What is something the world would be better without?

Billionaires. No one needs this much money and it's not helpful to have this much hoarded.

We get it, you won at capitalism, now actually contribute to the world around you

Nobody _earns a billion dollars. It can only be stolen and exploited from other peoples' labor.
- Out of curiosity, let's say I'm a video game developer and I make games by myself (no team). I have a hit success and sell 300 milion copies worldwide for an average of $20 a piece and am now a billionaire.
  Was that money stolen or exploited? If so, how? If not, how does that jive with your stated position?
Yeah we really need an upper limit for wealth. In video games you would eventually cap the score, and billionaires are far in excess of that. Reminds me of that episode of Ducktales where Scrooge celebrates that he has become so rich he no longer has to pay taxes because they cannot be calculated any more.

We would be ~1000 years in the future right now without Abrahamic faiths.

- Talked about this a ton with an LLM a couple months back. The thing is, there was never an alternative that captured a similar psychotic zealotry. All groups have their faiths throughout the same eras, but none match the exported hate, murder, and industrial scale slaughter of other humans like the Abrahamic faiths. Confusion Monks never invaded France. Buddhists never occupied Scandinavia. The hate, death, and constant conflict of the Abrahamic faiths are the absolute most toxic and harmful aspect of all of humanity. The most deadly conflict since WW2 has been in Africa over the last few years. Most of the west isn't even talking about this. It is a Abrahamic in origin. Gaza is the same. It has all been like this for 2500 years of constant killing. Other places had minor issues, but they never exported and in the present, these others are mostly in decline. If you take away the Abrahamic faiths, I bet all are gone in half a millennia. The man was as schizophrenic as the nations and peoples he left in his wake. Taming the ghost of the worlds most psychotic killer changes everything for the better.
- I am equally confident there will never be enough time
I'm an atheist and think we'd be better off if we moved beyond religion. That said, I don't think it's true we'd be so much farther ahead without it.
Looking at early humans I think religion was a competitive advantage, because it organized groups of people who might not otherwise have worked together. It allowed us to move beyond tribal affiliation, to create a common "operating system" for societies and conceive of and pursue multigenerational goals.
I think we can do all that stuff now without religion, but also think we need more explicitly defined structures and institutions to fill the role religion has played.
I really liked that in Raised by Wolves it was an alternate timeline where there was no Christianity.
Instead the religious fanatics eradicating the atheists were Mithraics.

Poverty. It’s honestly something I don’t wish upon my worst enemy and the fact I’ve seen so much shit due to it, it’s something I can never get back and now will have to endlessly live with the pain until the day I literally die.

Pocerty is crazy. When i grew up, i didn't really know any poor people. The closest i got was a family that moved here from Sarajevo, because they had a war going. They weren't poor, because we have a good safety net for things like that (for the most part.) when i got older, there was the occasional beggar in the city. When i was 20 ish, i went to canada for two weeks, and ithey had not only more beggars, they had different beggars. Like i have never seen someone going through a garbage bin to find food. I talked to a guy in a suit who was eating a donut that i threw away. He lost his job like 3 weeks ago and was on the street pretty much from one week to another. I'm not shitting on canada at all, it was just the first time that i left europe.

Religions, all of them

Religion

Well, I liked learning about the ethics some religions have like budhism and so on.
But I totally agree with that when I see various countries being controlled by religion.
- That’s the thing though, most people don’t view a religion as an ethical lens, they view it as a dogma to be followed unconditionally under threat of eternal torture.

Trump

Nature abhorres a vacuum, and we could get someone worse instead, someone actually smart.

Cancer

It's kind of a side effect for us having regenerating cells. From what I understand it's an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that emerge from us living long lives with - relatively - versatile/adaptable bodies. In some ways it's amazing that our bodies work at all.
That said, it's not easy to be philosophical about it when you or someone you know is affected. Lost a family friend to cancer just a few months ago.

Jordan Peterson

Canada supports this message. God I wish that fuck would close his fucking trap.
At the end of the day he's a fragile human being who appears to suffer from moderately bad mental health issues. I'd argue that he is more of a symptom of something going wrong with our society than a cause, even if he does amplify certain undesirable viewpoints.
If he didn't exist some other charlaton would get niche internet celebrity status by making hot takes from a similar perspective.
He causes no harm to the people who don't like him but he has helped thousands of young men sort their lives out and get their shit together. This has objectively made a huge positive impact in the world.
- He became popular by harming people.
- He's literally a disgraced neo-nazi.
- Just young men?

Advertising

Capitalism

Conservatism.

The only thing they "conserve" is a low age of consent.

Greed

Cancer.

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

Marketing departments.

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Homelessness

We have the ability to end homelessness, at least in more developed countries, but the people in charge would rather send the homeless to prison for daring to find a place to sleep. At least in the US, I don't know how other places handle the homeless.

Ads

A couple of strains of mosquito. We don’t need the two or three that bite humans. There are plenty of other strains that the bats and birds can eat.

Bats don't really eat them.
Like, they do, but it's mostly incidental.

Capitalism.

Car-dependent suburban sprawl

Ticks

and Leeches
- At least Leeches are useful in medicine, even today! I'm convinced Ticks have no ecological benefit or traits worthy of study apart from those necessary to ensure their eradication. Perspectives to the contrary from tick lovers and biologists welcome, however!

Humans.

i think there neat.

Cars. Or at least infrastructure systems that's entirely built just for cars.

Stocks and everything around them are an expression of the greed and baseness of our species.

Human ego.

If we were to get rid of that the world would probably be significantly better place.

populism
social media
using religion for control and power
mosquitoes
unchecked corporate greed

Agreed except for mosquitoes. The eradication of them would seriously disrupt the natural order. But yeah fuck mosquitoes.
- I hate mosquitos enough to be willing to roll the dice on this one
- Bullshit nobody would miss them if they went and that's scientific fact. FOH with that hippy-dippy "live and let live" BS.

Greed.

Advertising DRM Software Patents

The way it reads is that DRM intended for use with software patents should not be advertised

Greed

Landlords

Israel.

Israel was fine for the first few thousand years. The problem is the current acting individuals in the state.
- I'm happy for the region to exist.
  The state, not so much.
  The experiment was a failure, give the land back to Palestine.
  Maybe the Israelis can go to Egypt and demand their old jobs back.

ITT: religion and pests

This useless comment

If this site is anything to go by, there have been worse.

Humans.

(Yes i am a Misanthrope)

you could start with yourself
- I think it's more valuable to convince others not to have kids than to off myself
- Not cool. Do not incite suicide.
- That would be only one less hunans.He can do better if he puts his back into it.

Human beings.

Mosquitoes. There is literally no benefit of them existing.

They are a major food source for other animals, pollinators and they spread diseases (which is very beneficial for the diseases).
- I know you are right. But my hate for those bastards keep me from saying something nice about them.
Do you know what mosquitoes eat? Nectar. They're pollinators.
- But they also eat my nectar. I dont like it
  (I didnt knew it, thought that they could die without consequences)

What is something the world would be bett

Mosquitos!

Social media Uncontrolled and unbridled capitalism (though don't throw out the baby with the bathwater) 70% of the cars Republican party Russian government Israeli government Hamas Terrorists Cancer Communism Dictators I can go on for a while....

I can go on for a while....
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That chair-leg-homing-behavior little toes seem to have.

Also, Jason. Because fuck Jason.

Also fuck... Was it Bianca? Fuck whoever that chick is who sold the guy's PS3 to pay for... Was it a manicure?

Oh look, a thread full of things that I fucking don't like. (love you all)

America

Yellowjackets - I hate mosquitoes but they just trying to live. Yellowjackets are assholes.

I'm wearing one right now though, they're cozy.

Earthquakes

I sat through one this morning.

Mosquitoes

Trickle down economics.

There's a song where the singer lists a long long list of things that are wrong with the world, then says simply that if it was up to her, she'd take away the guns.

ETA: Found it

I also think the world would be a much better place if there were no sexually transmitted disease. Sex should just be fun and healthy, there's no need for that additional layer of risk.

Also limited liability corporate business structure ought never to have been made legal.

Right wing ideologies

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

It's been twisted so far from its original intention.

Define "the world".

Are we talking about the actual ball of rock? The collective ecology of organisms living on it? Or specifically the human race's existence on the rock and within the ecology?

If we narrow it down to all organic life on the planet, the answer is: humans.
- humans are part of the organic life on this planet (and since recently even outside) and your proposal would be pretty bad for them. fuck off ecofash

Fossil fuels.

Starts with D ends in P.

one of those is not like the others
- All are bad, idk what you mean

Jessica

@Phen True, Roger Rabbit would be so much better without her. :D
I don't know who Jessica is but I bet she must have done something to piss you off.

Tobacco, alcohol, etc.

They need more MDMA and cocaine though.

Ehhh. Maybe more mushrooms and ketamine
- Ketamine is more in the ballpark of being bad for your body like cocaine than MDMA is. More addictive and can damage your kidneys/bladder with long term use. It also puts a moderate amount of strain on your heart like what happened with Matthew Perry earlier this year.

Smartphones

Multi cellular life

Private property.

Life

This post

Vienna sausages

How dare you?!
Sincerely, an Austrian
- Are you seriously denying that Käsekrainer and Bernerwürstel are a lot better?
- Surely the Viennese don't claim these? https://www.armour-star.com/vienna-sausages

Porn

I think the world could be better without people vocally losing their minds over some harmless fun. Ignore it if you don't like and move on, or if you're so wrapped up in being online that you can't ignore it I suggest you touch grass
It's a thought experiment, calm your titts

the us

israel

the west in general

liberalism

the bourgeoisie

Does that include Russia?
- what has that to do with what i said? or are just another fascist drooling about endangered civilians due to them having the "wrong" ethnicity?
  edit: statement was based on an misunderstanding, see below

Communism

Your government is never lowering the age of consent, get over it.
- What kind of a sick fuck thinks disliking communism makes u a pedo. You have serious problems maybe stop projecting.
ohh nooo! them evil asiaric barbarians want to improve our lives, how horrible!
thank ~~mammon~~ god that we saved them by giving them shock therapy and with it the great carrier options of crime and prostitution.
we are so civilized.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. Communism is a pretty bad thing.
- I said it as a joke cos someone said capitalism its an excellent example of lemmys political bias. I find it very interesting that lemmy embodies so many of the ideals of the marketplace of idea a fundamentally libertarian concept yet it has a bias towards the extreme left that fundamentally hate the concept.
- Maybe one or two more genocides/famines and then they might relise.