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Showerthoughts

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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:

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

People is bad or good. Money don't have that much factor in that. It only changes the type of "bad things" you do, but bad people will do bad things and good people will do good things.

Don't fall for the sentient that all poor are good and all rich are bad, or that all rich are good and all poor are bad. Because that doesn't correlate with really.

Yes, maybe a poor bad fella will stab you, while a bad rich guy will deny your medical insurance. They both are taking your life, different approaches to evilness due different disposable income available to do evil shit.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Seems like there's plenty of entitled wealthy people in this thread. People who don't understand what it's like to be systemically pushed down into the mud; what it's like when all of your choices are either bad or worse.

"But you can recycle..." Shut the fuck up dude, recycling doesn't feed my fucking family. Recycling doesn't replace the years spent in an education system that's designed to make you a factory worker. Recycling doesn't bring living-wage-paying jobs to my hometown.

When the bills are in the mail, the tax man is coming, the landlord's raising the rent, and the bossman is driving a new car every year but can't pay you enough to keep your bank account from overdrafting, sometimes you have to do "immoral" shit.

Sometimes you have to kill an animal with no hunting license, sometimes you have to find a place to stay warm for the night, sometimes you have to feed your kids when all you have is cardboard and that might mean stealing bread from the dollar store.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Well this is getting added to my playlist.

Dude looks like Tyler Cassidy's nephew or something.

[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

This is true and I am saying that as someone who is well off, the movie parasite talks about this great. Its easy to be a nice person when your rich

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

warning satireAre you sure your not just being lazy? Maybe it was the choices you made that landed you there. It's not like there is a whole system in place to oppress a certain class of people.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I cannot believe that you're being downvoted. This place disappoints me.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I was told I'm a politician in another thread so... yeah I don't know man.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Looks like the consensus finally turned around somewhat

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, rich people are pretty shitty themselves.

[–] mogranja@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

But not for lack of choice, that's the point here.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I guess? But it's also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I'm doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 35 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness. (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

This is the single greatest example I have seen highlighting the problem.

The poor cannot afford to have things that last, things that allow them to think of the future, and hence are stuck in a cycle of debt in the present to near future time periods.

However what I don't understand is how the rich get so short sighted when they have both the motivation and resources to plan for long term outcomes. Doesn't make sense.

Underpaying workers leads to worse productivity and apathy towards your superiors.

Does the world really have so few resources that the only way to keep number go up is to exploit the less fortunate? When will feudalism truly end?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren't in style anymore.

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The rich have that option.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 hours ago

I read “The rich have that opinion.” at first and that somehow fits just as well.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 21 hours ago

They can choose not to.