next time I hear “there is just too many (brown) people” i swear
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Yes, if we just shoot the CEOs, the customers will magically stop wanting fast fashion, fast food, waste amounts of cheap meat, cheap and new electronics every year…
I don’t disagree that it would have a positive effect, but I hate the overly reductive takes on systems being completely disconnected from the people. We need to realize that our (western) life style is simply not sustainable, capitalism or not. That requires serious changes for everyone, not just the “rich”.
Something I think about from time to time: if everyone would boycott TicketMaster for a year, TM would vanish.
It’s really not a big ask for people to skip sports and concerts for one year. Buy merch from struggling artists if you’re worried about them.
But, this will never happen because of FOMO and selfishness. They’ll just bitch about the monopoly while giving them endless money.
The people have massive power if they pull together. But ‘fuck you, I got mine’ is the primary American motivation.
Keep cutting off the heads of these companies and eventually no one will take the jobs
So these ninety or so specific people, is someone keeping a list somewhere?
500 people with over $7.57 billion… Every single one of them could use their money to bring some serious change to the world but choose not to :(
I honestly have to wonder at what point people will collectively say “why the hell are we letting them do this” ? Not sure what happens after that, but it seems like it must have to happen at some point, right? Right?
Because the people in positions to do something about it get paid by the evil doers to make sure business is as usual
Never underestimate the power of inertia. Some people live their entire lives on it.
Because the average American and European feels their convenient lifestyle is more important than the life of the planet. They’ll talk the talk about the environment, but they won’t walk the wall with their votes or actions.
I was recently at a kind of convention on the topic of “how to build a sustainable society”. There were two ~40 yr old ladies in the row in front of me.
One got out this super shiny copper flask. The lady next to her was like “oh that looks nice!” and they start talking about it. The lady that got it out said something about copper, its health impacts blabla and how she got it last week from Amazon.
And I’m just sitting there, holding it together, almost laughing out of frustration, about this whole situation.
Like, maybe she did actually need a bottle to hydrate herself outside, but…
Please do not put Europeans in the same pot with US Americans. These days are altogether over but for the topic of fighting climate change things were different for quite a while.
You are. Don’t pretend you aren’t, on climate issues. You’re doing more than the usa, yes, but no where even close to enough.
If so then we are all in the same pot. Who is doing enough or more than that?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-renewable-energy-by-country-in-2022/
I would say anyone who is above 70% renewables is potentially on track. But you need to take heating and cars into consideration for usage, as well as the carbon impacts of imports and various industries… So really,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
Including this information, maybe some random small African nations.
that feels, for some reason, profound.
I mean, sure let it be 200 or 400, 1000. It’s still a rounding error compared to all of humanity.maybe that is why there is a period of prosperity after large wars. The losing side being wiped out reduces that number by half and everyone can breathe a bit more freely.
Those people never die in the wars. The reason there are periods of prosperity after wars is because when many young adults have died, labour has more bargaining power.
damn. somehow my version, which is pretty dark, is still not that dark.
There also tend to be periods of great prosperity following plagues, due to inheritances and what not. But capitalism has made sure to rinse you of every past penny to prevent generational wealth from being passed down to the poors… So that didn’t happen after COVID
Ps. Fuck magnum pi and kurt browning for scamming seniors out of their homes and into reverse mortgages
Wait what did Magnum PI do? We’re not talking about the mustachioed investigator, right?
historians estimate about 200,000 to 300,000 germans were directly involved in the Shoah. many more profited from it.
And every year they gather in one specific location in Switzerland called Davos.
Should I be worried that my initial response to this is “Hmm, so we might be able to improve the world with a serendipitously timed anthrax outbreak at the next WEF summit?”
I mean, somebody is going to have to do a little terrorism…
Just a little bit, as a treat.
About the response itself? No.
About the situation that made that response understandable? We’re way past “worried”.
We have names?
Every revolutionary thinks their utopia is only a few decapitations away, and when those don’t work they move onto the next couple until your Stalin and executing kulaks who own a bit more land than their neighbors.
The reality is that a large chunk of normal people benefit from the current system and will fight to keep their cars, meat, AC, 401k evaluations etc. The largest shareholder, the ones who really control these companies, of any of these oil companies is vanguard which your current retirement plan is probably in. And that’s just the minority of oil that’s extracted by private companies, most is extracted by state owned corporations, and although most of that usually goes to corruption and war, a lot of it goes into welfare for some of the poorest people in the world. A lot more people rely on fossil fuels than just a handful of billionaires.
Fewer than a single box of ammo.
Depends on the caliber
Valid. We could be efficient, and use one bullet each, or we could go for mayhem. Mayhem creates better historical photos that are more effective in warning future dipshits. That does require lots of ammo.
Never underestimate the psychological impact of the look and sound of a guillotine.
There is something to be said for the sun glinting off the blade.
That’s not efficient. You gotta line them up for real efficiency.
A box is typically between 20 and 50 rounds.
Less than a case though.
Had a few seconds where I thought “Wired” was referring to the tech magazine and wondered what “Tired” is, who would choose name for their magazine or whatever?
TIRED: A magazine for millenials and Gen X
Apropos that, I wonder sometimes how “100 bullets” might play out IRL
While killing them would be progress, the real need is a revolution.
100% this, and not an explicitly violent revolution, either. We need to build alternative power structures to replace our heirarchical society. Simply replacing our elites using violence would end up with a new set of elites who are very provably willing to use violence against their enemies. IMO this is one of the major reasons that marxism-leninism has historically yielded authoritarian states, e.g. the USSR.
Their real death will be through obsoletion.
Which I should clarify is already here. They just don’t want us to think that yet cause they invested in a bunch isht that is now obsolete.
It’s all ducken obsolete them fossil fuels is. Don’t get me wrong, a tank of clean propane is dandy for a Sunday grill, but solar’s where it at
I think this is a bit overly optimistic, the ruling class own like 99% of every industry, not just fossil fuels. We can’t just wait for history to take its course, we need to start building a worker-led movement to replace our exploitative heirarchical society, that’s how we can make the ruling class obsolete. We need to get our shit together and actually do a lot of work to achieve this.
Fired: adventurist action doesn’t end the system that created those 90 people
Couldn’t come up with much that rhymed with tired but that is probably because I am tired
If only there was like a deck of cards with their faces on it.
