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number 9 is 1 that most people fall for. i don't, i run shit till it breaks,then fix it.
However, I don't agree with the idea with Warren Buffet as example, of billionaires who don't spend money on new cars, expensive clothes, multiple houses, etc. Why would a billionaire not spend? Is it just about owning more and more money and assets? Why?
You can't take your money into the grave with you. Is he being a 'good capitalist' that way? He's just making money with money, which is useless when you reach a certain point, where you and all your heirs can never spend it all. That's just an addiction of money
and a lack of imagination. The idiot retired at age 95! He wasted his whole life working.
I don't envy people like that, I feel sorry for them.
1. Nope, never bought a new car yet. I hate new car smell. The dealer sprayed it in my car, during the last service/MOT-inspection. It's weeks ago and it is still bothering me.
2. We were lured, with the promise of nice prizes, into the den of time share sellers,
on the Greek island Rhodes. After a tour of one of their hotels, the salesman told me the program, something like 5 weeks of vacation, for €4000,-, excluding the flights.
I thought for 5 seconds and just said "No, that deal sucks!". Then HE was even accusing ME of wasting HIS time. I told him "not my problem", asked him for my prize and left.
The prize was some useless vacation discount voucher. No way, will I ever be even tempted to get into something like that.
3. I buy brand clothes sometimes, but only brands that deliver value for money. I wear a lot of PME Legend. I buy clothes that look and feel good and I spend more on 100% cotton, because micro-plastics are so damaging to the environment. Of course a coat is often made of plastics, because cotton would soak up the rain like a sponge. I use my coats for years. The price varies a lot. One summer coat costed about $50, but I paid $300, on sale, for a good winter coat. It's not an investment, I'm paying for comfort. I'm not paying (a lot) for status.
4. I do spend some money monthly on the state's lottery. I know it's incredibly unlikely that I ever win a big prize, but the video called it a "tax on hope". That hope is worth the money for me. For many people, it's the ONLY hope they have to ever escape their pitiful existence. I am lucky, I don't have a pitiful existence, I have wealth that is unattainable for many young people these days, and I'm pretty good at investing. Still, that "tax on hope"
is worth it for me. First of all, it's the state's lottery. Part of my money goes to prizes, part goes to charities and part goes to the government, which makes it a tax literally. I don't mind paying taxes, when the government uses it well, which they mostly do. The state is the sole shareholder, so I'm not further enriching some private owner.
Second, it encourages big dreams and motivates me to accumulate some wealth.
Still, I'm not postponing living, like Warren Buffet. I'm living for now too. I'm prioritizing a job that I like, instead of a job that makes more money. I'm working for 40 hrs/week and never even have to think of work outside of those hours. I work to live, I don't live to work.
DON'T try apps like Acorns or Robinhood, they are designed to make you gamble away your money, while their owners become wealthy from your sub-optimal decisions.
Use traditional trading platforms and don't think you can be a day-trader.
5. I never buy anything, except my house, on a loan. I did have student loans once, but those have long been paid off. I have a credit card, but any purchase on it is immediately deducted from my bank account.
6. I studied for 10 years, but in The Netherlands education is much more affordable. Without that education, I would not have been able to climb up to my current job.
Like I said under 5, my student loans have long been paid off. A country that makes education that expensive is hurting it's own competition strength. Education is not just an investment in your own future, it's also an investment for the country. Every dollar spent on education by the state, provides it with a $10 return in economic benefit over time.
7. I don't own a boat. The idea is to spend money on things that make you happy and more comfortable, not things to show your wealth, just to make you look important. I grew up in The Netherlands, where showing your wealth is considered to be vulgar. Our culture is defined by the proverb "Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je al gek genoeg.", which means "Just act normal, then you're already acting crazy enough.".
8. I pay around $40/month for life insurance, for both of us. When one of us dies, the other gets just enough money to be able to stay in our house. Insurance in general is much more expensive in the US than in Europe. The example calculations are bullshit. Insurance is not an investment, it's risk remediation. It's to protect your significant other, when you fall away, so they don't suffer financial disaster, besides the loss of you.
9. My current phone is the first one in many years that I bought new. The previous 4 were all cast-offs from my girlfriend. She is a heavy phone user and I only used phones for WhatsApp. Every time her battery-life declined too much, I just did a fresh install, with minimum apps, increasing the battery-life to days. But, I've been using the phone more,
so I bough myself a new one, with a good camera. And I have a subscription for 12 GB data. I don't even use a separate camera on my vacations anymore. I do have a PC and gaming hobby. I spend about $400 per year on it. For a main hobby, I think that's fine.
I fix things only as long as I think they are still worth fixing. However, when I buy things, one of my major criteria for the product is build quality and reliability. I buy quality appliances that last long. I don't buy French or Italian cars, because something always breaks on them. I own my third Japanese car, because usually they last at least 15 years, before their maintenance costs turn not cost-effective. Car parts are very expensive.
At some point in a car's lifespan, the parts become more expensive than their practical value and the functional value of the car. I must admit it's a luxury consideration, because not everyone has the money to replace a car, when that time comes. I can, but always make sure that I can, for when the need arises.
10. We aren't married, but it was only for a small part a financial decision. There was always some family struggle in my girlfriend's family. That would have meant that not everyone would or could be there. It would also have put a damper on the festivities.
That wasn't worth it to me. We did have a big party, when we were together for 25 years. Otherwise, we have a cohabitation contract and wills together. I also think that the whole promising to be faithful to each other and to stay together is bullshit. About 36% to 40% of marriages don't last. Why would people even promise something that they don't know if they truly want to keep? I'm not doing that and I'm not expecting that. We are not each other's property. We are lucky to have each other, but when that changes, some old promise won't change anything. My love and loyalty is my gift, not my obligation.
I don't expect anything different in return.
What was very telling, is that during this video, I got several adverts for ways to become financially independent, if I would follow their seminar or get into their investment program. All people who are trying to do exactly what the video warns about. I'm sure that many people even are attracted to those things, at such a time. Then they can help those people become financially independent, while they probably loose a lot of money themselves. Why do people get lured into crypto? Because rich people advertise for it, while they have a investment system trading hundreds of thousands of dollars, pump-and-dumping crypto's, and taking all the money from the small fish. It's a scam.
Another $0.05 well earned.
WE, are not doing the best for him.
After a century of domination from 'The West' that Indian boy is still poor as hell. We prioritized our wealth over relieving his horrible poverty. We let billionaires exploit them, for a fantasy that capitalism is best to eliminate poverty. Now China shows that to be wrong. They don't trust billionaires to invest into people's progress, they have a government that invests. Their growth has been much higher for many decades now and they pulled a billion people out of poverty like that. That's why they made their own alliance: BRICS. That's an alliance of 60% of the people in the world. Those people all saw 'The West' fail them and now they see China pass us to be the new superpower.
The EU might learn from it and do better, The US showed that you didn't learn anything, and thinks that even worse dehumanizing capitalism is going to prevent their empire crumbling. The West held on to their power a long time, but there is an alternative power now, and they promise to take better care of boys like that. It might be a lie, but don't blame people for trying something else, when we have not delivered.
granted, but having worked and tried to go to college at the same time,i know first hand it is difficult to focus on both work and education. so does he work so he can eat and support his family, or does he sit in class all day with a empty stomach?
we did not bring him into the world.his parents did. they were aware of their situation,and knew they could not provide for him. so why did they bring him into the world? They did not do their best for him.
responsibility on civilization? Do you think we even have a civilization or
are we just a collection of individuals, with NO responsibility to one-another?
unlike the system we have now, where as a person has a issue with something a company employee or a government employee does, he has to sue the government or the company as a whole instead of as a individual.
Once we get our own lives,our own homes and etc in order, then we are strong enough to help the next door neighbor. and so it goes down the line.
I feel like we are weak as a nation and as a world because instead of helping the next door neighbor,and they help theirs and it be a large circle that comes back around. we fly over, drive past , float past our neighors to help someone way away. which allows our home countries to suffer.
help the person next to you, they can then help their neighbor. the idea would work, just give it a chance
You became weaker as a country, when you reduced cooperation.
You had your prime in the 50s to 80s; you HAD your own lives, your own homes
and etc in order. BUT, then your culture flipped to selfishness.
You let big companies outsource most of your jobs to other countries,
because you allowed selfish people to make more money that way.
You are told that other countries caused your decline, but it was selfishness.
It's not just internalized into your culture as a virtue, but also institutionalized,
it's in your government, media and economy.
What's the death of cooperation? -> selfishness
This time, he's reacting to him disputing that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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He's reacting to the claim that the eye is irreducibly complex.
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By the way, he's a Christian, he's just not a young earth creationist Christian.
I listened to all of the music, but I stopped watching soon,
because that's an overload of the brain. I guess, if they put
some hidden messages in, your brain will eat it like candy.
Damn good piece of trance music though. I put it in my favorites.
However, I am happy that I chose to be together with someone. My girlfriend completes me. I think I was a bit too solitary and introvert to become happy on my own. I had only one friend, which would probably not have lasted, when he made a family. Now we have a couple friendship. All the other friendships we developed were created by my girlfriend. One of her friends has become like a brother to me. My girlfriend also instigated all the contacts with neighbors. That was our social life for years. However, my job has made me less introvert; it required me to learn negotiation, networking, presenting, training and coaching. When I started in my current function, I found it difficult to be heard, but now I mostly meet respect and trust. I became more confident when talking to complete strangers, since I decided to become politically active. It's basically the principle that practice makes perfect. It also changed who is instigating the social contacts in our relationship. I'm bringing in party leaders and members for political meetings and people who are associated with neighborhood projects. I meet party members from all over the country, when I go to meetings, seminars and conferences. I don't think I would be where I am now, if I hadn't accepted this relationship.
Why does the Finnish woodcutter always saw so high?
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One of the many reasons for why the end credits of movies are so long.
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Meet Esmeralda who is in charge of the regenerative farm at a huge restoration project, where 17,000 hectares of land have been transformed in the Sonoran desert at the regenerative ranch called Rancho Cacachillas.
"Strange Changes in the Prostate of Men Who Masturbate Daily"
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Oh, damn, the link gets broken. You can find it by searching YouTube for:
"Strange Changes in the Prostate of Men Who Masturbate Daily | Barbara O Neil"
on the channel "Program Your Life"
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I think there is a big chance it's just a myth.
That giga press is a nice innovation. Tesla only gets a small part of the credit though, because the Italians were already developing it. That's an example of electric cars
driving innovation, because it's a company being forced to think of something new,
for when the market for engine blocks will disappear. At least Tesla has a lot of money
to create that new market. However, I expect a bit more from the wealthiest man in the world. Driving the innovation towards affordable electric cars is worthwhile, but it's at best 3% of the solution for the world's climate emergency. How about investing in solutions for the other 97%+ of the problem.
making us all eat vegi's and moving the farts from the cows to the humans is not going to fix anything, it will just kick the can to the other side of the road and a little further down. Remember what happens when we eat beans? So some of the problem is just going to have to play it's self out.
Why not sit in your easy chair and watch Star trek and then make a actual transporter beam so we don't need cars or trucks or airplanes or roller skates or hell ,even shoes for that matter? you want to fix that 97% don't you? And while you are at it, design a replicator so we don't need fields and tractors and processing plants and etc.
"Remember what happens when we eat beans?" The gas that produces is only a tiny percentage of the cowfarts emitted during the cultivation of our piece of beef.
Sure we can wait for science to make something fantastic, but the science to save humanity already exists NOW. Waiting for a miracle cure is just an excuse to do nothing.
Replicators would use so much power that it would have the opposite effect. Reorganizing atoms or molecules takes incredible power.
It's the same nonsense as growing beef in a petri dish, it takes more resources than just breeding livestock. Fake solutions to distract from the actual problem.
We don't need a 20 trillion dollar tunnel to travel from the US to UK in a hour.
They estimate that it costs $62 trillion to completely transfer the whole world to renewable energy. Don't spend a third of it on stupid sci-fi fantasies.
The government has mandated cars to be so difficult, hard to repair, ugly.
People are so lazy so it is logical hobby's like hot-rodding and car building are dwindling.
terriable.
I think the time of cars being designed ugly was a trend that ended now.
Cars are being made to look nicer again. It's taste of course, but I'm seeing some very beautiful new cars lately. While Japanese and French cars were hideous and boring the past decade, they are making better looking cars now. Most people don't want to drive something ugly.
I still see many popular car TV programs. I don't think a shortage of that is a reason for the lack in skilled mechanics. It's just the choice young people need to make for their education. Does the education to become a mechanic result in a good income?
There is the same cause for why there are not enough pharmacy assistants in my country; it requires an advance education, but the pay is only slightly above minimum wage. Young people are not going to invest in an education that doesn't provide them
a good living standard. That's not being lazy, that's being rational.
Just Watch What Happens Next!
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How the "Ising model" shows up everywhere in the physics of the universe and nature.
why he left The Daily Show, his books, male relationships and a many other topics.
He makes the statement: "We have raised a generation of aimless men!".
He has an interesting perspective on that topic. I consider him a wise man.
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This time, he is debunking the claim that the SpaceX Starship catch was faked with CGI. Their evidence for this claim is that "they" forgot to edit in the Starship on the screen
of a phone from a man filming it. OOPSY!
It features Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt.
It really makes you understand how deregulation of the banks allowed them to gamble with people's money and allowed them to scam their customers and gain the financial system, to profit from it personally. Remember that, when you hear politicians talking about deregulation of financial systems.
I find this all very centered on men. Woman face the exact same challenges nowadays. They might face a bit different challenges relating to the pursuit of fleeting pleasures. Instead of being controlled by the the impulses from their throbbing dick, women have problems controlling the impulses from their burning credit card. Otherwise, they have mostly the same problems. Also, I don't think these points are just related to modern life, these have been important since people needed to be independent. They are not much relevant to a serf or a slave, but a caveman needed to think about lots of future interest, instead of seducing females, if he wanted to survive.
Republicans are literally trying to ban No-fault divorce.
That means: "Once I hook you, you're mine forever!"
That's only supported by insecure boys, NOT MEN!
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That's another discussion. Are you now saying that even divorce, when someone is at fault for breaking the commitment, should be banned?
Divorce is a contract, that is valid until someone breaks it. There is a discussion on how much of that contract is still valid, when one of the participants is not keeping up the commitment to that contract, but we are talking about NO-FAULT divorce.
Under No-fault divorce, it might be just one of the participants, who was not keeping the commitment, it might also be both of them. It might be the one who was not keeping the commitment, who wants to break the contract. It might also be the victim of the other one who was not keeping the commitment, who wants to break the contract. They might both be guilty of not keeping the commitment.
Are you allowing the government to step in and forbid them breaking the contract?
If so, is only the contract of marriage unbreakable to you, or all contracts?
I've seen two divorces from up close. In both cases cheating was not an issue.
In both cases, I ended up picking the side of the person who got the divorce forced upon them. That doesn't mean they had no guilt in the marriage going wrong,
but I think the others had more guilt. I think it would have been horrible if the government had forced them to stay together. They felt like victims for a while,
but they are both better off now.
I just mentioned cheating as that is what actually ruined my family was my mother running off with other men when my dad was working
So are some marriages. Often, staying together is worse.
Do you want to let people decide that for themselves
or do you want government to force them to stay together?
Your mother blaming you was of course vile; she was the one cheating.
Would you have wanted your father to be forced to stay together with a
cheating wife? Would that have made your childhood better?
But, could it be that those experiences shaped your opinions on women somewhat?
I would say it helped alot to foster distrust in people in general. i mean, yes my mother ran around,but it also took sorry ass men that knew she was married for her to misbehave like she did. So trusting people in general was probably shaped by it all.
It's all not a situation that encourages trust in humanity.
I just don't understand why it made you support the concept of marriage more.
It would probably make me support the concept of marriage (even) less.
If people hold it to such low standards, why even practice it?
Marriage is obviously unsuccessful at keeping anyone faithful,
so what's the point? Just keeping them tied to you, while they are
fucking everyone? I say; cut them loose and find another.
When it comes to money; it depends on how much history the couple has with each other and how much one depended on the income of the other. That's a commitment you agree on, when you sign the papers and it's a commitment that builds in time. One mistake after decades, from a woman who cared for the children, while the man was out working, does not cut away her right to alimony. A divorce after 1 year doesn't allow any right to half the shared capital, unless they won the lottery together. It's all nuanced.
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Lean manufacturing entails streamlining processes and procedures to eliminate waste
and thereby maximize productivity.
This is their whole Lean Manufacturing playlist:
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If you're not discouraged by a strong Indian accent, this channel does a great job
of explaining the principles of Lean Six Sigma too:
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Here's him explaining the basics of the basics; The 8 Wastes:
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