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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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No.
Our problems are caused by capitalism. Yes. Literally all of them. Anything you can think of.
That isn't to say that the would would be a utopia without it. But it would be a lot closer than it currently is.
Stubs toe
"Fucking Capitalism"
Well, Mr Smartypants, if it weren't for capitalism you would've had to make that chair/table leg yourself so then you'd only have yourself to blame which is the same as having no one to blame!
I didn't choose to be born and raised to eventually get an idea to build what caused me harm!
This is clearly the fault of my parents, and bob the builder!
Well why are we struggling to move away from capitalism? Perhaps a disproportionately large older generation with an entrenched interest in maintaining the status quo?
While I played up the title for engagement bait I do think there is something to say about an aging population smothering its youngest simply by virtue of demanding more resources than it produces.
Capitalism is not a cause, it is an effect. It is not the disease, it is a symptom.
The root problem is selfishness. Capitalism is like a Plato's cave shadow of selfishness - a projection of selfishness onto politics and economic policy.
No, capitalism is a system that encourages and rewards greed and lack of empathy. It is directly part of the problem.
Yes, it is part of the problem... the symptom part.
You're saying, "There's a monster that's killing people." I'm saying, "Yes, but you're pointing at its foot. We need to aim for the head."
You'll never get rid of the problem by trying to address capitalism in isolation. Even if you were successful, the problem would simply return under a new label.