"People today recognise fewer than 10 plants, but over 1000 corporate logos"

I'm 14 and this is deep

In fairness if plants had their names written on them, I'd probably be able to identify those as well.

monsanto: "write that down, write that down!"

I'm skeptical about the 10 number, fruits and vegetables are plants.

Ok, then. Lets make a list of 11 plants easy to recognised to help society:

clover
dandelion
blackberry thorn
nettle
mint. There is different types so this one can be trickier that the others. The leaves are rounded or on the rounded-side and smell like mint when rub btw the finger
daisy
daffodil
cowslip
mallow
bindweed
oaktree

Here you go. Enjoy saving society from its decline.

what... how is this a dystopic thing. put aside the fact that knowing brands helps me make decisions all the time and knowing plants wouldn't help me at all since I'm not a forager... you could get rid of all corporations today and make us live in a perfect, moneyless, classless utopia and 20 years later I could still name maybe 4 different flowers because I don't give a shit what they're called.

Also brand marketing is built to sear their brand into your brain vs. plants who just vibe.
- I didn't touch that because that's part of the complaint. I'm saying even accepting that as something to complain about, surely you could have much better things to compare than fucking plant names.

If the names of the plants would be spelled for me under each plant every time then that would greatly enhance my memory.

Let’s make sure to shame the people being bombarded by advertisements for 90% of their lives. That’ll motivate them to be more cognizant of botany

This could as easily be read as a critique of modern capitalism for that very reason.

Broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, turnip, radish, collards and Mustard greens. 10 different plants, easy peasy!

I've got some bad news for you...
- I choose not to acknowledge it!

If plants had their names on their leaves I'd recognize a bunch of them as well.

is the number 1000 based on anything? i'm curious if there have been any studies on the amount of logos most people recognize. 1000 seems high but also not, so i wonder if there's science to back it up

It's obviously bullshit.

Could you imagine sitting through a survey with over a thousand logos and plants to be able to reach this conclusion?😆
- I think it would be possible to reach this conclusion. Using shorter surveys, like Google opinion surveys or something, asking people if they recognize 2-3 logos at a time, run a few hundred of those surveys over a few years and you could categorize each logo based on % of participants who recognized, anything over like 66% could be considered "generally recognizable" and then count how many generally recognizable logos you had.

To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don't tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.

while reading your comment I had a weird vision of flowering plants in a far off post-human apocalypse that looked like logos of companies.
- Don't give them any ideas.

Oh look, r/im14andthisisdeep finally migrated to Lemmy!

If you can't recognize most of the plants in the produce section, you really oughta be eating more fruits and vegetables. I don't really like veggies either and I still know more than 10 plants just in the category of food you can buy with a corporate logo on it.

Vegetables are often the root of the plant. Fruits are the… well fruit.

I think the context of this meme is about the plant as a specimen in nature.

Below is a picture of a carrot plant and onion plant.

If not for survival video games i would not have known.
- You R E A L L Y want to get your carrots/parsnips right when it comes to ID, though. Water hemlock is fatal if ingested, and several parsnips will give you gnarly blisters if you come into contact with their sap
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
  
  And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.
- onion flowers are my favorite type of flower. when they're in full bloom they get so pretty. i have a patch of bunching onions that i barely even eat, just keep them for the flowers each year. the patch is growing because each flower produces dozens of seeds

Plants rarely have their name written on them though

I always felt that broccoli was spelt the way it looked
- just proof of the successful campaign by Big Broccoli and the DRAM video 🥦 kids even went with the haircut
- I think broccoli and cauliflower should switch names, broccoli looks way more cauliflower and cauliflower way more broccoli.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
- Do we do that here? Can we not? I thought we agreed not to.

Because corporate logos are intentionally designed to evoke the brand they represent?

Also most people have little to no reason to identify plants. Most of the time we don't even eat the whole plant, we eat the fruit or the root or some very specific part of the plant. You could easily identify a potato, but could you identify a potato plant? There are a lot of plants where you see a part of it in the store but you've never seen the entire plant. I never knew I had asparagus growing in the garden because what is sold in the store is not what grown asparagus looks like. We don't eat grown asparagus, we eat the young shoots before they've turned woody. A grown asparagus is inedible and the berries are toxic.
Yeah, stupid nature. Doesn't even know the basics of brand recognition.
- Also most of the logos are just the name next to an icon. Plants only occasionally have thier name written next to them.

How many of those plants do ppl use in their daily lives? vs How many of those corporate products do they use in their daily lives?

It's a bullshit claim anyhow. Try only using logos that don't have the company name in them.

Cause we don't live in a forest anymore?

I knew there was something wrong with my place in Phoenix, AZ. Dang Democrats stole the forest!
- And the golf courses and lawns have made it humid! I thought it was supposed to be a "dry heat," fucking over 100° and 70% humidity every single time I have to visit. Either that of freezing. One time it snowed.... IN PHOENIX! Well, technically Mesa, but that's just a suburb of Phoenix.

To be fair, the Apple logo is also a plant.

And once you've eaten a rotten apple, you never forget.
Fruits aren't plants
- If you know the name of the fruit you usually know the plant, cause more often than not it's the name of the plant. For instance, apple comes from an apple tree.