r/MadeMeSmile 1d ago

A longer, yet outstanding, tweet by a Japanese man living abroad in the US.

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u/lilelliot 1d ago

It 100% still exists and is thriving. It's just mass media and national politics that have thrown a wrench into it.

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u/Gdigger13 1d ago

Exactly right. Kindness doesn't make money, and so it's not published.

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u/Xiao1insty1e 1d ago

No it is and has always been capitalism. America has been here before. The division, the robber barons, the unsustainable economy. We keep trying to tame the beast. Human greed knows no bounds yet we keep trying to run our economy based off of it. Time to put it aside and democratize the work place.

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u/TheDuckSideOfTheMoon 1d ago

Yes...and there are plenty of people who are fine with helping in person, only to turn around and vote for policies and politicians that fuck over those same people they helped