Does this make money into company script and every business, regardless of position or size, a company store?
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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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.
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- 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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"The world is a giant resort for 1000 rich people; the rest of us are staff"
Stuck with me
Kinda reminds me of a planet in the game Endless Sky which had rich people go to it for retiring and the only other people were the staff at the resort planet.
What is this from?
Ngl, lemmy meme
Governments should not aim to be profitable. Full stop. Their goal should be to just eek by with enough funding to stay afloat and the rest should go to public services.
Government having lots of money only does good for those in power.
Governments really aren’t in this whole “staying afloat” business either, that’s a corporate perspective as well.
Governments make the rules entirely, so they can be indebted to their citizens, their corporations, and even other governments and be totally fine.
They realistically need to have some sort of pathway to be chipping at their debts, but many can go into much deeper debt to churn out social programs that add value back to their economies in the long term.
For instance a country could go into debt so all their citizens could have free access to schooling and college, and it would be net positive for that country because the those citizens could contribute more towards the economy than they could without that free education.
Another example is paying for bullet trains, nuclear power plants, solar energy panels, etc. are all worth the investment and worth going into debt for since they add so much value back to economies and open up new jobs.
The one caveat I’ll give is in the cases where countries are literally printing more currency rather than borrowing. Countries need to be borrowing money, even from themselves. They can’t just print more to pay it off, without that money being backed by labor.
In small cases it’s fine or healthy to print more money, but it’s a horrible move to just print more money to pay off all your debts if you want to still be able to trade with other countries in the future.
I actually think government should be in some amount of debt as it means they are actively building new stuff for the people but also like only a little and because of infrastructure development not just military budget bloom for billion dollar planes that dont get built.
That would be nice.
But then you get another outside government to come and annex them.
search for China annexes Nepal - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60288007
I didn't read this particular article. It just came from a search and my words are from memory.
This is only for convenience in case you are being lazy to search.
Ideally you^[problem being, there is no "you" that will manage that] have to manage the 2 parameters:
- profitability for anyone trying to annex the country
- Your military power needs to scale with GDP and exploitable geographical resources to protect from outside threats
- But the more money/power the government gets, the greater the internal threat (corruption mostly)
- QoL of citizens
McCarthyism essentially never ended in America or this would be common knowledge everyone repeats in casual conversation
This is “crazy talk” and “nonsense” because critical thinking has been made illegal in America for decades
The us government hands much of our taxes directly to the rich every year. Directly like oil and gas and farm subsidies and contracts to the defense industry… or indirectly like food stamps for wal mart workers. The rich don’t want to pay taxes cause they’re the ones who GET most of the tax money. (Yes I know Medicare and entitlements are a large portion of federal spending.)
...and actively disables and undermines competition which cannot be absorbed or acquired.
Governments are also ok with pushing AI so hard cause just like a business they are trying to replace the workforce to save money.
We the people cause them not the people to weep
100% truth and fact.
L shower-thought
I have long existential showers or ones were i sing and have no thoughts. No inbetween I'm sorry.
Quite politically charged for an existential shower methinks. And this comm has rules against that
Capitalism has no borders nor nationality, methinks
Sorry immediate response, anyways sorry if it is darker than you think appropriate
Not really darker per se. Just not the typical shower thought vibe.
I get your post though. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
I am told my humor is dark and my outlook bleak, but i will try to have a funner shower thought next time.
But i also think that this isnt political but just true. Like regardless of if you think its right or not.
~~Countries become about what they can produce or provide, and that means a workforce maintained to continue to provide the products.~~
~~And those that own capital can either be state or private thus negating picking a side~~. (Oh god that's worse, i am gonna shut up)
Im gonna try and bird law my way out of this.
Bro's all over the place...
But fr, i agree with you, but did you really think about all this in the shower...? Like, you must've been thinking about this for quite a while
I realized it was still off vibe, trying to not go into that topic with you.
And, yeah. I was not kidding about my 2 shower types. I either remember my bluetooth speaker or i lose an hour of my evening. It's a good place to think, i dunno.