Thursday, December 6, 2018

1: Dangerously Competing With Nations We Need To Be Cooperating With Because of it.

2: Flaunting the differences in outcomes it allows for.

3: Trying to hide it, so you scan justify getting more.

4: Trying to hoard it increasingly because the more you get, apparently, the more you need, you see, to continue to be important at each new level.

5: And then, of course, always trying to find cheaper new ways to control those you just know are scheming to take it away from you, because, after all, you are certainly, at least thinking about, schemes to do the same to all those who would challenge your supposed supremacy.

And as far as saving the planet is concerned? Well... Does it really pay to believe in all of that doomsday talk? Hasn't Big Money always been able to use their money to buy that special dispensation? I mean even Mother Earth has to have a price, right?

Now aren't you so glad we all have money in our lives. I know the top X percent certainly is (where X is something around one, to eight or nine percent, or so, depending on who you ask).

You just have Uber, or Lyft, or Waymo, drop you off at your nearest escape of choice, and everything will be just fine. I am sure they will be able to find it, as the new, commercially refined, AI of choice, will have figured out an improved form of GPS, just for you, and will take you right too it. Happy vapor trails my friends.

The referenced article quick list:

1:‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.

2:The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

3:Exclusive: The Pentagon's Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed

4:The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren’t Satisfied With Their Wealth

5:AN EYE-SCANNING LIE DETECTOR IS FORGING A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE