Societal expectations to move out of your parents’ house when you turn 18. It’s a scam to get you to become more profitable to corporate America. You’re an adult now. You need to buy a car you can’t afford, get a mortgage you don’t want, insure it all to protect the bank, all to go to a job you don’t want, but now need so that you can afford these “nice things.”
But if you stay with your parents, even if you actually enjoy it, you’re a failure.
The stock market. It’s not investment, it’s gambling. It’s also rigged by the power brokers and insider traders.
Windows
Recycling being the responsibility of the consumer
And recycling most plastics. End up in a landfill because its cheaper than actually recycling them.
I think it is often simply burned to generate heat/electricity
Ah, no, you see, what you’re actually referring to is “energy recycling”. See, doesnt that greenwashing sound so much better?
It’s how Norway from memory tops the recycling league
“Thermal reuse” or “thermal utilization” is how its actually called.
Ohhh, this one 100 times. That nonsense about consumers’ plastic straws killing all the ocean’s turtles while only contributing 0.03% of all plastic pollution to the ocean, whereas commercial fishery nets constitute nearly 46% of the Pacific Garbage Patch was one of the biggest industry psyops of all time, and people fell for it hook, line and sinker (no pun intended).
This. I have opinions on waste management, please indulge a little rant, if you will?
In my city they also now have us pay for the privilege of dumping residual waste. It’s worth noting that residual residential waste is stuffed into a silo - the users bring it to a collection point, and open it with an RFID key card. You’re sent a bill for each time this is opened.
It’s also worth noting that the plastic bin, if it looks like they can’t sort it, they will toss it in general waste.
These factors combine into a situation where:
- Tossing things in the recycling bin has it end up in gen waste anyway
- It’s cheaper for the end user to dump their residual waste inappropriately, either by stuffing it into recycling despite not going there, or by dumping it in the bushes somewhere
Imo, fixes would include the following:
- At the very least, using the general waste silo should not come with extra costs
- Recyclables and residual waste should be merged into a single waste flow, which is to be recycled in general.
- We should make work of actual plastic recycling at a commercial scale.
Hallmark Holidays
Expensive tips, already calculated into the bill.
Tax filing companies. Individual taxes are pretty straightforward in most cases. Our tax laws are just completely screwed up.
Health insurance and tax information can easily be handled by the government.
40 hour work weeks
Car finance. It’s so prevalent, I think I’m literally the only one on our road that doesn’t drive a 1 year old, brand new, financed car. Literally everyone is like “but it’s only $499/month and I can just hand it back when I want a new one”. Well shit, yes, but try tallying up what you’ve paid for running all these new cars every three years.
Save up instead and continue saving after you bought the car. Then you can afford a different car later.
Insurance, private utilities, the internet, phones, etc.
religion
Banks.
Using YOUR money to make a lot of money from investing in horrible companies.Passive income. If value is being created and you’re being presented some of it without doing any work it necessarily means that someone else isn’t receiving the full value of the work they’re doing.
subset of capitalism
Absolutely
In most cases I agree with you, but what about a musician who makes passive income off of people streaming their music, or people who buy my fonts?
Cap it at the original 28 years after creation. The current 70 years after the creator’s death is ridiculous.
Even 15 years is a lot of money for something you most likely spent under 6 months creating. Of course, we could always have a detailed system and not just one flat time frame.
I think people overestimate how much the average creator can get from their work over time. They need to keep creating to maintain a livable income. Also, 28 years is a good number because it prevents mega corporations from stealing from small creators. Imagine if some novel series becomes a big hit, but Disney or Warner Brothers could just adapt it whenever they pleased without paying the author.
Why should you be paid in perpetuity for work you did once? I’d love it if someone paid me residules for the work I did today making widgets.
But how should a singer who produces an album, or an author who writes a book, or whatever be compensated? Its popularity isn’t really known until after it’s published, it’s not really fair for a damn good writer to get paid the same as someone who produces slop.
Not passive income, they did the work of creating the music or the font
Doesent all passive income require some upfront work outside of investing?
No, that’s what makes it passive. Having money isn’t a job, investing isn’t work it’s gambling and extremely rigged.
If you inherit/“born rich” I don’t think so…
Or you’re squeezing all the value and more out of the asset and users, while increasing externalities
Sounds cool til you realize the assets being squeezed are mostly just other people
No no no. I gave them CULTURE! A wonderful work culture.
And security! Sure, not the security I decided I need for myself, and it’s only really present as long as they’re profitable to me, but security nonetheless.
After all, I had the idea and stuck my neck out to secure the financing, which is far more important than the actual daily labor that keeps things running.
We’re like a family, see.
Even if the assets aren’t people, not squeezing value is required to maintain some fun and life as well as long term sustainability. If you squeeze it, you might squeeze it dry. I hate all the adverts everywhere. Can I just go somewhere to save my eyes…
basically everything,i guess.
Democracy
