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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by snausagesinablanket to c/showerthoughts

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I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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[–] paddirn 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anything they’ll start tunneling under the Earth to escape the brutal conditions they created on the surface.

[–] brygphilomena 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long until they farm us and eat us?

Ah, who am I kidding? Morlocks and Eloi would never happen. They wouldn't give us free food.

[–] Thoth19 8 points 1 year ago

I think you have that analogy backwards. The point was that the industrial proletariat stayed underground while the bourgeois regressed into the eloi bc they had built the overworked utopia and had no need to do anything. This is the literal way the rich.

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 1 year ago

They're safer going to mars or Venus. Once they are in their bunkers, there's nothing to stop a whole lot of us from sealing the air intakes with concrete.