Idk, I feel like if that was the plan it had the absolute opposite effect. All of my friends getting forced into tests that didn’t matter and getting suspended for getting beaten up made most of us realize that the school/govt had no clue what they were doing
Money I think is needed. It’s just an easy way to simplify transactions from person to person. If I need to pick up something I don’t have to carry around 3 chickens and a dozen eggs to barter for groceries, I just carry cash.
“Investing” however, is unneeded. There should be no real reason for people to purchase parts of someones business publicly and extract value from it. The companies don’t need the profit from rising stocks, they already have their profits. So all these snakes that buy shares and force companies to rip their guts and morals apart chasing “number go up” does nothing but enshittify products and companies until they’re too unstable to use.
If you want to keep loans, that’s fine, but then it needs to be private, and locally lended. Your lenders can’t provide more money than the local economy can provide and it only goes back into the community that made it. None of these faceless companies extracting billions from a community to some far off corporation.
I think the better language is “you can be drunk 16 hours a day” which, some people are, and they’re certified alcohol addicts. So shoving Instagram in your brain the same way is the same disease, different symptoms.
Not only that but “what would Jesus do” has a valid answer of “flip tables and chase money lenders with a whip”. The ideal of “love one another” is always welcome as well.
Don’t forget the voice for McGruff the crime dog got caught with 1000 pot plants lol
I know there’s no way to coordinate it, but it would be amazing if instead of booing the whole crowd just went stone silent.
“So long and thanks for all the fish”
Zero tolerance era. Grade school (I think 4th?) I’m reading one of those books that’s just like “Medieval History” with a bunch of pictures and the history on what the items was. (I think this one was about spies or James bond or something). Kid comes up to me actively reading and says “I was reading that, you took it from me!” Basically escalates it to “I’m gonna fight you” and starts sort of dragon ball z style punching me in the stomach a bunch of times really fast. Parents told me not to let that slide and to fight back, so I cock back and punch him in the face. Right as the teacher walks through the door. I was in 4th grade, I didn’t deck the kid, but I did hit him. Whole deal, go to the office, explained what happened. “Zero tolerance, 3 day suspension”
Dad asks what happened, explained, got 3 days off school at home fishing and playing video games. Best time I had at that school, also completely broke my faith in that system, so win win.
In my experience unfortunately there’s been a lot of pressure to speed up even the regular work cycle. Myself and others are starting to have more and more complaints of things suddenly getting shoved in at the last minute, or having sprints get more and more packed/scattered
“All the engineers said my “screen door on a submarine” was “stupid” and would “sink the ship”, so I fired them and hired new engineers!”
There’s also a vocal minority of just really pessimistic people on here. Politics I don’t mind as long as it’s a discourse about not only what is bad but what can be reasonably done about it.
I’ve been in several discussions where I add “look at community, we are strong together” and it’s immediately beaten down with “the world won’t change things are shit and always will be, be mad and angry about it, I’m mad and angry at you”.
It’s the internet, I’m not surprised. But I’ve definitely had to disconnect myself for a bit some days after severe reactions from people just to remember it’s just strangers on the internet.
It’s not all the time, but for some discussions that promote inclusion and understanding to be met with the hard “I don’t agree so you are human garbage” can be an awful whiplash sometimes.