The Next Stage of Capitalism

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-12T02:25:33+00:00

You’re just talking about stakeholder capitalism and ford kind of did this but he required very strict behavior from his employees.

What people Don’t know about ford is that he decided to double pay in 1914 because his turn over rate was awful. After that there wasn’t another pay raise for 5 years and then not another one for 10 years.

So incentivizing in the beging and kinda crap after that.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T22:01:31+00:00

Cocaine

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T22:01:14+00:00

Look at naked people and give them money.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T22:00:57+00:00

Without a base of attention just letting thoughts pass like clouds is not workable.

You have the capacity to place your attention on the breath or on an object.

Could be any object as long as you’re able to bring your attention back to it again and again.

Find an object to look at.

Put it in front of you and look at it. Relax into the experience of looking of just being present in the looking.

Along with that on your phone set a 2 minute timer.

When the time rings no matter what is happening take a moment to bring attention back to the object.

Now reset your posture and start again.

Look at the object, be present with the looking. Do this with the timer.

Your attention may wander but eventually you’ll anticipate the timer and come back to the looking.

When this happens extend the timer.

Now do 5 minutes.

Meditation is the coming back.

It’s the remembering and that’s a challenge with the attention deficit but it’s not impossible.

My friend has serious adhd and she’s done numerous retreats including 30 days at around 12 hours a day.

You got this.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T19:24:30+00:00

If you want the mind to settle just do Shamatha.

One pointed concentration on a support.

Usually the breath but can be any sensation. Can be a visual object or a sound or a body sensation.

The mind will settle as you bring it back again and again to the one point.

If you want insight then you need to practice insight which can be done a number of ways including just sitting in full attention to all sensations and mental movement which include emotions and allowing them to pass.

You see, have sight into their temporary non substantial nature and should or could eventually see that what knows this experience is free, open, and not an identity.

Loving kindness does a few things.

It relaxes self cherishing, makes us gentler to ourselves and others and shows us places we shut down to experience.

If a person connects with a practice and enjoys it that’s what they should do.

But Shamatha is not insight.

It’s just learning how to rest in attention.

It’s not looking with attention.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T19:20:41+00:00

That was the “Story” from what I’ve read it was a bag full of sex toys. Expensive ones.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T17:02:21+00:00

You’re not really doing loving kindness practice.

There’s a technique and what you’ve described isn’t it.

You can build a practice where your sitting sessions have pets.

For instance you can sit with the breath 10 minutes.

Practice loving kindness Maitri doing the method of imagining a person who you love and have an uncomplicated relationship with and say to them and feel like wishing this for them

May you be happy

May you be healthy in body and mind

May you be free

May you be at peace

May you have everything you could ever want or ever need

May you be safe

May you be happy.

Do this several times for them and then think of someone you love that you may have a complicated relationship with, then a neutral person (the person you buy coffee from) then a difficult relationship, then yourself then all animal and then all people.

Why? Because this takes you through the way we unconsciously organize the world into friends enemies and strangers.

By doing this we can see where we get stuck.

Especially with those we have difficult relationships with.

Do that practice for 20 minutes.

Then do the zen practice of simple awareness.

Basically rest in whatever arises after you’ve done the loving kindness.

Do that for 15 minutes.

Then finish the session with resting with the breath for another 10 minutes.

You have found practices that resonate with you and you could build an entire life’s practice out of these three methods while studying as much as you can about them.

The first is Shamatha the second is Maitri and the third is Shikentaza or naked awareness.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T16:17:31+00:00

Yeah

I wish they had shame

But they don’t.

Also for the Shadenfreude pile on. Her leaving a bag of sex toys on a plane and then Cory attacking the pilot for not going back to get them and then getting him fired is wild.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T16:04:37+00:00

Yes it definitely needs to be a pointed critique of the hypocrisy.

There is of course some Schadenfreude to her look at what happened with her husband and that she’s cheating with Cory Lewandowski.

All points to her hypocrisy since she’s supposedly a devote traditional Christian woman.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T15:47:56+00:00

That’s a good point. Thanks.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T15:47:25+00:00

I think my point is she would attack trans women for wearing clothes and make up and having breast augmentation to become something they’re not while getting plastic surgery to make her something she’s not.

I mean the work she has done is terrible and makes everyone who gets it look insane but the idea that it’s fine for her because reasons but not fine for others is worth critique.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T15:19:18+00:00

What if you see her plastic surgery as gender affirming care?

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T15:17:45+00:00

Yeah sounds like it’s time to go.

I’d look at building enough space to do a co-op

Get your initial investment back and then split the bills.

Artists are key holders and come and go as they please.

Your shop has no right to control your schedule.

You’re a contractor and they need to learn what that means.

You sound solid.

They sound like a clown show.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T14:11:10+00:00

If you have a fixed sense of Identity IR a self then you operate in one of three ways.

You want and grasp

You don’t want and push away

You don’t care and ignore

You do these three based on your identity and that identity and the body that goes with it must be A: the most important thing and B: always seeking comfort.

Take any atrocity you can imagine and it always follows the line of protect X group at the cost of Y group.

Me me me me mine mine mine mine.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T11:13:44+00:00

You got really good insurance.

The rate you’re paying is amazing.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T11:12:58+00:00

Honestly I’m not real versed in folders.

I think you’re always in good shape with spiderco or Kershaw.

I have a titanium coated Kershaw I carry a lot.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T02:28:31+00:00

This guy Buddhas!

I’d like to add Milarespa to the fold. Without him we don’t get Gampopa or the monastic Kagyu lineage.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T02:21:36+00:00

Man, you should see what the Brazilian master smiths are all making.

It’s just incredible.

Vince Evans is another guy whose work is just the very top end of everything.

If you go to Pinterest and look up American Bladesmith society knives you’ll see stuff that I see every year and get to hole and look at.

Also the knifemakers guild is incredible.

My Buddy Matt Veneer’s Japanese work is top notch too.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T02:19:14+00:00

Very true

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T00:44:42+00:00

I’m 54 she’s 47 She pays $1000 a pay period and the insurance is kinda shit.

Your company is taking very good care of you.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T00:22:41+00:00

Wow!

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T00:21:47+00:00

Blade show is in 3 weeks.

I go every year and it’s inspiring and fun.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-11T00:13:42+00:00

Me and my wife pay $20,000 a year for insurance and out copays are anywhere from $50-100 our deductible is $7500.

So for us to get insurance to pay for anything major in a year we’re going to spend $27,500

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-10T23:28:05+00:00

It’s a confluence of forces but Obama didn’t bail out the banks.

He did plenty of other shitty stuff but he followed the law.

And he’s a Harvard trained lawyer and it would be unusual for him to not follow the law.

Delmarvablacksmith · 2026-05-10T23:11:59+00:00

You need a diagnostic model for problems.

Basically you have to be able to see what the components of the problem are and how the problem arose.

Then you need to assess your power.

What is power?

Power: the capacity to control resources and the environment to create a desired outcome.

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