• More precision about more of my philosophy about automation and globali

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    More precision about more of my philosophy about automation and
    globalization and Donald Trump and more..

    I am a white arab from Morocco, and i think i am smart since i have also invented many scalable algorithms and algorithms..

    I have just explained, read below, that Donald Trump protectionism
    is not good, but i think that around 85% of jobs losses in the
    manufacturing sector in USA was caused by automation and not by China
    or such as were thinking it the people who elected Donald Trump, and you
    can look at the following video that talks about it and that makes you understand that automation also has advantages:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-rd3kW7Bc8

    Following are some of the advantages of automation:

    1. Automation is the key to the shorter workweek. Automation will allow
    the average number of working hours per week to continue to decline,
    thereby allowing greater leisure hours and a higher quality life.

    2. Automation brings safer working conditions for the worker. Since
    there is less direct physical participation by the worker in the
    production process, there is less chance of personal injury to the worker.

    3. Automated production results in lower prices and better products. It
    has been estimated that the cost to machine one unit of product by
    conventional general-purpose machine tools requiring human operators may
    be 100 times the cost of manufacturing the same unit using automated mass-production techniques. The electronics industry offers many
    examples of improvements in manufacturing technology that have
    significantly reduced costs while increasing product value (e.g., colour
    TV sets, stereo equipment, calculators, and computers).

    4. The growth of the automation industry will itself provide employment opportunities. This has been especially true in the computer industry,
    as the companies in this industry have grown (IBM, Digital Equipment
    Corp., Honeywell, etc.), new jobs have been created.
    These new jobs include not only workers directly employed by these
    companies, but also computer programmers, systems engineers, and other
    needed to use and operate the computers.

    5. Automation is the only means of increasing standard of living. Only
    through productivity increases brought about by new automated methods of production, it is possible to advance standard of living. Granting wage increases without a commensurate increase in productivity
    will results in inflation. To afford a better society, it is a must to
    increase productivity.

    And i invite you to read my following thoughts about protectionism
    and capitalism etc.

    More of my philosophy about Trade Adjustment Assistance and globalization..

    I think that protectionism is not good, and i think that Trade
    Adjustment Assistance etc. is a better way of solving problems, so
    i invite you to read the following article to know more:

    https://theconversation.com/international-trade-has-cost-americans-millions-of-jobs-investing-in-communities-might-offset-those-losses-143406

    And read more here about Trade Adjustment Assistance:

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

    More philosophy about protectionism and USA and more..

    I think we have to be careful about protectionism, since read the following:

    "Protectionist policies impose an additional cost and loss on all
    parties. First of all, domestic consumers must pay a higher price for
    goods. At the same time, importers face a decline in demand, so
    international jobs are lost. For instance, the US-China trade war meant
    that US consumers paid a higher price whilst demand for Chinese workers
    is reduced.

    So the Chinese unemployment increases and US consumers pay more.
    However, the counter-argument is that it saves US jobs and businesses.
    Now there is some validity to that claim. If the money sent to China
    doesn’t come back in either demand for US goods, or FDI, then the
    argument can be validated.

    However, the reality of the situation is that when a US consumer buys
    cheaper Chinese goods, that money goes to a Chinese exporter. That money doesn’t stay with them indefinitely. It makes its way back to the US
    through either demand for its goods or in FDI.

    What we see as a result is that Chinese demand drives employment in
    other industries. So jobs that may have been lost in one industry, are
    being created in another. At the same time, the FDI inflows also create employment in the relevant industry.

    Although there is disruption, there is a net positive gain in the long
    term. Employees will have to shift to new industries, but the average
    consumer benefits from lower prices. By contrast, the only winner under protectionism is specific domestic workers. However, they too are
    consumers and consequently lose out too.

    Is Protectionism Good For The Economy?

    In the long-run, protectionism is not good for the economy. It makes
    consumers and businesses pay more. And whilst it may protect jobs in the short-term, the economy as a whole would be better served in allowing
    cheaper imports in. Although this may temporarily destroy some jobs,
    consumers benefit from lower prices. In turn, the income that would have
    been spent on the goods before can now be spent in other markets. In
    turn, employment is stimulated elsewhere in the economy."

    Read more here:

    https://boycewire.com/protectionism-definition-and-types/


    More of my philosophy about closed systems and open systems and
    interdependent systems..

    I think i am smart, and i will say that we have to have the right spirit
    so that to be efficient, and i think that the basis of the right spirit
    is also to look at how we are interdependent systems of different
    countries etc., so i think that the best way is to know how to be like
    the right randomness of the evolutionary algorithms that permits to not
    get stuck in a local optimum and be able to ensure the convergence to a
    global optimum, i mean that the best way is also to know how to well
    balance between cooperation and competition, since so that to not get
    stuck in a local optimum of efficiency we have also to know how to buy
    products and services from the other countries so that also to encourage creativity and innovation, since if you are too much competition you can "monopolize" too much and this can hurt creativity and innovation, so
    then we have to become a much more efficient and civilized world. And I
    think that Nazism or neo-nazism or white supremacism or communism are
    also too rigid, so they don't work correctly, since they also have the
    strong tendency to want to like too much homogenize and to too much
    monopolize and too much centralize, so they are not efficient systems.

    More of my philosophy about correlation and about diversity and more..

    I think i am smart, and i will say to look again at what is saying
    the Ph.D Katherine W. Phillips that is the Paul Calello Professor of
    Leadership and Ethics Management at Columbia Business School(Read about
    her here: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/profile/katherine_phillips):

    "Large data-set studies have an obvious limitation: They only show that diversity is correlated with better performance, not that it causes
    better performance."

    So i will say that this Ph.D and other researchers are not so smart,
    since notice how is speaking the Ph.D Katherine W. Phillips in the
    following article:

    How Diversity Makes Us Smarter

    Read more here:

    https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_diversity_makes_us_smarter

    So notice that she is not saying that human diversity is a "mechanism"
    that can cause "competition" or more competition between people, and
    then competition can be the cause of better performance, so you are
    noticing that the above Ph.D and researchers are trying to measure it empirically, but i think that this kind of measuring is not a correct measuring, since what i am showing you by my way of thinking is the fact
    that there is a "tendency" in human diversity that it causes competition
    or more competition, so it causes better performance, so then we can
    notice that by not following there way of empirical measuring we can still
    know about the process. So as i said, i think this Ph.D and other
    researchers are not thinking and abstracting correctly since from my
    saying below we can notice that human Diversity in a global world or in
    a society or in a group brings more "competition" between people, so it
    makes us work harder and better cognitively and socially, but if we are
    not being the right human diversity and we are working harder and better cognitively and socially, then i think being human diversity can still
    "keep" or "maintain" the working harder and better cognitively and
    socially, also human diversity brings different human perspectives or
    views and it brings different human experiences and different human
    knowledges and it is good for creativity and innovation since it is also
    good for divergent thinking that enhance creativity and innovation.

    More of my philosophy about USA and human diversity and more..

    I just said the following:

    "I think i am understanding rapidly, since i think that human Diversity
    in a global world or in a society or in a group brings more
    "competition" between people, so it makes us work harder and
    better cognitively and socially, also human diversity brings different
    human perspectives or views and it brings different human experiences
    and different human knowledges and it is good for creativity and
    innovation since it is also good for divergent thinking that enhance
    creativity and innovation."

    So i will invite you to look at my following writing about USA that will
    make you notice how USA is making itself innovative and creative by
    bringing the "best" big brains immigrants, and notice, like in my above
    saying, that it is also saying the following:

    "But it’s not just a numbers thing. Another reason immigrants do so well
    in tech is that people from outside bring new perspectives that lead to
    new ideas."

    And here is more of my new thoughts about USA, read them again carefully:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/kIbGEdTXezQ

    Yet more precision of my philosophy about diversity and adaptability and resilience..

    I think i am understanding rapidly, since i think that human Diversity
    in a global world or in a society or in a group brings more
    "competition" between people, so it makes us work harder and
    better cognitively and socially, also human diversity brings different
    human perspectives or views and it brings different human experiences
    and different human knowledges and it is good for creativity and
    innovation since it is also good for divergent thinking that enhance
    creativity and innovation:

    And here is my new proverb that talks more about it:

    "Human vitality comes from intellectual openness and intellectual
    openness also comes from divergent thinking and you have to well balance divergent thinking with convergent thinking so that to converge towards
    the global optimum of efficiency and not get stuck on a local optimum of efficiency, and this kind of well balancing makes the good creativity."

    And i will explain more my proverb so that you understand it:

    I think that divergent thinking is thought process or method used to
    generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions, but notice
    that we even need openness in a form of economic actors that share ideas
    across nations and industries (and this needs globalization) that make
    us much more creative and that's good for economy, since you can easily
    notice that globalization also brings a kind of optimality to divergent thinking, and also you have to know how to balance divergent thinking
    with convergent thinking, since if divergent thinking is much greater
    than convergent thinking it can become costly in terms of time, and if
    the convergent thinking is much greater than divergent thinking you can
    get stuck on local optimum of efficiency and not converge to a global
    optimum of efficiency, and it is related to my following thoughts about
    the philosopher and economist Adam Smith, so i invite you to read them:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/ftf3lx5Rzxo


    More of my philosophy about life and about evolutionary algorithms..

    I invite you to listen to the following beautiful song of Simon &
    Garfunkel called called April Come She Will:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1tCJEYETk

    I think that the above video of the song is showing how our world
    is "diversified" and it is good for adaptation and resilience, and it is
    the most important thing, and this diversification is also very
    important even in economy, since i think it is like evolutionary
    algorithms in artificial intelligence, since they are based on the same
    very important idea of diversifying by also decentralizing by
    efficiently specializing the members of the population so that to make
    it efficiently "adaptable" and much more "resilient", and the
    efficiently specializing can be efficiently specializing in a much
    higher level layer, like being a "generalist" medical doctor, and from
    the this decentralizing and efficiently specializing emerges a higher
    level intelligence such as a civilization, so then even evolutionary
    design methodology that i am talking about in my thoughts below does decentralize from the agile architect to the other members of the team,
    and here is step 3 of the important steps of evolutionary design
    methodology of agile that i am talking about below:

    3- Instead of creating one big design at the beginning of the project
    that covers all of the requirements, agile architects use incremental
    design, which involves techniques that allow them to design a system
    that is not just complete, but also easy for the team to modify as
    the project changes.

    And here is my thoughts about artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms in artificial intelligence:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/P9OTDTiCZ44

    More of my philosophy about economic diversification in Africa and Arab countries..

    As you will read in the following paper that economic diversification is
    good for growth and economic diversification is also tremendously
    important for "resilience", so i think that the country that we call
    Algeria has a big problem since it lacks too and too much on
    diversification of its economy, so i think that Algeria will get easily
    into big problems of violence and disorder, but Morocco and Dubai are
    much more diversified economies and i think that Morocco is on the right
    path, so i think that the problem of many African countries is that they
    have to become diversified economies.

    Read the following paper so that to notice how important is
    diversification of economy:

    Economic Diversification in Africa: How and Why It Matters

    https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/04/30/economic-diversification-in-africa-how-and-why-it-matters-pub-84429

    More of my philosophy about economy and about Morocco and Algeria and more..

    So as you are noticing i was speaking, read below, about Algeria,
    and you have quickly noticed that the Algerian economic problem comes
    from the fact that Algeria is a much less diversified economy than Dubai
    or than my country Morocco, so i think that Morocco is a much more
    diversified economy and i think that Morocco is really on the
    right path and Morocco is also a beautiful country, since read in the
    following article of year 2019, it says that the 2019 International
    Franchise Attractiveness Index ranked Morocco 39 out of 131 states. This
    made it the number 1 attractive business hub for US-based franchises in
    Africa and the second in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) after
    the United Arab Emirates. This ranking shows it competing with some
    leading international powers, including France, Spain, Germany and
    Australia, according to a report by Morocco World News. The index
    combines peer-reviewed research and a survey of franchise executives to
    produce two rankings, balanced growth and aggressive growth.

    Read more here so that to notice it:

    https://www.fairobserver.com/region/middle_east_north_africa/morocco-maghreb-maroc-moroccan-economy-latest-world-news-796983/

    More of my philosophy about economy and inflation and more..

    I invite you to read the following about how do Governments Reduce
    Inflation:

    https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111314/what-methods-can-government-use-control-inflation.asp

    I think that one of the best way to reduce inflation is by reducing the
    money supply within an economy via decreased bond prices and increased
    interest rates, and the above web page is speaking about it, but i think
    that there is still a problem, since inflation can become problematic if
    the product or service become a monopoly, so if the prices of the
    product or service can not be reduced by for example economies of scale
    or/and by "competition", so the price of the product or service can be
    set high and it is inflation on this product or service, so this kind of situation can also lead to an economic war, also inflation still can
    become a problem like with the drastic fall of the algerian Dinar in
    Algeria, since Algeria is lacking on diversification of its economy and
    also was unable to reduce its reliance on food imports, since 70% of the Algeria food requirements are met by imports, so with the drastic fall
    of the algerian Dinar, the price of Food in Algeria was getting high,
    and the people of Algeria were suffering because of that, and this
    situation can still repeat itself again and again in Algeria.

    Read about it here:

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/algeria-dinar-record-low-economic-collapse

    I invite you to look at step 4 of my below thoughts of software
    Evolutionary Design methodology with agile, here it is:

    4- When in agile a team breaks a project into phases, it’s called
    incremental development. An incremental process is one in which
    software is built and delivered in pieces. Each piece, or increment,
    represents a complete subset of functionality. The increment may be
    either small or large, perhaps ranging from just a system’s login
    screen on the small end to a highly flexible set of data management
    screens. Each increment is fully coded Sprints, Planning, and
    Retrospectives.

    And you will notice that it has to be done by "prioritizing" the pieces
    of the software to be delivered to the customers, and here again in
    agile you are noticing that we are also delivering prototypes of the
    software, since we often associate prototypes with nearly completed or just-before launch versions of products. However, designers create
    prototypes at all phases of the design process at various resolutions.
    In engineering, students are taught to and practitioners think deeply
    before setting out to build. However, as the product or system becomes increasingly complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to consider all
    factors while designing. Facing this reality, designers are no longer
    just "thinking to build" but also "building to think." By getting hands
    on and trying to create prototypes, unforeseen issues are highlighted
    early, saving costs related with late stage design changes. This rapid iterative cycle of thinking and building is what allows designers to
    learn rapidly from doing. Creating interfaces often benefit from the
    "build to think" approach. For example, in trying to layout the
    automotive cockpit, one can simply list all the features, buttons, and
    knobs that must be incorporated. However, by prototyping the cabin does
    one really start to think about how the layout should be to the driver
    in order to avoid confusion while maximizing comfort. This then allows
    the designer iterate on their initial concept to develop something that
    is more intuitive and refined. Also prototypes and there demonstrations
    are designed to get potential customers interested and excited.

    More of my philosophy about the Evolutionary Design methodology and more..

    Here are some important steps of software Evolutionary Design methodology:

    1- Taking a little extra time during the project to write solid code and
    fix problems today, they create a codebase that’s easy to maintain
    tomorrow.

    2- And the most destructive thing you can do to your project is to build
    new code, and then build more code that depends on it, and then still
    more code that depends on that, leading to that painfully familiar
    domino effect of cascading changes...and eventually leaving you with
    an unmaintainable mess of spaghetti code. So when teams write code,
    they can keep their software designs simple by creating software
    designs based on small, self-contained units (like classes, modules,
    services, etc.) that do only one thing; this helps avoid the domino
    effect.

    3- Instead of creating one big design at the beginning of the project
    that covers all of the requirements, agile architects use incremental
    design, which involves techniques that allow them to design a system
    that is not just complete, but also easy for the team to modify as
    the project changes.

    4- When in agile a team breaks a project into phases, it’s called
    incremental development. An incremental process is one in which
    software is built and delivered in pieces. Each piece, or increment,
    represents a complete subset of functionality. The increment may be
    either small or large, perhaps ranging from just a system’s login
    screen on the small end to a highly flexible set of data management
    screens. Each increment is fully coded Sprints, Planning, and
    Retrospectives.

    5- And an iterative process in agile is one that makes progress through
    successive refinement. A development team takes a first cut
    at a system, knowing it is incomplete or weak in some (perhaps many)
    areas. They then iteratively refine those areas until the product is
    satisfactory. With each iteration the software is improved through
    the addition of greater detail.

    More of philosophy about Democracy and the Evolutionary Design methodology..

    I will make a logical analogy between software projects and Democracy,
    first i will say that because of the today big complexity of software
    projects, so the "requirements" of those complex software projects are
    not clear and a lot could change in them, so this is
    why we are using an Evolutionary Design methodology with different tools
    such as Unit Testing, Test Driven Development, Design Patterns,
    Continuous Integration, Domain Driven Design, but we have to notice
    carefully that an important thing in Evolutionary Design methodology is
    that when those complex software projects grow, we have first to
    normalize there growth by ensuring that the complex software projects
    grow "nicely" and "balanced" by using standards, and second we have to
    optimize growth of the complex software projects by balancing between
    the criteria of the easy to change the complex software projects and the performance of the complex software projects, and third you have to
    maximize the growth of the complex software projects by making the most
    out of each optimization, and i think that by logical analogy we can
    notice that in Democracy we have also to normalize the growth by not
    allowing "extremism" or extremist ideologies that hurt Democracy, and we
    have also to optimize Democracy by for example well balancing between "performance" of the society and in the Democracy and the "reliability"
    of helping others like the weakest members of the society among the
    people that of course respect the laws, and so that to understand more
    my thoughts of my philosophy about Democracy, i invite you to read them
    here:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/vlDWhmf-MIM


    More of my philosophy about the kind of president Biden's tax increase
    on the rich and more..

    And of course the kind of president Biden's tax increase on the rich
    will be used so that narrow America's vast income inequality,
    read carefully here so that to understand:

    Biden's corporate tax plan takes aim at income inequality

    https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/bidens-corporate-tax-plan-takes-aim-income-inequality-77420625

    So there is still a problem and it is that we have to solve the problem
    of the financial sector by giving voting rights and tax advantages to
    long-term shareholders etc., read my below thoughts so that to understand:

    I have posted the following video:

    Why raising taxes destroys the economy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GChpnX44_Ns

    But i think that the kind of Biden's tax increase on the rich is not a
    problem, read the following so that to notice:

    "In an interview, Mr. Pomerleau said the drag was small from the
    proposals because Mr. Biden was largely taxing savings of high earners,
    which are not major drivers of economic growth given those Americans
    have a lot of their wealth saved.

    “Some tax increases have larger effects on growth than others,” he said. “Biden has chosen taxes that don’t have a massive effect.”"

    Read more carefully here so that to understand:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/business/biden-tax-plan-economy.html

    The biggest benefit of finance, is to provide opportunities to people,
    in the sense that in a world where there is no finance, the only way to
    start a company is to be born rich or to have saved for a long time. In
    a world where finance works well, the people with talent can actually
    start firms and reach their dreams without waiting to either have saved
    the money, or be lucky and receive it from their parents, and once you
    create this opportunity, you will have the most talented people take
    advantage of those opportunities, which favors growth, which favors a
    good allocation of resources and, ultimately, innovation. But we have to
    know what is the problem with finance, and here it is, read the
    following so that to understand:

    One last chance to fix capitalism

    Read more here:

    https://hbr.org/2020/03/one-last-chance-to-fix-capitalism

    So i invite you to look at the following video about capitalism:

    How to Improve Capitalism

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOaJe68C-bU

    So as you notice in the above video that you can also fix capitalism by
    giving voting rights and tax advantages to long-term shareholders and
    not by raising taxes, and you need to have sovereign wealth funds and
    national pension funds representative of the long term collective
    interests etc, so i invite you to look the above video of "How to
    improve capitalism" so that to understand more.

    And if you want to know more about my views on capitalism,
    read them here:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/cf3Wa4z8Xmc

    And more of my philosophy about the financial market and about
    capitalism and about the markets and more, read more here:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/LJeOIJK-wnY

    More of my philosophy of how to become rich and more..

    I invite you to look at the following video that speaks
    about how to become rich:

    STOP Chasing Money -- Chase WEALTH. | How To get RICH | Garry Tan's Office

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hdu4DlnLIk&t

    The person that is speaking on the above video is called Garry Tan,
    and here he is:

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

    And I think i am smart and i invite you to look at the following
    "defect" or "bug" of the above video, look here at what he is saying:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hdu4DlnLIk&t=425s

    So he is saying the following:

    "So what is most useful, is actually acquiring skills that nobody else
    has, especially in combination that are rare. If you can rebound the
    ball and nobody does it quite the way you can, you can be a Hall of Fame basketball player. And that applies to all the things in your career and
    in life."

    So look at the following how he is giving the "general" way:

    "So what is most useful, is actually acquiring skills that nobody else
    has, especially in combination that are rare."

    I think that the "defect" in the above saying and "general" way of the
    above video is that it is not taking into account the factor of the
    usefulness to consumers or to customers since you can acquire skills
    that nobody else has, especially in combination that are rare, but those
    skills can still be useless to the consumers or customers, so i think
    that the above saying is not so smart. So the person on the above video
    has forgot the very basis of what is it of something has to be useful
    for the consumers or customers, so read my following smart
    "redefinition" of Utilitarianism so that to understand:

    More of my philosophy about why the definition of Utilitarianism is like
    an IQ test..

    Notice that i think i am smart, since when i just looked rapidly at the definition below of Utilitarianism, i have rapidly discovered a pattern
    with my fluid intelligence and it is that even if the definition
    of Utilitarianism is: That Utilitarianism prescribes actions that
    maximise happiness and well-being for all affected individuals,
    i can easily see a pattern with my fluid intelligence since i am
    smart, since the pattern is that Utilitarianism maximises happiness and well-being by well balancing taking into account not
    only the present but also the future, i mean that responability
    is inherent to the definition since the well balancing forces us
    to be responsability in the present or today so that to maximize
    correctly happiness and well being tomorrow or in the future.

    I can give you another IQ test that i have rapidly invented and
    here it is:

    So i will give my example of pattern recognition with my fluid
    intelligence that permits to understand, here it is:

    So if you want to go fast from my country Morocco to another country
    called USA , how will you do it ? or what will you do ?

    It is like my IQ test..

    So if you answer that you need for example to use a fast airplane to go
    fast from Morocco to USA, your answer is a stupid answer, so you need
    the smart answer, so i will answer that the fast airplane too has to be "reliable" and your "health" has too to permit it and the "weather" has
    too to permit it, so now you are clearly noticing that you need to take
    into account many "factors" so that to go fast from Morocco to USA, so
    you are clearly noticing that being smart needs also a good plan.

    More precision of my philosophy about Utilitarianism..

    I invite you to read the following definition of what is Utilitarianism:

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

    So as you are noticing, it says that Utilitarianism prescribes actions
    that maximise happiness and well-being for all affected individuals,
    but i think that Utilitarianism is not idiotic since it maximises
    happiness and well-being by well balancing taking into account not
    only the present but also the future.

    So you can read all my other proverbs that i have just invented quickly
    here:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/ZyUvFt_nix8


    More of my philosophy about my new proverbs and about my philosophy and
    more..

    As you have just noticed that i have quickly not accepted the views
    such as saying that it is materialism that is the problem, since i think
    it is a dead-end in philosophy to say so, since i think those kind of
    extremist views bring too much violence and too much disorder, so as i
    have just said that i am not in accordance with following views of the following web page that says that materialism is the problem and where
    Knox College psychologist Tim Kasser too says that materialism is the
    problem, and read my below thoughts to know why i am not in accordance
    with them, and read the following so that to notice:

    Knox College psychologist Tim Kasser said:

    "We know from research that materialism tends to be associated with
    treating others in more competitive, manipulative and selfish ways, as
    well as with being less empathetic"

    Read more here:

    https://www.vox.com/2014/12/24/7447727/materialism-psychology

    And if you want to know more about my views on capitalism,
    read them here:

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.culture.morocco/c/cf3Wa4z8Xmc


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