We’re always finding ways to interact with the world and perceive it from a different dimension/angle. This comic isn’t so much inaccurate as it is exaggerated.
I’m pretty sure this is exactly how scientists felt the first time they developed microscopes, electron microscopes, and other technology that lets us experience the world in a different way. A mixture of “woah” and “mind-blown”.
I understand 90% of the science behind what I do as a medical diagnostic technologist. It’s still fucking magic as far as I’m concerned.
CTs and MRIs? Atom spin/relax releasing detectable energy waves that are somehow able to be read and aggregated by algorithms into a high detail image of the inside of a human body? Tell me that isn’t magic and I’ll call you a liar.
You think you don’t have to get a job under communism? My man, if you don’t want to work, capitalism is the much better system to bet on. Your labor can be overvalued under capitalism, letting you retire early. Under communism your value is equalized throughout the system regardless of your job. You work until you can’t work. If you can work and you choose not to, the government stops giving you food and water, and reappropriates your house.
What you’re thinking of is a Star Trek post-scarcity utopia. There’s a reason it only exists in fiction.
Nothing us stopping you from putting together a commune right now. You could go and form a communist society with some of your friends. Let me know how it goes when you all want to sit on your ass doing nothing and the food doesn’t just magically appear in front of you.
Okay, sounds good. But then I don’t want to see you begging for food, shelter, healthcare, transportation, cell phones, internet, or anything else provided by people who work. If you don’t want to engage in this system of commerce, by all means, you do you. But if you aren’t trading your labor to buy goods from other people who are laboring, you don’t just get to have all your needs met for free.
Go live off the land, build your own shelter, grow/hunt your own food, and treat your own wounds. I wish you luck. I’d rather keep working and paying for a much better range of goods than you could ever scavenge or build on your own.
They’re right to an extent. I think we should have a lot of systems in place to help break generational poverty, like foster homes, public schooling, scholarships, etc. But if people don’t take advantage of those systems to escape that cycle, how far do we intervene to try to fix it?
I came from a lower class background and now I’m solidly middle class in earnings. I went to a trades college, got a diploma in an in-demand job, and here I am. One of my coworkers came from severe poverty and an abusive home, and she did the same thing.
There’s only so much you can do for people to help them change. The most important aspect required in that process is the will power of the person in question, and that’s usually what’s lacking.
I’m not saying it’s easy. Life is hard. It’s arguably as easy as it has ever been to provide for yourself in the history of the human race (I know it was easier 50 years ago, I’m talking about modern society in general). People need to appreciate that they don’t have to hunt and forage for food, they don’t really have to worry about rival tribes sneaking into their camp and slitting their throats while they sleep. Again, that doesn’t mean life is easy now, but in comparison it could be a hell of a lot worse.
A certain percentage of a species will naturally fail to thrive. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. It’s the reason evolution was able to take place. I don’t want excess suffering to take place. I specifically went into medicine because I want to curb suffering. But we will never be able to save everyone. We save as many as we can. This is a truth in medicine, but it’s also applicable to society as a whole. No matter how small we manage to get that percentage, some people will always have too much stacked against them.
I mean, you’ve got to pay off the house. That takes a while. You’ve got to put in labor to trade for food. You’ve got to put in labor to trade for the beer and wings at the pub. The pub staff have to keep working to serve you. The plumbers, electricians, etc. have to keep working to maintain your home, your streets, the businesses you want to shop at. People need to labor to create the goods you want to buy. Farmers work very long hours to bring food to your grocer so you can trade your labor for it. Doctors, nurses, technologists, etc, work long hours so you can get healthcare when you need it.
If you aren’t working one of the aforementioned jobs and you have enough money to pay for everything already, why should a doctor have to work any more than you are willing to work? They generally don’t need the money. But if they have the same attitude towards work as you do, you could come in to the hospital after a bad car accident to find no surgeons on site.
I work 60 hours a week on average as a diagnostic technologist. If I wanted even just the typical 40 hour work week, that means if you have a car accident after 430 pm, you don’t get xrays, fluoroscopy, or CT. No head trauma scans, no stroke alert scans to decide on TPA administration, no scans to diagnose abdominal aortic dissection or pulmonary embolism or appendix rupture. All conditions that happen every day and could easily kill you.
But maybe I should just take a load off and have a seat. After all, I’ve got a house and a pub.
I own property, and I’m 33. You can get there if you want it. I had to go back to school at 29 to start a new career, but it was worth it to put myself in a good financial position.
Imo Genshin is a decent game at its core. The problem is that the gacha elements make it really hard to enjoy.
I’ve noticed a lot of the same circlejerks in political channels. I don’t dislike Lemmy. If Reddit caved and RiF came back tomorrow, I’d probably still switch back. But the longer I’m away from Reddit, the less likely I am to return.
That sounds like too much personal accountability, I don’t think people will go for it. Actually, it sounds like something a conservative would say, and if there’s anything social media has taught me, it’s that personal accountability and conservatism are the stuff of bigots and bootlickers. /s
But really, I don’t think people will go for this. It’s easier to play the left/right game.
I’m not allowed to sleep at work, unfortunately.
Why should a creator be responsible for the voiced opinions of their fans? That standard makes no sense no matter how you slice it. A creator’s job isn’t to police their audience, it’s to provide information/entertainment.
Just because he has the power to censor people you don’t like doesn’t mean he should, or that it’s a reasonable ask. Instead of passively alienating you by not acting, censoring those people would actively alienate them. He’s much better off letting individuals take responsibility for their own comments, rather than joining any given side’s thought-police.
As soon as you create the standard that you are responsible for what your fans say and do, you’ve lost. You can immediately be held accountable for the speech of the worst of them, and good luck regulating that.