And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?
They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.
If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.
It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.
Let’s not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.
it was a solid strategy
For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.
What a fucking joke of a country… It’s absurdity beyond satire.
I don’t want to live here anymore and I’m scared.
I share your sentiment.
Add me to that list. oh wait don’t. because lists and where that goes.
Depends who else is on the list
Prepare for the worst and get armed and know how to use your weapon.
I don’t want to fight anyone. Mostly because there’s nobody and nothing here worth dying over.
It’s to help make sure you don’t die if you have to fight. If you’re in danger it’s always better to be armed (and competent), even if you’re running.
There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.
People need to understand shit didn’t break 5 seconds before they noticed or well never fix it.
trump just doesn’t have the manners and vocab to hide how bad it is.
If we don’t start thinking on a longer timeline, we’re fucked
Reconstruction held promise, until it was basically squashed by racists.
The system is designed to keep the working class too busy and tired to think beyond tonight’s dinner, or maybe tomorrow’s.
That’s our economic system not our healthcare…
And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?
They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.
If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.
It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.
But the wealthy exploit it.
Let’s not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.
For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.
What was so fantastic about the US 80 years ago?
FDR
Well they put a clown at the helm sooooooo…
if we were smarter we’d be rioting.