for - quote / critique / question - Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself. - The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie

quote / critique / question - Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself. - The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie - The problem with this reasoning is that it is circular - By rewarding oneself an extreme and unfettered amount of wealth for one's entrepreneurship skills creates inequality in the first place - Competition that destroys other corporations ends up reducing jobs - At the end of life, the rich entrepreneur desires to give back to society the wealth that (s)he originally stole - If one had reasonable amounts of rewarding innovation instead of unreasonable amounts, the problem of inequality can be largely mitigated in the first place whilst still recognizing and rewarding individual effort and ingenuity

Maurits differentiates "getting rich quick" with "getting rich easy". Getting rich easy doesn't happen, getting rich quick can, with concentrated effort.

Lisa Soul Of A New Machine. Advertisement, 1983. http://archive.org/details/lisa-soul-of-a-new-machine.

https://dxos.org/

https://www.braneframe.com/

https://buyolympia.com/Item/bumper-crop-ask-me-about-my-rich-inner-life

I saw a bumper sticker on a car this afternoon that read "Ask Me About My Rich Inner Life". I think I'm going to have to buy one to put on my zettelkasten.

https://werd.io/2023/doing-it-all

Interesting to see what, in generations past, might have been a gendered (female) striving for "having it all" (entailing time with children, family and a career) has crossed over into the masculine space.

Sounds like Ben's got some basic priorities set, which is really the only thing necessary. Beyond this, every parent, especially of new babies, in the W.E.I.R.D. culture is tired. By this measurement he's doing it "right". What is missing is an interpersonal culture around him of extended family and immediate community of daily interaction to help normalize his conditions. Missing this he's attempting to replace the lack of experience with this area by reaching out to his online community, which may provide a dramatically different and biased sample.

Some of the "it takes a village" (to raise a child) still operates on many facets, but dramatically missing is the day-to-day direct care and help that many parents need.

Our capitalistic culture has again, in this case of parenting in the W.E.I.R.D. world, managed to privatize the profits and socialize the losses. Here the losses in Ben's case are on his physical well-being (tiredness) and his mental state wondering if his case is "normal". A further loss is the erosion of his desire for a family unit and cohesion of community which the system is attempting to sever by playing on his desire to "have it all". Giving in to the pull of work at the expense of family only drives the system closer to collapse.

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  • an obvious and logical strategy because
    • the elites are few in number, but hold much wealth
    • the disenfranchised are many in number but hold little wealth
      • but the disenfranchised exist in larger numbers
      • so when it comes to voting, they are a strategic cohort to win over
  • this is in effect the same logic as the Paris Agreement and climate justice
  • climate justice requires us to protect the poor and give them the remaining carbon budget whilst those who already have enough must cut back

• for: elites - lifestyle change, great simplification, worldview transition -materially-excessive and wonder-poor to materially- sufficient and wonder-rich, awakening wonder, Deep Humanity, BEing journeys

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• possible way to have more than one home
• a group can co-create and mutually invest in a regenerative timeshare
  • an example is to co-invest in a regenerative local community economy based around a regerative agroforestry system which has community owned and supported agriculture with year round Regenerative work and sustainable accommodations
  • Deep Humanity BEing journeys can play a role to re-awaken wonder

Boroditsky, Lera. How Language Shapes the Way We Think. Streaming Video. TED | TEDWomen 2017, 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

In der tasmanischen See südlich von Australien könnte es Prognosen zufolge im kommenden Sommer eine Hitzewelle mit Temperaturanomalien geben, die alle bisherigen Messergebnisse bei weitem übertreffen. Es werden schwere Schädigungen der Ökosysteme befürchtet. Die Tangwälder in diesem Gebiet sind bereits zu 95% zerstört.

Infografik: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ddf428fc0e08ac5eaf81daf3d2c25c1fa2727962/0_0_3253_1617/master/3253.jpg?width=465&dpr=2&s=none

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/27/south-east-australia-marine-heatwave-forecast-to-be-literally-off-the-scaler

Windfall tax on energy firms and banks

• for: voting, power - money, money - voting, inequality, voting - money, equity, voting power - rich
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  • if we think of money as a voting tool
    • why does a billionaire have a billion times more power to decide what society should be like than i do?

Meador, Jake. “The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church.” The Atlantic, July 29, 2023. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/christian-church-communitiy-participation-drop/674843/.

Meador looks at how churches might offer better community as a balm to W.E.I.R.D. lifeways and toxic capitalism.

Why must religion be the source for these communal and social supports? Why can't alternate social structures or institutions handle these functions?

Is this why the religious right is also so heavily opposed to governmental social support programs? Are they replacing some of the needs and communal desires people in need have? Why couldn't increased governmental support programs be broader and more holistic in their leanings to cover not only social supports, but human contact and community building as well.

Do some of these tensions between a mixed W.E.I.R.D. and non-W.E.I.R.D Americans cause a lot of the split political identities we see in the last few decades? What is the balm for this during the transition?

Extreme focus on financial and professional success has driven people to give less time to communal spaces and experiences including religious life.

Is this specific to America's brand of toxic capitalism or do other WEIRD economies experience this?

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

https://aboard.com/

In beta May 2023, via:

All right. @Aboard is in Beta. @richziade and I are to blame, and everyone else deserves true credit. Here's an animated GIF that explains the entire product. Check out https://t.co/i9RXiJLvyA, sign up, and we're waving in tons of folks every day. pic.twitter.com/7WS1OPgsHV

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) May 17, 2023

I love this acronym!

Cortellessa, E., & Wolfe, L. (2021, October 15). Why Is the U.S. Hoarding Hundreds of Millions of COVID Vaccines? Washington Monthly - Politics. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/10/15/why-is-the-u-s-hoarding-hundreds-of-millions-of-covid-vaccines/

Johnson, T., Moultrie, T., Gonsalves, G., & Hassan, F. (2021, October 12). An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated. Bhekisisa. https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2021-10-12-an-inconvenient-truth-the-real-reason-why-africa-is-not-getting-vaccinated/

👍 and well put.

Many artists fall into a creativity trap caused by fame. They spend years developing a great work, but then when it's released, the industry requires they follow it up almost immediately with something even stronger.

Jewel is an reasonable and perhaps typical example of this phenomenon. She spent several years writing the entirety of her first album Pieces of You (1995), which had three to four solid singles. As it became popular she was rushed to release Spirit (1998), which, while it was ultimately successful, didn't measure up to the first album which had far more incubation time. She wasn't able to build up enough material over time to more easily ride her initial wave of fame. Creativity on demand can be a difficult master, particularly when one is actively touring or supporting their first work while needing to

(Compare the number of titles she self-wrote on album one vs. album two).

M. Night Shyamalan is in a similar space, though as a director he preferred to direct scripts that he himself had written. While he'd had several years of writing and many scripts, some were owned by other production companies/studios which forced him to start from scratch several times and both write and direct at the same time, a process which is difficult to do by oneself.

Another example is Robert Kiyosaki who spun off several similar "Rich Dad" books after the success of his first.

Compare this with artists who have a note taking or commonplacing practice for maintaining the velocity of their creative output: - Eminem - stacking ammo - Taylor Swift - commonplace practice

Title: Four Kinds of Knowing Author: Rich Watkins Date

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyx5tyFttfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s4xx_muNcs

Don't recommend unless you have 100 hours to follow up on everything here that goes beyond the surface.

Be aware that this is a gateway for what I'm sure is a relatively sophisticated sales funnel.

Motivational and a great start, but I wonder how many followed up on these techniques and methods, internalized them and used them every day? I've not read his book, but I suspect it's got the usual mnemonic methods that go back millennia. And yet, these things are still not commonplace. People just don't seem to want to put in the work.

As a result, they become a sales tool with a get rich quick (get smart quick) hook/scheme. Great for Kwik's pocketbook, but what about actual outcomes for the hundreds who attended or the 34.6k people who've watched this video so far?

These methods need to be instilled in youth as it's rare for adults to bother.

Acronyms for remembering things are alright, but not incredibly effective as most people will have issues remembering the acronym itself much less what the letters stand for.

There seems to be an over-fondness for acronyms for people selling systems like this. (See also Tiago Forte as another example.)

ReconfigBehSci [@i]. (2021, November 27). @STWorg @PhilippMSchmid @CorneliaBetsch this clip got me too- for non-German speakers. She is asked whether she is ‘concerned’. Her response: Of course I’m concerned, I’m double vexed, I’m waiting for my booster vaccination, my husband died of Covid, I was in hospital, now I’m avoiding my grand children [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1464660287739596802

Schellekens, P., & Indermit, G. (2021, May 27). COVID-19 is a developing country pandemic. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/05/27/covid-19-is-a-developing-country-pandemic/

COVID vaccines: Widening inequality and millions vulnerable. (2021, September 19). UN News. https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1100192

The Guardian view on global vaccine inequality: Unwise as well as unethical | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved 28 October 2021, from https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/25/the-guardian-view-on-global-vaccine-inequality-unwise-as-well-as-unethical

IJzerman, H., Dutra, N., Silan, M., Adetula, A., Brown, D. M. B., & Forscher, and P. (2021). Psychological Science Needs the Entire Globe. APS Observer, 34(5). https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/global-psych-science

Good terminology- space of flows, denoting the necessity of (carbon intensive) travel to move from one place to another. Seen from the 19th century, even the average car-driving citizen of the 20th century is elite. A 100 hp car, which is now almost an average power rating of most internal combustion engines, is the power equivalent to the 19th century analog of maintaining 100 horses.

The elites move in a world of their own. Embedded within the deteriorating spaces all around them, their privileged and exclusive spaces are like self-constructed lotus blossoms floating on a sea of muck, which their lifestyles have disproportionately helped create in the first place. The geographic juxtapostion of these two spaces is stark, as illustrated in images such as those of Cape Town’s elite neighborhoods nextdoor to crowded townships. Wealth and privilege live side by side poverty.

Mapping out where they are is a useful exercise in order to identify the wealthy communities they may live in. Of course, citizens who live long enough in an city, town or community get to know where the affluent parts of town are.

Of course many of the super elite live in exclusive homes far away from population centers. Wealth buys geographic exclusivity snd seclusion from prying eyes.

Padma, T. V. (2021). COVID vaccines to reach poorest countries in 2023—Despite recent pledges. Nature, 595(7867), 342–343. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01762-w

POLITICO Digital Bridge: COVID-19 disinformation — Digital divide — Mark Warner. (2021, March 11). POLITICO. https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/digital-bridge/politico-digital-bridge-covid-19-disinformation-digital-divide-mark-warner/

Half billion vaccine jabs given: AFP. (n.d.). Retrieved 29 March 2021, from https://sg.style.yahoo.com/half-billion-vaccine-jabs-given-124120477.html

WHO urges rich countries to donate shots instead of vaccinating children. (2021, May 14). Coronavirus. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/who-urges-rich-countries-to-donate-shots-instead-of-vaccinating-children-1.5428056

Christina Pagel: A very real danger that covid-19 will become entrenched as a disease of poverty. (2021, April 9). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/04/09/christina-pagel-a-very-real-danger-that-covid-19-will-become-entrenched-as-a-disease-of-poverty/

‘What Happens When the 1% Go Remote’. Bloomberg.Com, 16 December 2020. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/what-happens-when-the-1-move-to-miami-and-austin.

Interesting, I guess it still does binding (like with bind:prop) even for on:event ...

Rush, D. E., & Connolly, A. J. (2020). An Agile Framework for Teaching with Scrum in the IT Project Management Classroom. Journal of Information Systems Education, 3, 196.

Another movie that exploded with viewers in Asian countries was "Crazy Rich Asians."

Nygren, H., Nissinen, K., Hämäläinen, R., & Wever, B. (2019). Lifelong learning: Formal, non‐formal and informal learning in the context of the use of problem‐solving skills in technology‐rich environments. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(4), 1759–1770. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12807

The evolving technological landscape in the digital era has a crucial influence on lifelong learning and the demand for problem‐solving skills. In this paper, we identify associations between formal, non‐formal and informal learning with sufficient problem‐solving skills in technology‐rich environments (TRE). We focus on adults' problem‐solving skills in TRE as a novel approach to investigate formal, non‐formal and informal learning based on data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. This programme measured 16–64‐year‐old adults' proficiency in problem‐solving skills in TRE. The total sample size was 61 654 individuals from 13 European countries. Our results clearly indicate that the skill levels of more than 50% of adults aged 16–64 years old seem to be insufficient to cope effectively in TRE. The findings suggest that the learning ecologies of adults are a combination of formal, non‐formal and informal learning activities. The overall level of problem‐solving skills in TRE was higher among individuals who indicated that they have participated either formal or non‐formal learning activities, compared to those who have not. However, interestingly, the association between formal learning and problem‐solving skills in TRE was not major. Instead, our results clearly indicate that informal learning seems to be highly associated with sufficient problem‐solving skills in TRE. In practice, we outline those formal, non‐formal and informal learning activities that adults perform when applying the skills in TRE. By recognising these activities undertaken by sufficient problem solvers, we can promote lifelong learning skills. Our findings can also be used as a starting point for future studies on lifelong learning.

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=tfh&AN=138139297&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=uphoenix

(Click Download full-text PDF to read). In this article, the authors reflect on the need to cultivate creativity and self-directed learning through transition from conventional course design to a more comprehensive design, which includes technology, problem solving, and collaboration. Moreover, the authors contend that measures of success should not be limited to traditional assessment methods. Barriers to the success of a self-directed design within the typical learning environment are mentioned. Through case study review, the authors demonstrate that strategic course design (educator, setting, technology, expectations) fosters development of the self-directed learner. Dynamics supporting the success of the technology-rich, creative, self-directed design were included. With a methodological approach that incorporates technology, problem-solving, teamwork, and educator support, self-directed behaviors emerge.(8/10)

But it’s really hard to see, because our human brains struggle to think about this Clock function as something for generating discrete snapshots of a clock, instead of representing a persistent thing that changes over time.

Bug repro for https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/2086

Fixed by: Bug 1:

• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3172
• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3172/commits/f4ca063c85e491b75d162f429ad243b6f443db13

Bug 2:

• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3209
• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/commit/2f08e34b41317619f9bc7bf6bc2418123fb06829

Fixed version here: https://svelte.dev/repl/a55ba18ceca44c898f2b011a0978de85?version=3.6.7

(although https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/3172/commits/f4ca063c85e491b75d162f429ad243b6f443db13 indicates the fix was included in v3.6.6 tag, so I wonder why it's not fixed here)

supersedes https://codesandbox.io/s/epic-stonebraker-9cxhu?file=/index.js:0-32

Good example of how helpful it is to remove everything irrelevant and create minimal reproducible example.

First sighting: https://leewarrick.com/blog/react-use-effect-explained/#annotations:RcWZUuPQEemU8k8LVi5PAg

Goodman, J. D. (2020, August 31). A Quick Virus Test? Sure, If You Can Afford It. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/nyregion/rapid-coronavirus-test.html

Bellafante, G. (2020, August 7). Lifestyles of the Rich and Reckless: Posh Pandemic Parties. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/coronavirus-rich-parties.html

How deep will downturns in rich countries be? (n.d.). The Economist. Retrieved April 22, 2020, from https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/04/16/how-deep-will-downturns-in-rich-countries-be?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/pickingofftheweakhowdeepwilldownturnsinrichcountriesbefinanceandeconomics

Commodity: Sugar Sugar is rare, for the rich only. It is very expensive, even for the rich.

Medieval Burgher) -> rich people live in town.

This is very true. Celebrities are huge trend-setters and with social media, their influence is more powerful. Why are people so quick to jump on the trends and follow them so diligently? Why do we try to be like the "luxurious and dissipated" and give them authority to influence? Overindulgence does not lead to more happiness. In the end, the rich and poor have the same fate. We do not carry our riches to the grave.

How society views/viewed celebrities.