Jerkface (any/all)

Many will deny it happened at all. Many will claim false flag. Most will metabolize their fear and horror into patriotism and insist that Iran gave them no choice.

That’s not what I said. That site measures the output of the chain. I said we grow more food (ie plants) than humanity can eat. We feed the majority of that food to the livestock we keep that absolutely dwarfs the biomass of all wild animals. That introduces a 90%+ caloric inefficiency. If we just ate the plants, we would have to stop growing so much food, even all our industrial processes don’t demand that much. But capitalism demands instead that we keep growing more food than the year before, and so it demands inefficiencies like animal ag. Any scarcity is entirely engineered. It’s not an accident, it’s by design. It is necessary to maximize investor return.

he left over internet points that don’t mean anything or have a practical effect on anything?

Did I miss something? You said it is a “shitty” argument, but you never state what is wrong with it.

We grow several times more food than humanity can possibly eat. We don’t have a productivity or resource shortage. We have an allocation error.

Not just fine, good.

Umm I meant replacing one of your school shootings or fertilizer bombs

It’s shocking there hasn’t been a major amateur drone attack in the USA yet.

We’re talking about net worth.

I’m not grasping your point.

Okay. So it’s not a word. That’s fine. The popular expression in this context is indeed “gottem” and it doesn’t matter if you think that’s a word or not, that’s just objective reality. Suck it, nerd.

It tongue in cheek, but the government absolutely does not have an inventory of Canadian’s assets. You do not report your net worth. Wealthy people don’t have employment income and while they do have to report most investment income, they don’t have to report assets unless income is being realized. If they can shelter it, they never have to.

I don’t really think that taking body parts is a serious solution to wealth inequity, but I also don’t think scaling fines is the best solution, though an improvement over fixed fines.

They also have no capacity to pay whatever fine you might levy. This is not really a problem you can get around. It’s tautological. People with nothing to lose have nothing to lose.

The social contract flows both ways. If you’ve been left behind, you don’t owe jack to society.

But that leads to a surveillance state that is obsessed with how much everyone is “worth” at all times. That’s bullshit. I say we just take body capacity. You gotta wear a cast for a week. A month. You lose a finger. You lose your eyes. Those are things we all value equally (if you will excuse the ableism and assume it can be compensated for).

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod

Removed by mod