you'd need to do to open a barbershop where the only hair cut you gave was a buzz cut. It takes very little training/skill/equipment but do you have a business license? How about any of the other 'necessary' things your city/town needs? Do you have your barber's license? How about the building; up to date on your property taxes? Up to code? It's absolutely mind boggling. Then scale to whatever complexity you're trying to accomplish.
Secondly, I view the purity attacks as pure smooth brain, mid-wittery. The mark of true intelligence is being able to understand and hold opposing thoughts in your mind and make the correct value judgement for when each is applicable. It is simply asinine to not participate and take advantage of the systems we're all bound by. It's also stupid to not wish and push for better ways, but like you said, playing the hand we're dealt we must make trade offs.
The tragic thing is that you fail to grasp the difference between "start your own business/control your own income" and "build your own Amazon." The former is essential and admirable, the second is stupid. Learning to overcome the obstacles in your path is vital if you want to protect yourself. You sound like you are making excuses for locking yourself in a cage.
Exactly. Starting an Amazon is a vocation, albeit an impossibly fantastical one. You either have the calling to attempt such a stupid thing (and the funding/connections) or you don't. But to insist that everyone who wishes to shop online out of the convenience of holding down their current vocation and supporting their family MUST abandon their current vocation to do something that's never going to happen is retarded. Dumbest implication ever.
Also a fair point, you may not have it in your desire or skill set to create xyz.
Haha! I was thinking more along the lines of, “I know! I’ll just quit my lucrative career and start over with nothing to chase the pipe dream of having my own Amazon just so I don’t have to order toe nail clippers from them! #LifeGoals2023
I know a couple people who never order from Amazon but they are in jobs with nice hours, pay VERY well, they have no little mouths to feed, and aren’t trying to homeschool and take the kids to swimming lessons or cook 3 meals a day and keep up with laundry for 4 people. They have the time and money to hunt around, pay more and buy shit elsewhere.
Not to be rude, but I think you missed the point. The barber shop is an extremely SIMPLE example of the hurdles in place for relatively basic businesses and skipping any of those steps can put you on the wrong side of our jacked up/corrupt legal system. If it's that hard to play within the rules just to shave some heads then what kind of extreme complexity and 'gotchas' exist for everything else? What if you wanted to scale up your shop to a multistate franchise? How many local zoning boards do you need to grease?
To be rude, your comments is the perfect example of how people make excuses for failing instead of tackling obstacles and finding a way to be successful within the parameters of the time and place where they find themselves. People like you sit in the corner and bitch while people of action find a way.
The barbershop is also a good example of how misguided your take is. It is extremely easy to navigate the regulatory hurdles to open a small business like a barber shop if you are determined to do it. Treating this as the equivalent of some massive scale business is just plain silly. How many businesses have you started? How many have your run? If you focus on developing valuable skills, it is not difficult at all to start and run a business that provides you with a good living and a higher degree of control over your own income and future.
I am at the point where I have made my own online tribe, outside of the little cultural weirdos. I won't befriend (closely associate or give care about) anyone online that won't willingly pursue an offline relationship with me. If we can't talk on the phone or invest in seeing each other in live chats or something to that effect (if distance is an issue), fuck it. Also, if people are willing to treat me as expandable to get me back in their little "this is how we think, you must assimilate" bubble or just act like people act towards people online that they never have to talk to in person, total waste of time. But, I am rather brashly myself, not playing the Orwellian doublespeak of ANY online clique, so most who hang with me online, already accepted this about me or are just hanging on hoping I come to see the light. In the case of the latter, they reveal themselves somewhat quickly and are easily removed like stinky trash.