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[quote=ucodegen]I always felt the drama on COVID-19 was a bit overdone. It is a disease to be concerned about, but it is no small-pox, black-death nor ‘Spanish’ flu. Because the population is larger – deaths will be correspondingly higher. Because the population now lives closer together – means any disease can spread faster.

As I am getting older.. grayer.. I realize that the quality of life is really important, don’t stress out on the small stuff. I wish to live as health, active and rational as possible… then hope to pass quickly.

My theory on death is that the result is not ‘Heaven’.. but that we are currently in what could be called ‘Purgatory’; where we have to get our individual acts together. If we die, we start over until the lessons are learned by our souls… then it is??(Different plane of existence?) If we really screw up, we may come back as another ‘lessor’ life form – ie. Rat? Mouse? Amoeba and have to work back up the chain. I find the concept that the best of the end of life is sitting around strumming a harp as being incredibly boring.[/quote]

The creator is a sadistic teacher/taskmaster who likes to watch us flail about in various conditions and judge us, according to unclear standards, rewarding winners and squashing losers.

Maybe trump is the Lord. Or capitalism? Or our superego. Or all 3? The holy trinity.

It could be just as ive expected all along …the universe is a giant rat race, but the rat race is inside us.

And why are there no professional rat races being run? So much cheaper to keep than ponies.

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[quote=spdrun]COVID has probably killed 600,000 people in the US.

Spanish Flu killed about 675,000. With population in 1918 being 1/3 of what it is today, this would be equivalent to 2 million.

This being said, say half of those people could have been saved using modern healthcare and antibiotics — maybe Spanish Flu would have only killed a million people with modern medicine.

Also, people were MORE crowded in 1918. Cities were actually more densely populated … Manhattan had a population 1.5x that of its present population, even though there were fewer housing units (many apartment buildings were built in the 20s and 30s!). We were coming off a war, so soldiers were coming home packed into troop ships. There wasn’t as much ability to “work from home.”

So despite lack of social distancing and lack of modern medicine, Spanish Flu only killed 3x the number of people as COVID did today. And COVID is far from done with us. If COVID had emerged in 1918, I suspect it would have been as bad (or worse) than the Spanish Flu.[/quote]

Fair enough. But its still not a lot percentage wise. Just …disorderly.

And its not the black death.

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hanging out in east village, it looks like a huge percentage of the high rise condos are unoccupied. not sure if those statistics are anywhere? they just look…empty…

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[quote=Hobie]Why does government actually need to be involved, at all? The free market will sort itself out.[/quote]

Labor is bad at self representation because its so desperate. For starters, its hungry and has a backache.

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[quote=spdrun]Then it’s an unpaid internship, since gas and parking will likely cost more than $8 per day.[/quote]

Bicycles.

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[quote=spdrun]Fine. Don’t set a min wage, but socialize benefits … everyone should have access to healthcare, UBI, etc. Finance it at the back end by taxing corporate profits. No minimum wage, but companies won’t be able to attract competent staff by paying $1 per hour.[/quote]

Maybe ubi at $7 an hour is better than min wage at 15. Spreads the burden more widely.

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[quote=spdrun]Fine. Don’t set a min wage, but socialize benefits … everyone should have access to healthcare, UBI, etc. Finance it at the back end by taxing corporate profits. No minimum wage, but companies won’t be able to attract competent staff by paying $1 per hour.[/quote]

Sadly i suspect they would. Id subsidize my kids first job for 1.00 an hour for the roght opportunity.

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If theres no maximum wage, there must be no minimum wage. A penny a week. A SACK OF RICE PER MONTH and a patch of ground to lay on. Perhaps that not far enough. Negative pay. Pay me to work for me. For resume experience.

In fact, maybe theres a business idea you pay me $100 a month, i “employ” you, serve as your reference in a job hunt, put you on my firm website.

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What about the automation. Can uou really make regular equal purchases at all times?
Thats worth something.

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Famous Mormon tumbles; regrets not practicing.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mitt-romney-injured-knocked-unconscious-022434556.html

This falling down gym could be big, should be big, but people are living in denial. they think they’ll never fall.

i was at the beach yesterday, falling down over and over again into the sand. I’m sure I looked insane. But who will have the last laugh? eh? who?!

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the primary things on my retirement to do list are largely location independent.

increased meditation time to 60 min per day.
read 120 min. per day.
nap, 120 min per day.
120 min, hard exercise/yardwork.
sleep, 8 h per day.
play with cat; 30 min.
tea. 30 min.
dental hygiene, 30 min per day
30 min, strength training.
clean up. 60 min per day.

that’s 18 hours. let’s see. p/t job, maybe 3 h? hackysack; 30 min? yoga; 30 min. up to 22 hours. jeez. still need time to poop.

pretty full and awesome day. Not even sure where I was. maybe i need to slow down though. pretty hectic. need time for movies, and rose-smelling.

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Probably the where matters a lot less than the in what shape and with what mindset and problems question.

Anywhere is great or awful, depending.

Also, eating out is too many calories anyway.

St george, san diego, indiana. One can meditate and practice hackysack technique anywhere.

On the other hand, maybe a really crappy setting could be bad. Still, id value top 1% mental and physical condition over top 1% location by a wide margin.

I once had a job helping [very little help] an old woman in a very expensive nyc apt for a free room and food. I lasted 3 days. I didnt even quit. Just left a note, I just ran out. The vibe was horrible. She radiated unhappiness. She definitely had a cool pad, seemed loaded, had physical health, pretty much. I feel a little bad about it, now, but it was too much for me at that time… she made me want to die.

Now id probably relate to her

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Im pretty sure theres no individual stock picking, just a range of inexpensive etfs for various risk profiles.

Plus wealthront does tax harvesting sales to maximize yield.

Not sure frontrunning is an issue. Perhaps the risks to the market of everyone mindlessly buying indexes regularly. But do you really make any investment based on potential future harm to the financial markets. Thats the equivalent of refraining from pissing in the ocean. Its a cheap way to dollar cost avg and get cheap financial tax mgt.unless im missing something…

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When i read the book of mormon, it seems, well, absolutely goofy, like a spoofy joke someone wrote for fun. But i have a very very smart and very kind acquaintance who always has a copy, he reads it literally every day. Gets a lot out of it, he says. all religious texts are kind of goofy from the outside. Garden of eden? Really? Silly…

Except the diamond sutra. That ones just perplexing. Perhaps enlightening.

Like any shared fake reality– money, the afterlife, americanism– it only works if everyone, or at least the ones you know, are into it.

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1981. excellent year. I graduated high school that year. I recall babies being wheeled arounda nd being completely uninterested in them.

i was thinking it was similar to the bank, SOFI.COM, other goofy website names. ebay, for one.

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