GoofSchmoofer @ GoofSchmoofer @lemmy.world

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You know what makes a great society? Teaching your kids the bare minimum.

Yeah but people and corporations would have to change and that's too difficult instead we should do something easy like colonize another planet. /s

I've been on both sides of this meme

The interesting thing was she was/is a middle school teacher. You'd think she would encourage questions, not just look it up.

But I guess she was trying to help me not be ignorant because I was just killing time .... at a party

reminds me of a story:

Got invited to a dinner party of people I didn't know well, they were friends of my then girlfriend.

So we were sitting around before dinner chatting and drinking and I brought up a question about something that we were all talking about. I don't remember what it was but the point was just to keep conversation going and to interact with people. BUT one lady just looked at me and said "why don't you just Google it?!" Shut down conversation completely.

Sure I could Google it Karen but that doesn't make for good conversation!

The power of location in voting is just weird.

It's these deep pocket corporations that I think will keep a major housing bubble burst from happening or when it happens it will be fast.

They can buy x number of houses now at these inflated prices, they can but 10x X number of houses with a major downturn in home values. Then with all this buying of homes the prices shoot back up... At least that is how my high school level economics knowledge brain sees it.

I mean at those prices you don't expect too much quality. Unlike Teslas that are poorly built but priced like the aren't

But that's not true I've heard it straight from the tech-bros mouth. They build these technologies to help us, the little people. To spread peace and love and build deeper connections with the people that we love. I'm sure that they feel pain and guilt that they have to deposit those large checks into their bank accounts. /s

I remember that game. My dad got it from a very conservative/racist family member - with a note that read something like "too bad I'm white and have to work for my money."

I don't think my dad ever talked to him again.

This is the most capitalistic game on the market and you still get a $200 UBI

There is no world where corporations take responsibility for their emissions and consumers get to continue the same lifestyles.

This is true in the world we live in now. The powers that be like the way things are, They are mostly very old and very rich, they don't give a fuck. This makes it easy for massive corporations that have created this mess to manipulate those in power so they don't have to do anything to be apart of fixing the problems

But there is a world where we could put younger, more concerned people into power that could start to make some changes to how the world works. This won't fix the problem, we are too far along for that, but it would at least (hopefully) not make this planet completely uninhabitable to every form of life.

A very rich friend of mine decided that they wanted to "take time off" and travel the world. She called her travel agent (10 pm on a Saturday) and got them to build a world trip by Monday afternoon. That Friday she got on a plane and just left for 9 months of travel. There was never a sense of this being a big deal or extravagant but more of a quirky whim.

It was then that it occurred to me that while we live on the same planet we don't live in the same world.

We will know if we are genuinely in the darkest time line if we get another pandemic and Trump become president again. Because that was such a great combination last time /s

how do you hold on to that massively broad brush you use ?

Welcome to Lemmy Here from a permanent ban last year for .... Fuck I don't even know just pissed off the wrong mod

I don't understand the connection between my post and your response?

It's weird that you think that tax money goes directly into the pockets of individual citizens...

But when the government gets more income it can be used to fund public programs like WIC, CHIPS, Free lunch program for children, help the homeless, improve infrastructure, etc. You know, government working to support it's population and not let the country become a shit hole.

If you don't like how the government is spending the tax money then that is an election argument (vote someone in that supports your views). My way of seeing things is that if this country has given someone the ability to make a 3 comma amount of wealth then arguing that paying back into that system is evil then that person really doesn't care about anyone but themselves.

So if it's not a perfect solution it shouldn't be done?

You may be right that a 90% tax on certain amount of wealth may not solve all the problems but that is a ton of money this country is leaving on the table that could really help people that need assistance.