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You are a good person if

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/09/02/you-are-a-good-person.html
15•galfarragem•2h ago

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cedws•1h ago
I never really found a reason to like George Hotz but all of his recent posts are bangers.
squigz•1h ago
> But at the end of your life, total it all up. You should have produced more than you consumed. That’s what it means to be a good person.

Summing up one's life in terms of "production" and "consumption" is such a broken way of looking at things.

I will be kind to people. I will be patient with them. I will try to help them. I'll try to make the world a better place in all the little ways I can. How much or how little I "produce" has no bearing on whether my life will be weighed as good or bad.

And since we're quoting incredible TV shows...

"The success or failure of your deeds does not add up to the sum of your life. Your spirit cannot be weighed. Judge yourself by the intentions of your actions, and by the strength with which you faced the challenges that have stood in your way. The Universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing we can ever truly control... whether we are good or evil." - Oma Desala, Stargate SG-1

conception•1h ago
I’ve never seen anything more eloquent on good or evil than Dungeons and Dragons. Putting others before yourself is good. Putting yourself before others is evil. And everyone lives somewhere on that sliding scale.
galfarragem•44m ago
> I will be kind to people.

If you look at it as "producing goodwill" (an intangible asset) it still fits his axiom.

squigz•39m ago
I considered that, but I think it's a stretch to think that's what they meant - they were clearly referring to actual tangible assets and labor. To be sure there is some merit in what he's saying, but I take great issue with the framing; it seems to me to almost be contradictory to outline the issues with society brought on by, what he calls, the "unproductive elites", while simultaneously framing the success of one's life in a consumerist way.

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