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  • There’s a difference between saving money so you can live and hoarding it.

    Okay, what’s the difference? 100,000? 500,000? 5,000,000?

    f you have so much money that you could trivially buy people out of poverty, but you don’t because you’d rather have seven yachts and a bigger bank account, we have a problem.

    Who has seven yachts? Most wealthy people invest their money. The only reason you know the names of billionaires is that Forbes magazine publishes their names. You have no idea who all the millionaires are and what they do with their money.

    If we’re speaking of social consequences and eliminating people, it makes more sense for the populace to go after crooked politicians and judges than rich people. Just saying.



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    11 months ago

    That said, [the police’s] main job at the moment is to protect hoarders of wealth from the social consequences of wealth hoarding.

    We are all wealth hoarders. What are the social consequences of wealth hoarding? Is it okay to steal? How much does a person have to have before it’s okay to steal? Most of the people of the world live on a couple of US dollars a day. Is it okay for them to steal your wallet when you have 40 dollars?




  • I was speaking from personal experience in the states I mentioned, as well as everyone else responding to your post.

    You can separate native recipes from recipes brought later by other cultures, but the only difference is native recipes were brought by the original settlers.

    Burritos are an interesting example. In Mexican rural areas, burritos were plain, as the people didn’t historically have access to spices. When the burrito was originally brought to Texas, the cooks added spices. Now, you can find burritos almost anywhere in the world, each city making them with their own flavor. Just like hot dogs and pizza.






  • I’ve ridden many buses and trains. I’ve seen plenty of YouTube videos where people are attacked on buses. I’ve seen plenty of light rail trains where the homeless ride around the entire day.

    Ride out to the suburbs, burgle a house, and steal a car to bring the loot back actually happened in Baltimore, Maryland, USA when they extended the red line light rail to Hunt Valley. The Hunt Valley Mall died and was torn down a few years later.