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.
To butcher Kurzweil, "Post-scarcity is already here, it's just not evenly distributed".
We have the resources for every man, woman, and child on this planet to lead a healthy life, to work minimal hours, and to achieve their life's purpose without drudgery, but the people who currently have power would have their power decreased in order to give it to us.
Your problem is you're thinking of them as one united group cooperating for what is best for all of them long-term....
If billionaires could think like that, they wouldn't be billionaires.
We need to start acknowledging that its mental illness to put wealth above everything else to the level of becoming a billionaire.
None of them are in their right minds, and they view everyone around them as competition. They'll burn the whole planet down if it makes them think it'll increase their net worth and move them up the list, if it it results in a lower quality of life for themselves, that's not their motivation.
If they wanted a better life they'd retire and enjoy their hoarded wealth, but they literally can't stop hoarding because it's a mental illness.
Billionaires can only exist in a large group of people. I think if a chimpansee (or any other ape) would decide to hoard all the resources of his group for himself, the rest would gang up on him and beat him to either submission or death.
they view everyone around them as competition
I agree with everything except that part.
They view their fellow billionaires as competition. But the rest of us, they view as a generic metric called labour. We're not competition to them, we're a resource that is to be used, managed and minimized in order to increase their own wealth.
Bruh...
they view everyone around them as competition
How often do you think billionaires interact with an average American who isn't an employee?
Like. They probably don't even interact with employees of companies, they have personal shoppers and assistants who act as a buffer.
You think Warren Buffet or Elmo talk to random ass people at Starbucks?
Theyre never within arms reach of a normal person.
We're not labor to them, we're not a resource, we're an abject concept they literally just don't think about. We don't exist to them as individuals.
Can you narrow down which parts cover this?
We need a counter-2025 Project.
Honestly, this thought has been hanging in the back of my brain for a while. As soon as I had a little money, I asked myself how to maximize my protection against climate change. (I am still mulling over it) So I would expect billionaires to really care about it, at least for their own personal wellness. But that’s not how it seems. It looks like they are warring over the same old resources, not noticing how the world of tomorrow is going to be drastically different from the world of today. Or maybe they are setting up personal guerrilla groups to defend themselves? I’m lost
Haven't they all got bunkers built for themselves for when the shit goes down?
I haven’t heard anything about it…
They all have them. They just don't like advertising that.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/mark-zuckerberg-apocalypse-bunker-hawaii
It's totally reasonable to think that they are blind to the problem.
Look at the run up to WW1. The European generals had studied the US Civil War and knew what large scale battles would look like.
But in the end it doesn't matter if they are acting out of blindness or insanity.
The result is the same.
For more than a few, the answer is luxury prepper bunkers. Spez has one of those.