Living in western society : memes

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On the plus side, most of us will be dead in 100 years, so it we won't have to deal with it anymore.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub -3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's the playbook for any nation in any era. Debasement of currency until it's mostly colored iron is normal. A bunch of deviants on the throne is a given. Bonus points for generations of incest. Bread and circus, jousting and all kinds of entertainment were always there as a distraction. And latrines leaked into the groundwater. Your mistake is thinking this time would be different. Every nation has its high point and decay.

[+] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de -9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Idk spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories lowkey exacerbates the problem. What else should money be but fake? That's what money is. Your food and water is not being poisoned.

What should we do, reintroduce the gold standard? Awful, impractical and counterproductive. We can hunt for a nondescript evil hooded figure pouring poison in our drinking water but we won't find them.

Our food is unhealthy because capitalism doesn't reward production of healthy nutritious foods, it rewards maximizing profits and oligarchs lobby governments and design their own regulation. Banks are allowed to create money but governments refuse to because of neoliberal ideology being pushed by powerful elites. These structures are real, known and we can fight them.

Disguising our problems as unsurmountable and untargetable evils makes us helpless. Identifying our problems specifically gives us actionable goals.

Now the pedophile thing is true tho, so hard agree there lol

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