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@ducknald_don: Yes, but this is taking the naive conservative perspective that established businesses are efficient solid producers of needful goods (as opposed to bloated monopolistic whales) while new businesses are likely to be only bringing shiny gin-crackery to market. The majority of businesse...

someone has to do the 2dollars worth of impact at some point, to make the money to buy the product. Yes, but eventually it comes down to the material reality that humans have to eat and keep themselves warm. For example, extremely poor subsistence farmers and hunters are also capable of doing extre...

Another model in which investment in the stock market can be regarded as neutral would be based on Donella Meadows' system description of a corporation. The overt mission statement of a corporation is pretty much just bull-shit, because a corporation can't survive (for very long) without profits. Ho...

There are a number of scholarly articles on the topic of Green Libertarianism. The notion that all humans should have equal CO2 dumping rights, for example, is debated within this political framework. Obviously, the de facto status quo is that your consumption and dumping rights are pretty much equi...

I don't know if allergies is a good analogy. I have allergies, asthma, and may go into anaphylactic shock if stung by a wasp or a bee, but I love nature and gardening, so I pack my drugs and just attempt to make limited use of them. OTOH, I hate calesthenics, running, sports, and gym class, so I hav...

I think Keynes' essay may also hint at why some would choose "work 15 hours/week" semi-ERE over FI-ERE. In an individualist model, some (points finger to Teletubby-esque self- the episode entitled "Laa-Laa has Muddy Feet from the Muddy Puddle" perhaps most representative of an ab...

dishonesty is a deal-breaker for me

That's because you've never been in a relationship with somebody who claimed to practice "radical" or "total" honesty.

Keynes prediction complete to highest Wheaton levels. He wrote the piece in 1930 (depression era) looking forward 100 years (about now!) I think it's rather remarkable how he spells out many of the problems encountered on this forum. The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along wi...

Even if you run your own tiny business, like I used to with my book business, in order to support your very frugal lifestyle, you will still have to face the reality of turning a profit in order to survive and the ethical issues associated with this. Since my business partner was a primary Fi, stron...

"welfare should not be exclusively thought of as a tax-funded government-provided service." Yes, I agree, but this constitutes a default to Level Blue unless/until welfare issues are integrated into systems design at Level Yellow/Turquoise. IOW, if welfare is not a tax-funded government p...

@Ego: Serious lack of situational awareness (extreme lack of Se) is what I suffer from which is exactly why I too frequently find myself in relationship with overly assertive basketball player types or taking the wrong exit on the expressway or the hapless victim of practical jokes. It has little to...

I would suggest that saving/hoarding/stock-piling enough of anything towards the ability to be/feel magnanimous is psychologically heterotelic, because in order to do/feel the first you must be future-oriented and in order to do/feel the second you must be present oriented. The future holds infinite...

Sometimes nature provides you with a mask. I have close to zero S on the S/N spectrum and I'm quite solidly P as opposed to J, but my tertiary Fe is developed enough relative to my secondary Ti that I can generally pass as "nice woman" or even "dumb blonde", because many/most nor...

In the Enneagram Model, the XXXX is the highest functioning, not the normal. I believe this represents a pre/trans issue. As Kegan suggests in his description of intimate relationships at higher levels of functioning, once a human becomes self-aware of their innate tendencies, they comprehend that t...

Was this a summons? I know nothing of anti-memes. Maybe not, but you know of your own path to ERE as somebody who likely identifies as a people-person. I identify primarily as an idea-person, particularly a book-person, so I can directly trace my path to ERE through books I previously read which al...

Even Browne later changes his mind on that one. Yeah, in the handicapped version of finally engaging adult feminine (caring) energy where he takes on the enormous social task of caring for an attractive, fully competent younger wife* who is supportive of his purpose to the extent that she is helpin...

I think your IQ is likely high enough to place you in the cuckoo-bananas tribe on that alone. However, as the book on Creativity that Jacob recommended elsewhere affirms, the earliest research on the topic of creativity revealed pretty high correlation between high IQ and various flavors of cuckoo-b...

The WOG method is just a way to get people out of the "optimized box"-thinking that dominates WL4--WL6 and into the systems-thinking of WL7-8...Self-consistency (walking the talk) is king when it comes to INTJ morality Gotcha. I think, for better or worse, eNTPs are too impulsive to ever ...

I read somewhere that Rationals tend to visualize their life linearly. Creating a WOG (collection of vectors) is just doing an extremely good job of visualizing/projecting your life linearly. This forum would probably think it was cool if I made a Power BI report on my lifestyle over the last 59 yea...

At the meta level one would also have to consider the positive and negative aspects of performing a WOG analysis, and then the positive and negative aspects of the meta-level consideration, etc. etc. infinite regress. This is why at this juncture in my life, I would seriously consider trading 10 IQ ...