Gather up as much plastic garbage as you can and burn it all in your backyard … get your neighbour to join in and have a neighbourhood bonfire … plastic only! … tires work great too because they last longer and burn stronger.

In ten years, we’ll all be looking back at how great it was in 2024

This isn’t an Israeli or American problem anymore.

It’s a world problem.

We’re all complicit in allowing one country to destroy another.

We’re all complicit in allowing a genocide to occur.

When the Jewish holocaust occurred, the world said never again. It will never cease to amaze me that the latest genocide is being perpetuated by the same people who keep reminding the world of how terrible it is for one group of people to dehumanize, disregard, dismiss and destroy another people.

The best part is that this is just run of the mill environmental imbalances for the planet. It’s faced far worse scenarios than this. Even if we caused nuclear holocaust, the planet has seen similar natural events in the past.

Even if the ocean dies right now, it’s happened before and after a few million years it all came back.

So in the scale of millions of years … the planet is just suffering from a flu.

It’s us that will be destroyed and eliminated in the process.

From the planet’s perspective, we aren’t a civilization, we’re a temporary infection.

It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.

Got it … I didn’t know instances could censor out certain words … it makes sense though

I try to be careful with my posts and commenting to try to stay in line with rules and decorum but I find myself often tripping over my own tongue either with the words I misuse or the ideas I spit out without thinking

The ‘R’ word here is a bit of a stretch as the word can be used in ways that have nothing to do with personal insults or degradation … but I do understand why it needs to be controlled because it’s been used so abusively on the internet

It’s another item I will have to be careful about so thanks for the heads up.

No … I’m just retarded.

I guess I need to get that plate for myself then :(

This is what happens when you comment without reviewing.

If you’re wondering, I should have corrected it to say

My old neighbor a long time ago rode a motorcycle with a plate in the back that said …

Retired, not Retarded

I’ll leave the stupidity in place because I think it’s funny

My old neighbor al long time ago today motorcycle with a plate in the back that said …

Retired, not Retarded

We’re talking about rules here … everyone has to follow them … except for the US

I think we are imagining the problem, the solutions and the consequences in different ways.

You’re worried about the possibilities of what could be and imagine the problems it may cause.

I’m worried about what is happening now, what exists today and the problems it is causing in real time.

If we do nothing, then current problems persist and we avoid the uncertainty of alternatives. The only problem with that is that we will never realize what the alternatives could be … either a more manageable society with more distributed power … a repeat of the same system we live in today but with the power given to different actors … or a far worse situation than we live in today.

None of this is to imagine that it would create an instant utopia or dystopia … we are human and many of the social problems we have today will persist no matter what we create in the future.

So the final thought is … We either gamble on the certainty of inequality and power willingly given to those with the most wealth … or we take the chance on attempting to create a new system.

True and I agree with most of what you said … but I would prefer a world where power was distributed to more people than concentrated to a small group of people.

It wouldn’t solve the world’s problems because we all seem to have a hard time existing with one another. But at the very least, it would make it far easier for us to solve our problems everywhere.

The problems were always the same since we left the cave our ancestors emerged from … modern billionaires only exacerbate the existing problems we always had a billion times more.

They are also the ones stonewalling everyone’s incentive to want to do anything significant about our world’s problems. Instead of doing anything to fight about climate change which will severely affect our world … we are fighting regional wars that shouldn’t even be conflicts in the first place. And yes, much of the global problems we are facing today stem from a global corporate system which is controlled by a handful of billionaires … they are the root of why we fight and they are also the solution to how these conflicts will end.

Have you ever tried to take care of one cat? … let alone 50? … it’s still the same mental disorder to me.

One of the financial aspects it would deal with is … the idea of infinite growth and profits.

Limiting wealth would limit profits everywhere … which sounds bad for small groups of people and investors in any one sector. Everyone has the mentality of wanting to control one corner of the financial market and then make it grow exponentially without limits to an imaginary infinity … all of which is impossible.

By limiting individual wealth … wealth would then be allowed to spill over to more people. The wealth is still there but it is now in the hands of more people instead of a small group of people.

In our current system, we keep watching our financial markets grow every year with the expectation that they will keep rising forever while the amount of wealth everywhere is limited. In order to make it grow, debt has to be created and in order to pay for the debt, more debt is created and on and on to infinity.

The system I imagine puts limits on infinite growth, profit and wealth … the system that exists is only possible if a small group of people can continually achieve infinite wealth with limited resources.

What makes more sense.

And like I keep saying … removing billionaires won’t solve the world’s problems … but it would really make it a whole lot easier to deal with the world’s problems.

Taxation … after a certain level of wealth, all excess wealth is either taxed completely or near completely and it would discourage anyone from wanting to gain too much excessive wealth.

It wouldn’t turn our world into a utopia … there will always be aholes that will want to run and control the world. The difference would be that they would have less power and less ability to actually be able to control the world.

And yes billionaires are not the only problem to our world’s problems but they are a big part of it … they are also actively the ones who make it harder for everyone else to solve the world’s problems. So getting rid of them may not solve the world’s problems … but it would make it a whole lot easier to deal with the problems we already have.

And even deeper dive into that world is to look up the Dulles brothers and what they did for big business throughout most of the early 1900s on their own, with American government and with the CIA … they basically transformed the world and world government for the sake of big business (not for America as most people would like to believe)

There wouldn’t be an immediate law to just have a roving gang of enforcers knock down a billionaire’s door and send them to jail … that is just wishful thinking.

Billionaire’s would still continue to exist except that anything beyond a certain level of wealth is just taxed either completely or near fully. It would remove the incentive for anyone to own or gain billions of dollars. And it wouldn’t occur immediately, it would take years, decades or even lifetimes to make a difference.

Right now billionaires are a huge bottleneck to global development and those people who actually want to do something about our worlds problems. Getting rid of them won’t solve our world’s problems … it will just make our problems easier to solve. Leaving them alone means our problems persist while they actively block everyone else from dealing with the world’s problems.

That worked in ancient Rome for a long while … until there was no one significant left to kill or fight against … then the hired hands started looking at their king/billionaire and realized that they could just kill their leader and take all his wealth.