the most upsetting thought-seed that keeps germinating in my mind, that I can't seem to shake or remove, is the idea that almost ALL of human behavior (outside of pure subsistence) is about playing games of social control. That it's so typical that most people don't even see it.
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Indeed, part of any long-term lifestyle plan would be figuring out and executing the details of how it's sustainable before I committed to the lifestyle :) But usually this involves money, which Simler in "Minimum Viable Superorganism" calls "industrial-grade prestige status"...
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so you get "fuck you money" wealth and don't have to work again. that doesn't particularly mean you get to stop worrying about money. it means you're now worrying about institutional threats to money, and your status game now extends to millions of people instead of dozens.
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"industrial grade prestige" indeed, but "institutional threats to money that threaten my lifestyle" seems a much smaller and easier to live with fear than "having enough money to survive day-to-day" -- and again, influencing others is merely the means toward the lifestyle end
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for some perhaps, and maybe that's the good news. and then there's Koch bros (and their many equivalent actors)
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true. I wonder if it's possible to determine the extent to which a person can be satisfied with their achieved degree of prestige/status achievement. Are there some who would never be satisfied short of becoming Supreme Monarch?
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I think if you've got the dominator/totalitarian program running on overdrive even Supreme Monarch doesn't satisfy you. nothing will. hence the ancient emperors and pharaohs obsessing over immortality etc.
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It's not stupid to worry about succession when you're a monarch.
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