I often hear, “You should never cheap out on a good office chair, shoes, underpants, backpack etc…” but what are some items that you would feel OK to cheap out on?
This can by anything from items such as: expensive clothing brands to general groceries.
Gachas and lootboxes are addictive and money grubbing. You cannot do much about them. Casinos, gambling and lootboxes have existed for thousands of years, with not just capital but objects, kingdoms and even people used as bets. Now in modern world its just some currency bills as bets.
I have a principle set in stone as a belief and basis for all things in life and beyond, Pareto’s principle. I think morality, communism/altruism and all these things are also not 100% applicable, but only 80% (or 85, 90% whatever). So we will always be stuck with that 10-20% of capitalism, for example. And beyond that is diminishing returns. It is better to accept that, and work towards efficiency and optimal results.
I get what you’re saying, but there’s a difference between me gambling 50 currency with my friends on who is gonna win X match and a full blown casino or videogame that uses every psychological tactic possible to manipulate me into spending more and more money at every turn. One is a social interaction between people, the other is an exploitative tactic to make you spend. You can a 100% allow one and ban the other.
I don’t want in any shape, way or form to disrespect what you believe and since you said it’s set on stone I have no intent on changing it whatsover, but I think a more materialist approach could help here.
The DPRK exists and it is full on socialist. Sure it isn’t communist yet, and won’t be until the rest of the world becomes socialist, but there’s nothing to suggest we can’t fully achieve it.
My idea is not to discourage perfection (100%), but that the law of diminishing returns applies everywhere. Even communism will be insanely effective at 90% or above application. States like USSR were not 100% communist, but probably 95%, this does not mean they were not communist states, the kind of lie lot of people love to parrot about AES and former communist states.
Think of it, China is a market socialist economy, and their manufacturing for the whole world increasing global PPP for everyone is a form of communism at an economic level. And China is not even communist yet, only AES.
I am not parroting the nonsense that full communism is impossible, or that if it is not possible, imply that we must not strive for it and remain stuck with the garbage capitalist pyramid system. But 100% might not even be needed before its effects are observable.