This is the second of fourteen trolley problem memes I saved a decade ago. There’s another batch down the line from a month or so after that.

  • homes@piefed.world
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    26 days ago

    Or, are you in fact obligated to lead a popular revolt, burn the corporate headquarters down, and assassinate the CEO so that nobody else’s wife gets run over by trolleys? Then take over the trolley system and turn it into scalable public transit funded by the taxes of billionaires.

    Think big

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      lead a popular revolt

      “Guys, we need to band together and do a popular revolution to save my wife!”

      “Fuck you, I’m not sticking my neck out just because you lost the Omelas Lottery”

      “Well, then I’m going in solo”

      “You’ll only make things worse!”

      • CptInsane0@lemmy.world
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        “we need to put together a committee so we can write a tweet that condemns, blasts, and slams, and then we vote to give more money to the private company for security because someone keeps blowing up their level fortresses.”

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        Most of the money is virtual, and vanishes with their shitty companies. They buy mansions with bank loans that are based on the imaginary collateral and some sort of assumption the billionaires will pay them back someday.

        I’m pretty sure that’s what’s really keeping the system in place.

        • youcantreadthis@quokk.au
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          Money has always been fake pure abstraction the difference between a coin and a poker chip is how cool it is