Nine out of ten people with enough money and power to steer the system to massively favour them think that things are perfectly fine as they are. Now carry on, peon.
Well if it isn’t the best system why is it the system we have? Survival of the fittest, duh!
Be the change you want to see! Load up on cold cathode tubes and shove them in your PC or wherever else you can think of!
Says while paying money to the person they’re telling about for a blue marker
You have to be in a position to be heard. You could literally be the most popular account on lemmy, but you’d still be yelling down or laterally at people who already support you.
To punch up, you have to be on their stage.
No, paying Elon for a check mark wont make him read your stupid tweets.
it’s not him you need to reach, it’s his many supporters
It’s him you’re giving money to.
if you want to talk to the devil, you have to bargain with your soul yes
That’s deep
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How many Lemmy instances are hosted on AWS?
Curious! I am very intelligent.
All these people shitting on you acting like there aren’t a bunch of easy-to-use alternatives. This is one of those cases where a boycott is actually feasible. So many people here with more opinion than knowledge.
My biggest annoyance with Lemmy is the complete lack of self awareness.
I also got the “I am very smart” reply. lol
As long as a single human being is homeless or hungry, billionaires should not exist.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Period.
Technicaly That is very dependent on the value of currency current or future one
I guess it could be said that the sort of wealth disparity that we have shouldn’t exist
what if we didnt have money and cooperated (fucking impossible though because of greed)
what if the return to monke meme wasnt a meme
what if we didnt have money
It’d immediately be re-invented.
Money is a unit of measure, a necessary go-between because barter just doesn’t work on any but the smallest scales. If I need a root canal and I don’t possess any goods or access to any services the dentist wants/needs, what am I supposed to do?
How incredibly naive.
sorry im a bit retarded :[
/gen
We would need a fundamental DNA shift in the population to get rid of money. Humans are wired to compete with each other.
We’re wired to cooperate. Not compete. That compete part is a relatively recent thing. Last couple thousand years. And not everywhere.
Humans are wired to cooperate mainly if it helps them compete. Basically they cooperate more than any other animal. But cooperation is a means to the end of out competing other groups. That said, there doesn’t seem to be any hard science either way, so this is just my opinion, and your opinion holds equal value.
Americans be like
Go get em Spidey.
My vote is for the punisher tbh
Would love to see someone come up with a simple, yet easy to parse in single color, graphic of punisher killing a cop that we could put next to the logo on those trucks.
Method of execution?
So we’re going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?
We’re going to do that, right?
No objections here
Sounds good to me
We got all the dystopia and none of the cool futuretech.
Exactly. I would like cybernetic arms and legs and eyes that let me scan everything. But instead we get the most boring dystopia.
Low latency cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet using LEO satellites is undeniably cool future tech.
I would like this but also have those phones have a no logs policy so they cannot be used to track you or figure out where you were previously, at least without your consent.
No, see, I made all my money by inheriting it, and because I’m rich and wealthy that means that god must love me, and therefore I must be a good person inherently. People are poor because god doesn’t love them, therefore they must be bad people. Duh. /s
[Moe throwing Barney out meme with label “divine right of kings” on first panel and “oligarchy” on second panel]
The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn’t say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.
Gatcha addicts.
All of them. Gambling addicts addicted to watching numbers grow.
Pretty much. Though from things I have read they are more likely to be competition addicts. Gambling would be one way to compete with others. But yeah, honestly, I wouldn’t want to be them. I consider most of them mentally ill.
They aren’t even happy. By most accounts they lead pretty miserable lives, apart from the exorbitant wealth. But it’s gotta grind some gears when you automatically assume everyone is only friendly to you because of your money.
Yeah, I don’t know if I would go as far as to say they aren’t happy. Seems more like never satisfied to me.
The plan is going well. Now all we gotta do is convince all those sonobabiches to get on a Tesla rocket to Mars. As soon as that shit is outta here, we cut off communication and problem solved.
I do somewhat disagree with this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much on the eat the rich train. But, while not due to elons personal “brilliance” space x has cut the cost of going to space by a huge amount. And so many amazing things have come out of the space program
Sure, if by “Elon’s brilliance” you mean decades of Congress forcing NASA to outsource plus a whole lot of engineers none of whom are also CEO
while not due to elons personal “brilliance”
Why can’t we do both? How many billionaires are there? How many of them have their own space company? I’m no mathologist but something doesn’t add up.
The fact is, one thing has pretty much nothing to do with the other. The wealth gap between the wealthiest individuals on Earth and the rest of us is not the cause of poverty; in fact, as you go back in time long term, the wealth gap shrinks, while overall poverty goes up.
And what you mention about Space X is one example of the ‘rising ride lifts all ships’ phenomena that makes things better for all of us overall long term.
The fact that fulfilling three extremely-doable conditions: graduating high school, not getting married before the age of 21, and not having children before getting married, make your chances of being impoverished as an adult next to nothing, makes it even more obvious that billionaires are not the cause of poverty.
Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of increases in net worth of billionaires is created wealth (as in, if it didn’t happen, that wealth wouldn’t belong to someone else, it just wouldn’t exist at all).
The real issue is the eradication of poverty. It’s impossible to prevent someone from being at the top, and that top being exponentially higher than the average, in a society where wealth is so ‘create-able’ (and the fact that it is is a good thing, imo!), that position is always going to exist. But as we’ve seen over the past 50-100 years, it is very possible for that wealth gap to not only exist, and grow, and have the percentage of human beings who are impoverished shrinking, at the same time.
Add be born in a rich country and don’t be mentally ill to your list.
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It’s Neo, also I kinda agree. Though how to fix it is the tricky part.
It’s neon.
Some old book has a monologue where a character says “I am neon” and the context is that they see themselves as beautiful and transient.
The subtext is that the neon gas in a neon light is just a medium power is passed through to produce some useful outcome through its interaction with the coating in the lamp (light). The neon itself is thrown away when it outlived its usefulness and no one who receives the light of it cares where it went or what happened to it or why.
Now in is what they we’re going for I think.
