maynarkh

In which we all participate whether we like it or not.

The difference is that the stock market has a very distorted definition of value.

If you say that the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay for it, I could trade my house with a friend and say they paid a billion for it, except they paid me with their own billion-dollar house, and we would both become billionaires. Of course, that would be bullshit, but if my friend and I sat on the board of the FED, it would somehow become actually real.

I see how that works, but the question is, how far can that stretch? Wall Street already tells us there is stuff worth more than 40 years of the US GDP trading around in their pockets, so how much more can that get before they get called on their bullshit like me and my hypothetical friend?

Also, yanking back on the yoke as hard as you can when you hear a terrain alert is a pretty surefire way to crash and die anyways. So yeah, fake and potentially gay.

Almost as if homosexual people were just people.

My guess is that the argument is that participating in society does not equal endorsement of the system we live in. This is how musicians make money. By playing music to who pays for it.

That said, I myself am of two minds about them taking the money.

Brexit. The EU has laws forbidding stuff like this.

Apparently food does grow on trees!

They knew.

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Well, the endgame of that radicalization will be hangman's nooses being put up in the Capitol, last time the people putting it up were too stupid and led by a moron, but if they let it continue, someone half competent might try to come at them as well. They don't live that far away from society that if they let it catch fire, they won't get burned.

Most of these articles are buzzword SEO for stock trading bots. Bots are set to buy AI up now, so you want to put AI next to your ticker if you want that bonus this quarter!

I recycle my stuff. But if recycling is not done on the supply side, it's pointless. I can throw my stuff in the right bin, as long as Coca-Cola does not use the material thus collected it can go anywhere, won't work.

Don't get me wrong, collective action works, it works very well, but usually not the ones that are lobbied for by big corps creating and profiting off the problem. And there is a ton of money going into telling you and me that "only if we did a bit more", and "they only do it because there is a demand".

Corporations act like they are all beholden to the market and making more money on the one side and say that only regulations can stop them boiling us alive, then lobby for deregulation on the other side because only they are moral and good enough to know what to do and "government interference" is just inefficient.

Sorry, rant over.