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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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Freedom isn't the ability to do anything you want, even if you can't afford it, that's a cheesy, shallow capitalist view of freedom.
Freedom is knowing that you have no limitations imposed on you by society or the government. You can literally choose whatever path you'd like. How you follow that path, or afford that path is up to you, but at least your government can't tell you that you aren't allowed to follow that path because they said so, for whatever corrupt rationalization they claim.
But the government has said we can't follow the paths we want, they are a government of the rich that has robbed and murdered the working class and prevented them from doing what is good for them at the risk of death or imprisonment. Within capitalism there is no freedom unless you are the rich, who the proletarian must beg for wages from to live.
If the workers have a better standard of life it is only at the will of the rich, concessions gained from them have only come from different forms of class warfare.
Valid, but that just describes the government that suppresses freedom. That doesn't describe freedom, or contradict what I said about freedom not being connected to money.