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We aren't victims. But we are rather hemmed in by circumstances and budget with the exception of top 0.5%.

Feel like working 8h today? No? Too bad.

Need rest for mental reasons? Sorry you're out of holidays.

Want to work on rocket science? Unfortunately no positions are open and the longer you're out, the less likely you will get in. That if you even studied the right things.

Or maybe you feel like being a fireman but failing the physicals?

Perhaps a doctor? But you need those 6 years of education plus actual knowledge. And this have to weather those years. If you're not rich, you get to work some trash job in the meantime hoping it won't affect you or the studies. Etc.

And do not even get me started on social network you cannot begin to choose unless you have copious free time.



everyone is hemmed in by their circumstances. Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer, and all his billions could do nothing to prevent his death. We are all in the same boat, it's just some of us don't really see it.


He turned down treatment early on that he later regretted. It's true he would die eventually anyway. Life and death can be used to describe anything that lives including the individual.


he did! but did Steve Jobs singlehandedly invent that treatment? nope! So even then, his reliance on existing constructs that were not created by him-"self" is quite obvious.


And the person(s) who made those treatments sacrificed collective opportunities to do so. We are all individuals, talking to crowds is best done by talking to individuals in the crowd. Dare I go too far.... The collective can't exist until we give up portion of our mind to others that themselves are individuals. The link doesn't exist outside our individual imagination.




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