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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.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- 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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I mean... Pretty much a clever idea.
Use other peoples money to drop a bomb on the current system economically. When its reduced to rubble put a flag up saying that its your rubbles and then watch as people slowly and desperately try to put it back together using their own money, and then start sucking the blood and life out of it and using the rebuilt infrastructure as if it was really yours all along. Didnt you see the flag?
It helps to have rich friends that you dont actually care about to abuse their money and then abuse their influence and power of politics to keep anyone else from trying to build an alternative.
It really is just make others pay for everything all the time, as a game to those who already have more than enough.
I don't think it's even clever. Sociopathic behavior is mostly fairly obvious. It isn't that they think to do things we never considered; it's that we consider and reject those ideas because they are obviously harmful to others.
In the past, societies dealt with people like that by shunning, imprisoning, or executing them. Now a significant part of the public idolizes them and just wishes they could get away with the same crimes. That scares me more than than people like Marc and Elon. It's hard to enforce laws against criminal behavior when a large part of the population thinks it's all okay.
Yeah, and yet we dont do that now. Seems clever to pick a time when everyone is to complacent to do something about it.
You are right that most of us reject being a monster personally but we aren't doing anything about it and taking advantage of us seems to be working quite well.