Equality Research: Price Elasticity & The Cost of Emotional Investmen...

Equality Research: Price Elasticity & The Cost of Emotional Investmen...: "Price Elasticity & The Cost of Emotional Investments? Matti: so what is an 'elastic' - what is an 'elastic product', or whatever? Katie: 'P..."


Price Elasticity & The Cost of Emotional Investments?


Matti: so what is an 'elastic' - what is an 'elastic product', or whatever?
Katie: 'Price elasticity', when it's 'elastic' it's something where if the price changes, consumption changes. So if the price goes up of something, then people buy less of it. But if it's 'inelastic' then that means that it doesn't really matter what happens in the price changes, consumption will remain the same. So like for example…
Matti: so we're looking at the example of alcohol as an…
Katie: as an 'inelastic' product.
Matti: 'inelastic product', meaning - it doesn't matter how much the price goes up, the consumption Katie: will stay the same
Matti will stay the same, people - people's buying will not change.
Katie: so it's considered an 'economic necessity', because basically it's something that people require and will 'get' no matter what it costs.
Matti: Okay so we're looking at now why is it that something like alcohol - despite the price going up, your 'buying pattern' doesn't change, you still buy it. When I look at when I used to buy cigarettes it didn't matter if the price was - if it was eight dollars a pack, I didn't 'think about' how much it costs, and I didn't 'feel bad' about buying it because, once I bought it - I mean 'cause I 'needed' those cigarettes, I was addicted to them. Whereas, what's fascinating is that, I take that very same eight dollars and I go and I'm considering buying a box of cereal, and the box of cereal that's six dollars - I will be more reluctant to buy that than the box of cereal that's three dollars. I will have a conflict within myself of 'which one to buy', and I'll feel bad - I'll wanna save that money, I won't wanna spend the six dollars on the cereal, I'll rather spend three dollars on the cereal. But…
Darryl: Cause you value the tobacco more.
Matti: I value the tobacco more, because it gives me a specific experience, and the cereal doesn't give me that experience, so with the cigarettes I wouldn't blink an eye paying - just dropping - even if that's the last money I had I would just buy the cigarettes, because I'm addicted to it. So obviously it's the same with alcohol.
Then we were looking at this in relation to religion and seeing that, really religion is exactly the same. And also when you look at politics. Because it's a matter of a 'personal emotional investment' in something like - with religion it doesn't matter how…because it's 'your faith', your whole like and universe revolves around your religion so it doesn't matter how many people die, it doesn't matter how many children are abused and molested, it doesn't matter how many obvious lies and how much obvious deception is presented by the religion - your faith never worries - er, wavers, you never worry, you…
Katie: you still pay.
Matti: Your faith, your 'power of faith' does not waver, you still, you know - you keep 'buying into' the religion, and 'buying into' god, and 'buying into' the church, and 'buying into' the politician, and 'buying into' the priest - no matter what the cost, because 'you must have' that faith, you 'must have' that experience of 'everything's fine' because 'god is looking out for me', 'everything's fine' because 'president obama is looking out for the nation and solving the world's problems', whether it's a politician or a priest it's the same thing - or whether it's alcohol or cigarettes. It's like, you don't - it doesn't matter what happens, you keep buying into it because you have an emotional investment in it.
And again, obviously it's exactly the same when we look at the larger picture of how the world exists. It's like, we have such an investment in 'who we are' as our minds, as a personality, as beliefs, that we don't take the responsibility we aren't taking the responsibility to consider at a practical level, is the current way that we're living and participating here as human beings, within the economic system, within the political system, within our daily experience, actually supportive of of us and supportive of everyone. I mean, obviously the way we're living is not supportive of everyone because there's so much conflict and abuse that exists.
Katie: Well it costs the life of someone else to continue your own life.
Matti: Yes, and yet we don't, like the eight dollars - we don't question that cost because…
Katie: We need our life.
Matti: We 'need' our life - I 'need' my experience of being drunk, or having faith in god, believing everything's gonna be okay, or my experience of having my cigarette as my coping mechanism. It's like, it's the same pattern on the small scale and the large scale. So it's just really fascinating to see that in a practical..the example of, what was it? Inelastic and elastic…
Katie: Inelastic and elastic prices.
Matti: Prices, where the price of the experience we get from religion, or cigarettes or alcohol is 'inelastic' meaning, it doesn't matter what the cost is, how much shit ends up existing - our investment and involvement in 'buying into' that experience that we 'need', never wavers and we never question and look at ourselves, maybe this experience I want, is actually…not valid…
Katie: Not valuable.
Matti: And not valuable, the 'value' is made up. Because obviously if it comes at such a great cost to everyone else, and other beings, then we're compromising that which has real value which is All Life, in favor of a make believe value -- which is self interest

Jack - The Power of Money • Desteni - Equality and Oneness

Jack - The Power of Money • Desteni - Equality and Oneness

Jack - The Power of Money • Desteni - Equality and Oneness

Jack - The Power of Money • Desteni - Equality and Oneness

The Origin of Inequality - Part 2

The narrative of this documentary is mostly based on the Historical research done by Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs & Steel" (1997)

"(...) certain environments allowed for more possibilities than others, either offering the Human 'many opportunities' or either limiting him to an extreme degree.

For instance, after the time Humans firs set foot on the Australian continent some 10 000's of years ago, all big mammals that existed there, went extinct. The same happened in Native America: by the time of the arrival of humans, all big mammals -- except for the llama and the closely related alpaca -- were either hunted to extinction or perished through the climate shift.

With everything discussed so far, a pattern has now emerged. South America had just one domesticable specie, while North America, Australia, and Sub-Saharan Africa had none. In contrast the remaining 13 mammal species all existed on the Eurasian continent (including North Africa), because the natural environments there were more supportive of those species. Merely by determining the spread of these animals, the course of history already became predictable.

Obviously once a particular technique of food production had been found, that method was then able to spread to other peoples/societies -- crops and animals could be used outside of the area where the method was first 'discovered'. Though here again the environments played a decisive role.

If one look at the size and the orientation of the big landmasses of the earth, one will notice that there are differences. For instance the American and the African continents have a smaller surface than Eurasia. If we then look at the orientation of the landmasses we see that America and Africa both have a vertical orientation on the map. The vertical distance between the two remotest points of the continent is called the 'north-south axis'. Eurasia has a very broad horizontal orientation, which is termed a 'west-east axis'.

Why is this relevant? It has to do with the climate differences on the different latitudes of the Earth, such as the Equator. These latitudes run horizontally across the globe -- on maps this is depicted as horizontal strokes. This implies that on a landmass with a large horizontal axis, the longest distance of that landmass will find itself laying entirely within one latitude or climate. Hence Plants and Animals that are able to live on one area within one latitude, will most likely be able to live in other areas within that same latitude.

However with Africa and America -- because of the vertical orientations -- the landmasses are more 'divided' by different latitudes. One merely need to consider the desert on the equator in Africa, nearly 'cutting off' the upper and the lower halfs of the continent from each other. Thus different latitudes will 'cut up' the continent, making transfer of Animals and Plants along a vertical axis more difficult. Let's illustrate this with a practical example: for instance, while the llama existed as a domesticated animal in South America -- and while a type of wheel had been invented in Mexico -- the two never met. As a consequence of this, the wheel never got any practical application other than being used for small toys. The two area's were 'cut off' from each other through the climate barrier of Central America."

SF MONEY

I forgive myself for allowing myself to be controlled by money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to separate myself from money.

I forgive myself for being separate from money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to attach guilt to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to attach shame to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to be a slave to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to give money power over me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to deem money more superior than me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to place value and worth in money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to attach anger to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to attach embarrassment to money.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to realise how much I have allowed money to have power over me and control over me.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to realise that in being the slave to money - money will become the slavery of the world.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to manipulate me.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to realise that in allowing money to manipulate me - I will manipulate myself and others in my world.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to judge money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to have dominion over me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to define myself according to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to be manipulated by money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to be changed by money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to change me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to direct me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to see myself as inferior to money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to define 'who I am' according to the amount of money I have.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to define my worth and my value on the amount of money I have.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to compare myself to those that have money and those that don't have money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to fear money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to hate money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to indulge in wants, needs and desires based on money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to compare myself to others of that which I 'have' and 'own' and that which I do not 'have' and 'own' but would wish and desire to 'have' and 'own'.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to possess me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to make money 'my possession'.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to define money as the requirement and need to survive.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to work for money for survival instead of the enjoyment of expression as me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed money to 'rule' my world and me - and this to 'rule' the entire world as me.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to set myself free from money.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to express myself with money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to experience guilt when I spend money on me.

I forgive myself that I constantly worry about money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to constantly stress about money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to resist money.

I forgive myself that I fear spending money.

I forgive myself that I allowed myself to think about money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to define money as separate from me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to 'label' and 'define' money according to the acceptances and allowances of this world.

I forgive myself that I have allowed and accepted money to be separate from me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed and accepted myself to experience guilt, fear, anguish, anxiety, resistance, anger with money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to be trapped and enslaved and controlled in a relationship with money.

I forgive myself that I haven't allowed myself to realise that I am actually in a relationship with money: Money the Master and I the Slave.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to give money mastery over me.

I forgive myself that I have allowed and accepted myself to be the slave of money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to stress about money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to fear losing my money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to believe that if I don't stress about money, if I don't fear money, if I don't worry about money - I will lose my money.

I forgive myself that I fear severing my Master-Slave relationship with money - through fear of losing my money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to 'label' and 'define' money as 'mine' - transforming money into a possession which I fear losing.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to only 'feel' in control when I have money.

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to make money - the centre point reason for my existence and life here on earth based on survival.

I forgive myself that I live only for money in the need to survive.

Here you go.

Veno

The Origin of Present-Day Inequality - Part 1

This narrative is mostly based on the Historical research done by Jared Diamond - 'Guns, Germs & Steel' (1997)

"When looking at the world of today and looking at the differences that
exist between Human beings on earth, one could ask if there is a
particular reason as to why a specific 'race' or 'country' or
'continent' ended up holding a more favorable position of 'power' in
comparison to other 'races', 'countries', or 'continents'.

Where through economic principles of debt, entire Nations have ended up being
enslaved to western creditors with no way out.

Where entire populations are left to starve without regard from the Western countries.

Where one half of the world is actually working to feed the other half
that live in better conditions and enjoy more wealth, health and better
education.

Was there a pre-programmed advantage involved? And if so -- did it have anything
to do with the Human?

Since the times when 'modern civilization' came into contact with the
'forgotten parts' of the world, the west was faced with a peculiar
question: how come populations such as the Aboriginals in Australia had
virtually made 'no progress' since the Stone-Age?

People of 'Modern civilization' saw themselves as superior in
knowledge, science and culture -- giving them a 'Divine Right' to either
exterminate, convert or enslave the indigenous populations. Ultimately
the reason as to why one part of the world came to hold the more
fortunate position is then attributed to the particular evolution of
knowledge, science and technology within that society."