What is something the world would be better without?

Billionaires. No one needs this much money and it's not helpful to have this much hoarded.

We get it, you won at capitalism, now actually contribute to the world around you

We would be ~1000 years in the future right now without Abrahamic faiths.

Poverty. It’s honestly something I don’t wish upon my worst enemy and the fact I’ve seen so much shit due to it, it’s something I can never get back and now will have to endlessly live with the pain until the day I literally die.

Religions, all of them

Religion

Trump

social media

Cancer

Jordan Peterson

Advertising

Capitalism

Conservatism.

Greed

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

Cancer.

Marketing departments.

Ads

Homelessness

A couple of strains of mosquito. We don’t need the two or three that bite humans. There are plenty of other strains that the bats and birds can eat.

Car-dependent suburban sprawl

Ticks

Capitalism.

Humans.

Cars. Or at least infrastructure systems that's entirely built just for cars.

Stocks and everything around them are an expression of the greed and baseness of our species.

Human ego.

If we were to get rid of that the world would probably be significantly better place.

• populism
• social media
• using religion for control and power
• mosquitoes
• unchecked corporate greed

Greed.

Advertising DRM Software Patents

Greed

Israel.

Landlords

ITT: religion and pests

This useless comment

Humans.

(Yes i am a Misanthrope)

Human beings.

Mosquitoes. There is literally no benefit of them existing.

What is something the world would be bett

Mosquitos!

That chair-leg-homing-behavior little toes seem to have.

Also, Jason. Because fuck Jason.

Social media Uncontrolled and unbridled capitalism (though don't throw out the baby with the bathwater) 70% of the cars Republican party Russian government Israeli government Hamas Terrorists Cancer Communism Dictators I can go on for a while....

Mosquitoes

Earthquakes

Oh look, a thread full of things that I fucking don't like. (love you all)

America

Yellowjackets - I hate mosquitoes but they just trying to live. Yellowjackets are assholes.

Trickle down economics.

There's a song where the singer lists a long long list of things that are wrong with the world, then says simply that if it was up to her, she'd take away the guns.

ETA: Found it

I also think the world would be a much better place if there were no sexually transmitted disease. Sex should just be fun and healthy, there's no need for that additional layer of risk.

Also limited liability corporate business structure ought never to have been made legal.

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Right wing ideologies

Fossil fuels.

Define "the world".

Are we talking about the actual ball of rock? The collective ecology of organisms living on it? Or specifically the human race's existence on the rock and within the ecology?

Starts with D ends in P.

Jessica

Fossil fuels.

Putin.

Magical thinking.

Five day working week.

MS Windows.

Tobacco, alcohol, etc.

They need more MDMA and cocaine though.

Smartphones

Multi cellular life

Israel.

Life

Private property.

This post

Vienna sausages

Porn

Shit like this -

"I think the world would be better without (insert idea)"

"Oh my god but what about (insert unbelievably niche reason why not)? Won't someone think of the incredibly niche exception?!?!?"

On every fuckin comment on Lemmy. You're not improving the world guys, you're making it insufferable

the us

israel

the west in general

liberalism

the bourgeoisie

Communism