I think all human needs are abundant enough to be made free, I think the rich need to be heavily taxed until there effectively are no billionaires,
but as a counterpoint somebody somewhere is running the tap at all times in a Starbucks or an ice cream parlor during a drought even when it’s not free.
Starbucks wastes water by leaving the taps running in its worldwide stores all day. The Starbucks officials defend that practice by saying that the purpose is to clean utensils and meet health standards.
Well that was a short article that ended abruptly and offered no further details about anything.
They need to be butchered now, for the damage they have done to the earth. They and their heirs must be exterminated to the last. If there is one survivor, all our futures are forfeit.
Good luck trying to convince a majority of that, but also they can reproduce faster than you can kill them. There will always be opportunists and assholes as long as mankind exists, better to stop them from forming than strike them down as they come about.
In the last US Election they elected a Billionaire president and immediately started stripping away regulations. You’re not just dealing with Billionaires, you’re dealing with all of the people who support them.
Don’t even get me started on the less free nations run by autocrat billionaires like Saudi Royalty, Xi Jinping, and Putin.
Yes, but people acting for their own livelihoods don’t follow the same patterns as people acting to maximize wealth. This is a systemic problem, not (or at least not necessarily) a human nature problem.
I think all human needs are abundant enough to be made free, I think the rich need to be heavily taxed until there effectively are no billionaires,
but as a counterpoint somebody somewhere is running the tap at all times in a Starbucks or an ice cream parlor during a drought even when it’s not free.
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/starbucks-massive-water-waste
Well that was a short article that ended abruptly and offered no further details about anything.
For me it’s 4 paragraphs, it was the top search result, and it sites BBC which is a much longer article quoting multiple other sources.
They needed to be heavily taxed thirty years ago.
They need to be butchered now, for the damage they have done to the earth. They and their heirs must be exterminated to the last. If there is one survivor, all our futures are forfeit.
Good luck trying to convince a majority of that, but also they can reproduce faster than you can kill them. There will always be opportunists and assholes as long as mankind exists, better to stop them from forming than strike them down as they come about.
There’s like a couple thousand billionaires, maybe a couple million of the ultra-wealthy. You wouldn’t need a majority
In the last US Election they elected a Billionaire president and immediately started stripping away regulations. You’re not just dealing with Billionaires, you’re dealing with all of the people who support them.
Don’t even get me started on the less free nations run by autocrat billionaires like Saudi Royalty, Xi Jinping, and Putin.
The people who support them are problems. They are not problems that can only be solved with extermination.
That’s because Starbucks is a corporation; they only care about making their number go up. People don’t really behave like that.
A corporation is just a group of people.
Yes, but people acting for their own livelihoods don’t follow the same patterns as people acting to maximize wealth. This is a systemic problem, not (or at least not necessarily) a human nature problem.
If humans naturally stopped at enough then billionaires already wouldn’t exist.
Read ‘Cadillac desert’
It’s orders of magnitude worse.