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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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How wrong? Racist wrong or just "boiled eggs are tastier than fried eggs" wrong?
"Capitalism is good"
"Conservatives aren't completely selfish" (backed with links to leftist sources)
"NFTs aren't worthless"
"Making everyone people pay for rich people's college debt is wrong (and a net transfer of wealth upwards)"
"The central banks cause inflation on purpose"
Some are opinions, some are facts people don't like. All get down voted.
You're being proven right. You will get downvoted for these statements because a majority are just not factual.
The easiest to explain is NFTs are worthless. They have no legal validity for ownership. The largest portion of the NFT market is buying pictures, pictures which are hosted externally and can be taken down without respect to the NFT contract.
So in the majority use-case you neither have the picture stored, nor have exclusive legal ownership. So you're buying access to a very fancy, very energy intensive, url link.
That's not even getting into the politically charged arguments. The whole reason we have child labor laws, minimum wage, and OSHA requirements is because raw, unchecked capitalism was terrible for 99% of people.
I'm just going to address the easy one here (child labor), but capitalism is hardly unique when it comes to treatment of workers. Historically, no one gives a damn about those stupid, ugly, low class hillbillies.
NFTs are wild though, I don't get why or how anyone thought they would be a thing.