I’m more closed-minded. Billionaires shouldn’t exist, period. What I’d like to do to the existing ones cannot be posted here because that would entail be banned from the community.

why stop there, let’s go 640k TV, that ought to be enough for anyone

#nano4life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

I used to complain that regular people can’t write a single page of text. Regular people nowadays can’t read a single page of text… our society is devolving, fast.

Microslop played the long game when they bought github

America could come up with a miracle drug that cures every disease known to man

And then the average USAling would never be able to afford that drug even if bankrupting themselves. And your big pharma would also keep it out of the hands of most of the world by patenting it and keeping the price artificially high. And you’d all still boast that you discovered that miracle drug and all the rest of the world is inferior to you.

Fair enough, let me rephrase that:

I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the bronze age.

pumping oil out of pubic lands

this sounds really painful lol

I mean this feels like an obvious result.

I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the dark ages.

not OP but I believe they’re “soft” in the sense that they don’t have moats/high electric fences/battalions of armed guards around 24/7

an old user who hates to change his ways

Ain’t we all? this is why I use MATE btw

All these involve learning and maintaining skills more removed from power than skills of more industrial professions (monotonous work).

I tend to disagree. There is something gratifying in making something with your own hands/tools. I could buy a table, or a drawer, or a pre-built computer. But I kinda enjoy making/assembling mine own. There are other people out there that enjoy gardening, and plenty other “monotonous work”.

If two guys are hanging out and one says “hey I think I think I should take more drugs” and the other says “hell yeah brother do it” they aren’t responsible if the first guy ODs

They are indirectly responsible. Dangerously close, depending on circumstances, of being criminally responsible.

But today’s money doesn’t really have any frontiers our boundaries. If a corp is being openly traded in the stock market, it belongs to the very same assholes that own the americans megacorps.

No, I actually loved her at first. Then it turned out she only ever wanted me for money.

Sad to hear that. I hope you meet someone better in the future

You can reach 1 million in assets over a decade or so as a middle class worker.

This might be true in a rich 1st world country. For a small subset of “middle class worker”, most live paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by.

Capitalism, when unchecked, tends to create those giant monopolies you’ve mentioned. It is capitalism at its end game, total consolidation.

and he’s just repeating himself ad nauseum

this is usually how you build mindshare of anything

I only browsed to see if using “services” would be cheaper than the upkeep on my ex was. It would be.

This is quite the misogynistic take, dude. Did you marry only to fuck someone? People usually marry for many reasons beyond just sex. Love, companionship, shared dreams.