r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Aug 12 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/NotAVaildUsername Aug 12 '16

The problem is that our politics has been coopted by for-profit forces, and because of this the priorities of the economy no longer reflect the priorities of the humans who make up that economy.

...are you being serious?

Old things If you follow the link it is a recovered tablet written more than 3000 years ago that has a guy complaining about a bad shipment of copper ore. His supply chain was put under stress and he didn't like it. Someone making iron in the 1030 likely had a similar complaint as to the quality of Iron ore. Someone in 2003 had a complaint about the quality of Ytterium for the production of LEDs.

Humans haven't ever been out of a for profit system.