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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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What kind of debating culture is this? It's a showerthought
Going to buy me some helium and hydrogen and make a fortune!
Buy Hydrogen and Oxygen, then resell it as water. How you get there is up to you.
Worked on the shuttle engine program, so that's would be my preferred approach.
Stonks!
Could do it by absolute value, so things that rise also cost more? /s
Items would just be sold with enough lead weights stuck on to make the total weight proportional to the market value.
You think the packaging is excessive now, just wait!
This does qualify as a thought I guess ...
Why?
To make it fair. Gold would be worthless. Or food expensive as fuck, but then all palaces would burn
Wouldn't it be fairer to just drop capitalism and have a society not based on wealth?
I can see a few cases immediately where your system would remain unfair or unviable.
How about drop capitalism so we can refocus what wealth is.
Currently if you obtain land. Destroy the natural resources that can never be replaced to sell those resources to make enshitificated junk. You supposedly “created wealth”
Profit = loss
Wouldn't it be fairer to just drop capitalism and have a society not based on wealth?
I thought that would be a side effect
Related: Watch "Futurman" season 2 to see what a society will look like if every single thing costs exactly $1. It's pretty stupid but funny.
I prefer the labor-time
Labor-time? How much do you weigh? 1€ per kg per hour!
Muricans gonna be wealthy as fuck
We would be if we knew what the fuck a kg was.
It's how many grandmas you can kill in the alotted time.
Kill-a-Grans per hour.
Again?? 😡
USSR bartered machinery for bananas or sugar with Vietnam and Cuba because they lacked hard currency. I heard rumors that the rate was 1:1 by weight but I haven't been able to find evidence. It's probably just a widespread myth making fun of how dumb the USSR's policies were and the banana scarcity.
A slightly less dumb idea would be to tax food by calorie content. In ages of famine, that tends to be the main factor in its cost, after all, and when obesity is rampant, it could make people more aware of their diet. Artificial sweeteners and other low-energy alternatives would become way more viable. Of course, this is impractical as it would inadvertently cause massive misrepresentation of calorie count (even if the <5 cal/serving ≈ 0 cal loophole is closed).
#CrazyIdeas