So wise to recommend action, persistence, community, and joy. This is a marathon. I noticed you mentioned intermittent reinforcement - so true. And there's another term that comes to mind, 'ratio strain', when the level of reinforcement is overshadowed by the effort and/or lack of reward. I feel many of us are experience this from the onslaught of this administration - by design. When ratio strain is engineered in experiemental or data-driven situations it can lead to complete withdrawal (extinction) or even aggression. That's why we need to look for the good everywhere - even in the way some billionaires spend their wealth (the Gates Foundation and The Buffet Foundations come to mind), join together and celebrate every win. I do experience deep sadness and rage at this juncture - but giving up is not an option. Keep going.
Capitalism is not evil. Free markets are an effective way to organize human effort to be more productive and improve quality of life. What IS evil: paying politicians for favorable policies, monopolies and cartels, price-fixing, kickbacks, scams, worker exploitation, regressive taxation, pollution ... all the things that a good government should be combating, and all the things that the Trump government does not care about. I agree that billionaires are evil.
So wise to recommend action, persistence, community, and joy. This is a marathon. I noticed you mentioned intermittent reinforcement - so true. And there's another term that comes to mind, 'ratio strain', when the level of reinforcement is overshadowed by the effort and/or lack of reward. I feel many of us are experience this from the onslaught of this administration - by design. When ratio strain is engineered in experiemental or data-driven situations it can lead to complete withdrawal (extinction) or even aggression. That's why we need to look for the good everywhere - even in the way some billionaires spend their wealth (the Gates Foundation and The Buffet Foundations come to mind), join together and celebrate every win. I do experience deep sadness and rage at this juncture - but giving up is not an option. Keep going.
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Capitalism is not evil. Free markets are an effective way to organize human effort to be more productive and improve quality of life. What IS evil: paying politicians for favorable policies, monopolies and cartels, price-fixing, kickbacks, scams, worker exploitation, regressive taxation, pollution ... all the things that a good government should be combating, and all the things that the Trump government does not care about. I agree that billionaires are evil.