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This is literally what 90% of people living in “shithole” countries do.
The basic incentive to participate in capitalism is that if you work hard you can become rich, but what happens when this isn’t possible, as it is in the global south? Capitalism as it’s practiced in the global south is early stage, meaning there are almost no workers’ rights, the middle class is tiny and the working class is massive, with only a minority of the population being kleptocrats kept in power through support by first world countries so foreign companies can extract their resources.
The path to becoming rich is therefore blocked for the working-class, those who have talent, intelligence and ambition just move to first-world countries, the rest seeing that they can’t become rich short their priorities to something other than waging. They typically get a job and do it half-assedly or just go on welfare altogether, preferring to spend their time with their families, cultivating spirituality or chasing after skirts.
And there’s literally nothing wrong with this, if there are no incentives to work hard, don’t work hard.
The result is the economies of the global south underperform because no one is motivated to be productive and consequently GDP and HDI suffer because their governments don’t have enough of a tax base to keep roads clean and non-bumpy (and because the politicians are corrupt and embezzle the funds anyways).
But the funny thing is that people living in those countries tend to be happier because they aren’t materialistic/consumeristic and focus on other more important shit like familia and relationships.
A big reason first world wagies are so depressed is because they feel the pressure of society to be “successful” when success means being rich but they can’t be rich anymore because of neoliberal policies which prevents the middle class from being upwardly mobile (a large middle class is the staple of middle stage capitalism and the backbone of a productive economy).
I recommend first worlders to become let go of societal pressure and just become NEETs, no point in getting frustrated and waging your life away, focus on shit that actually makes you happy instead of society’s idea of success.

Why can’t we have all the comforts of civilization while being as fulfilled as this man?
I want to have my cake and eat it too, there has to be a way without tradeoffs.

>>18853683
I agree but i also haven't read him either. He gives me the same vibes as Bolaño.

>>18855951
>He was right about Hegel
Implies that you have read what Schopenhauer wrote about Hegel.
Implies that you have directly read.
Implies that you not only have read but also mastered the Hegelian project.
Based if true.
Of course there is always the possibility that the intent of Schopenhauer was not to engage with the Hegelian project at all but to deceive future generations into a state of blissful ignorance to avoid struggling with his ideas.

>>18856262
There are also more people living right now that people who have died throughout history so it is expected that suffering also increases but i would say that the suffering per capita is much lower than at any other moment in history. Why? because the possibilities for personal fulfillment are more accesible to us than they were to our predecessors.

What’s the name of that instrument that makes really aristocratic sounding music?
I think it’s some type of piano or organ.

>mfw when I get that reference
Time to get off the internet

>>18811641
Slavery in the Arab world was a million times better than in the New World.
Slaves would live in their master’s luxurious villas and were set free after a few years of service, since they were castrated the status of slave couldn’t be passed on from father to son.
Contrast New World whites which kept their slaves in hot and humid plantations full of mosquitos, kept them for life and the status of slave was hereditary, which incentives them to breed them because they were too cheap stakes to buy more.

Can you be virgin and a great writer at the same time?

>sex
Books for this mood?

Why are leftists usually well read than the right?

The values are all different.
In the civilizations of antiquity, beauty was that at a premium.
Their slave economies were not geared to produce wealth but rather to complete the tasks necessary for civilization while be free citizens, free from the yoke of labor, could hone their skill in the arts. In this context cosmopolitanism meant the exchange of culture between civilizations.
In the modern world our economies are capitalistic, which are geared to produce an abundance of wealth and goods.
Beauty is therefore secondary, as it sheer quantity could make up for a deficit in beauty.
Cosmopolitanism in this context means the free exchange of culture as commodified into goods.
A Greek would never say that they need more aliens because they bring their food with them but a modern absolutely does, because to them the alien represents more and exotic goods to pile on the heap, instead of cultural exchange to embellish his civilization.

Sex should be human right.

Anyone tried having sex with books? I just opened a book from the middle and rubbed my pp between the pages with absolutely no discharge. Should I try with any specific book?

Why does the left write so much better than the right? Let alone books, even when you read newspapers of both sides, the quality of writing is instantly discernable. What created this difference?

I know this is controversial and people generally take their positions based on their own circumstances. I’m 23 male, and if I take the long term perspective it’s better for old guys hooking up with girls half or even 1/3 their age to be socially acceptable because when I’m pretty sure that when I’m a 60 year-old Boomer I’ll still prefer girls in their prime than old hags.

>cuando un gringo hace comentarios sobre America Latina
Porque los gringos nunca quieren admitir que su país es maleado y jodio a varios países latinoamericanos?
Acaso no saben sobre su propia historia, sobre la Monroe Doctrine o United Fruit Company?
Creen que la culpa recae solo en nosotros por tener políticos corruptos, son racistas (si incluso los “lefties” o liberales) creen que no podemos gobernarnos a nosotros mismos cuando en realidad a los pinche corruptos criollos hijos de su madre ya los habríamos derrocado hace mucho si no fuera porque el gobierno gringo los apoya.
Si eres gringo y estás leyendo esto, primero edúcate y deja tu actitud racista condescendiente antes de hablar de Latinoamérica o cállate.

>But mum, I'm not unemployed, I'm writing my magnum opus!

I unironically want to write a new type of literature that's tailored for zoomer minds' goldfish attention span. Any suggestions what could it be?

The trannies took over.
There’s an SCP of a queer furry moon that draws Deviantart-tier fan art of Undertale.
Seriously.

>>18671251
This EXACT same thread was posted years ago, with the exact same pic too.
I remember anons calling the OP creepy for being friends with a 17-year old girl when he revealed he was 25 or something, people called him a pedo then the thread devolved into a discussion on AOC

Anyone tried having sex with books? I just opened a book in the middle and rubbed my pp between the pages for 10 minutes with absolutely no discharge. Should I try it with any specific book?

Any one tried having sex with books? I just opened a book in the middle and rubbed my dick between the pages for 10 minutes. Absolutely no discharge. Should I try with any specific book?

I’m going to be real with you guys I feel like I’m not the person I was 6 years ago.
I’m in the middle of finals and put on some YT to decompress after studying. It hit me when I was watching a video about video games, old games that I played years ago and it hit me how childish they really were.
I used vidya to cope because my life was really shit in 2015 (parents were divorcing, I was bullied in school and failing my classes, stuff like that) and used them as escapism.
I graduated HS, now I’m on my last year of college and so much stuff happened since then, got into film, fit and lit and went down the redpill rabbit hole.
Looking back it’s like I was living in an entirely different world, mostly because I wanted to escape in fantasy worlds.
Now I’m trying to get back into vidya but it’s feels so strange to be exposed to the complexities of the real world that a simulated one feels too underdeveloped to be satisfying.
Guess that’s what we call growing up.
Thanks for reading my blogpost.