Every product and service now sits on a scale between 4.1 and 4.9. It's a useless metric that has inflated beyond comprehension.

Do anything else. Use a Net Promoter Score. Or binary thumbs up/down.

Personally, I think more things should be based on percentiles. If IGN wants to say a game is a 7/10 it should mean the game is better than 70% of other games they have reviewed.

While the goodness is left out. and I feel like every single age of time isn't free of it. That was always borrowed time and tints of nostalgia and I think it can go all the way back to us humans in forests hunting and gathering.

as such, it is unclear to me what the system should be replaced with, certainly something better but its unclear to me if its just the structural thing or not when you have 8 billion people interacting with each other. No other animal interacts in a way we do, monkeys can't do cooperation with more than 100 and they fight and quarrel yet we are expected to do it with 8 billion and we do but the system has shortcomings precisely because of it as we weren't intended to do so but we did it for our own good perhaps.

My point seems to be close to the point that I watched in a video similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0rxb2_KWs&t=566s [ Why Life Never Really Stops Hurting — Peter Wessel Zapffe]

To put it short, suffering exists, (which also side note: seems to be a point made by most if not all religions but I am not that religious per se but what does it mean to be religious)

Now with the existence of suffering being everpresent, I just have to navigate myself in this foreign world. I have tried to accept hardships in life because they are the only constant and if that means accepting hardship, then I anticipate it.

Going to go to college soon, I wish to do the hard things in life not to get rewards out of them instantly but uhh to do the hard things for the sake of doing them because over the longer terms they absolutely make sense doing.

Anyways, I think that I have this weird habbit of trying to make things make sense and the world doesn't make sense but I have to make it make sense in my head.

Another rant: I recently met a lady in jordan through someone on HN themselves and I wanted to ship my spare 15 year old laptop to her just so that she can get the interface but the shipping costs don't make sense (150$ and more)

I researched more into Jordan and basically, that place exists as the sole function of getting refugees (1/3rd of population there is refugee) and the place gets funding to just feed the population. I can't help but wonder why countries (America) and well off countries spend trillions of dollars in funding wars but spend only a very very fraction of that in at max to then help the people who were genuinely impacted by those very wars. Those people have it so much harder than me and it then led me to that point very above that I said earlier as well.

Also side point: I don't believe that any country is remarkably better than another, I mean in some sense yes, but I feel like everyone is feeling the pinch whether you are american, german, UK, french,finnish, africa,middle-east (jordan,iran,israel,Uae,dubai), india,china, pakistan,afghanistan, australia, japan,south korea, north korea.

I am probably just naming countries at this point and some countries can be doing better than another and certainly America is better than North Korea but my point is that perhaps I used to think of any country like gold standard but basically each country has its own set of tradeoffs which it makes and imo there are always problems but some might be more than others and a country can be good for X,Y but not Z people. I don't know what i am speaking at this point but this ties to my first point again as well which means that not any country is infinitely better than other. I am certainly up for travel if it helps me to advance in the things important to me but yea as I said in some sense earlier yeah.

What bothers me is that we can improve but we don't as we accept the things in front of me but there are people who wish to make real change and sometimes i must admit, I wonder, why bother? I am stuck in this contradiction and I wish to just have enough headspace for things valuable to me personally like a stable career and learning and to then take my free time for these other things but basically re-evaluating my priorities once again.

I hope I am able to share my point, the nationality part about something like jordan still troubled me and there's more nuance to it on the issues that each country faces individually within all countries that I listed and there are certainly issues within one country which might impact the general public more than that of other country but I hope I am just able to explain my overall point, that's all. I do still feel sad for the inequality overall too but this just ties back to the first point I made, I think.

Edit: wanted to add one more line but every decision might be a compromise but yeah, I am unsure if this message is able to make sense to (anyone) reading it because I think that all of my points above do try to catch onto it but yeah there might not be Utopia in the sense of every decision might be a compromise and as such whether nationally or personally, one has to ask which are the things worth fighting for, for the sake of it. Doing hard things for the sake of doing them hard at the moment because they overall will help you long term for example. I think I am very influenced by Stoic philosophy in this regard because I don't wish to worry about things outside of my sphere of influence but they still very much happen and its human to have it as such well, yeah. Thanks for reading if anyone is reading up till here.