Correct!

And some people’s time is inherently more valuable than others - this makes sense in a deeply twisted way. A emergency brain surgeon for example, would be exceedingly difficult to find, and even more valuable to have, let alone utilize. I think a lot of us can agree that the surgeon being able to save a life in ways almost all of us cannot is valuable.

But some people’s time isn’t valuable at all. Any middleman - salesman of every type, healthcare insurance, stock brokers. They have been made artificially valuable because they are significantly better at producing income for the already wealthy.

No broker, salesman, or healthcare insurance provider (or hell manager even) is going to help 95% of the country make more money.

Now, if we got compensated based on the finished product we deliver - that would make the hardest workers a lot more fucking money. But corporate America would never allow that - the employee didn’t purchase the parts before assembling it, or the ingredients, or the network infrastructure, etc.

The problem, at its core, is that it all ends up tying a price to a human life. Until we can separate cash value from life, we will be stuck with this system.

It’s possible to do on a small scale, but inevitably it ends up recreating itself as the community doing it grows.

With the exact same number of weapons and ammo. Stuff ain’t cheap or easy to come by, plus they can use rocks.

He still thinks a trade deficit is bad.

Goddamn

“must do now” orders are by default responded to with “oh yeah, on who’s authority?”

So I feel that.

Dude that’s awesome thanks!

Wait a second

This is my daily experience with ADHD

Man, Mao’s policies got so many people killed that “only” 3-4m people died of famine.

He’s got an incredible kill count.

That’s one thing I appreciate about Lemmy. Without a doubt you are all people of logic.

For a moment, I thought “hmm. What if we all said ‘No, I shot Brian Thompson’” sort of like what happened in Spartacus, but then I remembered that all 6000 slaves or whatnot were executed

The act must be committed with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion

No, see, that’s clearly false. The civilian population did not get intimidated or coerced by fuck and all, and the government wasn’t threatened.

So, nope. Not guilty.

Engineers tend to be less accepting of the “debate and theory” part of science and more of the “analyze and act” part.

As in, the debate is stupid, the theory is that the rich have fucked us all, now let’s see what we can do immediately to make it work.

Fight porn is not what I was hoping for, yet not exactly disappointed in the result.

Destabilize?

No, this is far worse. Big banks will just take your money. Credit Unions? I have no fucking idea.

I also can’t just walk into my bank and pull out $10k without raising all sorts of questions and concerns.

Jesus fuck.