I'm angry that there is still poverty in the world. We have the resources to end poverty but society just chooses not to. People like Musk are allowed to hoard money like dragons. Musk and a few other people have more money than they can POSSIBLY use while people are needlessly starving. He could give away millions and still be obscenely wealthy with more money than he can use. Countries could save money by implementing universal basic income but people are stuck on this notion that people won't work unless they're under threat of starvation and that people shouldn't have their basic needs unless they earn them. Capitalist society is set up with the notion that people need to earn the right to live, making those who aren't earning money feel worthless while millionaires are allowed to live without contributing much to society.
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I don't know if the priorities of our governments were always fucked, or are fucked now. We keep constructing infrastructure as if all construction is good, while polluting our land, water and air. Yet, despite the consequences of our actions are staring us in our faces, our governments refuse to change, as if consequences are not their responsibility anymore.
I see people living like zombies for a monthly paycheck and I ask what is worth this type of terrible life. Not to mention that they still barely afford, either financially or due to time, healthy habits, etc.
Nothing, man. Being that upset over something you have no control over takes too much energy for no reward.
The actions of a country's government are not damning of the people who live there. They're usually victims of their government too.
We forgave Germany, and it was the right thing to do.
That being said, I'll never forgive Take 2 for killing KSP2.
Continually voting in people who make the rich richer and the rivers more polluted.
they tell people what they want to hear. that's why they get their votes.
try it sometime. if you tell people what they want to hear, they will adore you. if you don't tell they what they want to hear they don't like you, or they may hate you.
The existence of billionaires
How being a good person never pays off basically. We evolved as individuals, and only individualism pays off in the way our species organized itself. Yet I evolved differently somehow so fuck me?
People are generally good. Being a good person despite the state of the world is an reward in and of itself. Your priorities are in the right place and you make the world a better place. Thank you. :)
Aww
The Australian Government for not taxing the gas giants enough
You said it, man! Fuck you Jupiter!
Human history up through current events
"Please list everything bad about this world"
Bruh, there's already enough doomerism in c/worldnews, no need for that energy in c/asklemmy
Why people think ai is either the second coming of Christ or the devil. It is software. Not a lot different from when the internet showed up and when smartphones showed up. It is handy for some things, not for all.
it's a tool.
the problem is that people will use it poorly and use it to fuck each other over. they won't use it to benefit each other.