Ending capitalism to embrace a system where we end poverty, consumerism and discriminations.
I’ve always suspected people conflate communism with dictators, which is the main cause of distrust for anything anti-capitalism.
Are there any examples of a nation successfully transitioning out of capitalism without ending up in a dictatorship? I want to believe it can be done, but I have no idea what it would look like.
The only people who are truly afraid of this are the few wealthy who stand to lose 80% of their enormous wealth that they will never use in their lifetime.
If only. You forgot how people are afraid to help others who came from an other country. Most of people want equality but only with their superiors. And people are afraid to change their lifestyle to a more ecological one.
You really think that the only ones against ending capitalism are a handful of wealthy people?
Dying. If it's so scary, then why does everybody do it?
I plan on skipping, so you might want to change it to almost everybody.
I've died zero times thus far and don't see why it should change.
!remindme 10 years
Hey, more than 6% of people haven't died. Not everybody does it.
Give em time. They'll come around.
Cities
Chicago especially
Public speaking. I've seen surveys where more people are afraid of speaking in front of an audience than they are of dying, which is utterly insane. For the vast, vast majority of scenarios where you might find yourself speaking to a group of people, the risk level is very low. Likewise, in the vast majority of cases, few people are likely to remember much about your performance. It's just talking.
Well I mean dying is a one time thing. However if you do badly at public speaking you will never hear the end of it. And if you do good they might ask you to do it again.
Can you imagine waking up at 3am and remembering how you said “Salvia” instead of “saliva” in your dissertation?! And it’s been 10 years since, but you KNEW you just outed your habits to the whole audience and your professors?!
Edit: Death is a sweet release you never have to remember, not like the above.
Spiders (USA).
Most spiders are harmless to humans and even beneficial to have around.
Giggles in Aussie
Linux. It's more the same than different and everyone learns fast :)
Most mainstream distros are no harder to learn than Windows or macOS. People (especially as they get older) are just averse to relearning how to do things.
I replaced my father in laws win XP with ubuntu and more recently ubuntu with mint and he barely noticed.
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Universal healthcare. So scary only 33 of the world's 34 most modernized countries have managed to make it work.
I should mention that only South Korea and Canada have TRUE Single Payer (which is, IMO, what the US should be working toward).
Any other type of “universal healthcare” has the effect of creating a premium lane alongside the regular one. However, if all of society has to use the same healthcare system, they will have no choice but to collectively fight tooth and nail to improve healthcare for everyone. This is the only way, IMO.
Math, Haskell, and software engineering in general.
Haskell isn't scary, it's just redundant.
Traveling to a foreign country.
I haven't done as much as a millionaire traveler but I have touched 30 countries and directly explored about 20 of them. I got to see wealthy first world Europe, as well as Morocco, Egypt, South America in Peru and a whole bunch of southeast Asia and India and Sri Lanka. Not to mention road trips in Canada and parts of the US west coast and east coast.
I got to see a lot of dirt poor slums and really rough places.
I don't drink nor do I do drugs because I'm in recovery myself (30 years sober) .. and what I discovered is that once you remove any and all illegal behavior, drugs and alcohol, the majority of people everywhere in the world are decent people like you and me who are just trying to get by. Sure they want your money and some people are desperate but touristic places usually attract seedy people anyway. Regular common people away from tourist places are just getting by and they really don't care who you are.
This is all within the realm of being realistic too ... you don't go wandering down a lonely alleyway on your own or go into a dark sleazy noisy bar. I'm just saying that as long as you are safe and others are safe, people the world over are no different than you and me.
Root canals. The procedure has come a long way since the 90s and is relatively smooth and painless now. Obviously having a good and skillful edodontist also helps, but it’s no longer excruciating like decades ago.
Can confirm. The pain kept me awake the night before my appointment, so I was quite tired while having my canals filled. As soon as the dentist had given me a couple of anesthetic shots, I had to struggle to stay awake. I felt nothing during the procedure, and the only pain after was in my wallet.
Skydiving
Yes, the first few times are intimidating. Hence why most students do their first few jumps tandem and then with a Jump Master after that.
After that though, you'll be looking out the window of the plane and seeing just how much air there is to play in. As you gain experience, you will internalize the fact you're safer in free fall, than you are on the airplane.
Living in the Matrix. If you do what they want, you get to taste steak.
If you weren’t born into being one of those poors.
Needles.
I think mine is animalistic fear of damaging yourself. I’m fine, I sit down and act nonchalant. I’ll talk and look at the person or them doing it. But, under that is my skin getting clammy and breaking out in a light sweat…
Minorities.
The sun imploding in the next few billions years. I've had conversations about that that I could see in the person's eyes that they were getting really scared about it.
hunger.
I don't mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.
War atrocities. There's a lot of terrible shit that happened in America, and instead, we teach kids that the Indians gave the pilgrims corn.
German kids grow up learning about the Holocaust. Japanese kids grow up learning about what they did in WW2.
Americans are scared to learn about these things that we have book banning and fucktards rewriting history books. It's not scary, it's history.
Agreed with you until you said Japanese kids learn more critical things about their past than Americans. That's absolutely not the case.
Clowns. Like, why? You don't even hear about a fear of clowns in ancient documents/literature.
making phone calls (yes this is calling myself out too)
Fire eating. It's super dangerous so there's a lot of safety protocol you must follow. But when it comes time to actually do it, most of the difficulty is psychological
(I'm an instructor)
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