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To reiterate, apart from spreading the word, I think there's still theoretical work to be done. I really think we need someone credible (a credentialled economist) to tell politicians that mass FIRE will not be the end of the world. Keynes with his offhand musing on 15 hour work week was a good sta...

@J+G - Thank you. I didn't disagree with a single sentence there. Well put too. If I may put it in math terms. Human the human population exists on Bell curves (many variables, mostly all Gaussian). Within that population, samples exist on other Bell Curves (different averages and standard deviation...

More broadly, I don't think it's possible to implement huge social change in purely bottom-up manner. What usually happens is that thinkers/activists/early adopters eventually get enough people behind an idea so that it becomes adopted by a major political player, and then implemented at country's ...

Here's the full letter (7 pages): http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

I don't follow. How did start from Keynes' letter and arrive at masses of people involved in active investing? Step 1. Collect underpants. Step 2. ???? Step 3. Profit! Seriously though. I think the internet has been and continue to be a significant force multiplier in spreading the ideas. While few...

When did it become the norm in the developed world to cook in such energy intensive ways? I mean, there's nothing wrong with an occasional stir fry, sauté or baked meal for a treat. But every day seems excessive. Maybe the corporate wage-slave "pressure cooker" lifestyle encourages people...

FWIW, I'm already nuking posts that are "100% AI generated" (mostly spam accounts) as well as "hey take a look at this one hour youtube video"-driveby commentary. It's not a huge problem although it could become one. I think it's in the general interest of the forum to preserve a...

Anyways, this is what I think Jacob means in the book when he writes about preserving the efficiencies of the market/Capitalist mass production. It entails pruning the branch at the juncture where Keynes predicted that the efficiencies obtained through mass production would eventualy allow for 15 h...

I did not present any vision of a ‘utopia’ nor do I think my questions reflect “dreamy” thinking– why are you addressing it that way? I’m providing specific examples that do not seem to be beyond the capability of “what you can actually do.” And I would argue, have argued , these relatively easy to...

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Most religions have sought to ban these vices.

Too much competition, maybe?

...until welfare issues are integrated into systems design at Level Yellow/Turquoise. Which is exactly where/why WL8+ is going, no? ERE is Yellow level systems design. So the few WL9-10 individuals getting blamed for the fall of capitalism or the welfare state are indeed contributing to the general...

IOW, it seems to me that you are profoundly confounding E/I with N/S and T/F in your post above. I am, for the sake of the argument, trying to keep it simple without losing generality here. Adding more neurotransmitters (GABA, serotonin,... complete list ) or exceptions to the argument would only s...

Some of the anti-capitalism sentiment reminds me of this: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=12146 It's funny/interesting, because the counter-arguments I encounter in [fairly SD:Green] Denmark (my other "general interface with the public") is rarely ever about the &q...

Height is immutable. The cognitive functions we are speaking about (MBTI) are not. My degree of introversion is not fixed for life. If I am placed in an environment that requires me to be more outgoing - using the term du jour - I can mask it until my brain rewires and my baseline extroversion rise...

@bsog - I think it all comes back to "render unto Caesar's". ERE is first and foremost a pragmatic strategy for individuals to deal with the system AS IT IS while bringing about the [next] system as it could be. ERE1(individual)->ERE2(city)->ERE3(inter-nation)->.... EREn If we could trade/...

+1 on the pre/trans issue. At Kegan5 people start accepting and incorporating all 8 cognitive functions into their being. However, Kegan5 only comprises 1% of humans which leaves the other 99% floundering in the "cultural or societal water they swim in". So to answer @Ego's question, diagn...

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Simplistic calculation of how many X's are out there. Assuming that 68% fall within one standard deviation and calling that X. (This holds for all dimensions except N/S which is 30/70 rather than 50/50 like the other three.) 4X: C(4,4)*0.68^4*0.32^0 = 1*0.21*1 = 21% (non-typed, average human, everyb...

Unless it has changed, I'm seeing ( ERE Wheaton table v2, 2021 ed. ) that Level 10 is described as "embodying philosophy, leading by example, virtuous fulfillment", "infinite games". That's still the most recent version. The stages are described a bit in more detail here: https:...

@AH - I really like the title of that post. I presume it's well-known, at least on the forum, that I'm not a fan of current trend towards pathologizing anyone who falls outside an increasingly narrow normative mainstream range, where the choice seems to be between average/norm or somehow sick. I'm a...