“What do you mean you work more hours than us for less in return? Doesn’t your king fear a revolt?”
We get less of a percentage of our work, but certainly get more absolute value.
The gains in efficiency over the last hundred years have been insane. Today’s crumbs are better than the whole cookie back then.
No more dirt floors, indoor plumbing, electricity, books, etc.
100 years ago, great grandpa was teaching little Appalachian boys who didn’t wear shoes except in the winter.
82 years ago, grandad was a Torpedo Man 3rd class getting asbestos rained on his head every time my wife’s ancestors scored a close hit.
45 years ago, at my other great grandpa’s place in Louisiana, there were black families down the road living in shacks. However you’re picturing a shack, it was worse.
38 years ago, there was a sport called “f** bashing”. Hicks or punkers would wait for gays to come out the bar and beat the shit out of 'em.
38 years ago, we Gen X kids casually lived under threat of global thermonuclear war. Meh. No biggie.
Yeah, not only did efficiency go through the roof, everything got better.
I think the big thing is that they can and should be better than this, too. We shouldn’t have to settle when we’ve made enough abundance for everyone.
Personally, I still want people desperate enough to do shitty jobs like dealing with trash and sewage and people. But I think we have enough to pay those people good money, give them good healthcare, an otherwise comfortable financial life, let them work 32 hours a week, and let them retire at 65.
Basically what unions would have given is if they hadn’t been gutted.
You’re right, it’s the should be better that’s important. But I think we can say that about nearly every human culture in history. It’s just that now we can see how fucked up inequality is.
The amount of stuff even a relatively poor person has in a developed country would be mind blowing for a medieval peasant.
“You have running water, hot water on demand, and pipes to carry your shit away to a far away land??? You must be the king of kings!”
A medieval peasant would lose their mind eating a Dorito. Snacks nowadays are literally engineered to hijack our brains.
They’re also incredibly bad for you. They’re like drinking oil with a little bit of crushed flour and salt mixed in.
Which is also what makes them super delicious. Fat, crunch, Umami, salt. Most snacks also have sugar added even if they’re not “sweet”.
I truly find them disgusting. This is really starting to seem like astroturfing. I’m borderline about pulling it.
I don’t think it’s astroturfing to talk about what food engineers have figured out about human taste preferences.
A lot of people spent a lot of time and money figuring out what drives people to mindlessly eat. Then the ignored the health ramifications and started selling a lot of products that are just different textures of salted sugar fat with glutamate.
Same reason you’ll absentmindedly eat a basket of bread if you have cinnamon butter, or cinnamon rolls.
We can use the food science to predict that there’s probably a mild aged cheese that would be great on a cinnamon roll.So what do you hate about doritos?
Too salty for my taste, the cheese ones make me feel awful and every other flavor tastes like gym bag smell.
Oh, and the dehydration mixed with salt blowing out your taste buds makes water taste off, so you’re just dehydrated longer.Are you actually thinking that a joke image where someone isn’t overly impressed with doritos is viral advertising? On a platform with negligible traffic? With shills who call the product unhealthy?
That’s so weird I might not even be able to finish my Crystal Pepsi ®.
Dude, what? I am not a shill for Big Junk Food. I’m pointing out how companies make the stuff hyperpalatable to get people to eat more of it. It’s unfortunately contributing to the obesity epidemic and not good for people.
To be clear, I don’t think OP is astroturfing. Wasn’t sure about you and you’re obviously not. I like having this stay up to explain it all though and I have to test it.
I was wrong and it doesn’t seem to be astroturfing. Cool.
It’s called Bliss Point! I just listened to a Stuff You Should Know podcast episode about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
But if you gave them Takis…
Hot Cheetos and Takis AND the accompanying music video… that’s how you blow some minds
