pegothejerk

pegothejerk t1_j64l59s wrote

Which wouldn't be such a bad thing if we had wealthy people in favor of guaranteed basic income as a way to transition society from one reliant on coerced labor to function to one that encourages more choice and opportunity for varied work, study, and enrichment. Instead we still have them pushing the idea that being poor is a character flaw, and also preventing changes from a system that will create more impoverished.

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pegothejerk t1_j5uaaid wrote

Nothing to see here, just our economy's most influential market appears to have people in charge who aren't using disconnected testing systems to test code that controls it before it's pushed into use, and there's obviously no redundant security built in to prevent a single person from crashing the market either on accident or on purpose.

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pegothejerk t1_j258mh8 wrote

Which if you dig deeper than “kids today” appears to be caused by a lack of exposure to essential microbes, too much exposure to pollution, a lack of vitamin D, drastic dietary changes from mass produced foods. Microbial diversity and vitamin d issues might not be so bad if we didn’t build cities to literally be difficult to exist in without a car, there are ridiculous laws that require three times the space of a building’s footprint for parking, there’s a severe lack of bike paths, of parks, of pedestrian walkways, and the gun culture has made going outside extremely undesirable thanks to the perceived risks associated with gun violence and the fear mongering media outlets and political think tanks push on everyone today. So it seems worshipping money (poverty caused by greed), oil & gas and power structures are more to blame than just “kids today”. If only they felt safe, if only their parents had living wages, and if only they had the infrastructure to play outside so they could process away those allergies in their early years.

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