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Just started a SEO course on Udemy and in the introduction
they said: the Internet is about the world better helping to make, Google is about
helping to make the Internet better, SEO is about helping to make Google
better. I was inspired by that way to look at things – indeed our work, our
interests – even if it is an attempt to make my website more popular is ultimately
about making the world better.
So, any effort – including the most mundane work for a
living has a higher meaning – providing for myself is actually providing for
the betterment of humanity. That is of course if your particular line of business
is not intentionally focused on harming fellow human beings and in consequence
humanity as a whole.
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People worry.
Then people fear.
Then people tend to act unreasonably.
Unreasonable behavior is detrimental to people's wellbeing.
It is normal. We have survived because we have avoided numerous dangers along the road. On the other hand paralyzing fear can prevent us from using valuable resources where they are most needed. Therefore it is most important to think before we act, doubt before we believe, analyze before we claim to understand.
Following is a quote that impressed and saddened me at the same time. There are great minds that warn us but we listen and don't hear, look and don't see....
"The English
government presents, just now, a curious phenomenon. Seeing that the French and
English nations are getting rid of the prejudices and false notions formerly
entertained against each other, and which have cost them so much money, that
government seems to be placarding its need of a foe; for unless it finds one
somewhere, no pretext exists for the enormous revenue and taxation now deemed
necessary.
Therefore, it
seeks in Russia the enemy it has lost in France, and appears to say to the
universe, or to say to itself. "If nobody will be so kind as to become my
foe, I shall need no more fleets nor armies, and shall be forced to reduce my
taxes. The American war enabled me to double the taxes; the Dutch business to
add more; the Nootka humbug gave me a pretext for raising three millions
sterling more; but unless I can make an enemy of Russia the harvest from wars
will end. I was the first to incite Turk against Russian, and now I hope to
reap a fresh crop of taxes."
If the miseries
of war, and the flood of evils it spreads over a country, did not check all
inclination to mirth, and turn laughter into grief, the frantic conduct of the
government of England would only excite ridicule. But it is impossible to
banish from one's mind the images of suffering which the contemplation of such
vicious policy presents. To reason with governments, as they have existed for
ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that
reforms can be expected. There ought not now to exist any doubt that the peoples
of France, England, and America, enlightened and enlightening each other, shall
henceforth be able, not merely to give the world an example of good government,
but by their united influence enforce its practice."
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It's the critical thinking people's support that counts.
You can call it a blessing.
Yes! Because socialism and communism mobilizes societies resources for the common good, strives for equality and solves poverty and unemployment problems. Also the living proof is that Communist China is the leading world economy.
But… Communism with its rigid centralized system of government tends to breed corruption that creates the inequalities that it has proclaimed to be fighting against. Also, communism and socialism tend to stifle innovation - the iPhone was invented in America - but, of course, is made in China. On the other hand the Soviet Union beat America to space.
Communism is an old idea - since the time of Plato and Aristotle, even Jesus preached against private property. Still it has too many weak points and it is free markets and democracy that have brought humanity prosperity and technological progress (and that includes China).
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-really-want-a-socialist-or-communist-country-Why/answer/Alex-Great-5
First,
I thought communism was good and capitalism bad.
Then,
capitalism is good and communism bad.
Democracy and market forces should take care
of that….
And
that seemed to be so true because then we won the Cold war – Soviet style
communism crumbled under its own stupidity eager crowds dismantled the Berlin
war and turned the pieces of the hated barrier into souvenirs – under the
sounds of Pink Floyd singing “break down the wall…” Then the US bombed the
Serbs!
Then
NATO didn’t disband and kept going for no obvious reason. Then the Chinese
communist system managed to bring their country out of poverty to the leading
position in the world economy.
Then America is in multi trillion-dollar
debt…
I still believe that it’s not by the
benevolence of baker and shoemaker that we enjoy prosperity and that we have
those inalienable rights.
What I don’t know is – what went wrong?
I know Marx does – he was confident that it was the ownership of the means of production that was the problem but while that does seem to be true with China’s success and the recent economic crisis triggered by US financial institutions it doesn’t seem to explain everything. Communism did fail in Russia and Eastern Europe.
