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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Humans like to make their scores go up, even unimportant scores. To encourage better behavior, society should very carefully create a number of scores that a person can track that positively impact society.

The numbers should only be for positive things.
There should be several independent scores.

Currently, individuals keep score based on net worth, number of cars/houses/lovers, etc.

This is NOT the same as the "social credit score". There can be no punishment for doing poorly.

Some options to contribute to the brainstorming.

For people:

  • Number of people positively impacted.
  • Number of cats pet.
  • Number of dogs complimented.
  • Amount of trash picked up from the streets/parks/beaches/public places.
  • Hungry people fed.

For businesses:

  • Number of employees succeeding at life (I do not have a tight definition.)
  • $ contributed to local public schools.
  • Paid volunteer hours of employees to the community.
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[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Yes Corporate Social Responsibility reports, ftw! /s