It’s a dopamine versus serotonin issue. People think they want to be happy, but that longing is more for purpose. Eating ice cream can make you happy, but learning to cook your own meals makes you a more component being able to provide for yourself and those around you.

Most modern luxuries are basically Skinner boxes at this point monetized in some way to keep us staring at it or consuming it.

We doom scroll at the expense of relationship building.

We door dash instead of have community gardens.

Instant gratification isn’t always and intrinsically bad, but the more the default it becomes, the less patient and competent people become.

Then you pile on decades of American exceptionalism and actively encouraging selfishness at the expense of a functioning society and the present state of things is hardly surprising.

Because you asked what I meant. Of course what I meant didn’t include your response to it. You almost seem offended my thoughts weren’t yours.

In short, Kant said people should be the goal, not the means.

It’s ok to make yourself dinner.

It’s ok to make your friend dinner because you want to make them happy.

It’s not ok to make your friend dinner because you want to have sex with them.

It’s not ok to make your friend make you dinner because you don’t want to cook.

Every facet of capitalism is exploitation by design as profit is unpaid labor. However classless socialism isn’t automatically devoid of exploitation.

None of us asked to be here. I certainly don’t want to be here anymore. Placing the value of a life upon the imaginary lines it landed between, how much money it’s parents had, or the color of it’s skin are all pretty fucked up.

Lol. Welcome to chasing a pipe dream or crippling depression.

The answer is largely as simple as socialism plus Kant with some secular Jesus because any system that condones human exploitation will eventually implode due to psychopaths’ willingness to sacrifice others for power.

But literally basically everything is done wrong to maximize exploitation. Housing, schooling, medicine, food… All fucked to make the richest richer.

Liberalism is the slow road to fascism.

That bit makes more sense when you factor in Scotus making corporations people.

That’s fine. The Democrat plan is to normalize fascism.

“Both sides are the same” is ultimately true because both empower capitalism’s subjugation of democracy. Every time the GOP tugs right and the DNC meets them half way. The greatest accomplishment of the Democrats in the last 20 years is the ACA- designed by the heritage foundation but stripped of the greatest cost savings measures.

https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

https://electiontruthalliance.org/clark-county%2C-nv

https://substack.com/home/post/p-153003086

https://www.brut.media/us/videos/us/politics/gop-strategists-daughter-leaks-secret-files

https://www.the74million.org/article/across-all-ages-demographics-test-results-show-americans-are-getting-dumber/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

Step one: fund raise on trans rights.

Step two: not support trans rights or any meaningful reform for the people.

Step three: keep losing support while leaning ever right

Step four: fail to do fuck all about RvW for 4 decades

Step five: blame trans people for losing by bringing the party “too far left” while continuing to cut corporate taxes and increase police funding as a percentage of municipal budgets

“Rushing change” is a glorious example of “liberal” media sane washing a fascist coup burning the guardrails to the ground.

Most people fail to realize that reason and rationality are best case scenarios for hormonal meat beasts and very far from the default.

Good luck overcoming 300 years propaganda.

Your average American reads at an 8th grade level and has spent their entire lives being told what to think but not how.

The majority are so ignorant they think even the concept of currency is capitalism.

And this is how social media hijacks brains.

Yes, they are part of the system. You’re so eager to disagree you don’t understand you’re making my point.

You all won’t be able to fix anything if you’re more focused on what feels good to yell about you can’t focus on the root cause.

I agree. The bad taste is not that while not wrong per-se, it’s just reduces a complex issue into “red bad” while wholly failing to acknowledge that Democrats have been complicit in facilitating the Overton Window this far.

“Progressives” are really hard on the “REPUBLICANS DID THIS!” and never really pick up on the “and Democrats met them half way.”

This blue no matter who reduction hopes to hide liberalism is the slow road to fascism.

The problem isn’t meany racist MAGAts. It’s the entire system spending decades working overtly toward fascism with a bunch of clueless fucking rubes staring complacently.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-153003086

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This is why felon mush bought shitter.

Yeah, there’s a body of research about social media both used to foster animosity as well as complacency.

Absolutely. Great video on the matter: https://youtu.be/xDgzgDSInt0

The entire stock market is basically a ponzi scheme.

Push pensions, 401k, 529, HSA money into one spot and then rug the whole market every few years.

Did you ever think you’d live long enough to see Jewish Nazis?

I work 4x10 wfh and I’m more productive than the people that go into the office despite spending no less than half the day playing videogames.