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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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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

There should be laws against predatory and fascist forms of Capitalism. CEOs going to jail should be a regular occurrence for a few years at least.

There should be set ratios between worker pay, CEO pay and profits. It's the only way a just society can be returned.

[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The problem is that wealth = power and influence in society and this has led to essentially all modern neoliberal ‘democracies’ having their governments captured and controlled by the wealthy elite. So the only way you would be able to implement something like this would be via a revolution replacing capitalism with some form of socialism that would make private wealth a thing of the past and provide a decent standard of living for all.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

A few dozen more Luigis would also make it easier.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And if that in itself wasn't hard enough, the other evil empires of the world would never allow this to happen anywhere. No gaining traction permitted. It would take the complete collapse or civilization world-wide, and even then we would just return to medieval fuedalism and Gun Diplomacy.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 hours ago

Imho a hard cap on personal wealth would be sufficient.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

There should be set ratios between worker pay, CEO pay and profits.

Not a bad idea. Except generalize it to max ratio between highest pay and lowest pay within a company.