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  • I have heard somewhere that some people seemed to believe that behind each human’s actions, there is some kind of “daemon” that is invisible, but moving the humans like puppets.

    This is conceptualized in the theater mask, through which one can speak.

    The daemon speaks through the human as a theater actor would speak through a mask. (The latin word for that mask is “persona” (literally “sound-through”) and that’s why we call a person a person today (because they are controlled by a daemon who speaks through them)).






  • I’m introducing the theory of an “r-factor” that measures how capitalistic a country is.

    r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

    r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

    in-between them, there’s a linear interpolation.

    (i invented that “r-factor” as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

    i’m for r = 0.5 btw.