Lesson learned by all right wing politicians: kick out all ethnic Chinese and send them to China.

That’s correct. Truckers and roofers, just to give a few examples, have a much higher chance of dying when doing their job looking at the statistics.

The forces at play didn’t go away. There’ll still be the greed of the rich, the disconnect of a large part of the population and the tendency for a theocracy. They’ll indeed manifest themselves again.

Very short, commercial banks loan money from national banks. That creates money. It has to be paid with interested. Where does the money for that interest comes from? From other loans. So the whole thing becomes an ever increasing pile of loans.

And government loans from national banks to spend money, so creating and distributing money. If government pays back the loans, money disappears.

And because the whole thing is loans on loans, if population would decrease (what is starting to happen) and growth stops, loans decrease and the whole thing starts to wobble.

There was a study about this. They gave some people an advantage in a game, like more starter money and more money when passing start in monopoly. Of course they won and if asked why, it was because they were just better than the other players. The same psychology plays out with CEO’s. They had an advantage of rich parents and/or got lucky, but will always say it’s because they are just better than the rest. And that plays out in wider society in a nice circular reasoning.

They are successful because they are better than te rest. They are better because they have money. They have money because they are successful.

It gets lapped up by the ones believing in individual freedom and making your own fortune, because current society, especially in the USA, has been one big experiment in extreme individualism. In practice it mostly turned out to be, partially by design, the old aristocracy under a new veneer.

The climate report says more heat waves, drought, fire and flooding. Their misery is just beginning.

It’s kinda like South Europe. We know climate change will turn part of Spain, Greece and Italy into deserts. It’s only a question of how much.

One if the problems for declining births is cost of living and raising children. Adding expensive launches and equipment in space is not going to help with that, especially of the gains of the space race are not going to the general population but only to the few owners of the orbital infrastructure.

What if Cochran turns out to be a drunk disillusioned Musk in this timeline?

We’ll be lucky if it goes that smooth. Usually the whole thing at least partially collapses, followed by is a few hundred years of dark age to sort things out and then rebuilding starts with a new system in place for another go.

It’s why all carbon should be a currency distributed to all people like an UBI. Let’s say sustainable amount of CO2 emissions is 8 billion ton and there are 8 billion people, so everybody gets 1 ton per year. You want to pull oil it if the ground, pay in CO2 coin and ask the buyer to pay in turn. Rich guy wants to fly a private jet, they pay the oil producer. Not enough coin, buy with dollars from someone poor that drives a bike and has excess CO2 coins.

It seems fair to me. Everybody is equal, it keeps the market intact while keeping capitalism within sustainable emissions and distributes some wealth.

Of course no rich guy or oil producer is going to accept that, at least not until some people figuratively start building the wooden platform and sharpen the blade to a razor edge.

Like they say: “it’s easier to image the end of the world than imagining the end of capitalism.”

The idea behind a massive build out of weapons is so nobody even dares to point a barrel in your direction.

The downside is that everybody else will try to find a way to make those weapons irrelevant, like swarms of $1.000 drones bypassing million dollars air defenses.

Out Greens had the same idea. They wanted to close almost 6 gigawatt of nuclear and replace it all with gas plants. People thought they lost it. Then the invasion in Ukraine happened and gas prices went crazy. Nobody took them seriously after that and they are losing voters fast.

Who profits from flat Earth? Do they sell exclusive models and atlas’ or something?

Imagine if a fediverse version of Glassdoor would appear after this

Legislate fast and break thing

2024 is like “bitch, please, it’s clear I’m the hottest thing ever”

That’s a problem for next quarter

Ah, yes, to get to their bunker undetected when the revolt begins.

Best people = expensive people in management speak