it’s a quantum phenomenon, only happens when not observed

I just want to note that “A system where people take care of themselves and neighbours” is called Mutualism, and is absolutely the single best concept in the world.

Basically everyone can and should practice it in their daily lives, just be kind to and try to greet or at least acknowledge those you meet, and if anyone needs help then do the best you can.
We tend to instinctively engage in mutualism with our family and friends, so just extend that feeling towards as many people as possible.

Note that the reason they called themselves socialists and communists is because a lot of people at the time considered this good, it’s like how many countries these days have “democratic republic” in their name, despite obviously being neither of those things.

Evil people can’t call themselves evil, they have to lie about what they are for people to get tricked into accepting them.

Minor massive correction: The world is run by very rich people who benefit from the current system

Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders…

And ask them what policies they want to see enacted, and they’ll give you a list that looks suspiciously like that of a socialist party.

you realize “I’ll wait.” just makes you look like a ponce, right?
It’s like slamming open the door of a library, sneeringly declaring that books are for nerds, and just fucking standing there as if everyone will respond by throwing their books away and declaring you king.

genuinely what does that even mean? can you try rephrasing that?

But also, communism isn’t bad either.
It’s basically advanced socialism, not whateverthefuck stalin and mao were doing. It’s like how the full name of the nazi party was “national-socialist worker’s party”, obviously the nazis aren’t actually socialists, the only reason they use that word is because people at the time actually wanted socialism.

seriously, do this! it’s extremely fucking depressing!

Get a list of policies for a socialist party, read it to someone, then at the end say “and that’s the policies the socialist party want to implement” and watch the killswitch in their brain activate.

even before modern logistics we were broadly post-scarcity, that’s kind of the whole reason why humans are so successful, after we invented stone tools and fire we had basically won.

have you, like, ever seen cities outside of america? How many people do you think own a car in tokyo?

well you’d need some more parameters, like a single tram isn’t going to carry as many people as the entire freeway, simply because the freeway is extremely absurdly disgustingly long.

But one tram fitting all the people in this photo? maybe, i’d say probably 2 trams, with the average number of people in a car being 1.5 and i think the tram pictured is a Melbourne class E which fits ~200 people. But bear in mind i’m dogshit at visual measurement so maybe i’m completely wrong and that’s actually only 50 cars or it’s 5 billion cars.

lol no, that’s how it works in canada and it’s shit.
This is precisely the place where light rail makes sense: it’s most of the benefits of heavy rail but way cheaper, so you can build more of it and run more vehicles, and operate like a metro in the suburbs but as a tram in the downtown.

Basically what you want is Portland but with 10x as many lines.

because we don’t get enough social interaction and we’re desperate to at least have some people read a thing we said online, and ideally actually reply to it

no it isn’t

being standard isn’t an excuse, it makes it even more egregious.

i wish agents would at least try to not be insufferable about it, tell me “yeah i know, that’s the way it is” or something so i don’t feel like i’m trying to communicate with some sort of advanced fungus colony…

there are 2 solid low-cost mobile carriers here in sweden, and i literally do this with them. Just hop back and forth every 4 months and you get some sort of deal every single time.

It’s profoundly stupid and makes me hate modern society just that little bit more.

translated: you get to fleece the next person who wants to own a house in an utterly fucked housing market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics