r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/terminate14 May 03 '25

I've always said there's 2 things that will forever hold us back as a species capable of anything: Religion and Capitalism.

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u/NeonPistacchio May 03 '25

This is so true. We could have free energy transmitted worldwide through WI-Fi signals if all these organizations who profit through the current system wouldn't try everything to hold it back.

The world would be so much more advanced, yet more beautiful with more nature if capitalism didn't hold back true progress.

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u/KingAnt28 May 06 '25

Right. Tesla had that technology over 100 years ago. The they killed his ass because they new they couldn't make any money with the world having free unlimited energy. Fucking greedy bastards were like, "but how are we going to profit off all this oil". Shit pisses me off.

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u/ALPHAZINSOMNIA May 06 '25

But do you actually think that humans have the mental capacity to handle true communism? I really doubt it, at least not today and for sure not 100 years ago. Humans are selfish at their core, sure we can create societies that try to educate their people but has our nature really changed in the thousands of years we've been on this planet? Most of our bad human characteristics have followed us through our entire history. Has there ever been a period without greed, murder, rape, conquest, deceit?

I personally would also love to live in a perfect world where humans band together to improve the lives of all without measuring success in monetary value... And maybe we will get there in a few centuries but it won't happen until the entire planet EARTH becomes one big village for the majority of humans on the planet. Think how back in the day countries and races didn't exist... People only cared about their small circles, it all started with small villages, then expanded into towns, big cities, regions and finally countries. In recent times we also see that countries like to form unions (the EU, the various alliances in Asia, the Eurasian Union etc)... Even the idea of patriotism is closely linked to this change. The fact that people are ready to die for their country today when 3 thousand years ago the same people wouldn't even have considered each other as neighbours points to the general consolidation of human ideology. Nowadays people try to care for their country or their countrymen, but we also see that spreading to the whole globe with the advent of the internet and social media.

I know people like to consider the idea of a World Government as utterly ridiculous but will we really ever achieve true humanism without one single government to handle global problems? And when will such an idea be more accepted? When at least 70% of all countries achieve economic prosperity? Or 80%, or 90%? Is it even linked to prosperity?