A Boring Dystopia

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Young people today are stressed, depressed—and changing the fundamental pattern of happiness, new research shows (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] Passerby6497 8 points 4 months ago

I’ve never quite understood the prisoners dilemma. Millions vs a few, id definitely bet on the millions. It just sucks that we are all much to comfy to do anything about it (and half of that million would now happily fight for the few)

Its not comfort keeping us from doing anything, its that we're collectively too tired and stressed and wondering how we're going to keep making ends meet to organize and revolt. To perfectly illustrate the prisoner's dilemma: if the working class of the US banded together and did a general strike, we'd have what we want/need within a week due to what that would do to the economy and rich people's lines not going up. But too many of us would readily step into the spot that was just vacated by a striker because they're hungry and care more about survival than actions that would do more for them long term.