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Post by joegolferg on Sept 7, 2019 9:23:22 GMT
A thread for all things related to the unknown bounds of capitalism today.
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 7, 2019 14:26:38 GMT
Those pesky animals disrupting our trade and commerce, what shall we do with them?
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 7, 2019 14:41:16 GMT
I can't watch that; even reading it upset me greatly. Animal cruelty is RIGHT up there for me in my list of things that angers/upsets/despairs me.
But you're spot on; treatment of animals is not only a moral issue, it's part of two of our biggest issues in society. The economy and the climate...
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Post by paulus on Sept 9, 2019 18:05:58 GMT
Yep our treatment of animals in this era will be considered a moral outrage in 5-10 decades.
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Post by paulus on Sept 9, 2019 18:32:38 GMT
You'll all know that I'm not the biggest fan of unconstrained capitalism. This graph paints a horrific picture, and is a sad indictment of the inequality that is built in to capatalism. And it causes bad outcomes for all of us, even those not in the lowest percentiles...  I advocate heavily regulated capatalism, with properly enforced taxation & the money going back into the societies from which they derive their profits. There's more than enough resources on this planet to feed, water, shelter, educate, provide healthcare & social programmes to everyone - not a person missed & with plenty of resources left over. Right now capitalism demands that those resources are sitting in off-shore bank accounts doing no good for anyone. Also, capital should be completely divorced from our political processes - like the separation of church and state. The fact that capitalists wield so much influence over governments is the single biggest problem we face. It has allowed uber-capatalists to further entrench their greed and is really the first thing we should fix - the other problems of capitalism would be easily addressable if we could wrestle back control of our politics. But we should be mindful that capitalism has been a driver for a lot of good... and not throw the baby out with the bathwater...  |
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 9, 2019 19:39:50 GMT
Plastic has started showing up in the fossil record now. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists...
They will call this "the plastic era..."
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Post by cliffs on Sept 9, 2019 20:39:20 GMT
Plastic has started showing up in the fossil record now. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists... They will call this "the plastic era..." Seems to basic...maybe the Polyethylene era, Dino bones will turn to dust before plastic is turned to anything. We (the wife and I and the kids to a smallish extent) try our damnedest NOT to buy anything with plastic but it is harder than you think. We had a yuge bonfire a few years back and the popo showed up because a neighbor about 1/2 mile away smelled what we were cooking....the g-kids thought it would be fun to melt some plastic water bottles. We were given a warning and then shared a couple of frosties with the 2 "family" friends. Small town, we know all the service/emergency people. |
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 10, 2019 7:09:11 GMT
It's extremely hard not to use/buy plastic.
We try to not buy stuff which is ridiculously packaged and could be easily packaged another way.
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 12, 2019 18:31:08 GMT
Capitalism is in such a crisis that even it's producers litteraly cannot work to survive anymore.
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 12, 2019 18:57:40 GMT
Jesus Christ, that's fucking depressing  |
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 16, 2019 8:04:51 GMT
This is one truly disgusting scenario...
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 16, 2019 8:14:34 GMT
^ fucking disgraceful. Basically a 600 dollar hotel bill, for 3 minutes.
(And hotels should cost money, hospitals shouldn't...)
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 20, 2019 9:41:58 GMT
The common sense of animals is quickly catching up to that of the human race. Our obsession with accumulating material wealth is creating a blindness to how it devastates not just our habitat, but the animal habitat, too.
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 22, 2019 9:57:19 GMT
Another fine performance from our beloved system of capitalism. This time it is an old lady visiting a grave that has suffered abuse.
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 22, 2019 10:57:20 GMT
This is capitalist dystopia.
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