The thing to know in business and nature is that it is often competing in some way - if not by exams, then by works.
馬會辦填色繪畫比賽 網上投票幼稚園組作品惹熱議 同場加映：大學組作品
https://lihkg.com/thread/3979034/page/1
Fake Labubus flowing into UK.
https://lihkg.com/thread/3973287
It stems from this abuser worldview (on which totalitarian govt is based) that demeans infants and children and sees them as monsters that need civilising, and whose needs are annoying and monstrous to caretakers.
If something has pure and pristine as babies are evil monsters, what does that tell you about the people who like these characters.
Since my first reading of The Emperor's New Mind and some other books in Secondary School, I've liked Penrose. I doubt his theory, but no one has the experimental capability to provide solid evidence, or disprove it.
C.C.C. ( Conformal cyclic cosmology ) seems to make sense and relatively easy to understand. The idea that black holes evening suck everything up, decaying, and mass becoming negligeable, space and time becoming irrelevant, then Big Bang Boom!
Penrose has recently done more interviews, especially the Lex Friedman interview, which brought him back into the popular science spotlight.
To this day, I haven't come up with the right background to do the physics to understand his stuff.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DVNQ-MTkETI
Anyway, this brought back lots of memories I haven't accessed for a long time.
With Biden's disastrous withdrawal, US has made Afghanistan much worse after 20 years.
The Taliban will likely never be removed, because there is no one with sufficient forces or political will for such change.
The most one can hope for is something like Iran, but that's not going anywhere anytime soon.
An appropriate meme for the sentiment "I like the video thumbnail but I haven't watched the video, but I already agree with it" could be the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme, with the following captions:
[Image: Distracted Boyfriend meme]
Boyfriend (me): Liking the video thumbnail
Girlfriend (video): The actual video content
Woman walking by (me): Agreeing with the video without watching it
This meme captures the idea of being quickly drawn to and agreeing with the surface-level impression of a video (the thumbnail) without actually engaging with the full content. The distracted boyfriend represents the tendency to make snap judgments or agree with something based on limited information, rather than thoroughly evaluating the video's substance.
The use of the Distracted Boyfriend meme structure provides a relatable and humorous way to illustrate this common behaviour of forming opinions without fully informing oneself, which can be problematic in the age of social media and quickly consumed online content.
The Result:
Capitalism may begin with production, but it does not end with capital and wealth.
It ends with power over others, cross-domain.
There is the problem of scarcity, but then beyond that, there is the issue of evil.
And this is not solvable by capitalism, or any specific ism.
It is just not that simple.
