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so back to the original question is there a universal moral standard. Mine doesn't work.
All Our Patent Are Belong To YouElon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.
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What's your answer? Why it doesn't work?
An abundance mindset means to see the limitless potential in life. It means you can see the potential in yourself, and everyone around you. As a result, you intentionally drive yourself toward creating the life you want. When I think of an abundance mindset, I think of these key traits:Thinking big: People with an abundance mindset tend to think big, rather than limit themselves to a bird’s-eye view of their circumstances.Growth mindset: Living in abundance means having a growth mindset — the belief that you can improve your intelligence and skills with effort, and you aren’t stuck with what you have.Optimism: The “glass half full” type of person, focusing on what they have, rather than what they lack.Knowing there’s enough to go around: Abundance thinking means seeing a limitless amount of resources such as love, money, and success. In other words, someone else’s success or advantage does not take away from your own.Generosity of spirit: They feel genuinely happy for other people’s success, rather than resentful.Embracing change: They accept and embrace change, rather than resist.Taking action: They take a proactive approach to life, by seizing opportunities and working toward their goals. Planning ahead: They plan for the future, rather than waiting around for things to happen. An open mind: A person with an abundance mentality keeps an open mind and continues to learn, rather than believing they already know it all.Know their strengths (and weaknesses): They have identified their strengths, then used these qualities to go after what they want. They accept their shortcomings rather than being limited by them.
People with a scarcity mindset have a zero-sum view of the world: whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other. When you think in terms of scarcity, you put yourself in a box. You live within four walls of resentment, entitlement, stagnance, and victimhood. You see another person’s success as your loss. People with a scarcity mentality often fall into a cycle of negativity that not only pushes people away, but also holds them back from achieving goals. They say things like:They always get what they want.I never get what I want.I don’t have enough money.I can’t do it.A scarcity mentality causes people to compete rather than work together. They look out for their own interests, rather than seek opportunities to help others. They hoard resources, like money or power, rather than sharing for the sake of the greater good. You can see how many of these qualities would push people (and opportunities) away. Who wants to work with a self-involved cheapskate that only looks out for themselves?When you step outside of a scarcity mindset, you step into a world of endless possibilities. You realize your own strengths and develop them with confidence. You value yourself and, as a result, celebrate the value in others. When you want to see everyone succeed, you help others more readily.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/07/2021 05:55:23What's your answer? Why it doesn't work?We cant have a world that is fair so the top must stay on the top and the little on the bottom the way it's always been after all the rich must stay rich and the poor must stay poor who in their right mind would want a world that is fair obviously not the rich.
When we see some imperfections in the current system, we should identify them, and think of possible solutions.[/quote A poor man Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/07/2021 06:35:32When we see some imperfections in the current system, we should identify them, and think of possible solutions. It is better to have riches in the heart than in gold as gold will only harden the heart and steel your true value. We must give with the right hand and not let the left hand know what it is doing. The smallest man can be the biggest after all.
When we see some imperfections in the current system, we should identify them, and think of possible solutions.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/07/2021 05:55:23What's your answer? Why it doesn't work?Some think that the doctor should be paid a higher rate of pay over a nurse and a nurse higher pay over an ambulance paramedic and the paramedic higher pay over the mechanic that keeps the ambulance running but at the end of the day the patient will die if we remove any of the players in this game.
In economics, the law of diminishing marginal utility states that the marginal utility of a good or service declines as more of it is consumed by an individual. Economic actors receive less and less satisfaction from consuming incremental amounts of a good.
Services with higher pays mean that they are at low supply and high demand.
Your moral tests, are two steps algorithm to determine if an action is considered moral or immoral. It depends on following assumptions:Everyone is pursuing self preservationEveryone loves someoneEveryone is rationalIt turns out that those assumptions are not always true.
During his CPAC speech, Donald Trump admitted that he likes to say that polls are fake if they don't have the results that he would like to see. This isn't surprising as we've watched him do this for years, but what is surprising is that he had this "mask off" moment where he feels comfortable enough with his base to admit to them that he just enjoys lying to make himself feel better. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.At last weekends CPAC convention, we finally got an answer to the question of what Donald Trump's supporters would do if he ever just admitted to them that he lied about everything. And the answer is they would do absolutely nothing except applaud him. During his speech at CPAC Donald Trump went on a tear about a CPAC straw poll that at the time had not yet been released, but he assured the audience, don't worry. If it's a result I don't like, I'm going to do what I always do with polls I don't like, and just claim that it's fake. He admitted to these people that he lies about polls being fake news if he doesn't like the results. Here is the really very difficult to follow quote from Donald Trump. So bear with me. By the way, you have a poll coming up. Unfortunately, I want to know what it is. You know, they do that straw poll right. Now if it's bad ideas, I say, it's fake. If it's good, I say that's the most accurate poll perhaps ever. And I know they have it.And then blah, blah, blah, he's talking about the poll. So if I don't like it, I'm just going to say it's fake. If I do like it, I'm going to say it's the greatest poll ever. And the audience didn't bat an eye when he admitted to them, like, this is what I do when I don't like the polls, which I did all throughout my administration. I just said, oh, it's fake. Don't worry about it. And you idiots ate it up and you went out there and you repeated it too. And now I'm telling you, I'm giving up the game, real mask off moment here, and you're still just sitting there like trained monkeys, just, yay. I mean, to me, what is so shocking about this is that Donald Trump has finally reached the point where he just doesn't give a. Like the dude doesn't care anymore. He's not trying to put on a facade. He's not trying to convince Republicans that no, no, it really is fake news. He's just like, you know what? Screw it. If I don't like it, I just say, it's fake. What are y'all going to do? We're going to clap. He's, he's totally just admitting it now.That's how comfortable he is with these people. Because he knows at this point, they're totally brainwashed. There is nothing he could say, nothing he could do, that is going to make their love of him falter in any way. He has them in his pocket. So he can be honest about these things now. He can come out and say, yeah, I lie to you all the time and they're just going to keep applauding him like, well, he tells it like it is. These people are beyond saving. You cannot rationalize with people who are this irrational. I don't even think you could pull them back from the brink at this point. It would take probably the best, you know, mental health professionals in the history of the world to deprogram these individuals from the cult. And yes, it is a cult at this point, that they have fallen into. And the question is, is it even worth it? Yeah, there were big crowds at CPAC and I'm willing to bet we're also going to see big COVID spikes from CPAC too. But that's not a majority of the party by any stretch of the imagination. Right. These are the fringiest of the fringe, the craziest of the crazed.And they love everything Donald Trump says. But we have to believe this is not the majority of Republicans at this point. Unfortunately, the polls are kind of telling us otherwise where you have most Republicans who believe that Biden didn't actually win the election.
Here is an example where people are not always rational.
What makes me laugh is they call the garbage man a garbology trade They come up with big names for little people to lift them up I was given a title once when I was an emergence department wards man and they changed that to ESO emergence support officer what a joke lift me up with a big name. Revers phycology only works with fools.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/07/2021 08:05:14Here is an example where people are not always rational.people will lie to stay on top but there is no need to lie to stay on the bottom. honesty comes from the riches of the heart.
If you are looking fo more money, you can look for something with higher demand among people (who has money).
People need to stay alive to stay on the bottom. Otherwise, they would be put out of the list.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 19/07/2021 08:19:04People need to stay alive to stay on the bottom. Otherwise, they would be put out of the list.And this will make the top drop to the bottom to fill the void of their system. Now the baker must work in the field and grow the wheat as well as bake it. Will he be paid moor will he work harder?
How come?
No there is no Universal moral standard as if there were the Chinese would not be cooking dogs alive and Muslims would not be cutting off little girls body parts.
Quote from: Europa on 19/07/2021 14:14:55No there is no Universal moral standard as if there were the Chinese would not be cooking dogs alive and Muslims would not be cutting off little girls body parts.Yes you are right Europa that is the point can you think of a way by means of a standard that the world could adopt to prevent this and all the problems that this world has.