Not a troll post. Why is everything shit?
Because you’re inside a septic tank
People are often rewarded with power or money for doing/saying shitty things.
If you are rewarded for something, you are likely to continue the pattern.for doing/saying shitty things.
for making “hard” decisions.
The attention economy largely works by finding problems, outrage, rage bait that can grab and hold your attention.
If you spend lots of time online your view of the world gets skewed by the attention machine.
Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. The community around you keeps on keeping on.
Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. This is not true for many, many people.
“One bad apple spoils the bunch.”
We have a lot of bad apples.
Om a micro or meso level, there is still plenty of good to be found. Look there for your daily sanity check. If you only look at the macro level, you’ll just get more depressed.
This tree is “Oops, all bad apples!”
Sometimes the barrel is bad, not even the apples (eg. police)
People aren’t being held to account for doing or making shitty things
We forgot to perform maintenance on everything.
This is the bad place.
Oh no what the fork?
Because too many people wouldn’t vote for anything less than a perfect candidate.
And too many people wouldn’t vote for anything more than a rapist conman.
Hey hey hey, that’s autocratic megalomaniac rapist conman, can’t leave out his best stuff.
Money and greed.
But you can help. Grab a grocery bag, go out side and pick up some trash. Talk to your neighbors. Go put change in parking meters that are about to expire. Go through a parking lot and put shopping parts in the corral. Get a bag of frozen peas and feed some ducks (not bread). Get some cheap paper plates and a marker or two from a dollar store, make happy faces and staple them up on telephone poles.
The more we act hyper-locally, the better we can make it. Maybe it will inspire othdrs to do the same. But even if they don’t, you’re still making the world a better place.
Second this. Macro level things are… not great. At home, our neighborhoods though, we can and do make a difference. Your friend group, your family, your close relations, those groups are the same as they were a year ago, and are worth being around. Yeah things are kind of shit right now. You can still go have a pint with your friends though. Or enjoy your favorite video game. Work on that hobby you’ve put off. We’ve been trained that buying is happiness - but you don’t need to spend a lot of money to be content. There is nothing wrong with enjoying what you have and improving your own neighborhood.
People will tell us to hate, and to divide, and I just refuse to. I’ve been going out on walks, saying hello to the neighbors, going to the local coffee shop and bar. Communities are worth building.
It’s not. You live in what is probably by most metrics the best time in human history.
If you read unceasingly-negative material, you could develop a negative worldview.
You live in what is probably by most metrics the best time in human history.
If you live in one of the rich countries. Otherwise it’s shit and you’re lucky to get a job picking the fruit that feeds those rich countries which pay almost nothing (still better then opportunities back home). Basically they’re picking up the scraps left behind by us, who live in those rich countries and think things like “this is the best time to be alive in human history”, completely ignoring all the human suffering that supports our lifestyles.
If you live in one of the rich countries.
Nah, I mean globally. Take your hypothetical fruit-growing country. Are things in 2025 in that country bad compared to 1925? 1825? 1725? 1625? If not now, when is the better time?
because your eyes are covered in them
Unchecked capitalism
The second law of thermodynamics.
Why do you delete your posts? Or is an admin/mod deleting them?
Shitposting.
Thank you. Thats helpful. I don’t need to be someone’s disposable foil. I’ll just block them.
We forgot we could regulate capitalism like we did 100 years go. Let’s make taxes great again. Then take that money and pour it into education. If the states really want to control that, fine, that’s a compromise that can probably still end up working out in the end.
This, exactly.
Boomers grew up with a 91% top-tier tax rate.
Nobody ever paid that rate; anyone who was close to that line found some tax deductible way of spending their excess. That “tax deductible way of spending” was, ultimately, someone else’s paycheck.
Without that punitively-high top tier, there is no need for them to actually spend their excess income. They invest it, creating a debt owed back to them.
We tolerate this horseshit out of fear that “they’ll go away, and take the jobs with them”. Which won’t happen: When we restore our 91% top-tier tax rate, the rest of the world will follow.
