I wondered about that too when I first saw it a year or so ago.

But apparently it’s an anonymous internet comment.

https://medium.com/incendiary/poverty-exists-because-the-rich-cannot-be-satisfied-c65a6119ab69

Human greed is the common point of failure in any of societal systems. In any system … capitalism, socialism, religious, commune, authoritarian … the common thing that holds it together is concentration of power. The problem that it suffers from is … concentration of power.

No matter what group you create, power eventually gets concentrated to smaller groups of people and it only attracts a certain group of individuals who only understand the need to want power and control over everyone and everything to the detriment of everything else.

Once we find a way to build a societal system that is able to distribute power and keep any one or group of people from dominating everyone else, then we might have a chance of developing a sustainable civilization. In the meantime, no matter what you want to call it or do with it, if the end process just concentrates power to a small group of fallible ignorant humans, nothing will ever work.

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

There is more than enough wealth in any nation and in the world in general to feed, provide health care, even education, shelter and opportunities to every living person on the planet. The problem is not a lack of resources or even limited resources … it’s an imbalance of power and wealth. A small group of individuals own and control everything while the rest of us struggle to maintain the little we have and a good number of us don’t even have that.

This isn’t a call to revolution or to ask everyone to violently swing to the complete opposite of the political spectrum. We have to create a world and society that is more balanced and equitable to everyone, everywhere … the poor have to be brought up to living standard that respects their lives and the ultra wealthy have to be brought down to earth to share the excesses they will never use or enjoy.

Education and wealth is known to lower population growth so there is no need to fear monger everyone into believing that we will eat the planet dry if everyone is able to afford a hamburger.

Think of the possibilities of humanity if everyone had an equal (or least a decent) chance of an education and to explore their potential? What do you think would happen to the world if we filled it with doctors, engineers, scientists, researchers, academics, professionals of all kinds of fields? Instead of trying to figure out how to build bigger more destructive, creative and terrible bombs or killing machines … we’d be building space stations to travel and colonize a planet or harness the power of the sun directly.

We have the potential but we keep getting held back by a small group of people who want to own the entire planet during our short inconsequential lives while the majority of us just accept that as completely acceptable and normal.

It would probably be easier to instead describe where all the arms are coming from and who makes them.

If I’m just being asked to be born in a randomized way in a randomized location to a randomized family in randomized situations … then no

If I had a choice of where, when and what circumstances I would like to be born in? … then yes I would like those odds better and would like to be born.

The GARBA-BLAH-GAR-BAH-GLUB-GLUB Lands!

And if the cops do ask and want to pursue questioning you … you don’t talk to the cops in this situation and just ask for a lawyer … they ask what your name is - lawyer … what is your date of birth - lawyer … where are you from? lawyer … lawyer, lawyer, lawyer

Never talk to the cops, especially when the cops are desperately looking for a suspect.

And that’s just the north sea. I’d like to see what the rest of the map looked like in the Mediterranean, the Spanish peninsula and most likely … the many islands that would have dotted the Atlantic.

If you live in a first world country with drive supports, take your time and research the benefits and services you would get if you were laid off or fired.

If you’re in a situation where you don’t have access to anything and you can weather a few weeks or months not making any money … just get out now because it won’t make any difference if you do it later. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be taken advantage of and the less you’ll want to move.

Beautiful … Irish invent whiskey and get rip roaring drunk for 300 years before they figure out what kind of social activity they can do while being drunk … “HEY SHAMUS!!! let’s see how far you can roll that ball!!!”

lol … I was just thinking this …

Painter (smirking, holding back laughter): … ok, ok, Alexander, hey Al … yeah … just give me more of a frown … (heavily smirking) … no, no, more angry or sad or something … and maybe put your hand to your chin … (smirking) … yeah like that … now hold it … for the next five hours

I keep saying every time I talk to my friends about AI development … we’re like trailer trash 17 year old parents that just gave birth to a genius baby who will grow up to be smarter, faster and stronger than us by the time it fully matures. We’ll teach it how to hate, to be short sighted, arrogant and want to make as much money as possible while disregarding every living thing and person on the planet.

It’s even easier than that with most people I know

They just describe multiples of individual animals, objects, places or things collectively as just … stuff

Flock of geese? … stuff

A stack of books? … stuff

group of cars? … stuff

A planet? … stuff

A solar system? … stuff

A galaxy? … stuff

A galactic neighbourhood? … stuff

The universe? … stuff

Drinking alcohol

Worst event was drinking until blind drunk when I was about 17 in high school … kept blacking out multiple times all night and gained awareness at different times and places in the city … at one point, I was running across a four lane highway, tripped fell and gained momentary awareness with a car blaring their horn and the headlights shining in my face … went black again … woke up in a hotel lobby … black again … woke up at my doorstep where my friends dumped me and my parents dragged me inside. I was gone for about ten hours and I have no idea where I went or what I did.

All because I wanted to be like my friends around me and hang out with people.

Thankfully I cleaned up early on and now I’m 29 years sober.

War … any war … and why countries would rather invest millions, billions and trillions on war machines and weapons that could literally kill us all, rather than try to figure out more peaceful solutions.

We were supposed to do something last week?

Love it and I still have and working. After having it for three years, the only problem I’ve had with it is my battery is spent. When I first had it I literally only ever thought of charging it once a week. I don’t game or use my phone for much other than taking pictures, video and as a phone to call people. I used a few small apps but mostly to go on Lemmy and they other site that shall not be named.

I have an S22 now and it performs a bit faster but there is a serious battery problem with this line as it quickly drains in a day with moderate use.

I’m considering replacing the battery on the S20FE just to bring it back to full use again.

The other bonus with the s20fe was the card slot. I think it’s the last FE line to have a micro SD card slot.

Most people are just not technically minded or have the patience to figure stuff out on their own. All most people understand is “buy thing, it works, I go on internet and play games” … then after a year or two their laptop, phone or device starts to run slow because they never maintained it … “thing slow, thing no good, throw away, buy new thing” … then start again.

I have several intelligent, highly educated, professional friends who have bought expensive phones and laptops, never maintain them, complain about them, dump them and buy new ones within a year or two. Literally buying $1,000 phones every year or second year.

Meanwhile I bought a galaxy S20FE a couple of years ago. I got it on special with my phone company and paid $100 for it over two years. I added it to my collection of just about every phone I’ve ever owned over the past 15 years, that are all still working, along with laptops I’ve upgraded to Linux and tablets I’m experimenting with.