At the end it’s always the money, honey, and the boys with the most toys. Just waiting now for their compulsion to surface and yell “We won” when they and everyone else go down for the third time.
We seem to accept the republican idea that “corporations are people” and they most assuredly ARE NOT – they have NO MORAL BASE from which to operate – a corporation, in so far as it “thinks” at all, is concerned ONLY with stockholders’ profits in the main, and that is how it should be – expecting a corporation to have a moral center is a “fools’ expectation” at best and stupidity at worst…
Perhaps they are counting on Elon using SpaceX to take possession of and build infrastructure, etc. on Mars. Only billionaires and multi-millionaires wanted. Others can apply for menial positions.
The odds are that fossil fuel energy emissions will ultimately result in global civilizational collapse due to AGW global warming.
Currency, or any other current form of “wealth” with purchasing powers, will be totally worthless for acquisition of the limited quantities of potable water and food available when collapse occurs.
Protection from desperate humans fighting over limited water/food supplies will not be available for purchase by Wealth elites accustomed to unlimited purchasing power for anything they desire and everything they need.
It’s not unlikely that very few elites in the Wealth classes can even imagine future water and food availability as unobtainable with their accrued Wealth assets, or even as existential needs with limited (vs unlimited) future availability.
If this dire outcome becomes reality, I wonder what percentage of Wealth will pursue limited survival resources with a winner-takes-all survival of the fittest strategy versus strategies of the commons? Which of those two at that point will portend best for not just human life but also all the rest of (remaining at the time) life on planet Earth?
dyerjames944 about 1 year ago
Maybe they’ll drown in they’re own OIL!
admiree2 about 1 year ago
At the end it’s always the money, honey, and the boys with the most toys. Just waiting now for their compulsion to surface and yell “We won” when they and everyone else go down for the third time.
wellis1947 Premium Member about 1 year ago
We seem to accept the republican idea that “corporations are people” and they most assuredly ARE NOT – they have NO MORAL BASE from which to operate – a corporation, in so far as it “thinks” at all, is concerned ONLY with stockholders’ profits in the main, and that is how it should be – expecting a corporation to have a moral center is a “fools’ expectation” at best and stupidity at worst…
librarylady59 about 1 year ago
Perhaps they are counting on Elon using SpaceX to take possession of and build infrastructure, etc. on Mars. Only billionaires and multi-millionaires wanted. Others can apply for menial positions.
MFRXIM Premium Member about 1 year ago
well, DUH!
AtomicForce91 Premium Member about 1 year ago
I am sure that once they get out of that pool, they will be fine.
Zebrastripes about 1 year ago
It’s disgusting how greed has clenched this world! Selfish, narcissistic power hungry empty suits rule the world!
lsnrchrd.1 Premium Member about 1 year ago
The odds are that fossil fuel energy emissions will ultimately result in global civilizational collapse due to AGW global warming.
Currency, or any other current form of “wealth” with purchasing powers, will be totally worthless for acquisition of the limited quantities of potable water and food available when collapse occurs.
Protection from desperate humans fighting over limited water/food supplies will not be available for purchase by Wealth elites accustomed to unlimited purchasing power for anything they desire and everything they need.
It’s not unlikely that very few elites in the Wealth classes can even imagine future water and food availability as unobtainable with their accrued Wealth assets, or even as existential needs with limited (vs unlimited) future availability.
If this dire outcome becomes reality, I wonder what percentage of Wealth will pursue limited survival resources with a winner-takes-all survival of the fittest strategy versus strategies of the commons? Which of those two at that point will portend best for not just human life but also all the rest of (remaining at the time) life on planet Earth?
macmantoo about 1 year ago
And yes lets keep giving them tax breaks since they can’t afford it. /s