@thecuriouspour
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The case for a tax revolt has never been stronger.
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if it is so strong, have you begun revolting on your own? If so why not?
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the work is more important than the success
Success is not a point in time where I do a set of actions and achieve it.
Success is a constant state of being. I could have been successful in the past and be successful in the future, but unsuccessful in the moment I am thinking about my past success and visualizing my future success.
If I am doing that, I’m likely in a state of being that is unsuccessful, as I’m searching for success. If I am searching for success, I do not currently have it, making me unsuccessful despite all the past success I might have had.
At each point in my life, I am different than I was at previous times. External experiences change my internal world, and my internal world changes how I experience the external world. Because there is so much entropy in the external world, so much randomness and chaos, things are constantly shifting both around me and within me.
Each new self has different attributes than the previous self. Each new self can be successful or unsuccessful. It’s a state of being.
So how do I be successful? Well, primarily it is aligning my actions with my thoughts. This is what I call integrity, being who I say I am. When I am not doing what I tell myself I need to do or being the person I tell myself I am, I do not look at myself as successful, despite past successes I might have. This is different from achievement, which is just the external outcome. I can achieve things and still feel unsuccessful if I compromised my integrity along the way.
Success is a constant state of being. I could have been successful in the past and be successful in the future, but unsuccessful in the moment I am thinking about my past success and visualizing my future success.
If I am doing that, I’m likely in a state of being that is unsuccessful, as I’m searching for success. If I am searching for success, I do not currently have it, making me unsuccessful despite all the past success I might have had.
At each point in my life, I am different than I was at previous times. External experiences change my internal world, and my internal world changes how I experience the external world. Because there is so much entropy in the external world, so much randomness and chaos, things are constantly shifting both around me and within me.
Each new self has different attributes than the previous self. Each new self can be successful or unsuccessful. It’s a state of being.
So how do I be successful? Well, primarily it is aligning my actions with my thoughts. This is what I call integrity, being who I say I am. When I am not doing what I tell myself I need to do or being the person I tell myself I am, I do not look at myself as successful, despite past successes I might have. This is different from achievement, which is just the external outcome. I can achieve things and still feel unsuccessful if I compromised my integrity along the way.
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“The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.” Ayn Rand
nyc is cooked
the writing has been on the wall for a bit now
will probably turn around in a few decades
but if you can afford to move, you should
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed”
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At this point I’ve come to the unfortunate conclusion that every brave man who gave his life fighting for America died for nothing.
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed”
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“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed”
“I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
— John Galt
— John Galt
