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by ixvvqktiwl 2181 days ago
I appreciate your comment, even if it's unpopular. I agree that our priorities (as a society) are out of whack and not supported by the data. In my opinion I think we have much bigger problems than corona, but people are largely driven by whatever makes the front page of their preferred media platform every day.

If anything, this corona thing has taught us that we can make real changes if needed. The truth is, people don't want to fix many of the problems we face day to day, for a variety of reasons, but largely because fixing them would be unprofitable for a small number of people who control most of the means of production.

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Yes humanity is facing multiple issues. Racism, pollution, global warming, lack of freedom, torture, etc etc etc.. Many people monetize on this by throwing more fuel to their fires-of-preference (the bloody foreigners, the bloody <insert groups you want to blame for the misfortunes of your country>).

We can find 100 ways to hate one another but only a couple to unite and solve these.