Society is insane...

[Full Steam]

The evidence for the prosecution;

Food that is labelled as "edible" is probably going to kill you.
Tools that are labelled "professional" will break the first time you use them.
Any body who calls themselves a guru is a no-nothing-bozzo.
90% of the people who lead us you wouldn't trust to water your plants while you went away on holiday.
Everyone wants cheaper everything but expects high quality.
Big health corporations are 100% focused on profit, while the health of their customers is just by product of the $billions.
Our democracies run on the votes of people who have zero understanding or interest in politics, economics, or even society in general, and who will vote based on who they voted for before, who their friends and family vote for and who they like best. In effect, most voters are not qualified to vote.

Any more evidence?

please....

 

[nowwhat]

You probably already have, but Netflix "Idiocracy". Every year it becomes less farcical comedy and more prophetic vision.

 

[Suzanne]

Everyone wants cheaper everything but expects high quality.

This is one area I do disagree with; because not everyone can afford to pay heavy prices for things, so it creates inequality and the law does state that the item for sale should do what it is supposed to do.

Everyone wants a bargain and there is nothing wrong in that.

My husband hates spending a huge amount on clothes, but sadly, testamont shows that because he buys cheap, he gets cheap and a pig to iron.

France is very much: you get with what you pay. In my country, the uk, you get really good bargains and yet, good quality.

It should be everyone's right to get something of good quality, but be within their price range.

Yes, though, society is insane and I know why, and happy to share why, but many do not wish to know the answer. Basically all this is prophecied to occur.

 

[xudo]

You probably already have, but Netflix "Idiocracy". Every year it becomes less farcical comedy and more prophetic vision.

Sadly, so true.

 

[nowwhat]

Sadly, so true.

I'm enjoying a tall glass of brawndo as I type this.

 

[Full Steam]

This is one area I do disagree with; because not everyone can afford to pay heavy prices for things, so it creates inequality and the law does state that the item for sale should do what it is supposed to do.

Everyone wants a bargain and there is nothing wrong in that.

My husband hates spending a huge amount on clothes, but sadly, testamont shows that because he buys cheap, he gets cheap and a pig to iron.

France is very much: you get with what you pay. In my country, the uk, you get really good bargains and yet, good quality.

It should be everyone's right to get something of good quality, but be within their price range.

Yes, though, society is insane and I know why, and happy to share why, but many do not wish to know the answer. Basically all this is prophecied to occur.

But high quality and fit for purpose are not the same thing.

You have a right that the thing you buy should be fit for purpose, but if you only buy cheap you have no right to expect high quality.

The only reason the UK has cheap clothes is because of cheap Chinese labour, and I actually think it's this that has seemingly broken the adage that you get what you pay for.

The adage is still true, but inequalities in hourly wages across the globe can make it seem other wise.

Added to which a brand name does not add real quantifiable value, yet that's what controls the prices of clothes. Yet more insanity.

I was more talking about unrealistic expectations anyway.

 

[wight]

Society? You mean Australian, or western democracy in general? If the latter, it has always been insane, from it's very conception 240-250 years ago. The experiment has failed, every western democracy is in collapse...it will take another 50 or 100 years to get there, but collapse they will. And we will revert to the historical pattern of civilization... a few really rich people, a few who figure out how to leach off the them, and everyone else in abject poverty.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Ultra capitalism. There should be balance in all things. Too much of one thing is never good. It is the responsibility of everyone to do their part when they can but too many people don't view subjects as 3D instead they see them in black and white, and the world doesn't work like that. Everything exists on a greyscale.

 

[Full Steam]

Society? You mean Australian, or western democracy in general?

I meant western society in general. I think Australian society has it's own special brand of insanity. Tony Abbott is a perfect caricature of our dumb insanity.

Also, Bikie's in pink prison overalls.
We'd clearly all die if we lived less than 3km away from a Coles AND a Woolworths, AND a Bunnnings, AND three or four petrol stations.
Then people complain that there's no Koalas around here any more.

Hmm, maybe it's because you put your own convenience before anything else on the planet.

...too many people don't view subjects as 3D instead they see them in black and white, and the world doesn't work like that. Everything exists on a greyscale.

Amazing how obvious that is, but it seems to escape 99.9% of humanity. I think that's the root cause of a huge amount of our social nuttiness.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

a Woolworths

Holy crap you have Woolworths in Australia?!

 

[Full Steam]

Holy crap you have Woolworths in Australia?!

Yeah, but it's not like the Woolies that you have/had? in the UK. They seemed to just sell CDs and chocolate as far as I can remember.

Woolworths and Coles are like Asda and Tescos, in a war to put their own supermarket on everyone's door step.

 

[xudo]

Yeah, but it's not like the Woolies that you have/had? in the UK. They seemed to just sell CDs and chocolate as far as I can remember.

Had. They went under big time. To be honest, sweets and CD's was about all the Woolies here used to sell anyway

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Yeah, but it's not like the Woolies that you have/had? in the UK. They seemed to just sell CDs and chocolate as far as I can remember.

Had.

Yeah, I had to look them up on the internet. I don't think they were the same company as the one in Britain. Interestingly enough, the British Woolworths have now been absorbed into Very. There was a period after they shut down over here where they were only online. But they never really advertised that so people just didn't know.

 

[Full Steam]

Had. They went under big time. To be honest, sweets and CD's was about all the Woolies here used to sell anyway

What a great business plan that was.

"What do we want to be known for? What unique position out of all the infinite possibilities should we choose?"

" err, chocolate and CDs? "

"Brilliant! We'll make a fortune!"

 

[WereBear]

What annoys me most is that I've paid for "better quality" and then not gotten it.

Two reasons:

1. China manufacturing is usually done with complete contempt for the workers, the consumers, the environment, and the product. When a company like Apple demands better products and better treatment of the workers, somehow they are the ones who are vilified for overseas manufacture: not the con artists.
2. MBA thinking. It's profit by spreadsheet; "Look, if we downgrade the wood to this slurry made of glue and sawdust, and make the screws half as long as they should be, this number down here goes up! We're geniuses!"

Combine these two and you have our platform bed, sold with a picture that had been taken before the whole thing had been made with crap materials, and currently three years old and falling apart.

This was supposed to be furniture.

 

[Full Steam]

Industrialisation and process improvement, neither of which I have a problem with, but if society was sane, there would be some kind of control to link everything back to the happiness and value for the customers.

But it's just bean counters, share holder value, and fat cat execs - an unholy trinity of self centred f&^k-every-one-elseness.

 

[Full Steam]

The industrialisation and process improvement of the human food chain is another glaring sign that this beast needs chaining up.

Farmers feed cows Skittles, and we eat the yummy, meat from the cows.
Some US farmers are 'feeding cows Skittles'

"Some locals say they're concerned about eating animals who have consumed Skittles.

However, others argue that if humans can eat the confectionary, it should be fine for animals to do the same."

Of course cows can eat Skittles. If humans have evolved to be able to safely eat tons of Skittles why can't the cows?

Oh wait... WHAT!!!

 

[OkRad]

This is what I love about autism. It took 35 years and a TBI to realize I can dislocate from the madness. I love to go down my Autism Rabbit Hole. It's AWESOME down here. Safe, happy, calm, and away from the insanity.

 

[fuðflogi]

Halaluja!

 

[Riley]

Not to mention:

• Being humble, respectful, and acknowledging your mistakes gets you nowhere. Whereas being a brat and responding negatively to criticism while also having a massive ego makes you popular.
• The *tiniest* things can offend a person.
• Positivity and optimism ARE allowed...Just as long as the majority likes that person.
• Abusive relationships are okay if the abuser is crippled/disfigured/etc,.
• Jokes about tragedies such as Columbine, Aurora, 9/11 and Boston are fine as long the butt of your joke is something everyone hates (Twilight, Batman & Robin, etc,.).