How is this not the standard view?
How is this not the standard view?
Why the bunny girl outfit. Bunny girls are liars?
For-profit media sells what people will buy. Hollywood movies tend to put women in revealing outfits (men too really). A guy wearing a drab, comfortable t-shirt draws much less attention. Though Don't Look Up was a fantastic exception:-). Still, all else being equal, the barriers are higher for the right booth than the left bc the inherent interest factor is lesser.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. "I can't vote against what the rich people want, because what if I become rich some day?" Completely missing that they, in the course of their entire lives, will not make as much as what most of the rich assholes of the world make in a day/hour/minute/second.
EAT THE RICH.
You forgot the part where rich make sure that poor remain poor.
Basic services should all be free to any human.
No. Time to privatize water, you commie!!! /s
Water were already privated in parts of the world. The s tag doesn't work here.
Maybe oxygen, for now.
Yeah, the spirit of your comment i agree with, but not the letter.
Nothing should be completely free, because nothing is free. Water needs processing, electricity needs a grid, sewage needs treatment, etc.
Basic things should be affordable for all: housing, water, electricity, internet, food etc.
But "free" creates incentives to be careless with resources. Which is counterproductive to making sure they are available for all at affordable prices.
Hard to believe people work sixty hours. Got a decent living over here in Europe and am currently reducing from 40 to 35, just because.
Without (real or artificial) scarcity profits would go down, and if profits
go downstop growing the-best-possible-system© just collapses.Because old people aren't looking at tweets like this.
It's just our generation that has this as a standard view, and now we're reaching the point where our generation will take over.
And there's going to be some changes, let me tell you.
The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed.- William Gibson
Many great reasons raised to explain why the current system persists so its clear to me that there isn't just a single roadblock. One reason, in my mind, is the challenge of reaching consensus. Even in small groups this can be problematic and more so for an entire population. It frustrates me no end that often small disagreements in the details of an idea is enough to prevent any positive change, even though at a macro scale the idea is good and universally supported.
Because capitalism demands infinite growth, forever, which means even when we're post-scarcity we need to keep working forever to continue growing beyond what is necessary.
There ought to have been a more definitive goal to work towards...
at this point in time.... All hunger, all deprivation, all poverty
Is because SOMEONE wants it so. Not because circumstances make it so
1984
Propaganda
Clearly it's because of all those immigrants stealing your share of the crumbs.
Because every man-hour freed by automation is a man-hour of opportunity to exploit and profit elsewhere.
Because inequality creates incentive. The bigger the difference between the bulk of the society and the top percentages of earners the more people are willing to risk to reach the top. That's why there are more successful startups in the US than in Scandinavia.
It's a global rat race and the US is "winning".
Always remember the dishwasher and why it was invented. Then apply that to EVERYTHING man-made. It's alway to save time, for someone who is not you.
I'm glad that dishwashers exist though. Washing dishes fucks up my skin and I couldn't pay someone to do it for me.