This thread is not for geniuses. It is meant for mediocrities leveraged by and leveraging, systems. I think I'm going to call it "Intelligence Communism" just to trigger people. Lestrade mode.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1125119314611171328 …
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I'll add some framing meta-thoughts. Choosing to live in a GSCITC over waldenponding (an admitted caricature of the extreme opposite) is like choosing to live in a city over a log cabin. At some level you admit that you're better at surviving in an advanced collective context.
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It took centuries, but our identities are no longer tied to being literal breadwinners as in hunting/farming. We're happy to re-anchor bread-winning ego/vanity to earning tokens (money) in an artificial economy. There was a time when earning $ was not unlike earning likes today.
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Yes way. Look at ethnographic accounts of subsistence farming tribes that didn’t use money switching to cash crops and gradually becoming dependent on a broader economy. I think Graeber has a couple of examples in his book.
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