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Imagine you're walking with someone and they get shit on by a bird but they try to pretend it didn't happen. That would be way more awkward right?

I think the other answers people are giving are wrong. It's backed by debt and the enforcement of that debt.

Is this a post about racism

For that you would have to completely change how currency is issued and managed. Money is created by being borrowed directly or indirectly from the central bank, and the reason it is possible for those loans to later be repaid is because even more money is loaned out later, so it's not going to be a game of musical chairs where there isn't enough money going around to pay them all back, they keep bringing in more chairs. There is always an increasing amount of money in the system, and they make it that way on purpose to keep things running the way they want them to.

Personally what I hate about this setup is, a person who meets the requirements to obtain a business loan can now take this money that was created out of thin air, use it to coerce labor out of people who have no way to get money other than working, and keep the profits. What if our lives would all be better off working a bit less? Too bad, that decision isn't up to us, how much we must work is indirectly decided by monetary policy, which the average person realistically has zero influence over, and the goal is a high level of "economic activity", ie. as many people as possible subject to financial coercion.

Stuff like getting rid of these things makes so much sense, I don't understand how some people can think human cooperation isn't important.

Here's an idea: gameplay sort of like Goblin Cleanup, you have various chores you have to do cleaning and arranging the various levels of the tower at night while the dragon is home, and your work has to pass an inspection. Then during the day you are locked in your room, and have some ability to watch a prospective rescuer attempt the dungeon crawl without your direct input. But you can strategically arrange items, enemy spawns, and Dark Souls style hints to try to tip the scales during the chores phase. So kind of like a tower defense game in reverse where you are trying to lose.

Complex requirements for social media websites to verify the identity of users, respond to spurious automated takedown requests, provide authorities with backdoors, etc. I think instead of explicit bans, it's more likely they pass a regulations that are made for large websites with lawyers and algorithmic moderation, which are in practice not something fediverse instance operators can safely deal with and go against the basic values of the open internet.

They’re free to reject it

When I was young, insecure about my sexual inexperience, convinced I was worth less than others, and on 4chan all the time, there were some levels on which I really did not understand that, which led to some uncomfortable situations, and could easily have led to worse ones. Flirting isn't really something you analyze and make decisions about anyway, if someone isn't responding to it, maybe that says something about how they are feeling and should be respected regardless of if they understand on a conscious level what is going on.

It's ok but it's like this idea that they should be ashamed for not thinking to do it, like it's their obligation as a man or something

Why does this type of greentext feel so manipulative