I think you’re wrong. State, federal, local, speciality (food and alc), health, banking forms… as an entrepreneur there are already dozens of ways to screw up and miss something. Adding on extra things makes it easy to miss and adds on yet another burden.
How many forms how many times a year do we need to fill out to be able to be free commercially? Are you free if you can be fined and thrown in jail for not filling out paperwork?
Interesting how close politicians are with anything related to the moon. Nixon on TV as much as the astronauts in 69, Modi on TV here. Both during massive consolidations of power towards the leaders who also have major corruption scandals.
I asked it about how to transition from nation states to local ownership at scale and was very happy with its answer. Better and more comprehensive than anyone I think around me would have answered - in 5 seconds - and it introduced me to new concepts like time banks and community currencies which I could ask follow up questions on.
I think it’s truly mind blowing a computer can now simulate some of the best conversations I’ve ever had on a variety of topics.
It’s awesome when you have a good use and find clients you can provide value to. Less politics but also often requires sales and expectation setting so being your own manager.
If you can find good ways to charge for your time in a sustainable way and get some support around you it’s amazing. However the paperwork and admin can be a bit challenging to someone used to a simpler and set up environment.
Reach out and let’s talk. I’ve been doing it for a few years now and love it.
I think a project based social network will emerge with some long term planning features and built for easy collaboration by hundreds and thousands of people.
As this grows i imagine we can coordinate large groups of people towards goals Like improving local communities, permaculture, and goals from the effective altruism community.
Yes, I would not want another person to have the childhood I did (although I understand that many, many people around the world have much worse childhoods, including my parents). It did put stress on my parents, of course, but my main motivation is in the interests of the child(ren). Which I guess is also to not have stressed out parents.
I also think I was lucky to have had the life trajectory I did, partly due to just being good at school. My parents never taught me English (and we still do not speak English to each other), but I somehow never had a problem being successful in US schools. I doubt that is the case for many other kids in similar positions.
I was also lucky that I had access to online forums and educated adults to advise me on what choices to make, since my parents were not able to help me. I do not think I would have had a fraction of the success were it not for the internet giving me the ability to communicate with educated people familiar with how things work in the US.
> So in essence the way you were raised convinced you you'd rather someone not exist rather than have that childhood?
Well, that is really a metaphysical question. If there was a way of knowing whether consciousness exists before conception and if so, what is its "quality of life", it would shed a new light on our perspective of not just when, but also whether to have kids and how many.
How many forms how many times a year do we need to fill out to be able to be free commercially? Are you free if you can be fined and thrown in jail for not filling out paperwork?
It all adds up and doesn’t add any value.