1 in 108,000,000,000

[Σ]

108,000,000,000. This is the official yet still semiscientifispeculproximat¹  count of all humans to have ever walked the earth. Statistically speaking you are 1 in 108,000,000,000.

Unfortunately I do not have the time to expand on this so for now I will allow this to simmer.


 1. That is short for semi-scientific speculative approximate, yes I did make it up.

[Arnox]

But each one of us is unique and each one of us has the potential to be something great. And we're always continually progressing in some way, shape, or form. So really, the number is just a number in my mind.

[Lanny]

But each one of us is unique and each one of us has the potential to be something great.

I'm not convinced that terminally ill african sustenance farmers really have meaningful potential for greatness.

[Michael Myers]

That's really impossible. There's only 7 billion people on this earth.

[unbreakable matter]

But each one of us is unique and each one of us has the potential to be something great.

I'm not convinced that terminally ill african sustenance farmers really have meaningful potential for greatness.

How are they any different from the lower/middle class of any other continent? West africans are some motivated motherfuckers and the bar is set so low they can achieve collequiel greatness by being upwardly mobile while an amerifag with a house, job, kids etc is pointless and just a shitty useless cog

[Lanny]

How are they any different from the lower/middle class of any other continent? West africans are some motivated motherfuckers and the bar is set so low they can achieve collequiel greatness by being upwardly mobile while an amerifag with a house, job, kids etc is pointless and just a shitty useless cog

There may be a difference in degree due to the comparative frequency of disease and lack of resources but I agree, class mobility in the US is decreasing with each passing generation. I'm not saying there's something inherently wrong with Africa, I'm saying the "everyone has the potential to be great" is a nice sentiment but ultimately naive. Your fate is largely determined by who your parents are, their citizenship, resources, and social circles.

[unbreakable matter]

How are they any different from the lower/middle class of any other continent? West africans are some motivated motherfuckers and the bar is set so low they can achieve collequiel greatness by being upwardly mobile while an amerifag with a house, job, kids etc is pointless and just a shitty useless cog

There may be a difference in degree due to the comparative frequency of disease and lack of resources but I agree, class mobility in the US is decreasing with each passing generation. I'm not saying there's something inherently wrong with Africa, I'm saying the "everyone has the potential to be great" is a nice sentiment but ultimately naive. Your fate is largely determined by who your parents are, their citizenship, resources, and social circles.

Yeah but what im saying is the relative greatness of someone and their aspirations are actually easier to obtain in africa than in america or something. An african can just dream of owning a car or moving to another country and thisis getting easier amd easier. Meanwhile, how many people axhieve the "american dream?" Less than avhieve the african dream of not dying of AIDS before 30 and its getting better. Adding gas and manudacturing jobs is making "dreams" reality for africans and as precidents are set (hey, tolu just opened a business, what a hero) their collective value to their locale is greater than some faggot living in the suburbs of america.

Id argue that life is more meaningless in countries like the phillipines, russia, baltics, china etc where the society is run by oligarchs, everyone knows it and no one has the opportunity to advance because its shitty by design. In Africa,you become a hero for not letting your surroundings dictate your life. In Oligarch style countries life is an unobtainable goal you chase because you dont know any better.

[Lanny]

I don't know, it seems like absolute quality of life is more important than doing better than your neighbor (at least it is to me). I'd rather live in the US with a shitty dead end job but with clean water, food, and some modicum of health than be the most successful store owner in a country in the middle of a civil war or healthy but still living in a mud hut or something.

I don't really know what life is like in your examples of oligarchical countries so I can't comment, but sure, maybe I'd be willing to live in a place with a lower mean standard of living but meaningful opportunity for advancement than a set standard elsewhere, as long as it would be feasible to advance beyond the set standard in the latter place. But I mean if the best I can hope for as an african farmer is to match the quality of life of a filipino then just give me the philippines lifestyle to start with. There's nothing special being able to achieve economic advancement in and of itself, it's the having a quality of life that's worthwhile.

[Lucifer]

Most humans are useless outside of filling a role as a cog in the machine, and have essentially zero potential to do anything other than work themselves to the bone for several decades, then die a meaningless death. They leech off of the intelligent and ambitious, the individuals who are truly responsible for innovation and pushing the world forward.

[unbreakable matter]

Ok, so you were using western "quality of life" standards. I think it goes without saying thats preferable to livng in a developing society. I didnt think thats what we were talking about. I was saying aspirations for upward mobility are more significant and meaningful in developing societies. I know some grateful and happy ass immigrants and some jaded and cynical white ppl (myself included)

[Infinityshock]

How are they any different from the lower/middle class of any other continent? West africans are some motivated motherfuckers and the bar is set so low they can achieve collequiel greatness by being upwardly mobile while an amerifag with a house, job, kids etc is pointless and just a shitty useless cog

There may be a difference in degree due to the comparative frequency of disease and lack of resources but I agree, class mobility in the US is decreasing with each passing generation. I'm not saying there's something inherently wrong with Africa, I'm saying the "everyone has the potential to be great" is a nice sentiment but ultimately naive. Your fate is largely determined by who your parents are, their citizenship, resources, and social circles.

oh yes, there is something inherently wrong with everything south of the sahara.  the entire population should be exterminated

[Infinityshock]

But each one of us is unique and each one of us has the potential to be something great. And we're always continually progressing in some way, shape, or form. So really, the number is just a number in my mind.

no one is unique.  everyone is the same.

[unbreakable matter]

Whats your IQ?

[Lanny]

does anyone have the pic of tacho and "derailed"? I feel it would be fitting right now.

[unbreakable matter]

Shut the fuck up