/biz/ - Business & Finance

It seems like if one is a materialist atheist, then one must conclude free will does not exist. Everything "choice" you make is influenced by 2 things, your genetics and your environment, neither of which you have any control over. In this case, you are a train running down tracks, under the illusion that you get choices. A powerful illusion, but an illusion all the same. The alternative is that your choices come from somewhere else, that somewhere being non-material, supernatural, or some phenomenon that we don't have any evidence for; i.e. your soul. If you believe in the former scenario, how can you justify holding people responsible for their actions? I suppose consequences are part of the environment that will dissuade anti-social behavior, but inflicting suffering in retribution for acts the perpetrator had no control over seems unreasonable.

>>22996159
You are already rich. Even if you make minimum wage in the western world, you can cut your expenses and pay for 5 African kids to have food, medicine and education. Are your comforts worth 5 African lives? As long as the answer is no, you will suffer cognitive dissonance. The truth is, your comforts ARE worth more than 5 African lives. Some people have to be marginalized. In a world of true equity, we would all be reduced to abject poverty. For some people to prosper, others have to suffer. We cannot have anything beautiful unless we accept that some people will die for it. Try not to be those people.

>>19976197
Does is cure physical pain?
I can’t do shit with my leg hurting the heat brought back post-surgery level of pain I just spend the whole day listening to a song or finding a tv to avoid thinking about it and it’s been like this for 9 years
I was a software engineer once I had a job and a life I withdrawn from society I can’t be helpful to anyone I feel emasculated

How can I spend 5k€ on feeling like a man?
I have to lift myself out of the depression I’m in
I was thinking fucking a man in the ass would bring his manliness onto me but I’m too depressed to touch another person right now
Maybe a home gym? What do I do anons help

>>18889345
Dumped all my linkies, kek wills it.

>>15237496
Been a neet for 2 years now and this is something i didn't expect. I love that wagies slave. It went from just not wanting to wagecuck myself, to wishing it on others. Not sure if I like where this is going...

90%

This is unironically me, but I stack BTC and very large, fixed interest loans.

>lmao @ our lives edition
this but I'm not laughing anymore

>tfw riding 25x long since 6400.
>came within $8 of liquidation price overnight