What is something you believe to be true but can't prove?

Saw this on Reddit and thought it would be interesting/fun to see what everyone here thinks.  Can be a personal story, something about the world, sports, business, space, you name it.  


Example I copied and pasted from Reddit: 

One of the senior managers in my team at work is a) sharing insider information about our team with the equivalent team at our competitors and b) cheating on his wife.

I have cast iron suspicions, but little real evidence or proof.

 

Know a few guys that competed across various national leagues and you're correct. Icarus exposed Russia, but they're not the only country filled with dopers. 

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

definitely. boxers as well. apart from super human ability to get in shape and recover within a short period of time, I watched a documentary on mike Tyson and he talked about how he used to carry around a fake penis with someone elses piss in it, so that when the doping commission came to check on him, he could pass it off as his own piss, and according to him it was because he smoked weed. the stakes are too high not to be taking some form of steroids. the average gym goer is already tempted to take steroids to keep up with his peers, the pressure must be 100x when your competing in a spectator sport.

 
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1. God exists

2. there is no Kabbal/deep state, people are just opportunists, greedy, and stupid

3. there is no existential meaning to life

4. pharmaceutical companies, the healthcare industry, USDA, and insurance companies don't actually want people to be healthy, it pays to have everyone be a little bit sick all of the time. they don't want treatments that cure anything because they're not profitable, there's no economic incentive for care providers and pharma businesses to have people treat their ailments by having a strong immune system and being in shape, so they just want to help treat symptoms so they can keep their jobs

5. republicans and democrats who've been lifelong politicians are at their cores identical. they bark and grandstand about policy differences when really all they want is to maintain power

6. your soul is reincarnated after death into something else but you don't know anything about your past lives consciously

7. there is intelligent life on other planets that has visited us, we just cannot observe them because of their superiority (kinda like a mushroom doesn't know when a human is looking at it)

8. Jesus never existed, He was used as a metaphor for living in accordance with the best values one can emulate

9. 90% of scientific studies that aren't RCTs cannot be replicated, so much of what we deem as "science" is most likely spurious correlation, certain biases (selection, survivorship, etc), or placebo effects (I cannot prove this because of the amount of money that it would take to refute past studies)

10. humans are negatively affecting the climate, but we will not destroy the earth, we will destroy ourselves and the earth will be just fine until the sun blows up

 

1-9 I completely agree on. 10 I agree but I think we can actually damage the earth beyond repair.

very nicely worded

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I’m constantly dumbfounded that people think politicians represent their best interests.

Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell have much more in common with each other than they do with any of their constituents. The distinction between Democrats and Republicans is meaningless.

 

I normally appreciate your posts but that healthcare take is fucking stupid. The most profitable drugs are cures. Creating a "cure for cancer", like most people that share your belief argues exists, would make that company one of the most if not the most valuable company in the world. Same for HIV and a bunch of other shit too. Patents bro

 

If you’re going to come at me and call my idea “fucking stupid” at least have some factual basis. The most profitable drugs are not cures, as evidenced by this table. if my data are off, you’re welcome to refute my points, but if your best defense is “if someone developed a cure for cancer they’d be the most profitable company” then I’m going to come at you. a hypothetical as a rebuttal to an unprovable idea is, as you say, fucking stupid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_selling_pharmaceutical_…

the entire point of the thread is to say shit you believe but cannot prove. It is impossible to prove my point correct, as well as incorrect, because it’s impossible to get into the minds of all of these people. If I’ve overreached and can be proven wrong with available evidence and not just hypotheticals, I’m happy to change my mind, but the burden is on you 

 

Interesting that you think both God exists AND there is no existential meaning to life...

Does God play dice with the universe?

Also, if 4 is true, doesn't that mean 2 is kind of true as well? Maybe not in the "illuminati" sense, but in a "powerful consortium of business & government manipulating the system to benefit themselves" sense?

 

well, this is the frustrating part about it, it's unknowable. I think the nature of the supernatural is that it's incomprehensible to our little pea brains. it's possible that God is an omnipotent being and it treating us like a game of Sims. it's possible God just started the big bang with all of the laws of physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics inherent in there and just let parallel universes play themselves out. it's possible that God is monkeying with our day to day lives and is able to avoid Bruce Almighty insanity by being far beyond our intelligence, but if I was omnipotent I'd only step in if needed.

I do think people deliberately manipulate the system in order to benefit themselves, but I don't buy all of the deep state nonsense. I think people use power to get favorable terms from government via lobbying, kickbacks, contracts, etc., and then try to rig the system to keep those benefits for themselves. I don't think it's some coordinated effort, I just think people like being cozy with power and don't want to upset the way things work even it it's better for more americans but hurts their power/influence. 

 

I think someone else said this, but their source is a historian from the 1st century AD. Unfortunately, this is unprovable when we apply the same scientific rigor we apply to other things. Is it observable with objective proof? Fossil records only tell us that a man existed at the time and place we're supposing he did, doesn't make him Him. What about the written word? What assurances do we have that history wasn't embellished, altered, or that what we feel is "history" wasn't actually a fictional tale with a broader message? How do we really know that these dead languages we've translated are 100% accurate or at least accurate enough to draw conclusions? How do we know there were not prophets before Him and their records were simply destroyed? Are there people from different parts of the region/world corroborating the same thing, or does it all come from a single person/group's account?

if someone can point me to a historical account of His existence, I'm happy to change my mind, based upon what I've seen, however, it's a stretch.

 

Trump definitely won, can’t believe the libtards at Fox are betraying us. If you just subtract the 78 million votes that illegal immigrants cast for Biden, Trump would have win bigly in a landslide. WWG1WGA

 

Isn't it more or less established that the crazier theory would be that there ISN'T other life in the universe? 

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Isn't it more or less established that the crazier theory would be that there ISN'T other life in the universe? 

Nope. People keep saying this, but that's impossible to know without knowing the probability of life being generated from a primordial stew. We don't know that and therefore can't reach a conclusion about the likelihood of life in the universe. 

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I'm coming off a bad week and have a full weekend of grinding ahead so this is going to be a very depressing list. I am a massive cynic so take it with a grain of salt. I'm ready for the MS I'm about to receive from folks who disagree / view this as too negative. A few of mine have been mentioned (Epstein, ahtlete doping) so not including those.

1. Life as we know it is irreversibly on it's way out and Earth will be largely unlivable before 2100 - entirely driven by humanity's actions. This view isn't necessarily unique or new, but I honestly believe that we're incontrovertibly fucked. Humanity is underestimating the rate of change and the eventual impacts of climate change. Worsening temperatures will result in mass refugee exodus from tropical latitudes and no society is willing or able to absorb them. There will be climate-change induced wars. The only hope for humanity's survival is to become space faring... which segues nicely into my next depressing view: 

2. Aliens exist but we'll never reach them. Our knowledge of physics and space is elementary at best, and we lack so much understanding that we aren't even in a position to discover the new laws that would allow us to become space faring. The Great Filter is a real phenomena and we're about to become an example of it - We won't ever reach the 9th step on the evolutionary path.

3. My firm is unlikely to survive beyond current funds.

4. The first round of COVID-19 vaccines will ultimately prove ineffective, or produce side-effects that we won't understand for several years.

5. The United States has begun its descent and will continue to crumble just like all major economic/cultural/military empires/dynasties have before it. 

6. China will eventually own and control most of Africa via predatory lending to build infrastructure. (arguably provable). This will help contribute to China overtaking the US as the most powerful nation on the planet.

 

1. Life as we know it is irreversibly on it's way out and Earth will be largely unlivable before 2100 - entirely driven by humanity's actions.

6. China will eventually own and control most of Africa via predatory lending to build infrastructure. (arguably provable). This will help contribute to China overtaking the US as the most powerful nation on the planet.

This gives China less than 80 years as the superpower lol

 

I should clarify the 2100 bit - I don't think we're gonna be completely extinct by then. The world will just largely be a shitty place to live. Large swaths of the planet around the tropical latitudes will be completely unlivable. Sea levels will rise and coastal cities are going to struggle to deal. Water and food shortages will abound. That type of fun stuff.

 

Have you read any of Ray Dalio's Changing World Order that he's publishing a chapter online every so often? He isn't an economist by trade and it's not overly technical, but interesting so far. I wanted to know if anyone thought it makes sense or is just a bunch of crockshit.

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Number 5 well on its way. I think it’s partly the result of entitlement and not understanding that a high standard of living isn’t guaranteed forever without the framework in place.

 

That a lot of people in finance are bi / gay but live a “straight lifestyle” to overcompensate. I have very strong suspicions about 2 MDs I’ve worked with. 

 

I fully believe MLK, but what motivation would the CIA have to kill JFK? I'm not too much of a history buff so I'm not sure why the department would view JFK negatively

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There is actually little distinction between democrat and republican establishment. Only a distinction between ruling class and all others. They use the media to create a false dichotomy and stir up disagreement and anger amongst the population so that civilians don't focus on what's actually going on and who is and isn't in power.

best way to control a population is to create chaos and disagreement. I actually think this was proven amongst chimps in a scientific study tho

 

There’s something unique to processed foods or modern life that is making people fat. I’ve seen old pics of family members / other media and everyone was unbelievably fit. Diet and exercise can’t explain this because they never did either of those things and looked like movie stars. 

 

Read The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet. Modern, highly-processed food is the most fattening food there is- for animals as well as humans. It's literally engineered in labs by scientists to be as addictive as possible.

There's a sense in which diet does explain the change, because people do eat more calories now. But it's the nature of the modern food that causes a large portion of the population to eat more. People in 1975 didn't all have iron self-control around food. Most fat people would become thin if they were sent back forty years in a time machine.

 

China deliberately either created COVID or at least allowed for it to be released outside of China to gain relative power vs. other countries

Common theme seen with powerful incumbent companies all the time, they gain share against weaker peers in tough times. Similar concept at play here

 

I could see this. China was able to handle it so well because of their authoritarian government.


But you could also argue this virus is doing the US a favor by killing off so many people who rely on social security, underfunded pension plans and what not.

Also weird virus coming from China is nothing new - this one just happened to be bad

 

It’s possible. They probably didn’t predict that we would just lockdown forever and throw in the towel as a country haha.

 

Does not make sense. Chinas economy took a huge hit, their international reputation took a huge hit as well, and they damaged the economies of all their trading partners. If China actually did this on purpose, they would have created a vaccine alongside with it, and would not have let the situation in Wuhan get out of control. The political instability and protests from people in Wuhan caused China to lose face on a massive scale, the coronavirus has caused China to lose face on a massive scale, they’ve just been able to pivot and control the spread better. China snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat here, if this was intentional, China would have done a much better job at it. 

 
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This is a theory created by my younger sister. She's like a hippy vegan but also a consultant, just a weird combination of a person. Anyway when she gets into something she really loses her mind on it. This is from a recent text exchange.

" Johns Hopkins was working with China on it (covid) since the early 2000s in Wuhan specifically and then became actually salaried employees going back and forth between Johns Hopkins and Wuhan Labs...It's pretty well known that it (covid) was man-made in China. China and the US have been working towards a pandemic 'response' together for about 30 years now and its on the John Hopkins website..all recorded videos and mock trials of scenarios. It's all there if you look at it."

"So now it makes it even more sketchy that China gave Biden 1.5 Billion dollars. I've been following it for years, I predicted this but I wouldn't think it would happen till I was 30 or so (she's 24). But the timing was just right. Same with Russia but to Hunter Biden to kinda pull strings over there. They've been bought already, they now have to pay their dues if you know what I mean. Bidens have been taking money from both China and Russia since 2017"

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/5/4/99-0416_article   -- This is a Smallpox Attack Scenario that was written in 1999 and perfectly desrcibes how covid spread in the US.

Anyway she's obviously a little crazy but let me know what you think.

 

—The US is in irreversible decline and the third world shithole parts of the US will dramatically increase and our cities and economy will resemble LA and SF across the country.

—70% of Americans will be an underclass and live miserable lives, while elites can live 120+ years and possibly become immortal if the singularity is achieved.,

—Huge protests and civil unrest will dominate American society and make it a highly unstable and shitty place to live.

—China will become the society that the world looks up to and seeks to emulate, and Chinese society along with other homogeneous Asian nations like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and maybe a few countries in Europe (although also in decline) like Switzerland will be the only pockets of stability and order and niceness as the Western world and the US sinks into chaos

 

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-The US is in irreversible decline and the third world shithole parts of the US will dramatically increase and our cities and economy will resemble LA and SF across the country.

-70% of Americans will be an underclass and live miserable lives, while elites can live 120+ years and possibly become immortal if the singularity is achieved.,

-Huge protests and civil unrest will dominate American society and make it a highly unstable and shitty place to live.

-China will become the society that the world looks up to and seeks to emulate, and Chinese society along with other homogeneous Asian nations like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and maybe a few countries in Europe (although also in decline) like Switzerland will be the only pockets of stability and order and niceness as the Western world and the US sinks into chaos

Sadly this. 

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

Used to go to the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk as a kid.. had the opportunity to revisit it not too long ago.

Holy shit

So many homeless people and filth. Saw a homeless guy carrying a plastic bag full of crack rocks on the beach. Not a place to take your kids. And my conviction is that California is a window into what’s coming in the rest of the US. I try to be optimistic but I think there are some really tough times ahead.

 

Agree with the first 3 points. I've thought that last thing about China too, but I'm trying to figure out how really dystopian it can go and for how long that can be sustained. Their export-driven economy is going to slow and they'll have to focus on their domestic consumer market (a lot of untapped potential), but I think the CCP is going to have to tread lightly and very creatively to create a system in which their own citizens just really don't care about human rights violations since their standard of living would have improved so dramatically.

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I wouldn’t bet that the worlds longest continuous civilization is going under anytime soon. China is killing it, and doing everything that they need to be doing to make sure that they will remain successful for years to come. Of course there’s obstacles - middle income trap, exports, growth slowing, etc but I think as long as things don’t go seriously wrong somehow or unless some black swan event occurs, the CCP will remain in power for a long, long time unfortunately.

Chinese have a very high approval rate of their government and the younger Chinese generation is even more patriotic and nationalistic than before. Approval is unlikely to go down, if anything, it’s more likely to keep going up. Stopping the spread of COVID-19 gives China legitimacy and will result in much higher support in the government even if they messed up things in Hubei initially.

Having lived in China, I have to say that it honestly doesn’t feel that dystopian (except for Beijing smog - yuck!) and rich modern cities in eastern China like Shenzhen feel more utopian than anything. Clean subways, no homeless people, no drugs, incredible technology. As long as things don’t go to shit, Chinese people aren’t going to wake up one day and decide to overthrow the government (and they couldn’t if they tried because the state will easily prevent them), people generally like the government and feel optimistic about the trajectory of their country, which is honestly justified.

 

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-China will become the society that the world looks up to and seeks to emulate, and Chinese society along with other homogeneous Asian nations like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and maybe a few countries in Europe (although also in decline) like Switzerland will be the only pockets of stability and order and niceness as the Western world and the US sinks into chaos

People speak with their feet. So far, there is virtually no demand to move to China from other parts of the world. When people start beating down the doors of China's border then I'll believe they are the envy of the world. 

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60,000 African students in China right now vs 45,000 African students in the US. Across the African continent, and in other areas where China has more influence, China is increasingly seen as the place to go. China is playing the super long game here with belt and road - eventually they will be able to secure some top engineering talent, but I’d also say Chinas goal is also more to become self sufficient and it’s a homogenous Asian society as well with significant language and cultural barriers to entry, and doesn’t have the United States global monopoly on culture, which is an influencing factor (also many immigrants regret coming here - think the number is like 50%) so China will probably never see the same demand the US does, but it IS growing.

 

Advanced societies (human or otherwise) existed before 50,000 BC.

The Out-of-Africa theory of evolution is mostly bunk - humanity likely has multiregional origins and modern homo sapiens emerged from the convergent evolution of different types of hominids on different continents

Future history books that write about our age will mostly gloss over things we find important, but their ultimate conclusion will be that our liberal, global capitalist order has been absolutely destructive 

 

Pizza gate (srs)

The phucked up artwork similar to jeffrey dahmers victim poses in podestas house, the weird as hell email codes, the creepy instagram posts about kids, the artwork at comet ping pong(seriously fucked up art)

The fact every mainstream liberal rag had to immediately come out and say "guys its totally normal to have creepy art of a jeffrey dahmer victim, weird paintings of kids being abused and to make hundreds of coded pizza and cheese email references which are commonly used in the pedo community......this is a RIGHT WING hacking job.  Probably by the Russians!  Don't believe it!"

I'm sorry...but it seems really messed up.

 

1.) That we all originate from one collective consciousness and will eventually return to one collective consciousness. Hence the reason why we feel the need to naturally congregate as sentient beings, because we all originate from the same whole and gravitate towards each other subconsciously in order to become one again. Which leads to my second thought.

2.) There is no god, the meta being that we originate from experienced a singular event that broke its consciousness up into many pieces in order to experience an existence it couldn’t as a singular being, hence the reason we are conscious and feel. True Hinduism actually teaches this is some sense, through reincarnation. You experience reincarnation in order to karmically enlighten over lifetimes. Karma in western teachings is incorrect, just because you do good things does not mean better karma. True karma is experiencing different paths to reach a higher state of being, meaning you will be reincarnated as both good and evil things over lifetimes to get closer to a higher state of being. Feeling all of the experiences of our collective consciousness over millennia through reincarnation would be our original singular existences purpose for splitting. Also read texts on the Kabbalah/Sefirot; humanity originates from one being and has the power to control reality through the understanding of “emanations”. We have the ability to control reality because we are god. Biblical scripture was misinterpreted, god didn’t create us in his likeness, each one of our individual conscious mind’s makes up a piece of a higher being, god. Judaism is right in that when we die currently we go nowhere until the second coming of the messiah, which is probably meant to be interpreted metaphorically in that another singular event will occur returning us to one collective consciousness again.

I would just like to point out that I came upon these ideas whilst on a G of the most golden Molly I have ever ingested like four years ago after a show at 3 am. But have been surprised to talk to some of my more educated buddies more recently who have had similar thoughts
 

 

Most (90%+) chronic pain (e.g. back pain, shoulder pain, etc.) is not due to physical / structural issues, but are instead triggered by mental issues such as childhood traumas, unresolved conflicts, unfulfilled dreams, and other factors that upset the brain. In other words, the pain chronic pain sufferers are feeling is real pain, but the root cause is not due to any underlying physical issues, but instead due to the various aforementioned mental issues.

 

1) That an advanced civilization existed on Earth before this Human race we know. Its called the 'Silurian Hypothesis'. Pyramids, Marvelous structures but no real records of when they were being built. Indian civilization was also very advanced given the knowledge in ancient books. There is a missing link.

2) African countries are being blocked by world organizations from their massive potential for development. The 2 energy factions, renewable and non renewable, are fighting for the largest lottery ticket in their history. Also, If Africa is underdeveloped, others can exploit them. I am an Indian btw.

 

I believe that in the future as automation becomes more reliable, standard transactional work will be done away with and the ones who will remain employable will be those who are able to problem solve/think creatively to work with information/atypical situations, and that this will require less employees than currently.

This will leave large portions of the population unemployable. It is something I have thought about a lot as a mathematics graduate that has gone into accountancy, it makes me fear for my future. 

 

As someone who sells some of the latest automation tech, if your job can be learned in a few weeks I would worry. Best defense against this are complex areas or somewhere where empathy/human element is needed.

If your job is to make sure your executive team understands tax law and make sure it is being followed I wouldn't worry, but if your job is to simply check statements for errors I'd start increasing my skills. 

 

A large percentage of the erectile dysfunction in the US is the result of circumcision

 

That there will be pain , suffering , and trials in Heaven too (if it exists). The idea of a blissful afterlife imo isn’t supported theologically or philosophically (although I can’t prove this with certainty).

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- Even if major religious figures like Jesus Christ exist, you can never truly prove their existence. For anyone that has read Ray Bradbury, I am referring to one chapter in Martian Chronicles where the astronauts go to a town that appears to resemble the state of "Ohio." But in reality, it was a bunch of Martians who tricked the astronauts into thinking they were home. You can't ever verify the validity of someone's identity even if there is outstandingly convincing evidence. 

- The American government has strong relations with major social media sites as a way to "control" or "suppress" millions of Americans by giving them a raging addiction to their phones. Social media apps like Instagram want you to be so caught up in petty bullshit that doesn't matter, thus restricting your ability to actually be in the moment. The reasons behind controlling the masses I don't know, but these apps and even the modern phone itself is designed so perfectly to keep you hooked and wanting to check it every 15 mins. It doesn't seem right...

 

that last point, 100%

from Neil Postman, written in 1985 - "We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."

 

Covid and the 2016/2020 U.S. elections have been utilized by Russia/Iran/China for subversion purposes in the media. The MSM for the past four years have only played into the hands of those countries in creating distrust in the election systems. Whatever fraud you think happened with either election, whether or not you think covid is a hoax, the media is a puppet to those foreign powers trying to subvert western institutions. Did the the trump team conspire with russians in 2016? I don't know, the FBI reports literally stated that russia's efforts did not influence the outcome of the election. The main goal of the russians, I believe, was not to influence the outcome but to create conflict within the U.S. political system and make citizens never trust elections again. 

 

-as a society, we are extremely shallow. We judge everything by how it looks but like to pretend we don't; this doesn't matter except when we cherrypick that you shouldn't do it in about 0.1% of the situations in life. 

- America/the world would be a better place if we could acknowledge that someone can have an opinion that is different than our own. Doesn't me we have to agree, but understand some people think different. 

- school/knowledge is a skill just like running fast or throwing a ball far. You might be able to take someone who runs a mile in 7 minutes and get them sub-6 minute, but you probably can't get them to an Olympic level. Same with school, some people aren't good at certain subjects, you can coach them up, but not everyone needs to go on to further learning. 

- bullying/learning to deal with criticism is a skill we need to keep learning/teaching, not eliminating. 

- you're basically born with the skills that will make you would you are. That's what needs to be nurtured.  

 

Its interesting bc you can look at just about every movie, book, or story as some good vs evil, where essentially the evil is "bullying" the good. Almost every historical event we frame in this matter as well. Where would be if in history if say, after Pearl Harbor the US government said "maybe just try not talking to Japan, maybe walk a different way home from school."

 

The biggest economic threat in the next 10 years is the integration of robots into the workforce (eg. Boston Dynamics). As tasks are automated, it will act as an equivalent rising in the minimum wage. It will be more challenging for individuals to gain experience / meaningful work. Society will separate even deeper into the Have's & the Have Not's. Revolution will be increasingly difficult for the Have Not's given technology such as facial recognition, data tracking in our phones, and overall regulation of life as we know it via how we interact with technology.

 
  1.  Rise of China is overhyped. They won't rule the world. They're in a tough neighborhood with lots of regional rivals. Their work in Africa is meaningful, but it hasn't bought them ground level support. As an african, I can attest to the lack of favor they've curried here. And their economic size doesn't mean they'll be the only country capable of innovating in the future. I think the world will move into a few blocks of states in the next 50 years. 1) Western style democracies led by the US (I'm including Japan and Korea in here), 2) China on its own, 3) India on its own
  2. Post putin russia is going to collapse. Russia is a failing petro state with a rapidly shrinking population. Putin is a political genius, but also a once in a generation talent. I doubt russia can innovate enough to avoid a big political fallout after he's gone
  3. Republicans and their voters are more concerned about fighting cultural issues vs. real economic policy (other than laize faire), which is why working class voters vote republican even when it's not in their interest
  4. Republican and Democrats are the same arguments are dumb/innacurate
  5. Liberal policies fail in the US cause liberals are terrible at communicating their policies
  6. Domestic infighting in the US is the direct result of inequality. The US needs to do 4 things to fix what ails it:
    1. Massive infrastructure spending - Fix all the roads and highways. Build buildings/institutions to house the homeless. 
    2. Universal healthcare - If you make less than 70K your healthcare should be heavily subsidized. This should include free access to therapy/ drug rehab
    3. Active industrial policy - The US government needs to step in an support the comeback of domestic manufacturing. Not through tax credits, but literally have the government step in as a Growth Equity shop handing out cash to spur domestic manufacturing with company mandates to keep jobs local. This should be done for all "critical" industries - e.g. Pharma
    4. Universal basic income - If you want to avoid an elysium style situation, then you need to give people money to live decent lives and encourage entrepreneurship. Especially as robots begin to pop in and take jobs/ make the returns to capital exceptionally high
 

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