Topic: Freedom
+Anonymous A — 1 year ago #66,646
People are going to hate me for saying this, but I’ve thought about it. There’s this idea that’s very prevalent in society that freedom for the sake of freedom is good. I don’t think I believe in that. If you think about different social spaces, almost always, the spaces where people are the most innovative are actually where people have the least freedom.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1 year ago, 5 minutes later[T] [B] #664,037
Basically: people work the hardest when they’re trying to get what they want, not when they have what they want. So if you give people what they want, they’ll never accomplish anything. I mean, just think about the British royal family for example. They’ve had all the wealth to do whatever they wanted in that family for hundreds of years and they’ve never invented anything!
·Anonymous A (OP) — 1 year ago, 3 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #664,038
In my view, if you want to inspire creativity, don’t give people freedom of speech and human rights and a democracy and guns. If you want to inspire creativity, put two guys together in a concrete box with a spoon and a lighter and see what they come up with.
+Anonymous B — 1 year ago, 4 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #664,085
Now we're speaking the same language. I too am a firm believer in requiring investment. If everyone worked 10% harder (achievable), our standard of living (and the arts and creative stuff) would increase by a factor greater than that. The problem is convincing everyone they should, rather than bitching that the next guy is doing less than them.
+Anonymous C — 1 year ago, 12 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[T] [B] #664,171
