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that literally has happened. many many people are depressed and anxious all day because they play video games and doordash food into their mouth. there are 20
by __pache__ 4y ago
that literally has happened. many many people are depressed and anxious all day because they play video games and doordash food into their mouth.
there are 20 million millionaires in the USA. tons of success, tons of people investing in the companies creating this wealth..
what.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoHumans, like many other animals, are also competitive by nature. Whereas previous standards were to secure resources for the day, the week, the month, now you play the game to secure resources for the decade, and the future generation. And once you secure shelter, water, and food, you move on to trying to secure education, healthcare, and legal/political protections. And once you have that, you move on to securing it for your children, family, and further members of your tribe.
- __pache__ 4y agoThanks for explaining that.. huh?
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI am expounding that the benefits of automation and technology have been spread, but because humans are wired the way they are, we start competing for the next thing. The automation and technology did make it much easier to achieve a high quality of life from 1980, but we are now aiming for a high quality of life of 2023.
- brnaftr361 4y agoThat's terrifically reductionist, and quite probably false. There's really no good living reference from which to draw that supposition that we're competitive by nature. The marginalized groups of nomadic hunters have been displaced into territories scarcely able to support them. Illiterate and prehistoric people are invariably framed in our own context. Despite that there is a fair share of diversity, fair enough to say something like "human nature is what we make of it" and in the most literal sense, it is something we elect to comport ourselves with. In any case even if you were correct it does not mean we had ought to act as such. That is the naturalistic fallacy in whole.
- WA 4y agoI think there are plenty of living references to come to this conclusion. Jealousy naturally leads to competition. Most animals form hierarchical groups. Little children are competitive (take away stuff from others, look only for own needs etc.)
- thatboyz 4y agoMy God. You really live in a bubble and don't know how the other half of this country lives do you?
- __pache__ 4y agoHuh, what do you expect?
- ithkuil 4y ago> other half Flip that and you can argue that the first half (half!) of the population lives in a way that would be viewed as leisurely less than a century ago. If anything, that makes the polarization even bigger, because the other half has every right to ask "why not me" and resent. I think GP's comment however had a tone of "despite all those luxuries, people are actually wasting their lives", which is another angle to the whole situation.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoBoth are true. The "K"-shaped recovery post-pandemic only increased wealth disparities. Inflation further robbed average working people of purchasing power, effectively giving most people salary cuts in the form of soaring prices. Real purchasing power of the other 95% keeps falling. "Wealth Inequality in America" politizane The differences between 1. what people think wealth distribution looks like, 2. what people think distribution should be, and 3. what it is. These are 3 very different histograms. https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM "How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control" Robert Reich https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0 https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0