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:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Don't worry, as the economy becomes more stressed and people become more desperate, morality will fly out the window and become completely secondary to survival. Even those who succumb to that desperation will be ahead of the game on the morality spectrum though. There is a huge difference between stealing to feed your family and steeling purely out of greed.
Also, tipping culture is a cancer that needs to die. So don't feel guilty about not tipping.
Yeah you're not gonna like that world buddy.
My morality works fine. A bunch of lead drinking, lead breathing, racist rednecks need to get fixed.
Apparently this is not a shower thought🤔 /s
Tip service workers, steal from Kroger.
I would go with modern socialism/communism but, ever since Joe McCarthy, america tastes bile in their throat every time those words are bandied about. Pavlov and B.F. Skinner would be proud.
And you feel bad about not tipping because the employer pays them enough
You mean because they don't pay them enough? Also could be a him, btw.
Oops. Ty. Corrected it lol. My mental image of a barista was always female 😅 that's embarrassing
I am surprised by you being surprised, I knew for about 10 years.
Epstein also definetly did not kill himself but the media in my country is already reporting him as suicide now, and people forget.
Morality is something a class society continuously reproduces to manage the contradictions it faces on a day to day basis. It’s a fabric that gives you that guilty feeling when you’re not practicing the same self control the rest of society exercises and demands. A lot of control is regulated by law of course, then guilt becomes more than just a feeling. But many things don’t need to be dealt with by the legislature: you comply because you don’t want to be a social outcast.
At the top, it’s a bit different, they don’t need that kind of voluntary self control. Often, this becomes admired by those who see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
At the top, it’s a bit different, they don’t need that kind of voluntary self control
They do. The same way the Mafia or the Police do. The morality is fealty and service to your liege and your nation. Guilt comes from betrayal and dishonor, which always involves disappointing your betters.
One thing GoT does well is spelling out the perverse attitudes of aristocracy relative to the proles. Even the "noble" characters are awful for one reason or another
gotta admit, I haven’t worked out that part fully yet, but there’s probably multiple layers. What you describe inherent in police and mafia, is a different kind of morality, an honour code, it can be contrary to the general morality, I’d say. And the aristocracy, or people completely beyond the law, they can make it up as they go along.