The rich are screaming highway robbery.
They passed a comprehensive property tax because of skyrocketing property prices and told the rich to sell off some or most of their property if they did not want to pay.
The rich didn't sell and now they are paying through the nose and screaming bloody murder.
Just chill and enjoy life, you rich can afford to pay and still have plenty left.
Call it communism, leftist. In a democracy, the majority rules and if the majority are poor. Well...naturally.
Almost all of my wealthy friends are very active and full of cognitive dissonance, it appears.
Wonder why!
If I earned a few million dollars and had to pay 40% as tax, I'd be fine with it.
But some people spend most of their time ranting and raving about it, when they should probably be enjoying life.
I wonder why the rich are friendly towards me. They usually look down upon the middle class, are really picky about things, like to be recognized as smart or good, and so on.
Having a good job seems to help with being satisfied. After a long week of work, I'm glad just to sit and rest.
Did cells, neurons, and other biological processes create consciousness?
Did consciousness create cells...?
Can answer be found, or is it one of those unsolvable things?
Are perception and logic forces, like energy, or something different?
Energy/Matter + Something = Life (perceives and interacts intelligently with environment)?
Energy/Matter/Life = Universe?
Circled back to the beginning of my thoughts, again.
When matter is fused in a sun, some is transformed into another state (proton-proton chain, hydrogen to helium, etc.) and some is transformed into energy.
Light (energy) is unable to escape from a blackhole. So, energy is fused in a blackhole and is likely to be transformed into a another state and some into another type of energy or some 'thing'.
Some now say that it is dark energy, or expansion of space itself. I, and probably many others, also thought so a couple of decades ago due to the lack of other possible explanations.
Angry people don't usually realize they are acting badly towards you?
Confront them, or say "Something bad must have happened to you today?"
The latter seems to help make them realize that they are acting badly.
Creation or Existence?
Was the universe, or multi-dimensional existence, created from nothing, or did it always exist?
Theorists say that energy is always conserved and cannot be created from nothing, and yet, big bang theorists say that is how it was.
Something from nothing? Magic?
So, were you created or did you always exist? Some would say you were created by your parents, but how did life come into being? Did it always exist in some dimensions?
Thought is the new wealth. The 'coin' of the future. Who rules thought? You, or some combination of factors - will, body functions, instincts, unconscious self, environment, genes, and others?