I see an easy solution to this. Put the homeless children in the mega mansions.
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Yes.
It’s up to the rest of us to open the doors, though.
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Sounds like a gritty dystopian Little Orphan Annie reboot. Surprised Hollywood isn’t all over that idea.
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Honestly, I heard that there was a modernized Orphan Annie script being floated when someone realized a rich single man adopting a young girl may not play as well to a modern audience.
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The rich are the best people. The best. Best style, best accessories, best trainers, best education. Like John Ruskin.
…and always ready with the proto Nazism:
There were, however, two great differences in principle between the Greek and the Egyptian theories of policy. In Greece there was no soldier caste; every citizen was necessarily a soldier. And, again, while the Greeks rightly despised mechanical arts as much as the Egyptians, they did not make the fatal mistake of despising agricultural and pastoral life, but perfectly honored both. These two conditions of truer thought raise them quite into the highest rank of wise manhood that has yet been reached, for all our great arts, and nearly all our great thoughts, have been borrowed or derived from them. Take away from us what they have given, and I hardly can imagine how low the modern European would stand.
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So much wrongness, built upon wrongness.
There is no art among a shepherd people if it remains at peace.
There is no art among an agricultural people if it remains at peace.
Marija Gimbutas and Joan Marler might like to have a word… Of course, it’s relative peace, but otherwise it’s not a testable hypothesis yet.
Commerce is barely consistent with fine art, but cannot produce it.
The tin and amber trades disagree.
Manufacture not only is unable to produce it, but invariably destroys whatever seeds of it exist.
I hope his bones are dug up to temper pottery which shall bury his balderdash.
There is no great art possible to a nation but that which is based on battle.
Had the painters of Altamira ever fought in a battle? War wasn’t impossible in the Old Stone Age, but couldn’t have been as frequent or large-scale as in the Bronze Age and after.
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Score one for good journalism!
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Regardless of whatever else happens, this must be accounted for:
What is it we learn in Chernobyl that’s so revealing? That the Soviet state tipped control rods with graphite, which proved to be dangerous when attempting to cool [an overheating plant]
And why were the rods tipped with graphite? It’s inexpensive. This detail should make you pause. How is it that costs were as a big concern for a socialist enterprise as they are for a capitalist one? You would think that socialism abandoned the profit-logic that makes planes and pet food deadly. But no. That logic was at the heart of the Chernobyl catastrophe. What this can only mean is that the two economic systems that defined the Cold War were not “fundamentally different social formations.”
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Really, I think the core of the issue (pardon the pun) is not that the two economic systems were similar enough, but that human nature and corruptibility are at the heart of and pervert any economic system that works in theory.
Socialism really should work, but humans keep getting in the way.
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“Rent due and car broke down? Just skip that fancy Starbucks coffee this morning! With all the money you save, you should be able to buy a new car! What? Really? Cars cost more than a cup of coffee…are you sure? Well you should’ve bought a house instead of that cellphone, then rent wouldn’t be a problem!”
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If you wonder why democracy is under attack, look to the end of the thread. Democracy doesn’t suit them (no, a system swamped in dark money and gerrymandered to fuck is not actually a representative democracy).
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This is why they want magic robot slaves:
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they’re too stupid to know that the robot slaves will need human creativity and knowledge to keep the dumbfuck rich alive
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they’re also too stupid to realize that the AI problem is much harder than just letting the little people run society and develop technology
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This is why even if the housing bubbles pop you still will never be able to afford one, if you don’t have one already.
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Fear and undocumented disinformation… aimed at Trump? Or at Biden’s opponents?
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insert post colonial critique here.
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Bitcoin taxes everyone, but is the same old mercantile flower-futures-exchange bullshit backed by nothing, banking nothing but diminishing returns from lost heat.
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