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Didn't Goldman give end of the year bonuses. Most Wall Street firms did. Isn't that profit sharing.

Google and Microsoft.

When I was a kid I fell on some rise bushes. I had cuts on my arms. I had some cuts that didn't hurt until I saw them.

Thw world I inhabit is less real than yours or I have less ambition than you do.

I'll give you an example. The industrialization of China. Too many cars in the city. The solution was to encourage bike riding. The affluent not keen in riding a bike. It reminds them of poverty or China before development. So they marketing high end expensive bicycles.

No you happen to be more self motivated than others. However if you want to change behavior sometimes it helps to know what drives it. It perhaps not but it us the way I think.

Thank you, Cynique.

Cynique - I think the link is unconscious. It doesn't reside in space and us also outside of time. Luke the creator/creators.

So underneath I believe we are linked with everything in this universe. The sum of which is the ultimate.

Since this link is not physical yes

we are dreaming.

It could be that Geometry is a color equivalent. If they got here they would probably understand geometry. Numbers are considered a universal in a way language is not. Although I don't think this has to be true. It could just be another symbolic subset of our type of thinking.

I am experimenting with my definition of reality. I am using a looser concept of the way the world works. It has changed my beliefs about the world is organized

it dies feel more dream like. It id also very confronting. Since I can see my motivations very clearly.

Troy I would disagree. Profit sharing companies are very successful because the workers own the company.

Cynique - your post is tasty.

I don't believe anything is real, you believe a symbolic expression is real.

Okay I am being absurd and you are being illogical. Continue with your idea.

That's exactly the point. The entire world is an idea based on assumptions. Even concrete is mostly empty space but we don't generally see it that way. Numbers are symbols, words are symbols, ideas are concepts. This is the stuff that makes you. What are the real bits.

Yoyr mind tells you lots of things.

Yes it is.

I heard a quote that if you redistributed the world's wealth. The richest 1% would have it back in three generations. You give any group drugs or alcohol they are going to unravel. I was in Zurich in the late 90's. There were about 100 heroin junkies in the park. I had never seen that before and Switzerland is a small country. Again no race has a monopoly on greatness or stupidity.

I heard a quote that if you redistributed the world's wealth. The richest 1% would have it back in three generations. You give any group drugs or alcohol they are going to unravel. I was in Zurich in the late 90's. There were about 100 heroin junkies in the park. I had never seen that before and Switzerland is a small country. Again no race has q monopoly on greatness or stupidity.

Mass incarceration is also being used to solve the "unemployment problem".

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Rather than providing good jobs, they locking Black men up by the hundreds of thousands they take them off the street where they are no longer competition for jobs and other resources.

Unfortunately even after knowing this too many Black men continue to engage in reckless behavior that lead to there incarceration.

At the heart of it is the unwillingness to take responsibility for themselves.

Too many would rather go to prison and get fed, clothed, and had a bed to sleep on rather than getting a job and earning much much more for themselves.

I believe this is a prime example of institutionalization.

Pioneer I think it is important to look at power and human nature. I think it is also important to develops a world view. That extends beyond your neighborhood. I think if you have a access to books and are thirsty you can be on par with a college grad. Mr Wilson said to don't judge people to be less intelligent if they talk slow.

I think intelligence is evenly distributed through the races. Don't count out criminals. Some criminals are very intelligent. There was a drug syndicate in Detroit in the 80's it was called Crime Inc. They ended being in the Wall Street Journal. The had an organization structure runners could move up if they didn't get killed by the competition, greed or the drugs. I think at one point they were more profitable than GM.

I believe going to school requires persistence. Hard work generally trumps intelligence. I believe if you learn the language or margin of a subject it becomes less mysterious.

Which is part of the reason I like to think very simply about things. You may be right I am just sharing my thoughts. Or we could both be right in our separate worlds.

I don't think it is easy to change things. Power is not that happy to give up power. Which is why a lot of people got shot in the drug wars.

I think most things come down to greed, money, and desire.

I think the real issue is class and wealth, race is a smoke screen. King and X were killed after they were expanding their audience. For King it was the garbage strike and for. X it was dropping the white devil after going to Mecca.

I think certain policies or laws fall unevenly on the population.

Gambling cigarette and alcohol tax are going to fall more in poorer people. Since these purchases are a larger share if their income. Which is a regressive tax. Fair is everyone pays the same percentage. Progressive is the wealthier pay more.

Is it Genocide or assisted Suicide?

There's no need to eradicate a customer. Most supplier don't eradicate their customers as a business strategy. Cigarette, coffee and drug dealers are culling the population but I wouldn't call it genocide.

Two is a word a relationship a concept it is not a real thing. Okay what is two made of, wn infinite number of numbers. What real thing is made of infinite items.

I would disagree with your equation you are talking about a concept. X + Y = 4 = 2 + 2

2 people + 2 people = 4 people is a statement about reality. You can have any fraction in the concept and it is valid. You can't have a fractional person in reality.

Troy was the link to long to read?

I'll paraphrase since your mind is the interface between you and the world. And the mind doesn't exist in the physical world. I am assuming that only physical thinks reside in the physical world. So there us mo reality for the individual outside of memory and sense perception.

Numbers and colors may not be real. You can see two items but you can't see two, it is a relationship between objects in a set. Things are colored but the color is not independent if the object.

Ha ha well the Nobel Brothers are probably responsible for more deaths than any other siblings.

No I hadn't read the post yet.

My guess Kerry's slip is no slip. War has to be paid for, what resource does Syria possess.

Cynique The President is The Alpha Male. Remember when he was collecting the Nobel Prize and joking about sending troops to war. He is very very clever.