[ExI] Even India and Haiti do it better

[William Flynn Wallace]

Good post, OMar.  You can't have too much empathy.  There has to be more of
it to balance those who seem to have little of it - who care more about
banks and corporations than individuals.

bill w

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 10:33 AM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> John Clark via extropy-chat
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> ?Yes, the least of our problems.
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> Lack of a balanced budget will be the CAUSE of our problems.
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> ?Failure to balance the budget created the COVID-19 virus? John K Clark
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> No, failure to balance the budget is a reason why we will not and cannot
> deal effectively with the Covid-19 virus.  We will not have the option to
> stay closed: people have needs, and they need to get to their jobs and
> businesses, forthwith.
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> What I see in those insisting we keep everything closed is a stunning lack
> of empathy for those who are not still getting their paychecks.
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> What I see in those insisting that we send people back to work is a
> stunning lack of empathy for those who will die because they were forced
> back to work.
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> Empathy for people not getting pay checks vs. empathy for people getting
> sick and dying: what a terribly difficult choice!
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> Let’s reason this out. What do we know?
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> You can give people money.
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> You can’t reanimate people. (Unless someone on the list has really been
> holding out on us!)
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> Hmmm….wait a second….I’m sure I can figure this out.
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> Let’s give the people money!
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> Additionally, please remember what money money is: trust symbols. Either
> you trust the government, or the blockchain, or the relative scarcity and
> symbolism of Au. It is all trust. What is going to increase trust in the
> system the most right now? Giving people money so that they can pay for
> food and essentials.
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> In 2008 people all over the world gave the banks, and remember
> ‘corporations are people too’, so so so so much money to keep them alive.
> It is time to tell the banks that they quite literally OWE US THEIR LIVES.
> If the government takes care of the people, which is its job, and the banks
> are prevented from using this pandemic as a ‘business opportunity’
> everything becomes very simple.
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> Furthermore, to all the ‘libertarians’ who are right now thinking ‘we
> don’t want a nanny state’, consider this scenario:
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> You go to the hospital. (wheeze, wheeze, cough, cough)
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> You: Doc, I need a ventilator.
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> Doc: Nah.
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> You: But I have golden plus premium private heath insurance, the best that
> money can buy!
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> Doc: *shrug*
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> You: I’ll sue, I’ll call the police!       (Translation: I’ll tell Nanny!)
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> The American failure that were are witnessing, and might be witnessing
> needlessly accelerate, is exactly the failure of American empathy. Empathy
> is the root of all societies.
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> On the other hand this same failure of empathy might be a triumph for
> capitalism. The failure of empathy is basically Ayn Rand in a nutshell. Too
> bad for the people reading this is the fact that capital is money, and
> money is trust, trust only originates from people, and dead people don’t
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> Empathy, is something the strong have. Empathy, is the granting of 1st,
> 2nd, 3rd, …nth chances. Empathy is the only exit from the ‘prisoner’s
> dilemma’. Empathy works because unless you live on the move and never meet
> the same people twice your empathy will eventually be reciprocated.
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> Empathy builds trust.
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> A post most emphatically about empathy by,
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> Omar Rahman
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