Competing with A.I. in the market won’t define our future—our values will. If we see the world as a commodity, we commodify ourselves. A teenager buys coffee from a machine, unaware of the cost. Value the forest over lumber, bees over crops, people over profit. Or lose it all.

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And then she said to me, "I'm doing it for my church". (coupons)
You know who got robbed? Every other person in the community that went to the store to buy those products and found an empty shelf.
That's the entitlement of religion.

There's an idea people lean into without really thinking about it.
They value lateral thinking, and then think in circles.
When choosing a landmark by which to navigate by,
it's best to make sure it's tied down to the natural world.
Take care to not mistake a mirage for the way home.

If the anthropomorphic version of reality is just one book in the library of the universe, then what other books might we expect to find there? If a whale were to ask this question, a book about fire would be among the collection. The proof that ours is not the only book, is in the book itself.

If you can back it up with observation, data, and rational analysis, it's education.
If you have to take it on faith, then it's indoctrination.
We're not teaching God in schools; we're turning schools into compulsory churches for children.

I see a lot of posts about how being single is cool and smart people isolated because nobody gets them, so what we have is a huge number of smart people with a lot of free time, not getting organized.