Not everything that is good and free, is always going to last for free. Some people out there need to figure a way to make ends meet, like the rest of us. Some people want to be rewarded for the dedication of their work. If they decide to monetize what was once free, then they’re going to.
Some things that are the exception are software like Linux OSes and programs like LibreOffice. But I’m talking about things you really loved and couldn’t believe that were free one day, suddenly turn around and have to slap a price tag on it.
You know, people got to sustain themselves and that’s the truth of it.
Arguing on the internet isn’t going to change people’s opinions.
No matter what you do you will still die.
Karma does not exist. The most horrible people imaginable will get away with doing the most horrible things possible. They will never get “what’s coming to them” because nothing is “coming to them”. These awful people are also not secretly miserable all the time, that is a pathetic lie people tell themselves to feel better about watching awful people get everything they ever wanted.
Land ownership. We just have to accept that most of the earth is ‘owned’ by people who have no natural right to it whatsoever, they just happened to be born wealthy and so part of the planet that we all have to live on belongs to them.
There are people where I live who are now wealthy because the unfarmable strips of wasteland they’ve somehow inherited have recently had wind farms installed them, who pay them rent. Through no innovation or intelligence of their own, they are now rich. How is that fair?
- you are owed nothing in this world
- “decency” is a construct used to control you
- you deserve everything you accept in life
At best you can have a convincing illusion of control. But life is always entirely beyond your control. Ideally you learn to flow with it, including how it flows through you.
You may fall in love with the perfect person, but nobody stays the same forever. You’re statistically likely to grow apart, and break up.
An “adult relationship” isn’t necessarily about love, but rather being the dependable one who will push the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” button you were meant to wear on your wrist, but forgot, because your grandkids were fucking around near the medicine cabinet and switched your drugs up. Now your hip has been displaced and you involuntarily donated fertiliser to the shopping mall floor at 7:45am.
It is always better to figure out life’s problems by yourself or with the help of those around you, their is no supernatural being available to grant your prayer wishes.
Taking action on climate change is a test if democracies can do things in the general interest at all, and up to now we’ve been failing
If you don’t shit, you die!
There is no karma. There is no fairness in this world. And justice is mostly bullshit.
I don’t know about that. And even if it’s true, believing in karma immensely helps to cope with even the most awful shit.
You could develop a horrific disease or disability tomorrow. And if you do, a surprising amount of your “friends” will abandon you because you are a constant reminder their just world outlook is a giant sack of bullshit.
That last part seems rather unbelievable between good friends. Have you seen something like that happening to someone? I cant imagine this happening with my friends since I only have few but close friends.
The reason varies, but the result is the same. Being abandoned by friends is the #1 complaint in chronic illness communities
There are no divine guard rails, we really can be obliterated whether we do it to ourselves or the universe sneezes on us.
We don’t choose where we’re brought up or our environment but we can choose what to do in spite of it. Also, we are not born with equal opportunities and privileges. Can look at what happens all around everywhere to see that plain as day.
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Democracy is not a birthright, and each generation has a duty (starting to themselves) to be educated and informed, in order to vote regularly and responsibly. Too many citizens who fail to perform that duty mean that eventually such democracy will crumble.
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Capitalism is a heartless tyrant at the end of the day, willing to mindlessly destroy everything around it in the sheer, relentless pursuit of lucre. This is why a strong system of checks and regulations must always exist to prevent it from spinning out of control.
Those are both of my phrasings above, and I owe many people before me for helping me properly understand these things, and to keep improving on them.
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