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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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You're still stuck on the actual physicality of normal trade.
These fuckers are making shit up and selling moon farts
They're not making shit up. Purchasing future production is a very common thing. Shit, tons of Etsy shops operate like that.
Money is a representation of the value of human labor. It's how people can trade their work for the products of other people's work without having to directly trade specific items.
The ultra wealthy see money as a vehicle for power over the masses, because people need to work to live. They're not hoarding that much wealth just to be able to buy expensive stuff.
If all human labor is replaced with robots, then they lose all of that power. If human labor holds no value, then neither does money.
you are not listening. I am leaving this conversation
You are correct, I'm not listening to your incorrect assessment of how economics works.
Corporations get value by the production of products how that gets done is irrelevant it doesn't need to be done by human hands so then the shareholders still make money and can still purchase things and because they're literally in charge of the market value they determine the price of stuff so only they can get it