Can we please get a world with no owners?

justtrying

Joined Mar 9, 2011
439
Guardian did a pretty good write up on this

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...sts-brexit-raging-cry-help-fuel-prices-macron

Whether children or not, the issue of urban rural divide is real. I live it every dat in BC. Having moved from Victoria down south where all the people and service are to up north where there are no people, no services but all the industry is... I have to tell you that I am a patient person, but my resentment has been building. Carbon tax is not a problem for BC, we have been paying it for years, but we are looking at huge increases in our insurance and BC hydro rates in the next few years. Hydro will be interesting, they are expanding it to support LNG projects - why am I forced to subsidize Asian companies? Why is public forced to compete and subsidize the likes of Amazon? Everyone should just tell them to f*** off, but instead they have cities compete on who will give them the biggest cut? Stay tuned, this is only the beginning. I wish I was older
 

justtrying

Joined Mar 9, 2011
439
So a dog's toy is a resource but a child's toy isn't?
Childs toy is also a resource. But then we teach children the concept of ownership - a child will be proud of having a shiny new thing. We teach children about posessions and taking care of them. A dog most likely does not care. You can train both out of "guarding" it. Dogs might be easier...
 

402DF855

Joined Feb 9, 2013
271
The problem isn't with a bunch of people agreeing to give up ownership. The problem is for the ones that choose to not participate. When the communists inevitably suffer starvation and hypothermia, they will take up arms against the outsiders (for the People). Then they put them in camps. Or ovens. Technology will not change any of this. Except may be more efficient ovens.
 

justtrying

Joined Mar 9, 2011
439
The problem isn't with a bunch of people agreeing to give up ownership. The problem is for the ones that choose to not participate. When the communists inevitably suffer starvation and hypothermia, they will take up arms against the outsiders (for the People). Then they put them in camps. Or ovens. Technology will not change any of this. Except may be more efficient ovens.
http://franklludwig.com/democracy.html
 

strantor

Joined Oct 3, 2010
6,875
In today's world, most of what's on the news seem intended mistakes (for me). All the epidemics, malpractices, viruses, disease or even wars or revolutions are "planted" (in my opinion) by some higher powers that aim to make the population decrease (because, well, we are too many already)
If that's "their" objective, I give "them" an A+ in chaotic creativity and a D- in objective completion.
I will re-write your first sentence to bring it closer toward the circle of quantifiable theories...
"In today's world, most of what's on the news seem intended to incite division and strife because that gets higher ratings than feel-good stories, attracts more viewers, and forges stronger viewpoints in the masses which lead to more division and hatred, more violent and/or polarizing incidents, and more news stories.
 

MrChips

Joined Oct 2, 2009
34,983
Emmanuel Macron has backed down on increasing taxes on fuel and the protests still continue. Why?
They are demanding the resignation of Macron. Why?
I don't believe this is about climate change.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,405
Emmanuel Macron has backed down on increasing taxes on fuel and the protests still continue. Why?
They are demanding the resignation of Macron. Why?
I don't believe this is about climate change.
It started as a fuel tax protest. When they got Macron to say 'uncle' they figured it was game on for just about anything including his 'head'.
 

Glenn Holland

Joined Dec 26, 2014
703
Emmanuel Macron has backed down on increasing taxes on fuel and the protests still continue. Why?
They are demanding the resignation of Macron. Why?
I don't believe this is about climate change.
Mass immigration is probably the biggest headache in France and that's probably fueling most of the rioting. Over the past several years, the U.S. State Department (and private contractors hired by the department) have been relocating Syrian refugees in Europe (and the United States) at a cost of over $10,000 a person. Once these migrants are resettled in another country, they receive free or subsidized housing, medical care, affirmative action for job placement, and other government benefits.

Check this U.S. government site and you will see how it pays to be a refugee and get "Asylum With Deluxe Accommodations":
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/refugees

In fact, thousands of migrants from all over the world have already been resettled in the U.S. and Europe and the cost of providing them with social and economic services is an enormous burden on the state and national level. Like in Europe, that caravan of "asylum seekers" from Honduras isn't being greeted with open arms from U.S. residents either.
 
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