What is description of happiness most resonates with you? Aristotle's virtues or Mihaly's concept of the flow state?

The politics - Aristotle book 1 chapter 9. A man in ancient Greece was able to articulate the history of money as if straight of the pages of Lyn Alden's Broken Money. Why is it most high schoolers graduating today cannot articulate it?

What if democracy truly is the pinnacle of human government? Think through the ages. Greeks came to democracy. Then empire, then.... Nothing Roman's were a republic first. Then an Empire, then.... Nothing. The British lived brutish lives. Then the people got fed up and forced the Magna Carta. It was a democracy amongst nobles. Then an Empire, then .... Nothing. Folks, America got fed up and forced democracy out from under the grip of the king. THEN AN EMPIRE.... If you dont want it to be ..... nothing.... dont become illiterate about democracy. Its the only government your voice has weight in. Become illiterate, look to Federal Government for help when they dont care about you. They are forming and protecting their empire. The democracy worth fighting for, fighting the kings, and the oppressors is the government that serves your neighbor as equally as it serves you. Its the one in the city hall. The place you can actually show up in twice a week to make your self seen and make yourself heard. The further a person you chose to represent you has to travel to represent you, the less in common you'll have. How far is the Federation of states? How far is the republic? The kings will snatch away your freedom, claiming to be a representative but seeking an empire with their buddies. Stick with the government that exists to serve you not the other way around. Go to the city hall. They meet every two weeks.

If i were to vlog, it would be about the lack of civic participation in usa. Im not talking about fed level stuff everyone and their mother has an opinion. I'm talking about your city or country level stuff. Just not enough going into it. Might be why we are having probs.

What exactly is a business owner today? At its core, a business owner is someone who organizes inputs — labor, capital, materials — toward an output in the form of goods and services. They work to monopolize those inputs, package them neatly into a brand, and make transacting with them as smooth as possible. It has been incredibly lucrative to be a business owner because there has always been a need to organize these inputs in the market place. However this era we are entering into changes everything. Now we have AI and AI is the ultimate organizer. When agentic AI systems reach maturity, will the role of “business owner” even exist in the same way? It’s possible we’re moving toward a world where everyone is in service to everyone else, with AI coordinating the match between skills and needs in real time. That doesn’t mean jobs “disappear” — it means jobs as we know them dissolve. Employment won’t depend on whether a company has an open position. It will depend on whether you want to work and what skill you’re willing to offer. If you’re expecting to find the security and comfort of “getting hired,” the future might feel bleak. But if you shift your perspective toward the skills you bring — and the willingness to offer them directly to those who need them — you’ll always have opportunity. The real question: 👉 Are we ready to think of work as skill-sharing rather than job-holding?

"Now money-making, as we say, being twofold, it may be applied to two purposes, the service of the house or retail trade; of which the first is necessary and commendable, the other justly censurable; for it has not its origin in nature" - Aristotle The Politics chapter 10