What is the most worthwhile goal a person can dedicate their life to?

[User92]

[BasicFlake]

Perhaps it would be leaving a positive legacy behind you. Having an impact on the world that goes on beyond your death. That way you were not just a piece of the furniture.

[HaveQuestions]

Agreed. “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” (William James)

[Poppykate]

Well said! 👏🏼

[pervertedjester]

Tetris world record. media.giphy.com/media/26uf1VGKiJqZjItXi/giphy.gif

[sophieegm]

Discovering and doing what makes you as happy and successful (relative) as possible-- hopefully without hurting others in the process

[BasicFlake]

This is a nice answer too

[shoplifter8]

literally anything involving science is probably the most worthwhile cause considering it progresses our whole civilization.

[estoydorado1]

Being happy, healthy, and their best self. I think that a positive output needs to start within so, yeah.

[Whatthefluff]

Showing kindness to all

[Whatthefluff]

Thanks for MHO

[User92]

Your welcome 😊

[lolitaaa__]

contributing positively and effectively to society in some way, while also trying to be the best version of yourself.

[Barrabus_the_Free]

Living their life on their own terms and doing what THEY want, rather than what society, family, the media, etc, tells them to do.

[Laura_Marx]

The destruction of civilization & the establishment of communism

[ClauseViter]

Having Studied Marx and Lenin extensively I HIGHLY recommend you read Hegel before assuming 'Revolution' is the way to go. Most people see communism as the reconciliation of class antagonism but no such thing exists in the modern day. Labor rights have been secured, there are simply those willing to further education and create new industries and those who are not willing to pursue education and must therefore become instrumental laborers to secure subsistence. Cultivate diligence, seek proper form through ritual, revolution... is the ineptitude to deal with one's challenges and the attempt to blame it on the social order.

[Laura_Marx]

Just reversing Marx's reversal of Hegel's idealism is not enough to brush off the unsustainability of capitalism & the inevitability of structural conflict that it contains. If you're telling me to read more Hegel, I'll say: put down Hegel (and Marx) and 'go among the masses', learn something of the conditions of the proletariat today, before you try and say 'labour rights have been secured', or think 'creating new industries'(!) is an alternative to 'the real movement which elaborates, everywhere and at every moment, civil war'

[ClauseViter]

This all comes down to a very simple reduction:

The goal of communism is equity amongst all people and the dissolution of private property and the abolition of central government.

I do not disagree with the aims they are perhaps the pinnacle of the human conception of justice. I have and continue still to argue that capital markets are unstable, that the abundance of material production will eventually become to large to be consumable. I even venture to argue that all crime is simply a symptom of the economic disparity admist people. But consider this, what is to be the human experience without inequality, without suffering, without challenges and without conflict? Might I remind you of Hegel's central axiom: The world is reason made actual. Pure Equity has no constitution, it never has, nor never will be actualized. Every natural process works by symbiosis; the particularisation of the organs nourishes the body, lower entropy and work will always organize higher entropy.

[Laura_Marx]

@ClauseViter A few things:

1. There would likely still be suffering & conflict in communism. The point is not to create some kind of dreamlike, utopian society where nothing bad ever happens. Communism is the end of history only insofar as history is "the history of class struggle" - in other words, as Marcuse says, 'not every problem someone has with his girlfriend necessarily has to do with the capitalist mode of production' :P

2. the point of communism is not even to say it is more Just, more Right, even more desirable: but the only possible, and the inevitable, negation of the contradiction that exists within capital.

3. Even if you were right, that an egalitarian society of common ownership would perverse the 'actualization of reason', then let it be perversed. Let all the world drown in freedom. I have differnet priorities to Hegel - and different class interests. There is no discussion to be had that begins with 'but Hegel said...'

[Indian-African]

ikr communism is so succesful I mean look at Venezuela.

[Laura_Marx]

@Indian-African Venezuela is Bolivarian, not communist - it's not even socialist. Regardless, they're far in advance of much of Europe - they have wages for housework! - even if still insufficient.

[dusty_milk]

Manifesto of Communist Party, Chapter 2 (Proletarians and Communists), first page: " Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of
the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to
abolish that".
I think what Marx meant was more to abolish the big private property (since proletarians have basically nothing (that sentence continues saying that actually capitalism has already abolished it)), that property obtained through the plus-work/plus-value theory to give "the same opportunities" (I put that into quotes since with this I do not mean starting again all from the same point and see who gets bigger in time), aka the means of production, to everyone. At least, this is my interpretation. Probably wrong or ignorant, tell me if you think so.

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[dusty_milk]

Anyway. The problem in Marx's theory (according me) is this. Noblemen were oppressive towards lower classes so that lowers classes at some point decided to start a revolution (French revolution for instance) that made the bourgeoisie ascend.
Bourgroisie is now oppressive and a revolution might come, but what tells us that the new ascending class will not be oppressive after?
Only because proletariat is the vast majority of population? Nah.
Men naturally tend to be lead, there would be a core of proletariat (the leaders of the movement) that would enstabilish a new oppressive class. As History has already taught us, after all.
It is an overuse of induction, and induction out of Natural numbers and Well Founded Sets is never a good thing, but we can say that it is more probable that the revolution won't save the world.

[dusty_milk]

I follow a more Darwinian thinking. Read Pareto's works. His distribution is so (empirically) true (applied to the reality, mathematically it is okay anyway lael) that we can assume it will go this way at least for all this century. He's the one from which we take the 80/20 rule (which is just a general approximation, read about it if you want) and actually about 20% of the people hold about 80% of the wealth since the start of society.

[disgustingweebtrash]

https://i.imgur.com/C6AHuGl.png

[dusty_milk]

Yeah, it was something of this kind lawl

[MovesLikeJagger]

Speaking the truth and only the truth... the best we know how, given the moment.

[clampfan101]

Aside from religion, having a good and happy family of their own.

[Anonymous]

Nothing, we are all going to rot in the ground and be eaten by worms

[Anonymous]

Stay alive, stay well, and help all you can while bettering yourself.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I'm on a mission to civilize

[SuperGlitterGirl]

Seek truth and dedicate yourself to it fully.

[Intraluminal]

Making the world more free.

[ClauseViter]

Science and Literature

[disgustingweebtrash]

Creating a vast Empire

[CT_CD]

Becoming a master on G@G

[Littlemissobvious]

helping as many people as u can

[Anonymous]

Eventually getting round to clearing the garage.

[Opinion Owner]

that and wining candy crush

[Anonymous]

Investing in yourself, personal growth

[TheNotorious]

save a life

[Anonymous]

traveling the world

[Anonymous]

Fucking bitches.

[Poppykate]

You are an ass!

[Opinion Owner]

@Poppykate media.giphy.com/media/3o85xrhcwk5SnS8bvi/giphy.gif

[Poppykate]

Apparently I can't just sent you one back.. too short... damn GAG! 😘