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You can think of your life like a game, where each person is born with some variation in there scores. For example, Timmy is born into a middle class family in the suburbs, average everything and has a score of 0. John is born into a wealthy family and will go to private school, he has a score of 100 when he’s born. Then Juan is born into a poor struggling family and has a score of -100.
John is advantaged but could waste his potential doing stupid shit like gambling and lose all of his money and happiness then go into negative score. Juan is disadvantaged but could bring himself up possibly by making decisions for himself.
Basically all of our decisions are driven by this imaginary score. Push that kid down on the playground in preschool? You went up 1 score and that kid went down 1 since you made yourself look powerful to others and made him look weak. There can’t be a winner without there being one or multiple losers. When you win a sports competition, the guy in second will feel inferior. Even when you do something kind for someone, it’s likely some of the reason you did it was to bring your reputation with them up, maybe make them like you more.
The people with the highest scores are people like Elon Musk who have shitloads of assets that they got from coming up with something that didn’t cost them a lot of score. Then, Juan’s parents working minimum wage jobs for the people with high scores are never really compensated fully with money for the work that they put in because the higher-ups have to make profit/increase score somehow.
This is why communism never works in real life. The government always has to increase their own score because they don’t want to feel discomfort like the people they subjugate. It would only work if you coded AI robots or something that don’t feel fear or discomfort to work on mars and build a colony for themselves. They don’t have any reason to try to become powerful because they don’t have any feelings.
The lesson: basically every good thing that happens to somebody will likely come at the expense of somebody else and everyone’s score has to balance out. Being selfish is pretty much coded in our behavior no matter what.
John is advantaged but could waste his potential doing stupid shit like gambling and lose all of his money and happiness then go into negative score. Juan is disadvantaged but could bring himself up possibly by making decisions for himself.
Basically all of our decisions are driven by this imaginary score. Push that kid down on the playground in preschool? You went up 1 score and that kid went down 1 since you made yourself look powerful to others and made him look weak. There can’t be a winner without there being one or multiple losers. When you win a sports competition, the guy in second will feel inferior. Even when you do something kind for someone, it’s likely some of the reason you did it was to bring your reputation with them up, maybe make them like you more.
The people with the highest scores are people like Elon Musk who have shitloads of assets that they got from coming up with something that didn’t cost them a lot of score. Then, Juan’s parents working minimum wage jobs for the people with high scores are never really compensated fully with money for the work that they put in because the higher-ups have to make profit/increase score somehow.
This is why communism never works in real life. The government always has to increase their own score because they don’t want to feel discomfort like the people they subjugate. It would only work if you coded AI robots or something that don’t feel fear or discomfort to work on mars and build a colony for themselves. They don’t have any reason to try to become powerful because they don’t have any feelings.
The lesson: basically every good thing that happens to somebody will likely come at the expense of somebody else and everyone’s score has to balance out. Being selfish is pretty much coded in our behavior no matter what.
