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money has been misbehaving
money has somehow been taking itself off from everybody and drifting to a few people
money is good for virtually all good things
so money drifting from all earners to few is virtually everything good drifting from all earners to few
money drifting where it shouldn't be is very bad
making it drift back where it should be is very good
loss of money is loss of virtually everything
plus people fight when they find money is moving where it shouldn't
and the fighting just gets bigger and bigger
fighting has been getting bigger and bigger for a long time now
not good
making money drift back where it should be would stop the fighting
how far has money drifted from where it should be?
if money where it should be was a swimming pool one metre deep, our pool of money is 98% up in a thin, thin needle going up 100 kilometres, 100,000 metres
90% of the pool is less than 1cm deep
90% of the pool is between 1cm and tenth of 1mm deep
the water very, very extremely where it shouldn't be
and the water is in constant turmoil, crests falling from astronomical heights, troughs rising
nobody can swim
and everyone is forced to fight to try to get it back where it belongs, or to try to keep it where it is
not having the money is bad enough
but the fighting makes it even worse
and the fighting constantly grows, as both sides try to prevail, and so make ever bigger weapons
so we are in a lot more unhappiness than we would be if money hadn't drifted
so we have a very big opportunity for increase of happiness
we are in a very bad way
so we can be in a much better way
better than we can begin to imagine, because things have been bad for so long, we have lost all memory and power of imagination of how things would be if money hadn't got up and drifted
this is an idea of how to make money drift back where it should be
which will stop the fighting and will give people back the money they have earned that has drifted
and save the overpaid from misery of doomed selfdefence
here are a lot of ideas to help you get clear that making money drift back where it should be will be very good for absolutely everyone
to get clear how it has drifted
why it is bad for the people it has drifted from [easy to understand]
why it is bad for the people it has drifted to [a bit harder to understand]
if everyone can be bought to confident understanding that the drifting is bad for everyone, then there is a universal human will to make it drift back
and where there is a universal will, it is soon done
without struggle or conflict
because everyone is of one mind
and then everyone is better off
if the money is made to drift back, every family in the world working average-hard will be on $300,000 a year
and there won't be any fighting
there won't be extreme imbalance of power
everyone will be able to swim
plenty for everyone
money has been drifting for a very long time
so it has got very far from where it should be
pay for a year's work now ranges from 10,000th of average to 100,000 times average
from $30 to $30,000,000,000 for a family's year's work
the idea of inequality we get from the figures we get greatly understates the truth
because the figures we get are averages of groups
within each group, the higher figures are mixed with lower figures
but I am giving the highest and lowest individual family figures
which shows the injustice is far worse than appears from the figures we get
we have a ratio between highest and lowest individual family pay for equal work of one billion
a pay injustice factor of one billion
a money theft factor of one billion
a violence factor of one billion
a potential for increase of happiness factor of one billion
and increasing
so there is a lot of fighting
and fighting gets to everyone
the fighting gets everywhere people get
because the fighting is carried by people
and the fighting has produced ever bigger weapons, as one side tries to get it back and the other side tries to hold on to it
and those weapons have got very, very bad
we have got to 60 times PDC [planet death capability]
good for no one
in the past 50 years, we have increased our capacity to kill ourselves by 60,000 times, thanks to e=mc2
from being able to kill 100,000 in one day [dresden, hiroshima, 87 firebombed cities of japan]
to being able to kill 6,000,000,000+
by putting up enough smoke, above the rain washout level, to block out permanently enough sun to drop the world temperature 25 degrees
which is three times colder than an iceage
enough to destroy all food
and then there is the million years of radiation to keep everything dead
and the fighting and the anger, the hatred and the ignorance, are still growing
bringing us ever closer to the time these weapons are used
which may be 100 years away, 30 years away or a day away
probably not all at once, probably here a bomb, there a bomb, increasing
they have already dropped 600 tonnes of depleted uranium
which shows great foolish faith in the absolute separation of parts of the world, great faith in the absence of winds and other transport
also, technology has in the last 200 years effectively shrunk the world by a factor of 250, from a day away being 50 miles, to being 12,500 miles,
concentrating the violence like pressurising a gas, making injury ricochet faster and harder
so we can be in a far better position
we can be far, far happier
besides the prospect of a triple iceage, there is the evergrowing fighting, the danger and the cost in lives, money, destruction of good things, labour of reconstruction
and not having all the money we have earned
not being able to have as many things as we deserve, as our work has made
the fighting involves everyone, both the ones the money has drifted from and the ones the money has drifted to
the fight is between these two
which is devastating to quality of life on both sides of the fight
for the overpaid, the 99% underpay is constantly sending up challengers
and the overpaid get soft, and the underpaid get hard, fight meaner and dirtier, hit faster and harder
which is why the sicilian mafia is at the top of america
and the world is ever sending up new mafias to challenge the old
the golden carrot of super-overpay and the super-underpay are both enormous stimuli to crime
so undoing the drift of money will save everyone from evergrowing fighting
we can easily reverse the 1000s of years of drifting the wrong way by making everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased estates
the deceased cannot have made so much money
the private heirs have done nothing to make that money
everyone in the world has done the work to make that money
everyone in the world has done the work that made the things that the drifted money buys
so such a law is a fair law
fairness minimises anger rage fighting
we have very extreme unfairness, so we have very extreme anger rage fighting
and fighting affects everyone sooner or later, some way or another, in many ways
a law giving equal shares of the large deceased estates to everyone would stop the fighting over a few having far more than they have earned, and most having far less than they have earned
it would stop the evergrowing fighting and danger and human-made disasters
all the overpay accumulated over 1000s of years would gently rain down, over two generations,
without economic disturbance
pouring water on fires of starvation and terrorism, disease and uneducation, immediately
giving equal shares to everyone, 1% overpaid and 99% underpaid, saves the enormous bureaucratic cost and labour of distinguishing the two
and the overpaid are being trimmed by the law anyway
the drifting of money, which buys just about everything, is the root of virtually all the problems and troubles we have
the undrifting of money is the root of virtually all the goodness of life we are missing out on
and money is power too
so unfairness in money is unfairness in power
people with more power can do what they like to people with less power
they control which laws exist, and which laws are followed
they can conceal what they are doing
they control government, courts, education, information, everything
a person with one billion can hire a million soldiers for a 1000 days at $1 a day
which is very bad for the people who become soldiers on $1 a day
very bad for the civilians killed in the wars
very bad for the generals who lose and for the generals who win
with fairness, one person would be hard put to hire one soldier
which is far better
war is very profitable, because much of what is purchased gets quickly destroyed
there are warmongers, who create wars
warmongers sell to both sides
it may seem that the people with far more than they have earned by their own work would sit around enjoying themselves
but they are under attack in many ways from those who have less than they have earned
and they are under attack from those with as much or more than them, from those who would like to grab what they have
so they have endless trouble and fighting and protecting themselves on their hands
and this makes them need more money, which they get from the people with less money and power
and the more a person has, the more they are under attack in one way or another from rich and poor
having more forces them to take more, which makes the attacks on them even stronger
so things just get worse and worse
all this evergrowing suffering is gone with fairpay
fighting is minimised
which is good for everybody
it may seem that it doesn't matter if some people have heaps
but it means suffering and trouble, war and crime, warmongering and cannonfoddering of the underpaid people, evergrowing
we can get rid of all this suffering and trouble
we just have to work at getting clear in our heads that it is good for us
that every single one of us, overpaid and underpaid, will indeed be much, much happier by curing wrong drift of money from all to few
since fairness is good for everyone, and if everyone can get clear that it is indeed good for everyone, we can get it very easily
passing such a law is easy once everyone is certain it is extremely in their own interest
so all we need to do is work at understanding the reality
and then spreading the word to others
until everyone is clear that here is a good thing that we have all been overlooking, missing out on
like fire, which is a very good thing, and there was a time we were missing out on its enormous benefits just because we couldn't see it
so ideas, new insights into the big big world, make an enormous difference to happiness
getting clear about fire made our lives much, much better
getting clear about insurance made our lives much better
getting clear about the internal combustion engine made our lives much better
and getting clear about money will make our lives much, much better
the idea of having anything to do with fire must have seemed the craziest idea at first
and the idea of being a dashboard away from exploding petrol had its detractors
we think that the more money we get, and the less work we have to do to get it, the better it is
our horizon is limited, we don't see what is over our horizon
we play with a cute furry tail and we wonder how the tiger got here
people who get a lot of money are looked up to, as models and as successes
but gettting out more than we put in means others getting out less than they put in by their work
it is theft, and theft is injury, and theft of money [wealth, property, earnings] is the greatest injury, and no one takes injury lying down
people get angry when they find they have been stolen from
when they find they have to do more work to get less
so over the horizon of getting more money for less work is fighting, war and crime, evergrowing
a few getting hold of most power
much more power than most people
what seems to be good is actually very, very bad for us
what seems to be in our interests is actually the root cause of most of the miseries we suffer
we go on doing the thing we think is good, and we go on suffering
when we put the two together, we see that we have been hurting ourselves without knowing it
as soon as we see that, we will stop
when we see that more money for less work means having to fight everyone all the time
means a world in perpetual war and crime, getting worse, getting extremely dangerous, we will stop
as a child stops running into the road when it gets a clear understanding of the danger, when it sees its self-interest
it seems to the underpaid that more money is good, because they have desires and needs still unsatisfied, which more money would satisfy
but the ones with overpay experience something that the underpaid don't know about
desires and needs are limited
so more money, above fairpay, stops being able to deliver more satisfaction
like, when your stomach is full, food becomes nothing to you
when you are thirsty, drinking water is great
but when you have quenched your thirst, drinking water is unpleasant, is no longer a good thing, no longer a pleasure
with fairpay of $300,000 a year, all but the teenytiniest of desires are satisfied
overpay can add practically nothing to pleasure or comfort
the overpaid cannot sit in more seats, lie in more beds, eat more food, drink more, fill more room, have more sex, drugs and rock and roll, than the fairpaid
the overpaid can spend more, but they can't get more satisfaction
they can own skyscrapers, companies, big boats, palaces, great areas of land, but they can't consume more
solid gold taps sound terribly exciting to the underpaid, but they are just taps
overwealth sounds good to the underpaid, because they still have desires unsatisfied
overwealth is a beacon of hope to them
so they allow overwealth, support overwealth
meanwhile the overpaid have this tremendous, endless war on their hands
a person who steals all the goods of 1000 people has merely more goods than he can consume, and now has 1000 vigorous enemies
plus the enmity of others who have also stolen the property of 1000 people
plus his environment, other people, has been devastated
instead of happy healthy wealthy people, he is surrounded by poverty, uneducation, anger, dirt and disease, as we are
how is the person who steals the property of the tribe, and is hiding in the forest, up a tree, trembling for his life, surrounded by goods more than he can consume, happier?
rockefeller behind electric fences and guard dogs
a concentration camp with swimming pool
hitler in the bunker, stalin in his kremlin cell, marie antoinette, charles I of england with their heads on the block
belonging to a community in amity and trust is one of the greatest factors in happiness
the world happiness index is constantly finding poor countries happiest
why?
not because they are poor, but because they have more equality than anyone else in the world
they would be even happier with both equality and fairpay, freedom from vulnerability to all those with more power
and we would be far happier, with as much equality as the poorest, and fairpay, and freedom from vulnerability to all those with more power, and freedom from attack from those below
there is enough to pay every worker in the world, including all housewives and tertiary students, $100,000 a year, $40 an hour
every worker in the world, including housewives and tertiary students, is earning $100,000 a year, $40 an hour
they are adding that much to the pool of wealth, the pool of products of work and nature's bounty
[world income is taken from sprout and weaver, kyklos journal, v45, 1992, pages 237-258, compounded with global inflation since]
we assume that cavepeople were less happy than us, but they had both equality and fairpay, a swimming pool
we can have equality, fairpay and technology
instead of that happiness, we have 98% of the water in the human swimming pool drained
and it is very bad for the 1% who have the 98%
we would have had, we would have, if we got pay fairness, scientific progress 100 times as fast as we have now
because 90% of the scientists and inventors we have now are tied up in the myriad consequences of the super-super-extreme overpay and underpay, in the military-industrial complex, in the courts, in the universities, in the hospitals, in the government, in business, and 90% of the people who could be scientists and inventors are too poor to become scientists and inventors
so we have completely lost sight of, completely forgotten, how much we have lost
we have lost around 99% of natural birthright happiness
we would be around 100 times happier
unbelievable?
we all know how much unhappiness would increase if a government, say, started taking 90% of aftertax income off 90% of people and gave it all to 1%
first, there would be loss of 81% of happiness from the taking of 81% of national wealth from the 90% [90% of 90% is 81%]
then, on top of that, there would be the tremendous conflict caused, which would greatly increase deaths, grief, fear, anxieties, crime, imprisonment, injuries, brutality
there would be no increase of pleasure for the 1%, because of the limits of bodily desire, of appetite, and there would be tremendous increase in trouble, danger and security-labour for the 1%
the 1% would be isolated from the human tribe
they would have fear, even of others in the 1%, for they would have a lot that could be stolen by others among the 1%
there would be the loss of progress, with most people tied up in fighting and selfdefence, rebuilding infrastructure [cities] and repairing bodies
looking after the victims of war and crime
there would be the loss of production of goods from the loss of the labour of most being tied up in the fighting in one way or another
there would be lives wasted tied up in the fighting, in government army police hospitals courts etc, which would otherwise be doing more pleasant, satisfying work
with equal pay for equal work, people drift to the paying work that gives them most intrinsic satisfaction
instead of doing the work that brings the most money
all these factors would very easily add a loss of another 18% of national and individual happiness, bringing the total to 99%
we would have 100th of the happiness
99% of natural, easy happiness would be destroyed
everyone would lose big
so happiness would increase 100 times if the above super-extreme theft was reversed
we in this world have unfairness greater than this super-extreme theft
far greater
in the above example, the 1% get only 82 times fairpay
in this world of ours, the 1% get up to 100,000 times fairpay, they get up to $30,000,000,000 a year
in the above example, the 90% get a 10th of what they earn
they can buy only a 10th of what they make by their work
in this world of ours, the 90% get between 100th and 10,000th of what they make by their work
they can buy only between 100th and 10,000th of what they make by their work
and they have 100th to 10,000th of the fairshare of political power
in the above example, the 9% in the middle get fairpay, but they are in the midst of fighting, they are under attack from the 1% and the 90%
in the real world, the 9% between the 1% and the 90% get between fairpay and 100th of fairpay, and everyone is fighting everyone
because everyone is just going for more, by all means
so we can be far happier than the people in the above imaginary state
and they would be 100 times happier with the reversal of the super-extreme theft of 90% from 90%
the 1% can be far happier, free from fighting everyone, and free to return and be humans among humans, with no less satisfaction of desires
the 90% can be far happier, free from victimisation and bullying by the more powerful, with far more satisfaction, with 100 to 10,000 times more money
the 9% can be far happier, free from being caught up in the fighting everywhere, and with 1 to 100 times more money
to get from here to there, from super-misery to this far greater happiness, requires only realising the enormous hidden downside of what seems good to us, getting more money for less work
working twice as hard and taking out twice as much is perfectly good and harmless to ourselves
because there is no theft, which means no creation of anger, no fighting evergrowing
[and the fairtax is the same amount as for others, because the person working twice as hard consumes only the same amount of government services]
it may seem that we are reasonably happy, that we are getting along reasonably well, and that there is no need to increase our happiness
but there are monuments in every town to the fallen in war
and there are other, invisible monuments to the people who had to adjust to the fact that someone was not coming home from war
and other invisible monuments to those who came back from the war broken
and other, invisible monuments to the 100% of people who missed out on 100 times faster scientific progress
and other invisible monuments to the victims of crime
and to the people who died or suffered for lack of the science we would have had
and monuments to the people who didn't die in war, but whose lives were taken up in the fighting, and in spending lives in the army and police, instead of being free from that unnecessary labour
we think that, if we go after more, we will get more, and we have got far, far less
how can that be? how can going after more get you far, far less?
one, because opening the accepted social behaviour up to everyone getting just more means some getting far more than they earned by their own labour, their own sacrifice of time and energy
us giving ourselves a straw to get out more, means some others getting a far bigger straw
giving yourself the right to get as much as you can means everyone getting the right to go after as much as they can
result, everyone grabbing from everyone endlessly, 1% with up to 100,000 times the average pay per unit of work
99% with down to 10,000th of average pay per unit of work
and two, generating violence evergrowing to the present 60 times PDC
it may seem better, when you are a child among 100 children with 1000 sweets, if you are free to get as many sweets as you can get
it may seem worse if you are limited to ten sweets
but then everyone else is limited to ten sweets, and so a few cannot take most of the sweets, leaving very little for the others, making war for all
limiting the number of sweets means more sweets for 99%
and if everyone is to be free to try to get all the sweets, everyone will fight everyone endlessly
the ones with few sweets will be driven by having fewer sweets
the ones with many sweets will be driven by being free to get more
the fighting will never stop, will exhaust everyone, will injure everyone
only the person with nothing will be free from having to endlessly protect his sweets
the people with most will be being most grabbed from, will therefore in quick time lose the sweets they have
every heap of overwealth in history, individual, national and imperial, has been brought down
the overpaid have always been falling from their great height like drops of a fountain
[we underestimate their numbers because they mostly pass from history as they fall from the heights, or they never get into history]
the underpaid can only throw grains of sand, but sand erodes rocks
the underpaid have lost many battles, they have never lost a war
to bring the analogy closer to reality, imagine it isn't children and sweets, but a community in which everyone brings the products of their work to a communal hall and the gamerule is that everyone just goes for grabbing as much of it as they can, grabbing from each other too
when it isn't just sweets, but money, which buys virtually every need and desire, every product of work, things get a lot more hairy
work produces goods, and the natural entitlement is to get out as much as you put in
[we pool the goods to remix them because we specialise in goods production]
anything else is theft, theft is injury, and injury ricochets as untiringly as atoms
worse than atoms, injury grows, as people revenge an injury with a bigger injury
10 sweets is $300,000 a year per family for an average amount of work
if there is water, and there is no limit to how high it can go, a little will go higher and higher and most will get lower and lower
if there is a limit to how high it can go, there is a limit on how low it can go
the pool of social wealth is vast, but limited
if it can go limitlessly higher than level, it must go limitlessly lower than level
we have said, let it go limitlessly high, and it has also gone limitlessly low, and on top of that, generated limitless violence and brutality at all levels
freedom to get out more than you put in is freedom for everyone to be under attack from everyone forever
and a lot of the wealth will have to be wasted on the weapons of attack, and the repair of the damage
very rich-poor Middle East spends 50% of its wealth on fighting, more egalitarian Scandinavia spends only 2%
and even Scandinavia could spend less on fighting, by having more fairness
it is not love of money that is the root of virtually all unnecessary evils
it is love of overpay that is the root of virtually all unnecessary evils
it is not private property that is bad, it is other-earned private property, which sounds good to us
unlimited fortunes for what is necessarily limited contribution
communism took 98% off everyone, and collapsed
nazism took 98% off everyone, and collapsed
we are in a global system that takes 98% off everyone
so haven't we been making a mistake, isn't it true that we have overlooked something
and doesn't that mean the very good news that it is really true that we can be much, much happier
that we don't have to live like this, that this isn't the best life we can have?
people think war is human nature, but human nature is how we were before inequality started growing from nothing
fistfights, not ICBMs, not death camps and world wars, just shouting and threatening
money makes money
that means that the person doesn't make the money, the money does
that is, money rakes money that has been made by other people
a billion makes $50 million a year, every year, for no work by the person, by work by others, at a modest 5%
and the big rates of return, 20%, 40%, with less risk, are mostly reserved for the big investors
having more money is like having a rake to rake more money
the more money you have, the faster you can rake money
the less money you have, the slower you can rake money
so inequality grows and accelerates and so violence grows and accelerates, as we know has happened through history
people still jump on get-rich schemes, and they are in fact opening the cage of a tiger
which consumes all, rich and poor
how is it possible that anyone can get money without earning it by their own work?
there are many wideopen unhidden legal ways in our present systems
for example, new technology has built-in scarcity
there is high demand, everyone wants it
and the factories to supply it are still gearing up
high demand and low supply means high prices, prices well above the total costs of making, including owner work
prices 40% above total costs means a profit rate of 40%
it takes only an annual 40% profit rate to increase fortune 10,000 times in 30 years
which is how Bill Gates 'made' 'his' billions
how Bill Gates has been paid $500,000 per workhour for 30 years
although he certainly couldn't make $500,000 worth of goods per hour
he gets, every hour, another legal license to take out of the social pool of wealth another $500,000 worth of goods, which other people have made
this is only one of many legal thefts, legal pay injustices, in our present system
and it is good for no one, rich or poor, overpaid and underpaid
as soon as we see we have been letting the tiger out of the cage, to consume everyone, we will stop doing it
and happiness, safety, peace will increase 100-fold or more
and extinction by evergrowing violence will be stopped in its coming
a new idea which can prevent a zillion unnecessary sufferings
prevent a million more girls every year sold into a lifetime of sexual slavery
prevent 99% of people getting down to 10,000th of what they earn
prevent 2 million people going blind every year for lack of 4c of vitamin A
and a billion other horrors and wastes
prevent the overpaid living lives of desperation, without belonging to the human community
attacked on all sides, like Hitler, Ceausescu, Caesar, and a billion others, at all levels of the inequality
the mental labour of acquiring a new idea of what is going on, of how one thing connects to another
pays you a bigger bonus that you would ever dream of getting in your wildest dreams
because a little error has grown for so long
drops which have made an ocean of grief, disorder and danger for everyone
we stand on the brink of extinction and on the brink of a golden age, with only the labour of exploring a new idea between them
is this too big a project, just learning a new idea and passing it on to two of your closest people?
have I explained the idea well enough?
are you now clear on it and enthusiastic?
are you now certain that we have the greatest opportunity for increase in happiness in the history of the world?
if so, consider this: every adult in the world can get this idea, just by word of mouth alone, in just 31 times the time it takes two people to get it
if every person who gets clear and certain about it passes it on to just two people, to the point of them being clear about it and keen to tell two people each, everyone will know this new idea in just 31 times the time to tell two people, by word of mouth alone [it's maths, it's true]
one candle will light 4 billion candles in just 31 times the time to light two candles, if everyone lights only two candles when theirs gets lit
just the natural, easy way news gets around about a good new film
there are 3 billion adults to reach, but 3 billion adults to reach them, with all their resources, talents, skills and energies
with 99% underpaid, and no one wanting extinction, the majority wanting this change will be 99+%, which will include most of the 'muscle' of the super-overpaid
word of mouth will keep this idea under the radar of the most overpaid, who, without first examining the idea to see if it would be good for them too, will oppose it by financing anyone who will speak up for the old mindset
keeping it under the radar longest will give time for the super-overpaid, the superendangered, to get a whiff that this might be good for them too
if everyone gets this idea, the rest of the way is easy
there are easy ways standing by, waiting for people to get the will, the strong clear certain will, by ruminating the idea into the milk of seeing clearly the opportunity
are you feeling at this point unclear and uncertain about this idea, but feel the idea looks as though it might have something?
give it time, forget about it, read it again in a week, you may get clear just from this
I have spent 20 years getting my head this far around it, give it time to soak through all the pathways of our complex, partitioned brain
if you still feel unclear after this, there are more explanations and more points covered at happinessfinneganswake.blogspot.com
and if you want even more, there is a 500-page book in bite-sized bits at www.globalhappiness.org [not an org]
this super-super-extreme overpay and underpay is the root of human [mis]culture, so it branches in all directions, into all areas of human life
cut the root, evergrowing theft of money, the big straw, and you will be amazed how many branch-evils in the world will wither up and die
and they will be gone forever
if you still feel unclear and uncertain, but still feel that there might be something good here, you are extremely welcome to discuss it
my email is with the blogspot
but light not heat, please!
there is vast suffering in the world, so it is good taste to pursue light, bad taste to indulge in heat
it is not an injury to anyone for others to have honest different opinions
these opinions here are sincerely held, with sympathy for everyone, so they don't deserve unpleasantness
or are you now feeling that the idea is not good at all, is bad in some way?
would you be so kind as to communicate your opinion with me, giving reasons for your opinion, and being open to discussion, so that I can learn something, maybe see and clear up a misunderstanding, or learn a better way to express it, or learn how I am wrong
I can be wrong, and you can be wrong too
maybe with further explanation, you will clarify something, and thus improve your life
improving your life, getting rid of bad stuff, increasing your happiness, is not a subject to dismiss lightly with a hasty judgement
giving the grounds for your disagreement, and being open to discussion, are not agreeing
you are not compromising your position by discussing
you are just acknowledging the fact that everyone can be wrong, no one knows everything, everyone can learn
we didn't make ourselves, we are not to blame for being wrong!
our brains are only so big, and our world is a lot bigger
so we see some things and overlook some others
you could be right, and add something to this idea, you could show it is wrong
I think it is right, I could be wrong, I could be right
everyone must judge for themselves
this is not about force, any more than use of fire, insurance or the engine were forced on people
this is: look over there, isn't that an oasis?
this is not about sacrifice, this is about your plate piled high
all happiness is real, so happiness depends entirely on realism
unrealism means unhappiness
judge well, think hard and coolly, ponder long and hard, there is deep mindset to overcome, it is happiness at stake, which is everyone's everything
money, like fire, is a good slave and a bad master
when we learned to master fire, it was a million-year-old prejudice in favour of running like heck which we overcame
the bushman in the film The gods must be crazy II, faced with a fire racing towards them,
ran back to the fire, grabbed a burning branch, and raced forward and started another fire ahead
so that they would have burned land to be safe on
cool thinking made the difference between being perfectly unharmed and being burned alive