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.
morality will fly out the window
In my experience, it's the times of crisis that bring morality to the forefront.
The number of genuinely good hearted people will surprise you.
You may be noticing now. But people have been doing terrible things without consequences forever.
My morality works fine. A bunch of lead drinking, lead breathing, racist rednecks need to get fixed.
It’s like that with most big ticket items, we run about worrying about recycling while the big polluters continue as usual. Not to say we shouldn’t recycle or not take action if we can but finding ways to make the billionaires pull their heads in would be better.
I mean, you should tip the barista, though.
I mean, that depends. How much love did she put in the coffee?
No, it is not our job to pay their salaries
We need to advocate for better pay, and stop taking tipped jobs.
We need to advocate for better pay
Yes.
and stop taking tipped jobs.
If people could just "stop taking tipped jobs" you really think they wouldn't have been doing that already?
Your post kinda has "have you tried just not being depressed?" energy.
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
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.
Keep being a decent human bean still is the way to go, though. Otherwise it's a race to the bottom, Marquis de Sade-style. Fuck these psychopaths, you're better than them!
Tip service workers, steal from Kroger.