• KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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    1 year ago

    The most confusing about all these problems is

    Why you didn’t get taught to share when children in USA

    Like what part of society has failed when almost nobody understands that if we work together and help each other, we succeed? Like, kindergarten knowledge?

    What the actual, in the mother fucking fuck is bad about helping someone who hurt their leg or that was born with disability? Mind boggling shit honestly, you think you will feel better if you have more money but a worse shittier trustless cutthroat society? I really don’t understand this. You all want to benefit only 0.01% that has money, the rest must suffer because someday you might be that 0.01%? But even those that are that rich feel like shit because they live in a country wtihot care or protection or community? Like wtf is honestly wrong with so many spanning almost an entire continent, that they can’t share their billionaires profits but has to hide it in Panama?

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      1 year ago

      I’ve thought about this a lot lately, especially since having kids. It really hit me how much non-verbal and indirect communication they pick up on. I want my kids to be good people, better than me, and I worry they are picking up on my short comings.

      I think society is like that. We say sharing is good and we teach sharing, but a disproportionate group that takes everything, that is selfish, that puts there priorities above others… that behavior is rewarded, intentionally or not. And generations go by and the behavior is normalized.

      I like (and shudder) to think alot of history is a series of these little oversteps that the masters of the universe are laughing about at the time… “trickle down economics, can you believe they are buying this shit?!” And 50 years later, after 2 generations the supporters forgot it was all a scam and are genuinely believers.