Submitted by MrGuttFeeling t3_118j8pk in UpliftingNews
Took a freaking war to do what should have been done a long time ago, but good nonetheless I suppose.
Nothing like war to make serious changes to a nation's infrastructure. Though typically it's because they're rebuilding...
I mean Star trek didn't happen without a borderline society ending global war so I guess par for the course here?
Also took a freaking pandemic to have employers implement smart working, I wonder what will be the next catastrophe that pushes forward a big improvement for humanity?
My money is on water scarcity.
They will finally get on desalination at large scale maybe ?
This might be something that can be done with excess renewable generation capacity.
I’ve always been surprised it isn’t a priority
Or government's finally putting a stop to Nestle
Let's not get crazy right now
Nothing like an alien invasion to cause us to stop warring with each other and unite against a bigger threat.
Just kidding, that's an impossibility. Humans will be greedy and fight over resources til the end of time.
I suspect most Countries would happily offer up other peoples land and resources in exchange for security / trade.
Soil erosion or maybe some kind of super volcano.
Water scarcity is horrible, but it is a slow creeping issue that won't hurt the people in power until the end. I'm thinking something a bit more sudden, meteor or volcano perhaps.
We had a big tsunami some time ago, not sure if it improved the situation in those regions today. We also just had a big earthquake in Türkiye
Oh they rarely do bring about positive change, but they do have a chance to get work done in time.
I don’t know the answer to your question, but on the subject of smart working, why can’t cashiers have chairs? Seems unnecessary to have them always standing by a cash register.
That’s only a US thing. In every other country the unions demanded that on day one. It’s actually hard to fathom why this still exists in the US to be honest, it can’t affect profits surely?
Hell, it’s the law in the uk that if a job can be done sitting down then your employer needs to make reasonable efforts to have a chair available for you if you want or require one.
thanks for pointing that out, I thought I was misremembering cashiers sitting down
They have them at Aldi but that's about it.
I think it's just a bad mindset by employers. An "If you have time to lean you have time to clean" sort of thing.
Anyone in a low-skilled job is expected to suffer. It's a horrible mind-set.
Unfortunately many are working on bringing workers back in the office full time even if they're don't need to be for their role. Amazon is an example of one planning on going back soon, many smaller or lesser known companies I'm sure are doing the same.
It's unfortunate
Global warming, or rather, when there is never winter, and sea levels have gone up 50 meters, and The Netherlands is fully flooded.
Only way for them to realize "oh wait... It was real??? Why did no one tell me!!!"
Dont worry they are trying already hard to remove this progression by forcing ppl bacl to offices.
What took Trump 4 years to seriously weaken NATO, Putin has reinvigorated in 2 weeks!
Getting Europeans off their addiction to cheap Russian gas took Putin less than a year? Putin’s a genuine miracle worker!
It's a very Human thing
War has an odd habit of accelerating change and technology. It took a war to get us from flying as seeing as something inconvenient to intercontinental flight (World War 1). It took another war to get flying from 'convenience ' to 'get us to the moon' (World War 2). It took a war to show us the power of the atom, and harness it for nuclear energy (Again WW2). Hell, the Cold War gave us the internet (and therefore Reddit). A war to change how we view our common man (WW1 ended a lot of monarchies and was a great equalizer in many ways).
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