• redwattlebird@lemmings.world
        11·
        3 days ago

        Maybe in America, but in most other places homelessness isn’t demonised nearly as much (also America is probably the only place that will make you homeless if you get seriously ill).

        I think somewhere in the Nordic states, they’ve trialled UBI in an area and I think with success.

        Edit: So the results are a mixed bag, as you would expect, but generally people were much happier with UBI.

    • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      4 days ago

      How isn’t it a meme? It’s an idea that’s been repeated and passed through many people, surviving in its distilled but still exploitable form.

    • Thelie@sh.itjust.works
      101·
      4 days ago

      So, I looked up the term on Wikipedia. It sais: “An Internet meme, or meme ([/miːm/], [MEEM]), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms]. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs], and other viral content. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term meme was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1972 to describe the concept of cultural transmission.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme

      I’ll let you be the judge of whether this fits that definition or not. (And whether it’s worth your time arguing about something being a meme).

    • TimboSlice@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      75·
      4 days ago

      Sometimes people will only see things through certain avenues. In this case, a not-so-accurate category.

      • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
        135·
        4 days ago

        “I know, but I wanted people to see it”

        This type of behaviour is bannable on platforms with functioning moderation

          • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            4·
            3 days ago

            Moderation is not bad in itself, it is curating of content to keep topics on track and quality above a certain limit. It has absolutely nothing to do with billionaires or their desires. A lot of subs on different instances are really shitty because of lacking moderation. Leaving subs completely unmoderated is a recipe for a disaster shitpile.

            The good old forum days also had a lot of moderation to keep them from turning to shit.

            • Gismonda@lemmy.world
              21·
              4 days ago

              Guess what? This user has been avidly online since the BBS days and really … posters such as yourself were very annoying back then, too.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
    251·
    4 days ago

    6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.

    • SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 days ago

      In my burb, workers have to race to the bus, in order to get their bikes into one of two racks.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    32·
    4 days ago

    I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.

    As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
      32·
      4 days ago

      My state has stripped unemployment down to 12 weeks, after that went by after my layoff at Christmas, I got so desperate and depressed and a little bit crazy. As the day is ticked closer to my first missed mortgage payment and car payment, And the thought of homelessness for me and my animals became a sobering reality, I started taking every interview I could possibly find, no preparation, just winging it until something worked.

      During that whole process, I saw what the endgame is, we are slaves, but there is no slave master anymore, we do that part ourselves to avoid dying on the street.

      So I am very motivated to start my own niche company and get the fuck away from this whole system at this point. Especially since I will have to work until I die, 401ks have all been cashed out during crises.

    • Angelusz@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 days ago

      Yeah turns out usa didn’t reinvent the wheel super good or something. You have all been scammed under the pretense of liberty.

      Now go fix it.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    4 days ago

    For a time I lived awakened by the birds and a purring kittty and the golden dawn.

    I would evacuate and then make a pot of French press and sit and and enjoy a cigarette and caffeine while my kitty and I watched hummingbirds flit among them flowers.

    I would sleep when my work was done and I was tired. I’d bathe before bed and curl up with the kitty purring at my feet.

    Minutes are a human construct. Rebel against them.

  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 days ago

    *To buy goods mass produced by a person working in far worse conditions.

    This then feeds into the CPI, which now requires higher priced goods via inflation targeting, and suddenly housing is unaffordable and theres a reverse baby boom.

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Innovation I tell you, gawd damn innovation… Day late, dollor short. Too much and never enough. Can you smell the stench of toxic positive optimism, the self satisfaction of those that don’t think they will be left with the bag. You know the “low level winner” of inconsequential gains… One extra bowl of slop. The vain and envious… The non factual lacking in the mathematical. Oh what grand ol world. Capitalism is as natural as a ice pick rammed up my arse.

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    125·
    4 days ago

    Imagine life as a video game where you must find the way through a maze, discover keys and find treasures in order to win.
    For example, you must find a way to sustain yourself (a maze), find the key to health (power) and avoid the beasts (corporate control).
    People spend thousands of hours playing all sorts of games but neglect to properly play the game of life, instead they accept what they are offered by the power players.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      4 days ago

      The difference is that in video games there are rules that you have to follow and you’re actually allowed to win.

      Real life the winners already won and wrote the rules

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        192·
        4 days ago

        The cheat code is unionization.

        “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

        — Buckminster Fuller

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    4 days ago

    This has triggered a vague memory of a joke by someone (I think Douglas Adams?). But I can’t remember the full quote so putting this out there in case someone knows it.

    Basically humanity was smarter than other animals because we didn’t adapt ourselves to the environment, but adapted the environment to suit us. So now instead of having to adapt we just have to… wake up at 6:45 am when the alarm goes off, drive to work at 7 30 am etc.

    Does anyone know it or was I having some kind of fever dream?