God, that was such a funny joke back in the day. One of the moments where the writers were at the top of their game.
Comment on Why is currency so essential?
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Simpsons meme aside –
Those with currency can have significantly more options than those without it. I’m of a privileged state where if I wanted to drop everything and visit another country for two weeks, there’s nothing stopping me financially. Not many people have that luxury.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Your comment made me realize that OP wasn’t asking about why we need currency as a society, but why people keep trying to get more money.
I hate when the post title and post content ask two seemingly different questions, lol
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Providing clarification is important…but to me, it seems prudent to just ask what one actually wants to know in the first place.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly XY is hard to put into practice.
It wants the Asker to elevate themselves to the level of thinking as the Answerer and have the forethought to ask “the right question”.
But it lacks the perspective of what it means to be new at something. When you’re new, you have no context of what the hell anything is. So you throw spaghetti at the wall and ask is this how you make pasta.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a hard question to ask. I’d rather pin down why it’s essential then ask why it’s deemed the only thing that is essential.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is a very blanket statement and going to need a source here.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People… deem money… you kddn me?
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is a very blanket statement and going to need a source here.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lemmy supports editing posts, deleting posts and making new posts - if a question is obtuse the author can always take it down and post something more precise and less open to misinterpretation. Of it’s a language barrier issue I’m sympathetic but this just seems to have been a needlessly clickbaity title.