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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.
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- 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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Seems like there's plenty of entitled wealthy people in this thread. People who don't understand what it's like to be systemically pushed down into the mud; what it's like when all of your choices are either bad or worse.
"But you can recycle..." Shut the fuck up dude, recycling doesn't feed my fucking family. Recycling doesn't replace the years spent in an education system that's designed to make you a factory worker. Recycling doesn't bring living-wage-paying jobs to my hometown.
When the bills are in the mail, the tax man is coming, the landlord's raising the rent, and the bossman is driving a new car every year but can't pay you enough to keep your bank account from overdrafting, sometimes you have to do "immoral" shit.
Sometimes you have to kill an animal with no hunting license, sometimes you have to find a place to stay warm for the night, sometimes you have to feed your kids when all you have is cardboard and that might mean stealing bread from the dollar store.
I remember the millionaire who wanted to prove that he could rebuild his wealth if he started from scratch again. He cheated a little bit because he used his friend apartment for free.
Fast forward, he gave up after a couple of months and understood what the rest of us knew for ages.
Wealthy people are delusional and no amount of reasoning will work with them.
That's the problem with this entire post. Who is saying any of this? Whose morals are we talking about? If you can just as easily recycle something as throw it in the trash and you choose not to recycle because your rent is too high and your boss is a piece of shit, that's just nonsense. On the other hand, as a vegan, I personally do not have any moral objection to you illegally hunting animals for food if that's the only access to food you have. What is the point of any of this, is this some kind of vaguebooking about some other post?
Who said anything about not recycling for those reasons? I said that recycling isn't going to solve all of the problems that poor people face.
Nice cliche veganism toss-in though.
If you worked a little harder, you'd have a lot more...
Well this is getting added to my playlist.
Dude looks like Tyler Cassidy's nephew or something.
This is true and I am saying that as someone who is well off, the movie parasite talks about this great. Its easy to be a nice person when your rich
So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?
Poor people are excellent recyclers. Even in states that don't offer bottle exchange they will collect for the aluminum/other alloys, alone.
That's not the point.
The point is that doing little things like reducing reusing and recycling are not the end-all be-all solution to being broke. I'm saying that doing moral things doesn't automatically give you a liveable life; it doesn't magically make everything ok.
warning satire
Are you sure your not just being lazy? Maybe it was the choices you made that landed you there. It's not like there is a whole system in place to oppress a certain class of people.The blame and the shame is on you for being so damn poor
I cannot believe that you're being downvoted. This place disappoints me.
I was told I'm a politician in another thread so... yeah I don't know man.
K.
Looks like the consensus finally turned around somewhat