Ask Lemmy

Money and greed.

But you can help. Grab a grocery bag, go out side and pick up some trash. Talk to your neighbors. Go put change in parking meters that are about to expire. Go through a parking lot and put shopping parts in the corral. Get a bag of frozen peas and feed some ducks (not bread). Get some cheap paper plates and a marker or two from a dollar store, make happy faces and staple them up on telephone poles.

The more we act hyper-locally, the better we can make it. Maybe it will inspire othdrs to do the same. But even if they don't, you're still making the world a better place.

Because of the collapse of the USSR. It was the only thing scaring capitalists into giving something to the people.

Because the economic conditions of the modern world allow for tyranny and the people haven’t figured out that we need to unite and overthrow the tyrants to build a better society.

We forgot to perform maintenance on everything.

Not everything is shit, we're just in a massive downturn, so all the things that suck are growing while all the things that rule are being downplayed.

There is still beauty in the world, and there is still hope. We just have to work together to make sure it isn't buried under all the shit we see day in and day out.

It was always shit. Now we just have technology that lets us see all of it.

There was always a genocide going on somewhere in the world. Cops always brutalized and killed people. The wealthy always exploited the poor. New diseases are always popping up and spreading. Politicians were always corrupt.

The internet tells us about all of it. We no longer have the bliss of ignorance.

Late-stage capitalism and a mix of grossly undereducated people in at least one major country and apathy.

Unchecked capitalism

It isn't. Yes there's lots of bad stuff, but there's also lots of good stuff too

The second law of thermodynamics.

because your eyes are covered in them

Why do you delete your posts? Or is an admin/mod deleting them?

Capitalism/greed, religion/racism & hate, selfishness/shortsightedness

It's designed that way so that your work goes to others. That's the base of all of the world's problems.

If everything I see in the news all the time makes me feel like the world is shit, well that's just unhealthy.

So I've subscribed to some good news channels on YouTube, and I try to limit the amount of bad news that I digest.

Staying informed of what's going on in the world is great, but not if it comes at the price of your sanity.

So read some good news, write a list of things you're grateful for, take a walk in a park, meditate in the sun a bit, and remember that overall people are kind (free open source software exists, volunteering exists, food banks exist, etc).

Because of “conservatives”.

https://youtu.be/E4CI2vk3ugk

The United States Supreme Court decided everything should go to shit on December 12, 2000.

The decisions being made regarding how to deploy and operate the Internet appear, to me, to betray a fundamental lack of understanding regarding just how incredibly complex the information environment within a healthy society actually is, and how much people depend upon it to maintain the basic functions of human life.

It feels to me as though early man discovered fire and immediately decided to burn down every single forest they encountered so dangerous beasts wouldn't have anywhere to hide.

Because you're inside a septic tank

Maybe you’re depressed, maybe you’re looking in the wrong places for happiness, maybe you’re right, maybe something else…

The attention economy largely works by finding problems, outrage, rage bait that can grab and hold your attention.

If you spend lots of time online your view of the world gets skewed by the attention machine.

Life is pretty good, people are nice, food is great. The community around you keeps on keeping on.

Because greed.

everything's isn't; youre probably standing in a cespool and haven't taken a step in any direction to get out of it.