'What started the scientific advances was necessity. Scientific advances then flourished due to heavy capital expenditures. Are you saying that capitalism is the only way of allocating capital...|||If that graph shows anything, it is that wealth creation coincided not with an unfettered market, but a fettered one, and not by itself, but along STEM advances.    And that is because...|||You were given the opportunity. Both that Ethiopian man and that Chinese man will probably never see the light at the end of the tunnel, for they are powerless.|||The question still stands, what makes your position more convincing than other ones?    Do elaborate on how strong the market demands are, how they would have been met were it not for government...|||So says every extreme right-winger. What makes you more convincing than the others?    Could you elaborate on the bolded part?    The latest one says the top 1% holds a little less than 50%.|||What difference can they make?  That poor Ethiopian man has been earning at most 3$ a day for the past 10 years. Is it reasonable to expect of him that he continues to remain optimistic that he...|||The increase in living standards is caused by STEM advances, not by unlimited resources or wealth as you call it. For every rich person there are less resources for the rest. What happens when the...|||I am asking both, now that you've picked my curiosity, but really anything that comes to your mind.|||Please post your thoughts and feel free to check out the other threads I've posted in the other temperament subforums in which I ask the same question:  SJ SP NT NF|||Please post your thoughts and feel free to check out the other threads I've posted in the other temperament subforums in which I ask the same question:  SJ SP NT NF|||Please post your thoughts and feel free to check out the other threads I've posted in the other temperament subforums in which I ask the same question:  SJ SP NT NF|||Please post your thoughts and feel free to check out the other threads I've posted in the other temperament subforums in which I ask the same question:  SJ SP NT NF|||Ought to? Depends on your goals.|||What I mean by scientifically proven has to do with scientific validity. Validity is the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and corresponds accurately to the real...|||The point is there is suffering, and where there is suffering there are those who've made it their life mission to end that suffering. Because there is suffering.|||You fit the INTP mold almost to a t.|||I will eradicate poverty.|||I love both my ISTJ dad and my ISFJ mom.|||Religion is for the faint of heart.|||It has to do with how one has adapted to society.  Whether it be unrestrained hedonism or mindless servitude... :crazy:|||And I don't agree. Incompleteness =/= invalidness.|||MBTI is not scientifically proven because of its J/P dichotomy.  There's also the bell curve MBTI variant.  Nature is never over nurture, as they always both play an equal role.|||I will eradicate poverty.|||No.|||You got it! Everything else other than the Big 5 is flawed!  And I'm not being sarcastic...|||INTJ who only enjoys the ARAM mode in League of Legends, a competitive fast-twitch shooter called GunZ, and 3/2 blitz chess. And Dark Souls of course...|||Pro-lifers are stupid.|||Why, it's called a custom tower. You could spend $2500 for a non-upgradeable bulky laptop, or you could spend $1250 for a tower with an i7 6700k, easily overclockable to 4.5 ghz, and a GTX 1080....|||?|||I overeat too.|||Not all problems are equal.|||Because you don't?|||If you think you understand INTJs better than they do themselves, then you're not even close.|||Memorization is boring.|||The variant of MBTI that prescribes predetermined function stacks is scientifically unproven. In other words, there is no such thing as nature > nurture.|||It depends.|||Music and video games.|||There are no stupid people, just immature people.|||Great minds think alike :)|||You should feel bad. There are 8 million people still starving today.|||I find it is the total opposite. A brilliant story with memorable characters, with the frosting on top being the cute interactions between an apathetic INTJ and a I'm curious, I can't stop thinking...|||It would take too long and a session of watching the anime again. From what I remember... at the school festival when her attention span was like that of an ADHD person, or when she had to talk to...|||@Eden4 Impressive analysis! I still think Chitanda is ENFP though. Her scatter-brainess simply points to an ENFP.|||laurie17  Your clarification about Ni-Te was very helpful!|||If I were wealthy I wouldn't even bother with school. I would just self-teach myself.|||Personally I don't know whether the functions are valid or not, but in so far, it has been accurate in describing myself, hence why I see it higher than merely 'total bullshit'.|||The serious and the unserious.|||Because it's interesting.|||@WT_Neptune  How old was/were the immature INTJ(s)?|||I'm indifferent to hugs.  Edit: Actually I do like hugging my cats. So I guess I do like hugs after all. With animals anyway.'