The fundamental problem with 'equallity' of people with different capacities - 'keeping up with the Joneses'?

Question

If you think about it for a second, just as someone who can lift 100kg of weights in the gym has a higher muscle capacity than someone who can lift 25kg, the same goes for our mental abilities (and interest in those).

Yet we have this totalitarian insistence on commoditising everything so each person can be identical - thus resulting in the 'lowest common denominator' approach (i. e. the maximum allowed to be lifted is 10kg - so no one feels inferior)

This in turn hugely blocks the science and progress of the overall living conditions.
Off the top of my head, I can think of at least two major inventions for energy production and at least one for completely revolutionising transport (the sort of stuff Tesla tries but gets wrong). That is without the IoT ideas (all implementable) I have - which, again cannot be used since those of lower mental capacity would feel envious (even if they would benefit)

All because we must keep up with the Joneses. God forbid you admit to yourself 'hey, I can lift 10kg, so I am happy with that being my capacity'- there is always some Church/'higher authority' insisting on at least 25kgs, whilst abusing those who can already lift 100kg as 'selfish, privileged bastards'.

Anyone with ideas how to solve this, i. e. how to gain widespread social acceptance for everyone pursuing the maximum of their own abilities rather than some imaginary standard that never will be achievable? (as society, we spend about 90% of mental energy on giving help to those who can life 10kgs so they feel stronger - and overloading those who can lift more so they get blocked - leading to their unwillingness to bother (in the end, for the muscles to attrophy to the 10kg level across the board is not difficult at all - you drink, take drugs, ruin your mind - et voila, we are all equally idiotic).

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8 mo

Just to add to this - on top of it being socially unacceptable to be _that smart_ - you can only get away with it by giving your ideas away for free and getting paid some peanuts for brining those out as concrete, usable products - by the time you sign the NDAs and transfer of intellectual property to the usual big players, you're fundamentally left with almost nothing.

Answer 1

andreasderjuengere | 511 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

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Through my decades I have noticed that the less fucks I give, the more appreciation is granted.
I guess that Jones' problems are only for those who volunteer for the hamster race

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ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
That is a valid point. Thanks.
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
May be a better question is how to surround oneself with people out of the hamster race and avoid the hamsters as much as possible.
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
I think that this needs a little time. Early in life there are so many (new) distractions. And the lies we are told also still sound like making sense 😏
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ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
There's only the part of not having children so far which is a bit unusual about me (in the sense that I don't particularly like it - the rest of what is unusual I generally understand very well and am happy with). People seem to, by and large, do that while still fully clueless.
Do you have... offspring?
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
Yep: two grown up kids. They were not 'planned' - but welcome of course.
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
Happened when you were younger, I take it?
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
35 and 31 years ago 🙂 / Unfortunately, we drift away from your original question.
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
Yeah, the conversation moves on to the next thought.
In this security climate, with the little bitches ticking off the refugees (in Europe) - while the refugees are strongly favoured for jobs as well/promoted for compliance with Saudi money - it will either take a very special girl for me to start a family with - or it won't happen at all.
It isn't that the clock is ticking in the sense of 'I am getting unable to do it'- it is that the Saudi financed UN is bent on drowning the world in Hindu misery - so that they can get all of their 6 children to university, while the white man cannot afford any.
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
Did we not ask for such problems ourselves? We have transitioned into a quite mad "western society".
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
I didn't; I was raised largely behind the iron curtain and disliking the whole communist-taliban-invasion that it was. Briefly, the west was promoting - well, non-cannibalism, civility. The opposites of Hindu beliefs and practices.
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
I see. You have a quite "colourful" background. So: would you agree that the "first world" is basically a harmful show? Full of illusions and delusions.
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
Re: the background, yes. You could call it that. Re: the west - I don't think it is harmful at all. It has a problem with greed, but mostly induced by being pressed to give its own earnings and products (and children and labour, in fact) - to the various Ottomans (500 or 600 years of the Ottoman empire that routinely took people's children away - to 'feed them' (but really use them as cheap soldiers) has left huge marks and insecurities on the west - as has the Mongol conquest on the east (of Europe).
I find both of these victims, of different IndoChinese conquests (that were, in fact, at the time - one coordinated attack - and we keep being obliged to now feed them - that, I find entirely insane, unjustified and downright masochist/brutally cruel - to us)
andreasderjuengere

8 mo
Greed -to me- is one of the harmful details. One other example is this ridiculous walk on knives' edges about "correctness". It appears to be more important to use "he-she-it-whatever" the right way than to get to the core of specific problematic topics. To just talk nice solves not one problem. Plus: instead of HELPING troubled people we simply pretend that they are "normal"... just in an own way. We have reworked the lies into truths
ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
That is due to the UN driven, Saudi sponsored affirmation of Indians (pan Hindus, from the Chinese border to Istanbul - incidentally the same (Taliban) people arriving into the US as 'Mexicans'.
The doubled their population from 1 billion in 1970 to 2B in 1990 to 4B in 2010 - and are not on the road to get to 8B.
The whole 'correctness' is a way to ban saying anything about that - you simply must talk about all other topics, else Saudi Brent might climb in price

Answer 2

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

That is a valid point. Thanks.

Answer 3

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

May be a better question is how to surround oneself with people out of the hamster race and avoid the hamsters as much as possible.

Answer 4

andreasderjuengere

I think that this needs a little time. Early in life there are so many (new) distractions. And the lies we are told also still sound like making sense 😏

Answer 5

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

There's only the part of not having children so far which is a bit unusual about me (in the sense that I don't particularly like it - the rest of what is unusual I generally understand very well and am happy with). People seem to, by and large, do that while still fully clueless.
Do you have... offspring?

Answer 6

andreasderjuengere

Yep: two grown up kids. They were not 'planned' - but welcome of course.

Answer 7

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

Happened when you were younger, I take it?

Answer 8

andreasderjuengere

35 and 31 years ago 🙂 / Unfortunately, we drift away from your original question.

Answer 9

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

Yeah, the conversation moves on to the next thought.
In this security climate, with the little bitches ticking off the refugees (in Europe) - while the refugees are strongly favoured for jobs as well/promoted for compliance with Saudi money - it will either take a very special girl for me to start a family with - or it won't happen at all.
It isn't that the clock is ticking in the sense of 'I am getting unable to do it'- it is that the Saudi financed UN is bent on drowning the world in Hindu misery - so that they can get all of their 6 children to university, while the white man cannot afford any.

Answer 10

andreasderjuengere

Did we not ask for such problems ourselves? We have transitioned into a quite mad "western society".

Answer 11

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

I didn't; I was raised largely behind the iron curtain and disliking the whole communist-taliban-invasion that it was. Briefly, the west was promoting - well, non-cannibalism, civility. The opposites of Hindu beliefs and practices.

Answer 12

andreasderjuengere

I see. You have a quite "colourful" background. So: would you agree that the "first world" is basically a harmful show? Full of illusions and delusions.

Answer 13

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

Re: the background, yes. You could call it that. Re: the west - I don't think it is harmful at all. It has a problem with greed, but mostly induced by being pressed to give its own earnings and products (and children and labour, in fact) - to the various Ottomans (500 or 600 years of the Ottoman empire that routinely took people's children away - to 'feed them' (but really use them as cheap soldiers) has left huge marks and insecurities on the west - as has the Mongol conquest on the east (of Europe).
I find both of these victims, of different IndoChinese conquests (that were, in fact, at the time - one coordinated attack - and we keep being obliged to now feed them - that, I find entirely insane, unjustified and downright masochist/brutally cruel - to us)

Answer 14

andreasderjuengere

Greed -to me- is one of the harmful details. One other example is this ridiculous walk on knives' edges about "correctness". It appears to be more important to use "he-she-it-whatever" the right way than to get to the core of specific problematic topics. To just talk nice solves not one problem. Plus: instead of HELPING troubled people we simply pretend that they are "normal"... just in an own way. We have reworked the lies into truths

Answer 15

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

That is due to the UN driven, Saudi sponsored affirmation of Indians (pan Hindus, from the Chinese border to Istanbul - incidentally the same (Taliban) people arriving into the US as 'Mexicans'.
The doubled their population from 1 billion in 1970 to 2B in 1990 to 4B in 2010 - and are not on the road to get to 8B.
The whole 'correctness' is a way to ban saying anything about that - you simply must talk about all other topics, else Saudi Brent might climb in price

Answer 16

Anonymous

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

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ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

8 mo
Well,

There is an official framework of that, some Indian PhD developed (and got a Nobel prize for - I don't remember the name),
But politics are directly opposed to this - the first thing they sell is 'equality' - even (or mostly) the totalitarian kind, where we'd all get the same size living spaces and places at exactly the same schools etc - and they keep peddling this, mostly by making people of lower ability ashamed for being the way they are when, truth be told, those people should never be looked down upon for maybe living in smaller spaces, driving older cars, doing jobs that are repetitive in nature, not wearing the designer clothes etc.
In fact all of media and advertising are teamed up to offend anyone remotely non-top-class into _absolutely having_ to achieve that to consider themselves a _person_ - resulting in huge struggles and _lots of crime_ - since many of the people they shame simply cannot achieve intellectual greatness, but rather borrow irresponsibly, or steal/con so they can at least pretend they are on that magical advertised 'successful' level.
This along the way of the people who can achieve such things shunning them because the elbowing and dirty competition have become so high that a lot of that is simply meaningless/only serves to impress the imaginary Joneses.
Opinion Owner

8 mo
Politics doesn't exist

Answer 17

ThatNoUVAtYourEyes

Well,

There is an official framework of that, some Indian PhD developed (and got a Nobel prize for - I don't remember the name),
But politics are directly opposed to this - the first thing they sell is 'equality' - even (or mostly) the totalitarian kind, where we'd all get the same size living spaces and places at exactly the same schools etc - and they keep peddling this, mostly by making people of lower ability ashamed for being the way they are when, truth be told, those people should never be looked down upon for maybe living in smaller spaces, driving older cars, doing jobs that are repetitive in nature, not wearing the designer clothes etc.
In fact all of media and advertising are teamed up to offend anyone remotely non-top-class into _absolutely having_ to achieve that to consider themselves a _person_ - resulting in huge struggles and _lots of crime_ - since many of the people they shame simply cannot achieve intellectual greatness, but rather borrow irresponsibly, or steal/con so they can at least pretend they are on that magical advertised 'successful' level.
This along the way of the people who can achieve such things shunning them because the elbowing and dirty competition have become so high that a lot of that is simply meaningless/only serves to impress the imaginary Joneses.

Answer 18

Opinion Owner

Politics doesn't exist

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