Its a painfully unfortunate situation, both the lack of labour laws preventing these ceos from paying a living wage and like you say, the system of having 50 insular groups with their own exploitative laws designed to keep it that way.
I really do hope that the future is less horrifying, but I’ve seen the state of the american political left (as in the politicians, not the people) and it’s looking to be an uphill battle.
Who knows, maybe having america start competing with the world on renewables, what with their massive industries and the RnD budgets to throw money at ‘novel’ technologies like highly emissive paints like the stuff they use on the ISS and satellite radiators to cool things off without an atmosphere, and on a lot of new buildings in the hotter countries, will push the market in the right direction.
Historically this level of wealth inequality has always led to market crashes, which while calamitous, end up spurring positive change in and of themselves. We’ll see.
Touch wood this incoming crash doesn’t just end up being a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.
This level of wealth inequality is genuinely unprecedented, given that there’s one meth head currently ‘valued’ at an english Billion or an american Trillion. (For those out of the loop that’s a one, with TWELVE zeros after it)
a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.
I think, unfortunately, that’s a foregone conclusion. We saw in the Epstein Files that heads of state and billionaires generally know when economic crashes are coming and are able to time them well, and the spike in suicide rates during an economic crash is well-documented.
All you and I can really do is make the best choices for ourselves and try to show basic kindness to the people on our block.
Its a painfully unfortunate situation, both the lack of labour laws preventing these ceos from paying a living wage and like you say, the system of having 50 insular groups with their own exploitative laws designed to keep it that way.
I really do hope that the future is less horrifying, but I’ve seen the state of the american political left (as in the politicians, not the people) and it’s looking to be an uphill battle.
Who knows, maybe having america start competing with the world on renewables, what with their massive industries and the RnD budgets to throw money at ‘novel’ technologies like highly emissive paints like the stuff they use on the ISS and satellite radiators to cool things off without an atmosphere, and on a lot of new buildings in the hotter countries, will push the market in the right direction.
Here’s hoping.
Historically this level of wealth inequality has always led to market crashes, which while calamitous, end up spurring positive change in and of themselves. We’ll see.
Touch wood this incoming crash doesn’t just end up being a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.
This level of wealth inequality is genuinely unprecedented, given that there’s one meth head currently ‘valued’ at an english Billion or an american Trillion. (For those out of the loop that’s a one, with TWELVE zeros after it)
I think, unfortunately, that’s a foregone conclusion. We saw in the Epstein Files that heads of state and billionaires generally know when economic crashes are coming and are able to time them well, and the spike in suicide rates during an economic crash is well-documented.
All you and I can really do is make the best choices for ourselves and try to show basic kindness to the people on our block.
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