Work Reform

primary example. ending homelessness. the solution is simple and proven. but the affluent have convinced everyone else that "it's a complicated issue"

If you honestly, truly, believe it's a complicated issue then you've fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. There are drug addicts that have homes, there are mentally ill people with homes, there are unemployed people with homes. But IF you are ANY of the three previously mentioned groups and you sleep on a sidewalk then suddenly it becomes complicated.

It's the same for hunger. NO one needs to go hungry, we have enough food for everyone. hell we toss most it away daily. but again the powers that be have convinced everyone that food MUST be paid for and stealing it is wrong.

If one more transphobe tries to tell me their bigotry is supported by science, I'm going to lose it. Because they literally don't listen to science any other time.... They don't even listen to what science actually says about transpeople.

Many solutions ARE complex though.

Our problem as a society is literally voting for idiots who promise simple solutions to complex issues.

For example: In Germany, there are 531.601 homeless people while there are nearly 2 million vacant homes.

Same with food, we have way more than we need to feed everyone.

The system just relies on inhumanity.

https://de.statista.com/infografik/36445/leerstandsquote-von-wohnungen-in-deutschland/

https://de.statista.com/themen/13522/wohnungs-und-obdachlosigkeit-in-deutschland/#topicOverview

Question- who is going on X ? While the above is funny, someone gave that site a view 🙄

The self interest of the powerful is preventing progress for the powerless. The further the divide in wealth, the less overlaps there is in those interests, almost assuring the wealthy will leave nothing for anyone else and trigger demographic collapse and economic genocide.

Things are complicated but religious fanatics and low education people would rather think they're simple. Specifically that good and evil are absolute and binary, that they are good and people who creep them out (blacks, LGBT+, Muslims, furries, etc.) are evil.

The ultra-wealthy like to think things are simple too. Specifically that they are brilliant and hard working, and that's why they're rich (contrast generational wealth, family connections and a great run of luck and opportunities).

They also believe working class folk are NPCs.

And once they're rich enough, they surround themselves with sycophants who won't tell them otherwise.

And the simple-minded rich guys hire the political class to manipulate the simple-minded working class (above) to vote for rich people interests rather than their own.

And thus, democracy is unmade.

Just had a long discussion on this subject. It's not just religious "fanatics", it's the general idea of the "right" family structure, especially in Christian homes, that specifies a Daddy who's in charge, a second-in-command Mommy, and the kids who must obey them. The mom does some discipline but "wait til your father gets home" is the ultimate threat. Pleasing the father figure is the path to success, i.e. to earn praise and avoid painful punishments. By extension this is applied to life in general. Good behavior brings success, bad behavior is the path to ruin. That's a big reason Christians find it easy to blame poverty on poor people - they must have sinned a lot, or they would have succeeded in life.

Yes, you've identified the complication.

also because people are selfish and dumb and want to stay that way

a ton of shit is because of billionaires and the like

but also a ton of shit is because your neighbour doesn't want the perceived inconvenience of a crosswalk and reduced intersection size at the end of the street

The religious fanatics really don't actually matter. It's just the affluent people.

If affluent people want something that religious people don't want, affluent people still get what they want.

The values of a society are the values of its ruling class etc etc

Yes and no. Source: engineers.

This realm is intended to be run by evil. All our top systems are rewarding evil behavior. It's been like that since the start i assume. Leadership like kings in the past were almost always evil as well.

Of course there are simple solutions to the so called problems, but they are intentionally created since evil people benefit from those problems, and every day new problems are created as well. Just turn on the news. It's the same problems as it always was. You can ask your parents if you are young. Nothing gets revolved.

It will never change as long as humans are asleep and not recognizing the truth about it.

john berger opened my eyes to this.

in "ways of seeing" he lays out a convincing argument that the entire history of european oil painting was just annoying and lame rich people commissioning artists to paint their possessions and property. the 'masters' were exceptions to this rule and often painted these great works later in life. in the modern day we're taught to see these paintings not as what they actually are, but as rare objects worthy of praise simply for being rare objects.

when you see it that way and draw parallels between modern instagram, you both realize how fucking annoying, stupid, pathetic and desperate for validation wealthy people are but that nothing has changed other than the setting; instead of one of a kind oil paintings they foist NTFs on us.

When I was young, I thought there was good and bad, lazy and productive, smart and stupid. I thought that stupidity was a lack of teaching and that anyone could do anything if they were taught.

Now, I think everybody has a million fucking reasons to be all of the above. Every single one of those is an analog line and none of them are mutually exclusive.

Most people are only out for themselves, governments and communities trigger many negative behaviors sometimes through negligence, sometimes in prioritization, and often on purpose.

There are problems that seem simple but underlying beneath is a bunch of other problems. Let's make something simple, a wooden box. First we need wood. To keep it simple we will buy planks of wood, otherwise we need to find trees to cut down, figure out a way to cut them down, cut them into sheets etc so we will just buy pre-made planks. Who do we buy them from? Do we go for cheapest? Do we go for quality wood? Do we go for quality of planks cut? Can we negotiate a better price? This is now more complex. Ok, we got wood. How do we cut it into pieces we need? Do we buy a jig saw? Router? Table saw? Shoot, more complexity. Ok before we start cutting we should probably determine what pieces we need to cut. Also how do we handle the joints? Are we gluing or nailing or screwing? We need to buy that stuff too. We also need all the tools to do that stuff. Ok, now we made all those choices, we should write them down. Now that requires a drafter or cad. More complication. I'm going to stop there and ignore other parts like hiring people to do that stuff, hr, it etc.

It may seem easy to buy a wooden box but there is a lot of stuff going unseen in the making of that box.