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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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Counter thought: food banks shouldnt be necessary because society should protect its weakest from starvation in an orderly manner and not by volunteer work and donations.
"[Solution] shouldn't exist because we should just have a perfect world instead."
Every grocery store running a food bank and distributing food to the hungry is equally unrealistic. If we're throwing out absurd solutions to horrifying problems, it would be better to address the root cause rather than the symptoms.
Having proper social care is not part of a perfect world. it is also quite easily achievable. The US is deliberately starving its poor and adressinf this as the main issue is more effective than creating laws to regularize food banks.
I always wondered about this after an experiment we did in school many many years ago where we were asked how far back we had to go to be able to prevent society's current problems, everything from poverty to class warfare to polarized politics. It always seemed to boil down to an overpopulation problem. Granted, it was just a school experiment, but basically Thanos was right since you can't really double resources but you can have too many people.
People were poorer when they were less of us.
I always am wary of a solution to every problem or a cause behind all effects because I don't see it ever being the case. Civilization is emergent not intentional, it would be shocking if it didn't she problems.