Because greed.
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The United States Supreme Court decided everything should go to shit on December 12, 2000.
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Not everything is shit, we're just in a massive downturn, so all the things that suck are growing while all the things that rule are being downplayed.
There is still beauty in the world, and there is still hope. We just have to work together to make sure it isn't buried under all the shit we see day in and day out.
Because of the collapse of the USSR. It was the only thing scaring capitalists into giving something to the people.
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Because the economic conditions of the modern world allow for tyranny and the people haven’t figured out that we need to unite and overthrow the tyrants to build a better society.
Because you're inside a septic tank
Late-stage capitalism and a mix of grossly undereducated people in at least one major country and apathy.
The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.
It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.
Capitalism/greed, religion/racism & hate, selfishness/shortsightedness
It isn't. Yes there's lots of bad stuff, but there's also lots of good stuff too
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It was always shit. Now we just have technology that lets us see all of it.
There was always a genocide going on somewhere in the world. Cops always brutalized and killed people. The wealthy always exploited the poor. New diseases are always popping up and spreading. Politicians were always corrupt.
The internet tells us about all of it. We no longer have the bliss of ignorance.
Money and greed.
But you can help. Grab a grocery bag, go out side and pick up some trash. Talk to your neighbors. Go put change in parking meters that are about to expire. Go through a parking lot and put shopping parts in the corral. Get a bag of frozen peas and feed some ducks (not bread). Get some cheap paper plates and a marker or two from a dollar store, make happy faces and staple them up on telephone poles.
The more we act hyper-locally, the better we can make it. Maybe it will inspire othdrs to do the same. But even if they don't, you're still making the world a better place.
Second this. Macro level things are.. not great. At home, our neighborhoods though, we can and do make a difference. Your friend group, your family, your close relations, those groups are the same as they were a year ago, and are worth being around. Yeah things are kind of shit right now. You can still go have a pint with your friends though. Or enjoy your favorite video game. Work on that hobby you've put off. We've been trained that buying is happiness - but you don't need to spend a lot of money to be content. There is nothing wrong with enjoying what you have and improving your own neighborhood.
People will tell us to hate, and to divide, and I just refuse to. I've been going out on walks, saying hello to the neighbors, going to the local coffee shop and bar. Communities are worth building.
Unchecked capitalism
Because too many people wouldn’t vote for anything less than a perfect candidate.
And too many people wouldn’t vote for anything more than a rapist conman.
Hey hey hey, that's autocratic megalomaniac rapist conman, can't leave out his best stuff.
everything's isn't; youre probably standing in a cespool and haven't taken a step in any direction to get out of it.
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We forgot we could regulate capitalism like we did 100 years go. Let's make taxes great again. Then take that money and pour it into education. If the states really want to control that, fine, that's a compromise that can probably still end up working out in the end.
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because your eyes are covered in them
The second law of thermodynamics.
"One bad apple spoils the bunch."
We have a lot of bad apples.
Om a micro or meso level, there is still plenty of good to be found. Look there for your daily sanity check. If you only look at the macro level, you'll just get more depressed.
This tree is "Oops, all bad apples!"
Sometimes the barrel is bad, not even the apples (eg. police)
People aren't being held to account for doing or making shitty things
We forgot to perform maintenance on everything.
The attention economy largely works by finding problems, outrage, rage bait that can grab and hold your attention.
If you spend lots of time online your view of the world gets skewed by the attention machine.
Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. The community around you keeps on keeping on.
Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. This is not true for many, many people.
Unchecked capitalism.
Yes. The US used to work to prevent and break up monopolies. This allowed some of the optimistic promises of capitalism to work. There was competition that worked to bring prices down and quality up.
In the past few decades we've witnessed dozens of competing businesses merged to form conglomerates with little more than speed bumps from government to slow them down, presumably to line the pockets of the would be overseers.
We lost the competition that drove innovation. There's little need to do anything to gain market share when there's no real competition. Instead these mega corporations focus on efficiency to bring costs down, because they're answering to shareholders now instead of consumers.
The result is supply chains have become fragile. One supply chain disruption results in a total shut down, because redundancies have been eliminated. When you have competition, you must have redundancies to ensure you can remain competitive. No need for that when you have no competitors.
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Why do you delete your posts? Or is an admin/mod deleting them?
Shitposting.
Thank you. Thats helpful. I don't need to be someone's disposable foil. I'll just block them.
People are often rewarded with power or money for doing/saying shitty things.
If you are rewarded for something, you are likely to continue the pattern.
for doing/saying shitty things.
for making "hard" decisions.