RE: If You Had a Magic Wand and Could Change Just ONE Thing, What Would it Be?
Well, you have some worthy ideas there. Certainly, I'd like to see people get fairly paid for their work. Most people do get paid, but they are wage slaves who put in 60 hours a week and still live in poverty.
Disposable products? As long as we keep a clear distinction between "consumable" and "disposable." I'd hope for dispoable toilet paper. Crap quality designed to break and not be fixable? THAT needs some work.
Can empathy be taught? If so... should it be? Or do we just say "you're not one of us, tough titties?"
Maybe people will recognize your blog-- in time. It took me somewhere between 3-5 years to develop much of a social media presence elsewhere. Been at it here for about a year-- getting close to replacing a part time gig. It's doable...
I wonder if 'most people' do get paid. The GDP of most countries doesn't include the work of mothers raising childen, for example. If driving is a job for taxi drivers, then everyone who commutes isn't getting paid for their driving. In the art world tons of people like myself have to put in years and years of free shows and self promotion without any compensation and only the top .01% of popular people in a field get any compensation at all. And the taylor swofts of the world can just buy their way to the top with their parents money. Then if you throw the undercompensation and general cheating of corporations in, I doubt if 50% of work on earth is compensated for fairly.
Hmm toiletpaper I hadn't thought of, the question is if it biodegrades when you flush it or or not. If it biodegrades and benefits the ecosystem once flushed then it isn't disposable and it's a fertilizer. I primarily mean the idea of single use plastic packaging that we use one time and then it takes 50k years to break down, this is actually in the long term going to threaten the entire species with extinction. Every teenager for example now has bpa in their blood which is among other things a sterilizing agent. If I were an alien trying to take over the planet and I had only a handful of aliens vs a billion humans, I would institute exactly the same policies we are. As a species we are positiviely suicidal and daft.
Actually empathy can't be taught to some people, it can only be emulated by some people who have a certain brain configuration which is a genetic mutation. Killing children at birth to prevent them from becoming monsters is on the table as far as I'm concerned, but it is more humane to simply test children for empathy and those who, for instance, laugh at a cat that is lit on fire, would simply be marked as 'can't be a leader, boss, ceo, general etc.' The idea that humans who can easily sacrifice other humans make the best generals or something is twisted, I would really rather lose a war than be sacrificed by someone without emotion like some kind of alien.
Eh, as for my blog, unfortunately I have to tell the truth and I have discovered that a lot of the whales on here are law enforcement or paid operators just like reddit, and as soon as I started writing and asking those questions, I stopped receiving upvotes.
I have written more than a book length of material, my commitment in the past 2 months puts every other account I have yet seen on the steemit platform to shame and I can count on one hand the number of actual humans who have even responded. And the only whale who upvoted me v4vapid is obviously one of them as he upvotes a ton of obvious propaganda/fake accounts. I prove it all in detail in my blog, steemit itself has a much more questionable nature than I thought, as it is served all out of AWS for some reason.
The idea that some people can invest early and then have the ability to silence people or spread lies and just upvote each other in a gang, well, how disgusting.
Do a word count on just my privacy workshop, I bet I have written more in just that than any other account since Jan 1. And the shit I write is smart and correct, and I am actually facing homelessness in march. Good times.