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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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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Capitalism is anarchism for shitty people.

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[–] A2PKXG@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

To all the people here ranting about monetary debt: its not an issue. Money isn't designed to hold value in the long term. It's a feature, not a bug.

It's just really unfortunate for those who play the game as if money were an asset. It's meant for transactions, not for storage.

[–] halfelfhalfreindeer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How so though? This sounds like a statement that's meant to be flashy but doesn't actually hold up. Pyramid schemes are characterized by a) an eventual lack of ability to recruit more people, b) recruitment rather than a product or a service being the driver, and c) a person at the bottom left with nothing, including recourse. Capitalism, even completely free capitalism, doesn't work like that unless you specifically rig it to do so. That's called "corruption".

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

an eventual lack of ability to recruit more people

Global population growth is slowing and predicted to halt within the next few decades.

The modern economy has always relied on an environment of growth, which will now end. In some ways this resembles a pyramid scheme; in the past anyone making investments in the economy could count on a larger new generation of people coming into the market needing to exchange their labor for those hoarded resources. Since this is no longer going to be the case, new entrants to the market are going to be getting a lot less for their effort than they may have expected based on past trends.

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

At this point, "Capitalism" feels as undefined to the left as "Woke" is to the right. It may be bad, but people just put whatever they don't like into a box and call it "Capitalism".

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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reminds me of that famous Churchill quote about democracy

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[–] n00b001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maybe we have different ideas of "works"

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