Yeah, but unfortunately a lot of people are lazy shitheads who are so out of shape they can’t ride a bike. That’s ignoring the horrifying infrastructure that puts you in the middle of cars driven by angry idiots.
It’s a good fact, but I don’t think we’ll get there without the left taking power and forcing the issue, or somehow playing to the emotions of reactionary fuckheads. Facts don’t convince them so it has to be emotions.
They don’t care about lying. What’re you going to do about it? Nothing. And that’s why they persist.
They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.
Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.
The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.
I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.
You seem to have imagined a link between
This has to end, nobody is worth that much. Even if they were, they shouldn’t have that much, because nobody needs that much.
And
Billionaires are a symptom of a society that is sick.
as if they were trying to say that the people in the articles are billionaires. That’s illusionary. There’s a full stop.
This
will never be reasonable that some people make hundreds of times what other make on a full time job.
Was the point. That some are only millionaires is irrelevant. Billionaire is a subtype of “too rich” used as an example.
No fundamental facts are in error.
Billionaires are a subcategory of people with too much money.
But also what’s your point here? Just pedentry? Defending CEO wealth at this 614:1 ratio? Defending billionaires right to exist?
The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.
The sequence as I understand it is
If anything, you pointing out that the CEOs aren’t billionaires is a distraction from the point.
You can live a comfortable life with $5 million in the bank. No one needs $17m a year.
Conservatives want small government when it’s stuff they want to do, and big government when they don’t. In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Bad people. Cartoon villains.
Glad this judge seems sensible.
A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of
The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.
Right?
I have someone in the friend group getting some gender surgery and I was like, “that’s great but please don’t tell me any of the gory details.” I don’t want to hear about surgery details no matter what part of the body is being modified.
That and some people take excessive resources, and some people are willing to back them up in exchange for table scraps.
Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.
Yeah, the Senate is a bad idea. If the US was a collection of little sovereign states mostly independent maybe it would make sense. But it’s not.
Get rid of the Senate. Add more seats to the house.
Get rid of lifetime appointments of supreme court justices. Pull them up from lower courts to hear cases, then send them back.
I used to care more about work. But this job pays garbage and is frothing over AI, so fuck them.
Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.
Competitive markets are hated by private business owners
A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.
I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.
From the other detailed coverage someone linked
Jones has no criminal history, according to court documents. He reported mental health treatment needs for schizophrenia.
This is downstream from the stochastic terrorism stuff. Right wing ghouls pump ideas out there about how trans folks are a danger, and eventually someone acts on it. The ghouls then go about their business with no consequences.
I’d love to see reductions in car usage because I very much dislike cars and car culture. I don’t personally mind inconvenience - I wait for mass transit when friends are like “just take an Uber lol” (not even touching the labor dimension there). I also always say electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problems.
I’m just pessimistic that we’ll make much progress voluntarily. A lot of people are stupid and selfish, and the rich have power to keep things shitty for their personal benefit.