those who bet for a living, like investors or traders or professional gamblers do not feel they owe the world something when they win even if it was improbable that they won
they're right when a trade goes your way, you don't have to give back to make the universe more 'fair' in many other universes, you lost
being the recipient of good fortune does not mean that you owe the less fortunate
or, if you do something dangerous and luckily survive, you don't need to cut off a hand when something goes your way, you don't need to balance out the universe
society exists to dampen such randomness, reduce vol tax policies, insurance policies, regulations, all these things smooth out spikes so that the tribe approaches global maximum it's a long-term economic optimization, not really a moral one
the goal is make the whole pie, for all mankind, as great as possible not pathological or performative reallocation of things to appear more 'fair'
the universe does not care
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@melissaFeb 14, 2025
the universe does not hate you, it does not think about you, and this means that you are free
it is not fair, you will not make it fair
@melissa
@melissaFeb 11, 2025
there’s a saying that goes, everyone's the star of their own story the risk in making yourself a protagonist is that it can lock you into a frame where your suffering is the story murakami tells us: pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
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