Corona / Wuhan virus

May as well have a bit of fun and join in.

 
Maikl Jexocuha said:
If most of your life you've been shit on by greedy, racist, corporate assholes, it's not sadistic to reap the profits from a crisis they can't control. It's called "payback".
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No. It's called being a jerk to people who did you no harm.
Those greedy, racist, corporate assholes aren't impacted the same way the little guys, the ones you are hurting by hording are. The only pain they feel is in watching their stocks bottom out.
 
Maikl Jexocuha said:
Well, go homeless and fight for a job all on your lonesome, and see if anyone cares. No one gives a fuck! The world sucks, don't it? I say profit when you can - but if u got the sympathy of others then don't bother.
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Dude. Been there, doing that.
Stop being an ass. Every person has an equal right to survive, to smile, to live.
 
Maikl Jexocuha said:
If most of your life you've been shit on by greedy, racist, corporate assholes, it's not sadistic to reap the profits from a crisis they can't control. It's called "payback".
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And that's called the cycle of abuse
 
ReasonEnduring said:
Indeed. In the history of every CEO, every King of Industry is a normal person who stepped on someone else to get up.

That said, its impossible to break the system from the bottom. One of a thousand million replacable menials.
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I lost hope for change long ago

Maikl Jexocuha said:
Ok well thanks for calling me out. I don't like seeing people hurt or dying. But I am angry and kinda fucked up by the abuses in the country. Ok? Sorry for offense, but the anger is real and deep.
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I'm mad too bruh

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Maikl Jexocuha said:
Ok well thanks for calling me out. I don't like seeing people hurt or dying. But I am angry and kinda fucked up by the abuses in the country. Ok? Sorry for offense, but the anger is real and deep.
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You do you. In the end we all have our hands dipped in blood, from our shirts, to our fast food, to our electronics.

We live in a slave society but we exported the slavery. Out of sight and out of mind we turn a blind eye.

Until automation takes off it will always be that way.

None of us have the moral high ground., though doing what we can to change the world for the better is always welcome.
 
acd said:
People hoarding necessities and then price gouging desperate people are fucking soulless. And that's it. You have zero morals and empathy if you can do this. Parents can't buy their babies diapers and formula at the store. Old people can't get toilet paper. Nobody can find any disinfecting wipes or hand sanitizer. And now people are hoarding and selling food. If anything is going to bring about the collapse it's these fuckers. And I hope the desperate hoardes eat them alive for it. But the most desperate right now are those most vulnerable. Just glad to see at Amazon and other sites cut their shit off.
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I second this so so MUCH.

Went to Walmart earlier to see if there was restock of any toilet paper and water bottles, still empty. None in sight.

Then went to get dog food. Saw this lady with her daughter with two shopping carts. One shopping cart filled with six fucking bags of large dry dog food (the absolutely ginormous ones) and lots of treats. The other cart filled with food that could last them a whole century.

There is a difference between just getting a few extra items and being cautious for your family, yet still leave enough for others—but then, there are the selfish fuckers who take and hoard the whole shelves without any consideration for those who desperately need essential items and necessities, especially the elderly and sick.

I’ve always known there were selfish, stupid people out in the world—but it’s situations like these that make you realize that there are much more stupid people than sensible ones than you originally thought and it is a sobering and frustrating feeling.

I live right smack middle in a town filled with suburbs of families and retirement neighborhoods, so you can imagine the amount of panic buying that is going on. Especially since Walmart is only a few minutes away.
 
JennyDaniella said:
I second this so so MUCH.

Went to Walmart earlier to see if there was restock of any toilet paper and water bottles, still empty. None in sight.

Then went to get dog food. Saw this lady with her daughter with two shopping carts. One shopping cart filled with six fucking bags of large dry dog food (the absolutely ginormous ones) and lots of treats. The other cart filled with food that could last them a whole century.

There is a difference between just getting a few extra items and being cautious for your family, yet still leave enough for others—but then, there are the selfish fuckers who take and hoard the whole shelves without any consideration for those who desperately need essential items and necessities, especially the elderly and sick.

I’ve always known there were selfish, stupid people out in the world—but it’s situations like these that make you realize that there are much more stupid people than sensible ones than you originally thought and it is a sobering and frustrating feeling.

I live right smack middle in a town filled with suburbs of families and retirement neighborhoods, so you can imagine the amount of panic buying that is going on. Especially since Walmart is only a few minutes away.
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Sadly so. Humans are driven by greed and selfishness.

In these situations it just becomes more apparent.

Hence the way to fix the world must always take into account human greed and selfishness, and any attempts to fix the world that assume human kindness will win out are doomed to failure.

Greed is a powerful tool if used correctly, people can be manipulated to doing the right thing through greed, but rampant greed is destructive as we are all seeing.
 
Milktoast Bandit said:
The underlying idea in my comment (or in my brain) is that things can continue without funds if we only choose to do so. Money only has value because we say it does. My point is, just because things are weird now does not mean we can never travel by air again. Working together is groovy!
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Yes but then we have to go back to trading. The tomatoes I grew aren't ripe yet and some insect keeps feeding on my basil. I also haven't raised chickens :(
 
ReasonEnduring said:
No we kind of can't. Its not even potential reality. An Authoritarian government maybe, but there is probably a lot of people dying in that process.

But you are welcome to your version of utopian fantasy, as long as attempts to bring it into the real world doesn't make real life worse.

Which does have a habit of happening, see the Soviet Union and Communism.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Im sorry, I need to disagree just a tiny bit?
I think that abandoning fantasys like that is something someone out there want us to do.
I read 25% of a, perhaps, stupid conspiracy book from the right-wing. Although the guy was one of the most reasonable libertarians I ever read. Interesting point: If I were to ask you and many americans, from north canada to south argentina, what communism/socialism is, most people would give us a different answer. Very few people have an accurate vision about what is (and I dont either). Then, he mentioned a part of the communist/socialism letter/"manifesto", that had a part of where the step for communism wonderfulness were somewhat of having dicators and stuff like that. This is the speech of sacrifices, where many sacrificies are needed to get to that "point", libertarians have similar speech. But that point doesnt really exist, its an illusion created to justify, to create an illusion that the ends are the means.

And I dont think that the road to hell is really paved with good intentions, but rather with people who are excellent at masking other stuff as good intentions. Im also suspecting that this phrase is created to induce passivity. So that people trash these "fantasies" and dont over-react.
 
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