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It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies. Consider this one.
If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.
This idea is an article of faith for Republicans and seldom challenged by Democrats and has shaped much of today’s economic landscape.
But sometimes the ideas that we know to be true are dead wrong. For thousands of years people were sure that earth was at the center of the universe. It’s not, and an astronomer who still believed that it was, would do some lousy astronomy.
In the same way, a policy maker who believed that the rich and businesses are “job creators” and therefore should not be taxed, would make equally bad policy.
I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated.
That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.
” — Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist whose TED talk about inequality was deemed “too political controversial” to publish. (via theatlantic)(via somnus-ferran)
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it’s important to be neutral; striving not to strive.
so there was this young man who came to a buddhist monastery in china and asked the abbot there how long it would take him to get enlightened. the abbot replied that it would take him about 50 years of study and pratice. so the young man said “what if I work twice as hard as the rest of the monks here?”. “then it will take you about 100 years of study and practice.” “so what if I put even more effort into it and I work three time as much as all the monks here?” “then you may never attain enlightnement in your lifetime.”
because it is different to want something and to do something.
if the purpose of your practice if to attain something because you deeply want it, because you’re attached to the idea of having this skill or this ability, then you’re practicing with your mind in the objective and not in hte practice itself.
hence “striving not to strive” — practice should be done with the mind set on the practice you’re doing at that moment, at that time, and not in the future.
Ajahn Brahm used to say “the only time you can influence your future, is in your present”.
this is the idea behind that story, and the idea behind that quote. the only time you can influence the mastery of a certain skill, is when you’re practising with your mind in your practice. if my mind is in the objective, if my mind is in what I want to attain with my practice, then my practice will become impaired.
this has been true for buddhists for 2500 years. it has been true for kung fu practicioners for about 2000 years.
and it is true today when I’m improving my programming skills or when I’m learning german.
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“I only voiced out my opinion that same-sex marriage is against the law of God. I’m not against homosexuals. I have a relative who is also gay. We cannot do anything if they were born that way. What I do not want is when you disobey the commandment of God.” —
- Pro boxer Manny Pacquiao, responding to a firestorm of criticism following yesterday’s newspaper interview. This quote comes via the Courage Campaign, which has launched apetition drive calling for Nike to end their endorsement deal with Pacquaio. (via sugaronastick)
I thoroughly love when people say this…not. Having read the bible, I can definitively say that there is no passage that says “Gays should not get married”.
Therefore, I have to conclude that it is the interpretation of biblical passages that lead people to this conclusion.
And, taking it one step further, by applying logical and rational thinking to this, this would lead to the conclusion that if you are interpreting anything, you are applying your own thoughts/desires/fears/prejudices during the interpretation process. Still the word of God? Nope.
Hence, my opinion that until I hear the booming voice of the Almighty telling me that gays are going to hell and that gays should not marry, I have to leave it with this: The Bible has been passed through the hands of man for eons and interpreted through the entire time. Ergo, by interpreting, we have applied our own thoughts/desires/fears/prejudices to it. Therefore, it is no longer the word of God… it is what we believe the word of God is.
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