The radical moral implications of luck in human life

Discussion in 'Psychology' started by dealmaker, Mar 7, 2019.

  1. Sig

    Sig

    I find the fact they call it "American cheese" hilarious. It's a subtle insult to American's being representative of fake processed product, but the majority of us don't get subtle and so don't even realize it, and a substantial minority are right proud that we've got our own 'murican cheese, damn it!
     
    #111     Mar 12, 2019
  2. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    No those 5 lb bricks they used to give out back in the day at the free cheese giveaway... I'm pretty sure that was real cheese. American cheese. Different from that stuff Kraft puts in those wrappers.
    As we used to say.... "What's the best cheese? Free cheese"!
     
    #112     Mar 12, 2019
  3. Sig

    Sig

    Commodity cheese! The truth behind that is even better, it was (is?) the best cheese U.S. socialism could provide. Government subsidies to farmers to produce milk that wasn't required by the market made that cheese!
     
    #113     Mar 12, 2019
  4. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    They had honey and rice too!
    Ah the good ole days.
     
    #114     Mar 12, 2019
  5. BECAUSE,

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    The Ever Tsoukalos VIPER
     
    #115     Mar 13, 2019
  6. CSEtrader

    CSEtrader

    I can't understand your irony. However, while I love humor and wit, out story is not the case. Too much suffering and hardship. If you can not support, just respect, it is for the rights of all individual traders. We are one, there are no aliens among us - it does not matter where you are coming from, your background, education, colour, wealth, it just about you, the one who received this call to master trading and scarifying yourself and will breakthrough, Thank you.
     
    #116     Mar 13, 2019
  7. ironchef

    ironchef

    It can be quite a circular argument. You said those immigrants were able to pull up from their own bootstraps, not because of luck but because of hard work.

    Yet it is luck: They were lucky that they find their way to Canada instead of stuck in their own country, lucky that they were at the right place at the right time for the opportunities offered them. For every immigrant that made it, there is probably one that continues to live in subsistence living, at the bottom of the economic scale, not because they don't want to work hard, but because they were not lucky enough to get the chance.

    For my own case, I am just lucky as hell that I started trading full time right after the great recession. I was lucky that in this raging bull market I can simply rely on beta, instead of alpha (skills), to outperform.
     
    #117     Mar 19, 2019
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  8. iccenuol

    iccenuol

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    You should buy these buddy! You're a nut job.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...propriation-of-white-farmers-in-south-africa/

    So when the farmland turns to sh!t, and there's another famine with more starving kids dying in their mothers arms, you're gonna say it's all about luck?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest

    Wealthy educated Americans don't tend to wreck what they have buddy, although the lefties are trying their damned hardest. Get real!
     
    #118     Mar 21, 2019
  9. Sig

    Sig

    Project much?

    I'm a wealthy educated American. I'm not so arrogant to think that I got that way entirely because of my hard work or that a kid born to an addict mom in rural West Virginia with below average intelligence could accomplish even a fraction if what I have no matter how hard they worked. What's your experience with that been?
     
    #119     Mar 21, 2019
  10. Overnight

    Overnight

    It is just what the FDA defines as cheese. It is all in the regulations. I'm sorry, but Kraft singles are, in fact, cheese. That some regulatory body has a defined limit on what can be called "cheese" on the labeling does not make it "not cheese."

    https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=133.173

    If the shit melts on my burger when I grill it, it's cheese. Hehhe!
     
    #120     Mar 21, 2019