Cursorless is alien magic from the future

Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by xkekjrktllss on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:42AM (#38217700)

I've had the same experience with money. When I thought I had no money, I was poor. Then I changed to a "rich" mindset and my bank account has been full ever since.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by cafeoh on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:52AM (#38217775)

This is hilarious, although some people actually believe that poverty is a mindset issue so I hope to god you're joking

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by nine_k on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:11AM (#38217908)

Poverty is not a mindset. But a particular mindset can lead one to poverty and keep them there.

Say, spending 3 hours to save $10 is usually a bad deal, that time can be invested much better. But if one keeps doing that, they end up in a situation where spending 3 hours for $10 is what they have to do, because they don't have a spare $10, and there are pressing needs.

It's a trap. But it ensnares you through a mindset, not through a want of $10 initially.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by theGnuMe on Friday November 10, 2023 @07:58AM (#38218271)

If spending that time causes you to lose your job then yes. I can only see that for addicts really. I guess you could be addicted to that pursuit though in a negative way. I wonder how Richard Thaler would see it. In that sense it probably is the same reward pathway in the brain. Interesting possibly worth a phd.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by ImPostingOnHN on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:24PM (#38223304)

> if one keeps doing that, they end up in a situation where spending 3 hours for $10 is what they have to do, because they don't have a spare $10

To add to this: if one keeps doing that, or they're unlucky: Being born into the wrong family, or socioeconomic class. Being the victim of a crime. Having your transportation stolen or break down. Etc.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by chris_wot on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:03AM (#38220499)

Well… true poverty is a real thing. But there is a view that you are poor even when you just don’t have as much as others. There are people who get pay rises (significant ones) and who find they are still poor.

There is a mindset to some degree with feelings of poverty. Though, yes, real poverty is a reality.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by jabroni_salad on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#38221799)

You can definitely become povertybrained. My heartrate gets over 120 any time I am buying something that costs more than ten dollars. And thanks to inflation, that's basically everything now. I know it's stupid, but I guess we all came from somewhere.

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Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso by wsintra2022 on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:28AM (#38218522)

Exactly this same thing happened to me! I now realize I had an impoverished mind and saw every tbh I got from the perspective of a poor person from a poor town instead of just a person from somewhere like anyone else.

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