HandwovenConsensus

@HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting massively down voted. I really feel like this is a huge obstacle to mitigating poverty in the first world. People focus on appearances; getting rid of things that look poor even when they actually help people.

  Yes, it’s upsetting to see people taking such desperate measures. But those measures were taken in response to desperate need. If you fixed the need, then they would go away on their own. If you need to apply force to remove them, then you have not.

  It’s the same reason people oppose public transit, dense housing, and informal businesses. Things that are just part of life in the third world. But wealthy and middle class westerners have decided on behalf of poor westerners that poor westerners are top good for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I only know how it tends to work in China, where the traditional calendar is used for cultural events such as festivals, while the Gregorian calendar is used for just about everything else, including domestic business. I assumed it’s the same in most modern cultures with a different traditional calendar, but maybe I’m wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I know some cultures have a traditional lunar calendar, but I didn’t know there were many that didn’t also use the Gregorian calendar for business.

  Which cultures have the seven day week without the solar year?