Why stuff is insatiable

What is stuff? All good and services? Yes, but what else. Stuff is a communication tool. It let's other humans know your rank in the hierarchy of the pack. Humans in the society pack are in constant movement, some moving up , some moving sideways and some moving down. I know this because they show me. Similarly like dogs communicating by pissing on trees. ( labour for money and money for stuff; labour for stuff). There are ALWAYS younger, stronger people rising to usurp our position in this pack. It is our instincts to compete with them. It is our instinct to gather more stuff to maintain our position. The downside with this is society uses a disproportionate amount of resources to create stuff w/c has very little use in the big picture of society other than to communicate rank. The upside is that society is motivated to create and this in of itself spurs employment and possibly innovation.
Stuff is all goods and services. Hence the economy is defined as the production and distribution of stuff. Money is then an IOU of stuff owed. If one lends "stuff owed" to someone, since one would have to spend part of ones life without all ones stuff, one generally gets more stuff to compensate with the now less time one has. Or simply less time with stuff-> more stuff with less time. People need a certain amount of stuff to sustain themselves and generally trade labour for stuff. According to the commies, the fair price of a particular item should be the sum of the labour to produce the item plus the material. The material costs should reflect the price of finding the material, maintaining the upkeep of the find, extracting the material and delivering the material. If an entrepreneur is able to produce and distribute an equal amount of stuff at a faster rate with equal labour (more efficient), he will invalidate the commies idea f value.

Dasein

Since space/time is a non separable entity, says Albert, we will hold space constant in this discussion. The present is a thin line between the past and the future hence the only true way to live in the present is to repeat the present. Consider music. Is it not a set of notes strung together. The whole set of notes is the music. To live in the present with the music is to repeat the note. Similarly consider a book. Is it not a set of letters strung together. To live in the present in the book, would we not have to reduce our reading/writing down to one word, word,word,word or maybe even one letter l,l,l. Alas the entire structure tends to become absurd. It may be self confirming but evolutionary nature has not evolved us to operate as such. Perhaps this is what Heidegger meant with dasein. Being in time is to listen to the a preferred set of notes vs a more consciously effort of reducing them.

Labor, money and FSC

We all have a problem, we must feed, shelter and clothe ourselves. Let us call food, shelter and clothing FSC. This has been a problem of human kind forever. I work this problem by doing the following. I trade labor for money. I trade money for FSC. Hence I trade labor for FSC by the transitive property. More briefly, Labor =money =FSC. I dislike labor but I need FSC. This is a problem. Murders have been and will continue to be done in the name of this problem. How can I solve my problem? Ideally I could get something else to do the labour, but I haven't any idea how to make a slave robot. What a beautiful world it would be to make labor obsolete for humans. FSC would no longer be a problem. My only other solution is to live off cash flow from capital. ...More

It appears we be through space/time we encounter an infinite amount of choices. Even a prisoner has many choices, should I behave, should I try to esc

It appears we be through space/time we encounter an infinite amount of choices. Even a prisoner has many choices, should I behave, should I try to escape, should I try to break these chains etc. Making these decisions is our freedom. Should one have the freedom to make bad choices is another question. Bad choices would lead to unhappiness but perhaps it is a probabilistic measure. In heaven there are infinitely less choices because allowing bad choices would lead to un-bliss like conditions. It seems ironic that people who choose wisely are allowed into heaven to continue their good choices yet bad people who have chosen badly are banned from the very place they need, a place to guide their choices.

values

Values are things I deem important=things I give meaning to. How do I give meaning? Ultimately by my conscious choice, that is a first person account of me being w/c is influenced by my biochemistry, others and the outside world (phenomena). Nietzsche-"We have measured the value of the world according to categories that refer to a purely fictitious world". ...More

choosing means not choosing

One must decide between A or B. Choosing A means not choosing B and not getting any of B's benefits or pleasures. This is called an opportunity cost. We can construct a counter-factual of non choice B and posit a comparison of A and B.  Can one become a great musician, or athlete without choosing. No, one must always forego something else to get this mastery. Watching tv, socializing etc are all choices and may have to be foregone in the pursuit of excellence. Choosing is hard because most people don't choose fanatically. They flow their choices from day to day often mastering nothing.

Godless world

There is a void when god dies. How is man to make it in a godless world? Is one now devoid of essence? Arther Schopenhauer thought life was brutal and the best thing is never being born, the second best thing is to die young. The only thing meaningful in this meaningless existence is the arts and music(ironic?). Nietsche's ubermensch has been defined as an overcoming. Man must overcome his existence in this godless world. How? Through self mastery. Consider time circular, and create a life that you deem to be a worthy to live over and over for infinity.This is self mastery.

godless immoralist

At first there was a God, a Christian God. There was construct in life, fear of hell, guilt from breaking the laws of God and hope that one's road would lead to eternal bliss. Then God died and so did the motivation for this construct. There appeared to be nothing. Nihilism in the sense that life is nothing, meaningless and without intrinsic value. Continue to be, thankful for the burden of guilt being lifted but noticing that there is now a hole in one's soul that one is no more important than a insect in the cosmic perspective. What difference does it make if one pisses his life away or becomes a god. In the end it all amounts to nothing. But along comes Niestche, What if you had to live your life over again ad infinitum, would u jump for joy or drop to your knees in despair? And Einstein's space/time model. Does space/time ever really disappear? The essence of one's life is what one chooses. Although existence precedes essence, one's choice of essence empowers one that it is he and only he that chooses this meaningful life. To choose one's path and to have it etched somewhere in spacetime for eternity in w/c a possible revisit adinfininum leads one to the conclusion that one must make one's life a master piece. The making of a self master is the journey. Construct is back.