That is another better perspective … and also why again do we have a civilization that allows someone to own so much wealth that it is not feasible or even possible for them to enjoy all the money in one lifetime?

Holy shit this perspective is enlightening … and also very depressing … thanks

I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America

I think we can safely agree that the American government and American system is whatever the wealthy owners and corporate overseers want to do with it.

I’m convinced that the phrase ‘counting the dead’ doesn’t mean anything to Americans anymore … it won’t mean anything to them until they start seeing piles of body bags or mounds of human bodies in the streets before they think that things are going bad.

If this is the analogy of a frog boiling in water … America’s frog eyes are starting to grow grey as their skin starts to harder in the extremely hot water

Now that’s putting it into perspective … holy shit

All throughout most modern history … if you set up an economic system where you allow humans to gain unbelievable amounts of wealth and ask them or wait for them to share it, they never do and instead use that wealth to gain even more sums of wealth in a never ending cycle. I know plenty of wealthy people and they do share their wealth, just not in the sums you want to imagine - they share a few hundreds or thousands here and there but never enough to create meaningful change and never in the amounts to affect the growth of their wealth.

I know plenty of millionaires … people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million … and they are still just getting by. They aren’t that terribly wealthy - they don’t live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.

Billionaires on the other hand are something else … it’s like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.

Here’s a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is

Using Rice to Show How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

Millionaires with a few million dollars aren’t the problem

The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.

If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they’d remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.

Millionaires aren’t the problem … Billionaires are

No need for a tracker, predictions or allusions … we’re going to have proof soon when the country gets hit with a major hurricane, tornado or extreme weather storm.

I’ll take a guess that it will take about three or four major events before everyone will say or do anything about it … but even then, their corporate media will play it all down while the country continues to break down.

Always have to remind people about stuff like this … decent regulated work hours? weekends? over time pay? child labour laws? health care? worker benefits? worker protections? minimum wage?

All those things came about because workers unions fought to get them in place. I have family and friends who picketed in strikes in the 1940s and 1950s and had to fight and even get killed for standing in the way to get these basic rights. I have one old friend from my wife’s family … a crusty old Irishman who looked like Popeye, short, stout with big massive arms and hands. He was Merchant seaman and worked on both coasts of the country during the war … he said he wanted to go overseas but he was too young at the start of the war and by the time he came of age, the war was over. So instead, he ran away from home and worked on ships who didn’t care how old you were, as long as you looked the part and could lift 100lbs. Their mother was a communist, when communism wasn’t a hellfire, demonic idea in Canada. They grew up knowing and understanding that they had to look after themselves and that companies and corporations would always exploit them. After the war, he and his brother joined workers unions and dock workers unions on the west coast of Canada. They took part in lots of ugly strike actions and work stoppages in the 1950s … and in one of those standoffs, late one night, his brother was killed … murdered because he was high ranking union leader.

My old Irish friend Freddie always reminded us of why we live in the world we have now. It was because people fought and died for it … it wasn’t given freely by government or corporations … people fought for it.

Frustrated that the 20 year you are considering to hire doesn’t have ten years experience.

Yes there were … we just didn’t call them billionaires … we called them Kings, Queens, Supreme Rulers, Emperors, God Kings

The world looks exactly the same now as it did 2,000 years ago politically because the idea of supreme and infinite wealth never went away. We’ve always had men who believed they could rule or own the entire world … and we still do.

I always say and think about all this from the perspective of billionaires … all they ever care about is money and the free flow of money everywhere. As long as money is moving and people believe in it, praise it and worship it, everything else can be tolerated and controlled.

The internet and free flowing communication allows for money to flow a lot … without it money would quickly become segmented into tight regions and countries and everything becomes closed … which makes it harder for money to flow, which makes it harder for a billionaire to make more money.

Same with World War or even nuclear war … I don’t think it will ever happen on purpose because once that first bomb goes off, billionaires will cease to be billionaires as the world financial system collapses. The billionaires won’t care how many millions die, they’ll be more upset that their imaginary digitally managed wealth will either decrease a lot or even completely. They know that in a post apocalyptic world, no one will care if you claim to be a billionaire if banks no longer exist. You might say that billionaires will have gold stashes around to fund their own personal army … but that won’t work either because their army will just kill them to take the wealth.

All of it is possible because of human greed … all of it is under threat because of human greed … and all of it is held in balance because of human greed.

Why bother? Just hire some guys pay them whatever money you can raise and get the hired hands to hunt down the bounty hunters. They put on masks call themselves ICE and Bob’s your uncle. It’s the wild west again … just do whatever you want with a mask on and a gun. Everyone is doing it and it’s the only way to get things done because the government isn’t involved in anything anymore.

Speed running towards Idiocracy by 2028

The privately controlled media that manipulated the image of this presidency, downplayed / ignored its failings, exaggerated the contempt for opponents and generally just passively accepted all this insanity as normal is not just complicit but an active participant in the rise and installation of authoritarianism in the US.

It’s not an independent media any more … it’s a direct arm of corporate America … the same corporate America that wants to usher in authoritarianism

1970s Canada is a version of Canada I’d like to leave behind …

… but I’m hopeful to there will be a better Canada in the 2070s

Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario here - Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, landed, immigrant, nation-born, First Nation, Arch-Linux-users, Metis, religious, non-religious, whatever denomination, Lemmy-user, Fediverse-user, corpo-Social-Media-user, straight, bi, none-sexual, LGBTQ++++, black, brown, white and every shade in-between.

We have our differences, we have our troubles, we have issues, good, bad and whatever … but at the end of the day we will always be national brothers and sisters who inhabit this land.

My parents were survivors of the Residential School system but they always celebrated Canada Day never knowing the politics or history … they just enjoyed having a fun day in the middle of summer. I’ve grown to learn lots of good and bad about Canada but in all that history, I may have grown negative and dark but at the same time, as I grow older, I also realize that we have to keep hope alive and always reach out to others, especially to any potential allies. We can create a country where we can all co-exist in a cooperative way that can be equally beneficial for every individual in this country. I will always hope for that.

So good day to you all!! Kitchi-Meegwetch Misiway (Thank you very much to everyone) Nee-nas-kah-moon! (I give my praises!)

Yes

Jesus says yes

The biggest takeaway for me with all this … whenever there is another level of stupidity in American government or the president … is not how dumb he looks … but instead about how the entire country just passively accepts it. How the media just rolls over it like it’s normal now.

This country is fucked