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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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There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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We have so many houses going unused. We have food and resources for everybody, but we've set up a system that arbitrarily concentrates most of it on a few people! Young children, with no understanding why society is this way, are suffering and dying because they live in a world that collectively agrees to let this happen unnecessarily

Fuck, I'm stoned but you know I'm right

Edit: and the sad thought hits me: the first step is realizing the system doesn't have to be this way, the second step is realizing it isn't going to change, at least not any time soon

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Everyone else already mentioned this... Methinks the fundamental issue is wealth distribution, so yes it is capitalism. I would say it is a "good" reason as it is a major target for sociology research and politicians, and there are active efforts in some countries to reduce inequality so...

I think I was radicated by this back in second year of college... Professor mentioned something like "The US Midwest has enough production capacity to feed the entire world" when a lot of the crops went to beef production, sweeteners, or just waste

This has been an issue for a while and I think Cory Doctorow mentioned it in one of his blog posts? About the Luddites; they were not anti-technology, but saw how the productivity increases would only benefit the rich and wealthy. I suspect the current AI issue is the same, "robots replacing your job" will be a lot more positive if the replaced worker still makes the same amount via basic income/stipend by the government instead of the money being concentrated into OpenAI or Meta or somewhere

... I've wanted to talk about these for a while

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

For those reasons I believe ai will be a net negative for all humanity in a capitalist system. It serves to further enrich billionaires and create a police state for the rest of us.

Now if it wasn't this way, you could use ai as a tool to potentially do good (im still not a fan of it) but we know this will never happen. So id advise anyone to boycott any ai shit that keeps getting shoved into our faces. I will deny it until I have to go live in a shack in the woods to do so.