Sonia Wong
@soniab1711
Sonia Wong
@soniab1711
People who mostly do good things but do want to take sides or reject labels. It’s actually a privilege. I hope they know.
Limitarianism
Discussing how much wealth people can leave behind for their children. Some say estate tax may be punishing people who save hard to have something to bequeath.
But people who need to save hard for that probably won’t fall under the bracket of high estate tax rate.
I don’t feel it’s bad to live in a world where everyone’s sort of dealt
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We don’t even realise how right wing the world actually is. We’ve accepted so much of just how we live our lives today is like normal. They’re proposing an alternative and somehow that’s being made out to be quite extreme.
What’s Left episode w/ Jameela Jamie
It’s specifically really destructive in a society where we have built people’s entire identities around their jobs
台通#489
家倫:要求人家中立就是要求人家當哈比人
It’s a privilege to be so squeamish about something that’s very common for others in the same society. That means you’re very sheltered from those horrors. (TBC)
Do not fall for rage bait and waste time and mental energy and get distracted from what’s productive and more important
I’m very indifferent to people who ask for empathy from everyone when they haven’t done the same for everyone. On a good day, you discriminate, threaten and insult people who are different from you, like they don’t deserve to live. On your bad day you’re demanding their sympathy/empathy? What kind of joke is that? What rights do you have?
Let’s be
... See moreSome people pride themselves on being open to changing their mind. I don’t think I belong to this type.
On a specific event, maybe I can change my mind if there’s new evidence.
But I don’t think it’s really that easy to change my mind about principles. Things are often way less complicated than people say they are. “It’s complicated” is just an
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