We must study the psychology of waste

 Why rich people buy expensive cars, mansions, throw big weddings?

An Indian steel producer spend 100 millions $ on his daughter wedding, while he saved money by not buying air filters on its steel factory.

Bezos made bargain with his 20 millions wedding.

And not only rich people.

A manager who barely used Excel had the best computer from the team while developers had inferior ones.

It seems that everyone who rises in the hierarchy starts spending.

For a while Christianity kept in check those behaviors, it was drowned upon.

Western monarchs are more discrete than their middlea eastern counterparts 

Maybe we should replace status symbols in our societies to avoid ruin 

How you separate from stupid people

 I just saw the movie "Don't look up" from 2021 in which a divided US cannot stop a comet hitting the Earth and destroying life 

In nature dumb and weak animals are eaten by predators and herd is improving.

But the humanity,large groups in general depend on taking colective decisions. 

For example a country cannot go 30% to a war, either will go 100% either will lose.

And you stop stupid people to steer the decision in wrong direction?

Who are stupid people? All of us. When we act in a domain that we don't have experience, knowledge or talent.

Jan Hus the Czech religious reformer when he faced inquisition in Rome, he saw an old woman carrying a bundle of wood for his pyre, waiting for the end of his trial, and he said: "Sancta simplicity's" holy stupidity.

An illiterate woman understood what he as a scholar who read latin and Greek didn't. That he was already sentenced.

Another case: after Henry viii separated from church of Rome and created Anglican church, it was a riot of peasants lead by learned men like lawyers and noble men.

Henry VIII beeing cornered, demanded that rebels to send some envoys to negotiate. The leaders offered to meet the king, but they discounted the advice of peasants to demand hostages as guarantee of their safe returns.

The rebel leaders were cought , executed and revelion routed.

So how we separate Stupids so they don't affect the community?

How we can separate people so only they pay for their mistakes and not others ?

Refinament of each civilisation shows it's main values

 Each civilisation pushes to the limit one main characteristic.

Egyptians pushed to the limit the tomb building because they believed in afterlife.

Chinese believed in the emperor's heaven mandate, a built big tombs and palaces for them 

Greeks pushed to the limit the representation of perfect human in the arts 

Romans perfected engineering and resource extractions.

Europe till renaissance and Spain till 1700 built the best and the tallest churches because they believed in God.

Renaissance believed in human and tried to live hedonistically.

Dutch and later British believed in thrift and gaining money and they perfected stock exchange and banking.

If we make the biggest and most beautiful Malls in what we are thinking?

Chain reaction

 If one meets a person that helps him, then he will help another and so on, and social chain reaction will be created.

If one the contrary one meets a person that doesn't help him, he will not help other and social interactions will fall

How you will be changed by algorithms?

 The people who lived in communism are peculiar.

They don't trust people. Anyone could be an informant for government.

They don't share feelings, problems, anything can be used against them.

This behavior was an adaption to a surveillance state.

How you will adapt to current surveillance state and to current manipulation ?

Now not only the state wants your secrets but the sales men.

Liberal, fascist, left wing, liberal,... Repeat

 Fascism appeared when liberal ruled failed, economy was captured by an oligarchy.

The laws were ignored by rich, poor didn't believed the system.

People needed a leader loial to them, who has a personal bond.

When the leader failed to deliver, people become more decentralized and more left wing.

The benefits became spread more equally, economy developed and liberal middle class and upper class took control.

Till the economy concentrated in the hand of few, and then system colapsed and fascism appeared again.

The dynamic is very visible in western Europe but not in US, because Franklin Delano Roosevelt broke the cycle and jumped directly to socialism, by his reforms.

Why Cain killed Abel

 In Old Testament in book of Genesis we have the story of an envious brother who kills Abel because Abel had the grace of God.

What could stopped the envy of Cain to escalate into murder would have been a common value between Abel and Cain.

In a boxing match do you think that the loser envies the winner?

I doubt.

Why ?

We have clear value:  the one that beats the other is the best.

And we got an instant feedback.

Also every participant could improve his skills.

In Cain and Abel story, Abel buys the favor of God with great sacrifices, we don't know why he is better or chosen one.

We don't have a feedback, Cain works more but receives less 

Cain can't do anything to improve his relationship with God.

US is like in Cain and Abel story, you don't have a clear valuation of people, 2 old demented guys were presidents.

You don't have a feedback, you work more but your factory is closed and moved overseas.

There are opportunities in tech but you have to buy a course from university.

Interesting the pilgrims who colonized new England were a Calvinists in their theology and thought that God rewards you on this world.

So we have a Cain Abel situation, that really happened: Luigi Mangione killed United Health Alliance manager.

A disposed Cain killed the one favoured by fate, Abel.

PS.

This situation is not specific to the US. But it manifests more violent there.