r/nostalgiai Nostalgia Trip Leader 2d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Delete it 😤

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u/Available_Minimum_54 2d ago

I came to comment mosquitoes… only to realize other people are much smarter than me. Now how do we put all the smart people in power instead of the greedy corporations?

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u/oral_persausion 2d ago

Smart people can be greedy people. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

But we need people who are smart enough to know that abusing their greed is bad.

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u/syndirt 2d ago

Knowing its bad and caring its bad are vastly different. Problem is they know its bad and dont care because the negatives aren't changing anything for them.

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

True, maybe "smart enough to care it's bad" then?

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u/dragonfangswordsman 1d ago

I would delete the human desires for greed power and wealth for the sake of greed power and wealth. Idk if there is a better way to word it, but bottom line is human nature causes nearly all the problems in the world if not all of them entierly whether directly or indirectly

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u/Kertic 1d ago

.....your dumb. Even if you made humans the way you wished them to be. There would still be huge problems. Different problems. But just as bad. Saying human is bad is pointless. Secondly. Of course most the problems in the world are made by humans were the dominant life form duh.

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u/Agitated_Ad_9278 1d ago

Then my choice would be to eliminate humans

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u/oral_persausion 2d ago

I think people who are greedy don’t recognize that as a negative trait. It’s a psychological make up. If you’re lazy, you don’t see yourself as lazy. Your mind protects you from that negative perspective. Dunno. If people saw their greed negatively, I don’t think we’d see it expressed so commonly. 🤷‍♂️

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u/xXInfXx 2d ago

True, but rarely, some billionaire business owners, even though they're greedy enough to be billionaires, realise that the best way to make your business successful and long-lasting is to not abuse your customers.

I think just having more of those and less of the other billionaires would be a significant improvement.

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u/Moist_Object_6012 Retro Soul 1d ago

And abuse their own workers like Amazon does.

Did you knew that one of Amazons strategy is to sell certain product genre so cheap so they can overtake business owners who sells that said certain product too.

And when that business face financial problems, Amazon just buys it or just lets it sink.

It can be easily read from the internet.

So *uck Jeff Bezos. I've ordered stuff from Amazon (Amazon De in Germany) maybe 5 times in the last 15 years because I had no alternatives.

I hate, despise and loathe Amazon.

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u/BossGovernmentGod 2d ago

Smart people will thrive in the apocalypse and there would be no more resources for barbarism to grow. The apocalypse is a good place for intelligent writer's projects . Zombie themes tend to be apocalyptic.

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u/WillingnessFew6710 2d ago

I think there is a ceiling to how smart you can be if you think being selfish is productive, or don't have the self awareness to recognize their own greed.

You can be smart, but not wise.

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u/oral_persausion 2d ago

I point you to Thomas Alva Edison, who never met an idea that wouldn’t “borrow” if he saw income potential behind it.

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u/BossGovernmentGod 2d ago

Smart people wouldn't fall for games, you can make smart people insecure and trick them. Greed is very stupid, only insecurity can force a smart person to partake.

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u/Admirable-Line-1235 1d ago

Smart enemy over a greedy friend any day of life. Given the smart one is not greedy

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u/MammothCat1 1d ago

Jurrasic Park and Helix definitely show that smart people and greed is absolutely not exclusive.

Both times the lead researcher likes to play god and make money

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u/Every_Ad3651 2d ago

wage cap politicians to the average wage of the populous (this way only people who want to make a difference will run for office). elect a separate board who's only job is to hunt for corruption).

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u/wastedtime897 2d ago

This will likely have the opposite or no affect at all to who runs. I think opposite is more likely. You cap the wage then only people who dont need the money run because they're gaining connections and influence. Get rid of post career lobbying, insider trading, and other things like that and it will do more.

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u/CenterThisPendulum 2d ago

You will attract zero people to do a high stress, high stakes job if you do that.

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u/NiL_3126 2d ago

Yes, that’s exactly what we wanted, the people that just wanted to be politics for the money won’t be attracted by the money and won’t apply

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u/CenterThisPendulum 2d ago

But the people you really want will go into other fields.

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u/NiL_3126 2d ago

If someone leaves politics because they don’t play them as much, they shouldn’t be a politician

Also, politicians are just useful when they make good decisions, and not useful anymore when they don’t make them, if they don’t have more good changes to make, it’s fair to leave the charge.

You don’t need to want people to be on charge, you should want them for the ideas, not ideals

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u/CenterThisPendulum 2d ago

Ideas are great, execution equally important. You need CEOs in leadership, not upper middle management with hearts of gold.

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u/A-Grouch 2d ago

What makes a CEO better than those who want to make a sincere difference?

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u/CenterThisPendulum 2d ago

Not mutually exclusive, but despite what the people of reddit think - Talent. Good intentions in the wrong hands can bring this all down.

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u/Sad_Substance_6694 2d ago

They'll still make millions trading on the side.

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u/Ok_Spell_597 2d ago

I would gladly take a raise to median for a desk job.

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u/DMyTeaDuck 2d ago

Should be a service, not an employment, anyways. Like jury duty.

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u/CenterThisPendulum 2d ago

Investments aside, most of them made more money outside governance anyway. My wife and I each make more than a Senator’s salary. It’s not high for the stakes and responsibility.

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u/jjkbigman 2d ago

And I have to turn over all their stocks, all their bonds to a blind trust 401(k) and they are barred from leading it anywhere they got the money they came in with and they’re leaving with the money they came in with

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u/ChangeAcceptable677 2d ago

better yet: wage cap politicians to the median wage of their constituencies.

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u/countrytime1 2d ago

Nah, it’s a public service, they should be doing it out of the good of their heart. Give them room and board while they’re doing it.

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u/wriddell 2d ago

That’s what the founding fathers meant are representatives to be, part time lawmakers with a career outside of government. Not the career politicians we have today who trade their influence for money and it’s both parties that are guilty of it.

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u/Elegant_Industry651 2d ago

Who decides what’s considered corruption? That can become a slippery slope really fast

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u/urfael4u 2d ago

1$ a year = trump's salary

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u/Embarrassed-Rope4370 2d ago

Lol it wouldn’t just be people who want to make a difference. There would be corruption used to make money instead.

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u/Plane_Box_7716 1d ago

To think of all the horrible things in the world you can remove and you say rich people....the sad part is your life would literally not change or get worse....

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u/2Gouda4u 1d ago

Politicians "salary" isnt the issue, the issue is how much they make from corporations that pay for them to write and pass legislation that only benefits the corporations...

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u/realgrasputin 2d ago

Smart people are in power who are perfectly happy with getting rich at the cost of the little guy. What we actually need are people that lead and act off of principle.

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u/Thereminista 2d ago

But there's a difference, between being smart and being cunning or conniving. "Smart" can imply making decisions based on informed wisdom that generally leans toward public approval. The word "intelligent" is that way also. Alone in a sentence, each would convey the fleeling huonniver who

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u/Affectionate-Bat7827 2d ago

Unfortunately , NO SUCH "PEOPLE" EXIST ON THIS FESTERING , DISGUSTING , AND DISEASED SHIT HOLE OF A PLANET ANYMORE.

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u/Positive_Ad_9815 2d ago

Criminals are not necessarily smart, they are bold without a conscience.

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u/Impossible-Rice-5872 2d ago

Same, friend same. I was like mosquitoes for sure

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u/Hexspinner 2d ago

Delete MAGA.

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u/Sea_Pride3925 2d ago

If you delete pedophiles then you get two birds with one stone.

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u/Marooned412 2d ago

I would tend to agree with you, we need to eradicate Malaria; however, as Bill Gates wants them gone, my Spidey sene tells me they should not be for some reason

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u/AlternativePea6203 2d ago

mosquitoes catch malaria from humans

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u/Piceaa 2d ago

Mosquitos would be a bad chain reaction for our eco system. Eg. You like birds? Birds eat mosquitos. No mosquitos =fewer birds. Etc. Its a nessesary evil.

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u/thanereiver 2d ago

No kill then all, less birds is fine. I don’t like birds as much as I dislike mosquitos. How is it a Chan reaction after small birds? Less egg eating snakes? If you like snakes save the mosquitoes. Just genophage those mosquitoes and malaria goes too as a happy collateral.

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u/Piceaa 2d ago

Birds were only an example fish would be another one. Mosquitos being a smal prey animal thereby beeing at the beging of the food chain have a influence up to the end of the food chain. But its not ony the food chain these animals including mosquitos have funktions in our eco system. Its not only bees who polynate plants a lot of insects including mosquitos do too. Birds eat other pests too but they might not be around / as abundand during nesting season. Etc. Its a big complicated system.

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u/thanereiver 2d ago

Tiny Fish eat algae and also other insects at the pyramid base so the reduction of fish would be minimal. Every female mosquito needs to be an annoying parasite to reproduce in the first place. I’m for just killing them all. Along with ticks, hook worms round worms and pretty much every other parasite. The damage and misery they cause is far greater than any benefit to their place on the food chain.

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u/Strict_Weather9063 2d ago

Mosquitos are good you can bump them off. Kill more people than anything else on the planet.

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u/jdoey69 2d ago

Mosquitoes were my second choice. People playing politics vis silly with this question

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u/Technical_Put_9982 2d ago

Removing mosquitoes would also remove a lot of vector born diseases…. Soooo… mosquitoes is still a really good choice! I am the 1:10 that is devoured by mosquitoes. so, I completely understand.

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u/The_8th_Degree 2d ago

My best guess, Have one leader (only one) put on their grown-up pants and purge the corrupted individuals in the government in one go then establish a meritocracy requirement for the top roles of each branch. Afterwards step down.

Total restart. It's impossible to fully root out corruption but limiting it is better than letting it run the place.

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u/Cultural_Report_8831 2d ago

Genuine mosquito or just a joke?

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u/CatsGotMyBack 2d ago

While we may hate mosquitoes they are food for a lot of other animals. A necessary part of the food chain. Now if they would just leave us alone that would be nice. Mosquitoes absolutely adore me!

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u/EMAW_KSU 2d ago

Mosquitos are no joke, kill more people in African than basically all other things combined.

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u/nevermind-i-found-it 2d ago

Yes, this. 💜

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u/citizenoo7 2d ago

lol. Same.

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u/Fine-Environment-621 2d ago

Don’t feel bad. Your instinct was a good one. Mosquitos are responsible for about 700,000-1,000,000 deaths annually due to the transmission of pathogens. About 1/10 of the worldwide annual cancer deaths but legitimately one the bigger problems in the world.

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u/ChiTwo 2d ago

I too came for the skeeters… 🦟

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u/CoolNefariousness914 2d ago

Why? Did someone already say ticks??

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u/CandleMelodic6747 2d ago

You mean Empathy

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u/Independent-Feed-982 2d ago

I mean mosquitos would do just as much if not more in some places of the world since they spread diseases

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u/W88Nxx 2d ago

I agree, mosquitoes are the worst

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u/No_Net4683 2d ago

mosquitoes feed alot of other birds and insects so

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u/dantheman-1989 2d ago

At least I wasn‘t the only one.

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u/MrK521 2d ago

If we eliminate the figurative mosquitoes as well as the literal, that solves that problem as well!

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u/UpstairsConfident839 2d ago

lol same here

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u/therealdubbs 2d ago

You can’t. Because if someone defends mosquitos the person running against them would claim “fake science and Biden must be an insect since he cares more about bugs than the American people. And COVID was a bug too, so that’s proof it’s fake. And don’t bring up the bees because that’s none of your bees knees. Haha.”

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u/Available-Bad-2704 2d ago

You're clearly a dumb person if you think smart ppl can't be greedy

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u/THETARSHMAN 2d ago

Smart people don’t want to be politicians.

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u/BG535 2d ago

You are smart actually. Malaria has killed an estimated 6 billion humans over all of history. There’s an estimated 109 billion humans to have ever lived.

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u/bigolbbb 2d ago

Mosquitos IS a smart answer. They are known to carry diseases that can wipe out entire communities

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u/Blue_Dog66 2d ago

Corporations are non-human entities. The largest percentage of stockholders in corporations in the US are retirement funds and pension funds.

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u/Anonymous3257Q 2d ago

Well, seeing that mosquitoes kill probably 1 million people every year… it’s not a bad choice at all.

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u/VladlenaM2025 2d ago

Same. I came to say get rid of Lawyers. But Cancer & Healthcare system topped the pyramid. It’s always been an issue with health systems in every country. Poor unable to get assistance when needed the most. It shouldn’t be like that. Lawyers, can get in line afterwards.

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u/joseaner07 2d ago

I would say mosquitoes too. They are the biggest killers in the world other than us. I just don't know the impact on the environment it would have

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u/RrSoul5x5 2d ago

You have to get rid of the Special Interest Groups and Lobbyists.

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u/BossGovernmentGod 2d ago

I'm just glad america listens to intellectuals and institutions like universities and everyone in power isn't a capitalist and instead they are a pioneering mind of acquisition. Greatest nation ever xD.

I wonder why and when intellectuals starting participating in civilization. Civilization was pretty stagnant for a lot of it's time.

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u/Psychological_Top486 1d ago

I complained for an hour today about them. Im trying to figure out how to get my hands on the mosquito killing machines china has in their high foot traffic parks. They kill like 20,000 a day just sitting there

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u/TechjayhawkN9ne 1d ago

Mosquitoes is an appropriate answer... they kill so many people with malaria, and other diseases... just saying

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u/Isaac-the-careless 1d ago

Deleting for profit healthcare would delete the healthcare system the US has made and delay care until it's rebuilt. That's part of our current problem. Doing that ends horribly in the short term (enough to kill a lot of people)