Zephyr

My issue isn't with the service staff, it's with business owners who are increasingly abusing their workers by offloading their pay onto tips. I mainly fight this by just not eating out or eating out at places where tipping isn't customary. Also for what it's worth I only stay stateside a portion of the year, where else I stay tipping is unusual, not unheard of but definitely not a common thing people do. So in the end instead of 15% they get 0% because I didn't go out to eat and of course the business owner gets $0.

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it typically requires unusual behavior like that or very unusual circumstances such as very large and valuable (typically land) holdings that cannot be sold. Either the wealth gets divided too much or there's infighting or someone is given the keys to the kingdom and ruins it.

Yeah what's external from the body and mind of an individual is a whole other story aka the society in which they are in. It's sometimes a dangerous perspective but I do tend to see issues more so as technological issues. With this circumstance it's not an issue I see with an individual that they feel they don't match their body but that our technology is so limited that we can't change form as easily as we change clothes. The illness or lacking isn't an aspect of the individual but in our current technological abilities as a species. With sufficient technology any will should be unbounded so long as it is not causing needless and avoidable suffering to another sentient being. If for instance we can upload a mind and inhabit a virtual space then we may achieve this sooner than we think. In what we consider "actual" or "physical" reality, it's going to take a lot more time and effort.

There's an idea that all permutations of energy exist and there's only one singular conscious mind inhabiting each life generally unaware there's only one mind.

I could have sworn I've seen a study that said generational wealth dissolves like 99% of the time sometime during or after the third generation, that is it's exceptionally difficult to maintain wealth for generations upon generations.

That's how this is typically dealt with. Someone encourages the same treatment for other religious texts which then pisses off the Christian folk so then they repeal the whole thing..

I saw this kinda happen irl once. Turns out my friend was actually just bisexual and didn't know it. Not so much a picture but an easy opportunity to try something they never tried before or pursued with someone they felt safe with.

When you put it that way it kinda sounds metal AF, like an episode of Deathklok.

Mental Illness is a pretty vague thing to define. My general understanding is that it's anything that would prevent someone from living a full and productive life, the individual can form friendships, relationships, maintain healthy romantic relationships if they want, work a job, have dreams and aspirations, generally make plans, take care of themselves and their hygiene, and so on. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Sure but that wasn't what I ever argued for. Doing work for no pay outside of a volunteer position or something like family is a bad situation no matter what.

I'm pretty sure it's a global issue aka let's get all of humanity on board with not running full speed into essentially the apocalypse.

It's like you didn't read my comments at all. I never said anything about not tipping at all outside of the circumstance where I never went to the restaurant to begin with. If I don't go then the owner gets $0 and the server gets $0 since I didn't use their service or purchase their product aka they both get 0%.

The scenario you're bringing up really has nothing to do with anything I've said this entire time.