TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 22 hours ago:
There are really touchy-feely workplaces where most of all that just aren’t an option. I’ve worked at such places and I’m still traumatized.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 day ago:
Charles Eisenstin’s book “Sacred Economics” (which you can read here) has a nice, simple parable in chapter 6 about that.
Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, people used barter for all their transactions. On every market day, people walked around with chickens, eggs, hams, and breads, and engaged in prolonged negotiations among themselves to exchange what they needed. At key periods of the year, like harvests or whenever someone’s barn needed big repairs after a storm, people recalled the tradition of helping each other out that they had brought from the old country. They knew that if they had a problem someday, others would aid them in return. One market day, a stranger with shiny black shoes and an elegant white hat came by and observed the whole process with a sardonic smile. When he saw one farmer running around to corral the six chickens he wanted to exchange for a big ham, he could not refrain from laughing. “Poor people,” he said, “so primitive.” The farmer’s wife overheard him and challenged the stranger, “Do you think you can do a better job handling chickens?” “Chickens, no,” responded the stranger, “But there is a much better way to eliminate all that hassle.” “Oh yes, how so?” asked the woman. “See that tree there?” the stranger replied. “Well, I will go wait there for one of you to bring me one large cowhide. Then have every family visit me. I’ll explain the better way.” And so it happened. He took the cowhide, and cut perfect leather rounds in it, and put an elaborate and graceful little stamp on each round. Then he gave to each family 10 rounds, and explained that each represented the value of one chicken. “Now you can trade and bargain with the rounds instead of the unwieldy chickens,” he explained. It made sense. Everybody was impressed with the man with the shiny shoes and inspiring hat. “Oh, by the way,” he added after every family had received their 10 rounds, “in a year’s time, I will come back and sit under that same tree. I want you to each bring me back 11 rounds. That 11th round is a token of appreciation for the technological improvement I just made possible in your lives.” “But where will the 11th round come from?” asked the farmer with the six chickens. “You’ll see,” said the man with a reassuring smile. Assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, what do you think had to happen? Remember, that 11th round was never created. Therefore, bottom line, one of each 11 families will have to lose all its rounds, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th round to 10 others. So when a storm threatened the crop of one of the families, people became less generous with their time to help bring it in before disaster struck. While it was much more convenient to exchange the rounds instead of the chickens on market days, the new game also had the unintended side effect of actively discouraging the spontaneous cooperation that was traditional in the village. Instead, the new money game was generating a systemic undertow of competition among all the participants.
The development of currency results in loans. The practice of loaning starts the practice of charging interest. Interest requires constant growth.
Individual companies have to grow to keep up with the necessary constant growth of the economy as a whole. Any company that doesn’t keep up dies.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 days ago:
You’re a ginger, Harry.
- Comment on Anal loving girl here 5 days ago:
Mark NSFW posts NSFW, please.
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 1 week ago:
Achievement Unlocked: Dissociation
- Comment on We just need to label every port 1 week ago:
Definitely a coal roller.
- Comment on Who cares what it looks like? It works. 1 week ago:
Who cares what it looks like? It works.
This but unironically.
- Comment on how can I train myself not to burst out laughing when I do something really silly? 1 week ago:
Make laughter the ridiculous thing you do. Maybe start off with laughing at his intrusive questions as if he’s making a combination joke/rhetorical question. As he keeps pushing, laugh more and more. At first it can be like you’re laughing at a mildly-funny pun. The next time, consider it a funny joke. Maybe the next time, it’s the funniest joke you’ve ever heard. Keep escalating until you’re laughing maniacally every time he pries. Don’t quit when he finally walks away. Follow him and laugh more and more annoyingly. Until he quits prying.
- Comment on When the Tylenol hits. 1 week ago:
Ohm mani padme autismmmmm.
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 1 week ago:
Came here to mention the business pickup option. That’s a thing in the U.S., at least. No idea about Ireland, but I think when you order something, you can tell Amazon you want to pick it up at a CVS or a Staples or whatever. And then when it’s ready, you just go there in person and pick it up.
- Comment on *slurp* 2 weeks ago:
Google “Zalgo Text.” You’ll get various converters. It’s not a font. It’s unicode shenanigans.
- Comment on *slurp* 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 2 weeks ago:
I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I’m delighted none the less.
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 2 weeks ago:
Anon’s definition of “normie” is like 0.1% of the population.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 2 weeks ago:
The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.
As far as I’ve been able to tell, that’s all Kimmel said.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Lucky.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.
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- Comment on Anon buys a car 3 weeks ago:
This story has “sovereign citizen”/“insane people facebook” energy.
- Comment on Goals 3 weeks ago:
Just think how many pounds he’d have gained if he hadn’t been on Ozempic.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 4 weeks ago:
My mother was neck deep in “Satanic Panic” propaganda. Literally thought Pokemon was “Satanic.” I think the thing that set her off was the Japanese-style art, and Japan isn’t majority-Christian like the U.S. is.
Don’t think that by explaining this I’m trying to make it make sense. The “sense” train derailed long before, but even more so when she decided that Pokemon had wiccan influence for some random fucking reason.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 4 weeks ago:
Mine was “you can play Smash Brothers 64 with your friends as long as you don’t let anyone be Pikachu.”
- Comment on Anon eats Italian 4 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a Wendionelli’s.
- Comment on Any ideas as to what this is all about? 5 weeks ago:
Shit man. I laughed out loud and my mom is right over there. ->
I had to make something up about what I was laughing at.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“A friend”, huh?
I’ll let
youhim know when I figure it out. - Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Anything to shorten it sounds good to me.
So say we all.
In the U.S., recently, GOP Senator Josh Hawley, one of the speakers who helped incite the January 6th insurrection, introduced a bill to make the term of Copyright 28 years with optionally one renewal for an additional 28 years.
And, it’s so weird to me that I could agree with him on anything really.
Mind you, he introduced that bill in an effort to punish Disney for being too “woke”, but I’d let the MAGA nuts use such a bill as an opportunity to crow for a few minutes about their victory over strong woman protagonists or whatever if it got us more reasonable copyright terms. (And honestly that’s too long, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the bullshit we have now.)
Also, fuck Sonny Bono.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month ago:
Not in the U.S… For work-for-hire, It’s 95 years after publication. For works owned originally by a lump of flesh, blood, and bone, it’s 70 years after the author’s death.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
I’m glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m being trolled and I ain’t even mad.
