I hate the current sentiment that it is better to pay for everything to “avoid headaches”. Like people on social media outright telling you to NOT ask your friend to give you a ride, but get an uber, etc. The stupidest thing ever. I will crush at my friend’s place when I have a chance. I will ask my neighbor to mow my yard when I’m gone. I will ask for a favor. I will definitely pay it back in return a favor later, if I can. I made best friends in my life through this. Your friendship is reinforced through favors, not diminished. Yes, unreasonable requests to the extent of being annoying are not good either, but most people are not crazy. We are social animals, abusing relationships is bad, but not having relationships is not any better.
Excellent explanation of tech filling gaps in society created by inequality, consumerism, and the rat race. People choose to live like this, sadly but at least there is support out there? I for one choose to work less and consume less. My communitys deeper interactions (sharing time and food, etc) are somewhat small but people are sociable and connected locally.
They say that socialism is the government breaking your leg and then handing you a crutch. I totally agree, but "the free market" will do the same exact thing to you.
I for one HATE this idea of the village not existing anymore. If you have to pay money for a person to sleep with you, then they don't really want to sleep with you. If you have to pay someone to care about you then they don't really care about you. I hate this situation.
I don't trust the willingness of employers to provide additional compensation to their employees for all of these additional services that were once provided by the community and people seem to hate when the government or employees demand additional compensation because it makes stuff more expensive. I don't think it benefits the type of people that have to rely on community services anyway. It also leads to further fetishism of money as well as the loss of intrinsic benefits of certain tasks like bonding while walking your dog.
Also in the Anglophone world, lots of people live in car-dependent suburban areas or cities that are pedestrian unfriendly, and there aren't third places that most people can access without a car. Social interactions outside of school or work needs to be planned and aren't spontaneous. Not that I'm anti-car. I'm anti car dependency, which is completely different.
Rural areas are *more* dependent on cars to be honest. How are you gonna do anything without a car if you live 10 miles out of town which isn't uncommon. It would be nice to have small communities where it was feasible to either car-pool, bike, or walk to where you need to go. Unfortunately it's not just city planning that makes this not work, it's the scale on which everything works these days. Amazon can put most stuff on your porch for a cheaper price than it could be stocked at a local walmart half the time, to say nothing of a mom-and-pop shop.
@@TK-en2hq I think it's called a village. Where a bunch of people say less than 1000 live within walking distance of one another and provide goods and services to one another and passing outsides with maybe a specialist that regularly receives outside customers. Yeah America does not have many villages, only homesteads, farmsteads, towns and cities.
I like to call it the Nimrod effect, it's the kind of world that I think comes up when the whole of civilization is centered around one place. Because of the cramped space from the concentration of people, people form abstractions and optimizations for things that reduces natural to nothing. My solution, just get out of babylon, own land and breathe air.
I hate the current sentiment that it is better to pay for everything to “avoid headaches”. Like people on social media outright telling you to NOT ask your friend to give you a ride, but get an uber, etc. The stupidest thing ever. I will crush at my friend’s place when I have a chance. I will ask my neighbor to mow my yard when I’m gone. I will ask for a favor. I will definitely pay it back in return a favor later, if I can. I made best friends in my life through this. Your friendship is reinforced through favors, not diminished. Yes, unreasonable requests to the extent of being annoying are not good either, but most people are not crazy. We are social animals, abusing relationships is bad, but not having relationships is not any better.
Excellent explanation of tech filling gaps in society created by inequality, consumerism, and the rat race. People choose to live like this, sadly but at least there is support out there?
I for one choose to work less and consume less. My communitys deeper interactions (sharing time and food, etc) are somewhat small but people are sociable and connected locally.
Ive lived in this home 4 months, I know 7/10 of my nearest neighbors by name
They say that socialism is the government breaking your leg and then handing you a crutch. I totally agree, but "the free market" will do the same exact thing to you.
I for one HATE this idea of the village not existing anymore. If you have to pay money for a person to sleep with you, then they don't really want to sleep with you. If you have to pay someone to care about you then they don't really care about you.
I hate this situation.
I don't trust the willingness of employers to provide additional compensation to their employees for all of these additional services that were once provided by the community and people seem to hate when the government or employees demand additional compensation because it makes stuff more expensive. I don't think it benefits the type of people that have to rely on community services anyway. It also leads to further fetishism of money as well as the loss of intrinsic benefits of certain tasks like bonding while walking your dog.
People also don't have time to participate in these group activities as we are all busy with working jobs to keep a roof over our heads.
Also in the Anglophone world, lots of people live in car-dependent suburban areas or cities that are pedestrian unfriendly, and there aren't third places that most people can access without a car. Social interactions outside of school or work needs to be planned and aren't spontaneous.
Not that I'm anti-car. I'm anti car dependency, which is completely different.
Rural areas are *more* dependent on cars to be honest. How are you gonna do anything without a car if you live 10 miles out of town which isn't uncommon.
It would be nice to have small communities where it was feasible to either car-pool, bike, or walk to where you need to go. Unfortunately it's not just city planning that makes this not work, it's the scale on which everything works these days. Amazon can put most stuff on your porch for a cheaper price than it could be stocked at a local walmart half the time, to say nothing of a mom-and-pop shop.
@@TK-en2hq I think it's called a village. Where a bunch of people say less than 1000 live within walking distance of one another and provide goods and services to one another and passing outsides with maybe a specialist that regularly receives outside customers.
Yeah America does not have many villages, only homesteads, farmsteads, towns and cities.
I like to call it the Nimrod effect, it's the kind of world that I think comes up when the whole of civilization is centered around one place. Because of the cramped space from the concentration of people, people form abstractions and optimizations for things that reduces natural to nothing.
My solution, just get out of babylon, own land and breathe air.
I love your videos, but the sound is unbearable, you need to fix it and your channel will blow up. Loved the old money video
I’ve been working on this. How did it sound in the new old money video?