tragic.sensehttps://plume.nogafam.es/@/tragic.sense@fediverse.blog/atom.xml2022-07-29T16:46:06.808573+00:00<![CDATA[Work Life]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Work%20Life/2022-07-29T16:46:06.808573+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-07-29T16:46:06.808573+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Observations from real work life.</p>
<p dir="auto">One is hired by a company, but bosses think you work for their own wit, for example by coercing you to exceed contractual work time.</p>
<p dir="auto">Weak people in organizations are insecure and feel worthless. They compensate by creating own local processes, often conflicting with company processes.</p>
<p dir="auto">For the same reason, those “local rulers” need to excessively control, interfere, question, review, discuss, evaluate, align, or micromanage.</p>
<p dir="auto">Often the less able become “managers” because there is no other “merit” which they can contribute with their incompetence.</p>
<p dir="auto">The amount of incompetent people hired in a company is proportional to the general “herd population to conscious people ratio”.</p>
<p dir="auto">Therefore “managers” are needed to drive the herd slaves and create the (fake) impression (reporting) of achievement and progress.</p>
<p dir="auto">Where need for decisions arises, incompetent managers ignore objective analyses and opt for endless political passtime.</p>
<p dir="auto">Businesses need to optimize and increase efficiency. Instead, due to the above said, efficiency decreases and amount of “good ideas” increases. The consequence is utter overload of available resources, of which only people are “stretchable” to above 100%.</p>
<p dir="auto">Due to the amount of incompetent irresponsibles, the able ones get an overstraining share of responsibilities.</p>
]]><![CDATA[Natural Time Currency and Creation]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Natural%20Time%20Currency%20and%20Creation/2022-05-30T10:47:53.936107+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-05-30T10:47:53.936107+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Creations can be physical and unique/scarce, or digital and reproducible/abundant.
Intellectual creations are unique to the creator and reproducible via digital distribution.</p>
<p dir="auto">|———–|–––––|–––––|
| | creation | distrib. |
| physical | unique | unique |
| digital | unique | abundant |
| intellect | unique | abundant |</p>
<p dir="auto">Examples are not limited to:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>sculpture, painting: physical</li>
<li>software, photo: digital</li>
<li>opinion, wisdom, instruction, design: intellectual</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">Whereas in predatory economy the price is regulated by supply and demand, in the natural time economy, price is fixed by the amount of work invested by the creator.</p>
<p dir="auto">Therefore distribution/allocation are not determined by the highest bidder, but rather through other allocation mechanisms (first come, highest need, round robin, equal opportunity, …)</p>
<p dir="auto">In both economies, value can be nullified by contracts and licenses (open source, community, student, individual creator, non commercial, …)</p>
]]><![CDATA[Steppenwolf]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Steppenwolf/2022-05-28T09:40:27.410234+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-05-28T09:40:27.410234+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">“Nor will suicide really solve your problem, unhappy Steppenwolf. You will, instead, embark on the longer and wearier and harder road of life. You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further.</p>
<p dir="auto">Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is the road that Buddha and every great man has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune favored his quest.</p>
<p dir="auto">All births mean separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew.</p>
<p dir="auto">The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.“</p>
<p dir="auto">Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf</p>
]]><![CDATA[Microworkers]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Microworkers/2022-05-08T12:31:03.664211+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-05-08T12:31:03.664211+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">It was one of the best rated micro work sites, so I gave it a go.</p>
<p dir="auto">All offers are through a web interface. You need to submit your phone number to receive sms tokens to view job contents. The next day I already received spam robo calls.</p>
<p dir="auto">Job types are mostly about fake engagements, either through writing positive reviews, following accounts, giving likes, or reblogging given content. Screenshot proof is required and giving comments outside instructions won’t get you paid.</p>
<p dir="auto">Less licit jobs demand creation of accounts for others and surrendering the access.</p>
<p dir="auto">Although reviews confirm that payments are regular, the couple of cents for your work is way below minimum wage.</p>
<p dir="auto">Bottom line: immoral and infeasible for sovereign persons, tailored to propagate the fake and dumb side of reality by idiots for idiots.</p>
]]><![CDATA[Natural Time Currency in Large Projects]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Natural%20Time%20Currency%20in%20Large%20Projects/2022-04-30T13:03:51.278692+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-30T13:03:51.278692+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">In a natural time currency (ntc) economy, we investigate if and how large individual projects (e.g. a house) can be afforded.</p>
<p dir="auto">Let the equivalent of a modern house cost an equivalent of 10k hours. Within a year, an individual can earn 8k (365 d * 24 h) from basic income and another 3k (365 d * 8 h) from own work.</p>
<p dir="auto">This shows that an individual can obtain a house from his own income.</p>
<p dir="auto">The workers and material suppliers receive adequate shares for their contributed man hours.</p>
]]><![CDATA[Entropy]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Entropy/2022-04-21T17:08:49.247971+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-21T17:08:49.247971+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">All systems statistically move toward high entropy if no energy is added.
The movement is measured with time.
The movement is called debate and synthesis.
Preceding states are causal (cause), and following states are consequential (effect).</p>
<p dir="auto">Low entropy</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>order</li>
<li>inequilibrium</li>
<li>usefulness</li>
<li>potential</li>
<li>easily disturbed</li>
<li>universe big bang</li>
<li>biological life</li>
<li>excitement</li>
<li>war</li>
<li>disagreement</li>
<li>competitiom</li>
<li>dynamic</li>
<li>differentiation</li>
<li>unawareness</li>
<li>fixed events</li>
<li>predetermined will</li>
<li>white hole (past singularity)</li>
<li>low complexity</li>
<li>devil</li>
<li>deviousness
. egoism</li>
<li>individualism</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">High entropy</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>chaos</li>
<li>equilibrium</li>
<li>uselessness</li>
<li>robustness</li>
<li>universe heat death</li>
<li>biological death</li>
<li>boredom</li>
<li>peace</li>
<li>agreement</li>
<li>cooperation</li>
<li>static</li>
<li>sameness</li>
<li>awarenes</li>
<li>free undefined events</li>
<li>free will</li>
<li>black hole (future singularity)</li>
<li>high complexity</li>
<li>benevolence</li>
<li>divinity</li>
<li>commons</li>
<li>cooperation</li>
</ul>
]]><![CDATA[Meritocracy vs Hierarchy]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Meritocracy%20vs%20Hierarchy/2022-04-20T12:40:17.895211+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-20T12:40:17.895211+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hierarchical power systems are a mark of survivalist individualism (dog eat dog societies).</p>
<p dir="auto">Meritocracy is a mark of sustainable cooperative organizations.</p>
<p dir="auto">For society to advance as a whole, survival must be assured for all (ubi, social security, …)</p>
]]><![CDATA[Individualism and Cooperation]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Individualism%20and%20Cooperation/2022-04-18T12:29:37.598538+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-18T12:29:37.598538+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">It’s a progression (evolution) rather than a dialectic.</p>
<p dir="auto">Individualism is a mark of fulfilling the lower needs of survival.</p>
<p dir="auto">Cooperation is a mark of attaining higher needs of fulfillment.</p>
<p dir="auto">The latter cannot be pursued without achieving the former first.</p>
]]><![CDATA[Induction and Deduction]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Induction%20and%20Deduction/2022-04-16T11:50:34.933589+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-16T11:50:34.933589+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Logic lies in the domain of reasoning.</p>
<p dir="auto">Induction describes a cause based on observed effects.</p>
<p dir="auto">cause <- (induction) <- effect</p>
<p dir="auto">Deduction describes an effect based on known cause.</p>
<p dir="auto">cause -> (deduction) -> effect</p>
<p dir="auto">Deduction and induction are not reciprocal, therefore independent. </p>
]]><![CDATA[Dedication]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Dedication/2022-04-15T11:35:03.167292+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-15T11:35:03.167292+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.</p>
<p dir="auto">No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow.</p>
<p dir="auto">When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.“</p>
<p dir="auto">(Robert Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)</p>
]]><![CDATA[Marks of Evolution]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Marks%20of%20Evolution/2022-04-08T13:40:54.177870+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-04-08T13:40:54.177870+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Impermanence is a subset of the evolution spiral.
Everything evolves: mind, thoughts, stars, galaxies, art works, creations, living beings.</p>
<p dir="auto">Evolutionary because, although periods cycle, the manifestation in each cycle is different.</p>
<p dir="auto">recurrent evolutionary periods:
growth > maturity > decline ></p>
<blockquote dir="auto">
<p>decomposition > repose > aggregation</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">transition milestones:
death: decline > decomposition
birth/creation: aggregation > growth
impermanence: growth > maturity > decline</p>
]]><![CDATA[Quantum Soul]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Quantum%20Soul/2022-03-27T06:35:23.530042+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-03-27T06:35:23.530042+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Quantum entanglement (science can’t define it, but it’s the connection of the eternal mathematical mind with the material world) offers a better explanation for the soul.</p>
<p dir="auto">Different parts of an entangled quantum system, which appear to be separated by space and time, are so highly correlated that there is effectively no spatial or temporal separation at all between them.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is the “spooky action at a distance” that so bothered Albert Einstein, but this was later proven to be real from experiments demonstrating violations of Bell’s inequality.</p>
<p dir="auto">Also, experience with the inert gas xenon used as an anesthetic agent suggests that conscious awareness disappears (the brain goes to sleep) when quantum entanglement at the sub-cellular level is disrupted. </p>
]]><![CDATA[The Stages of Change]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/The%20Stages%20of%20Change/2022-03-23T02:21:56.233723+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-03-23T02:21:56.233723+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">The stages of changing oneself (DiClemente & Prochaska, 1998).</p>
<p dir="auto">People move back and forth between these stages over time, even within short time like an hour or a day.</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>Pre-contemplation: “Not ready to change”</li>
<li>Contemplation: “Thinking about change”</li>
<li>Preparation: “Getting ready to change”</li>
<li>Action: “Ready, Set, Go”</li>
<li>Maintenance: “Hanging in there”</li>
<li>Relapse: setbacks are a normal part of recovery.</li>
</ul>
]]><![CDATA[Everyday]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Everyday/2022-03-22T07:53:14.347468+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-03-22T07:53:14.347468+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Everyday I wake up with fear
That no one has yet removed putin from power</p>
<p dir="auto">The voice of the many compassionate
Must subdue the one destructor</p>
]]><![CDATA[Unity in Values]]>https://fediverse.blog/~/AgainstDarkManners/Unity%20in%20Values/2022-03-21T02:47:42.920488+00:00tragic.sensehttps://fediverse.blog/@/tragic.sense/2022-03-21T02:47:42.920488+00:00<![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Many Russians are ashamed of their countryfolks committing unprovoked civilian atrocities in the Ukraine.</p>
<p dir="auto">No other event demonstrates better that cultural, ethnic, or religious unity is at best superficial and artificial, of the mental world of appearances.</p>
<p dir="auto">At the same time, people from all over the world are engaging in the true essence of unity, the unity of values. In the case of Ukraine the values defended are those of sovereignty and the supreme value of the golden rule.</p>
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