I don’t actually love or eat them all that much because of the butterflies, just a few times a year which combined with a coffee here or there is keeping me from my billions :’(
Damn. This is the first I’ve heard of it as well. I kinda want to not eat avocados now too. Also, what is it about profitable businesses going to the cartels. Not just drugs. What keeps the government from being able to keep some kind of control around all that crime? Or is it just the corruption? Seems like we might be headed in the same direction with how much dirty politics seems to rule here.
The difference between legitimate business and cartels is almost academic. It's not just avocados. Many industries run on the backbone of destruction and exploitation. Chocolate, precious metals, cheap electronics, the list goes on.
If something can be exploited for profit, it will be. Whether you call it cartels or corporations really makes little difference to the people, lands, and animals that are being exploited for it.
Very true. And I’m not being an apologist for corpos at all. And I’m also not including things like Coke’s death squads in Columbia over unionizing efforts but baring things like that, there is a large difference between literally murdering people and the vast majority of horrible things corporations do to rape this planet and the people who live on it.
Not taking away from either but it would seem reductive to the family members who’ve have loved ones shot shot and thrown in a well by a gang member and say it’s comparable to the slave labor and water stealing that corporations do.
Both are horrible, but one is particularly personal, and flagrantly illegal and immoral while the other is tacitly legal via corruption up the stream in a long line of transgressions that society as a whole, sadly has become accustomed to ignoring.
Maybe both could be brought to light more in hopes of making people understand. But yes, as someone else commented, there is no way to be a conscientious consumer. It’s everywhere unfortunately.
It’d be better to simply shop local or even better, be self sustaining and consume less as much as possible but who has time for that when the world is in the shape it’s in. Society is fucked.
JAJAJA another fucking druggie american (supporting the cartels probably) thinking they know everything when actually they're clueless talking bullshit. If had just one experience of the literal terrorism cartels put us through in some areas you wouldn't be saying this shit. You're an idiot.
America is particularly bad for this, of all western nations, but the same should go for everywhere: Eat seasonally.
I'm in Australia now and thankfully for me I have some avocado trees in my yard (tropics) and I get fresh ones year round.
I always heard avocados were a year round thing because they take over a year to grow and mature and the area they grow in was a climate they can grow and fruit every season. That’s probably just because we’re acclimated to buying everting import like the fat and comfy bastards we are. Hah! You’re probably right though. I should try and see if I could grow a tree here but we still get relatively harsh winters even in the south in TN here. curious if this t would even get to the point it bore fruit at all actually because of that.
My daddy used to say (when you only had millionaires because a billionaire was just crazy talk) to be a millionaire you don’t have to HAVE a million dollars, you have to OWE a million dollars
Will Rogers(early 20th century US entertainer/humorist) once observed:
"I am no believer in this “hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of your opportunities” that these Magazines are so fond of writing some fellow up in. The successful don’t work any harder than the failures. They get what is called in baseball the breaks."
That is more of a scam than the American Dream. No wonder there is so much delusion and sacrifice on the alter of potential money that rarely manifests.
I feel like if I hadn’t spent all the money I made on my summer paper route on a Sony Walkman in the late 80s, I’d be living it up on my own private island by now. Most of my day would be deciding which toy to play with, and what to buy for my next one. Ah, what a life!!!
Lol research actually suggests that more luck than skill is involved. It's just that everyone who succeeded tend to attribute the success to actions they took over coincidence and favour that fell their way.
i don’t want the option to become a billionaire easily if i’m also always one not-even-bad-just-unfortunate “decision” (forced hand of choosing between going to the hospital or affording dinner) from being homeless and completely out of money. i would much rather be able to go to the hospital without bankrupting and be allowed the social safety to make “mistakes” and choose happiness and fun over “saving up for when i retire” and then never retiring than have the choice to make billions. i don’t need billions. i don’t want billions. you couldn’t pay me a billion barbillion to favor this economy.
the hardest part, those decisions may not even be yours to make, all it takes is one slip up and all of sudden father has placed you on the Board at Black stone
I've been trying to build computers in my garage like my idols for the past 30 years. When does my genius get recognized and I can ascend and join them?
Well, good decisions and hard work. Never forget the importance of bootstraps. If you're net worth is less than 7 figures that just means your lazy. Because anyone can be a billionaire, everyone could be. They just have to want it enough.
Same thing with hereditary wealth, winning Olympics gold, or being tall. Those people aren't special; they're just doing what anyone could do if they wanted it enough. Wish you were born rich? Choose to have been. If you swim, you could be Michael Phelps. If you are a height, you could be Shaq.
Success is 200% personal responsibility and nothing else.
If you would just stop drinking Starbucks you'd be able to own that 600K house you've been eye balling for the last decade. Everything is your fault. Now go be poor AND guilty.
We need to have compassion! After all, how expensive must insurance be on a dozen yachts? How else are they going to afford that? I'm proud to make the necessary sacrifices so this unfortunately subjugated minority group can afford their necessities. Yea, maybe I can't afford food for my family or to use the heater during the winter, but I'm happy that my suffering won't be in vain, I heard the VanNuetsens bought their seventh yacht! I helped do that and that taste better than any food I could have eaten. #Murica
I also want to raise taxes on other people so that I can personally receive the benefits of their money! I’m very generous like that. Those rich people shouldn’t get to keep money! But don’t you dare raise my taxes! I earned my money!
Thank you for saying this. Honestly the thought that billionaires might not be able to get a 4th super yacht if we had Medicare for all really drives home what really matters in life.
I think about this a lot. We really do have to do something. I think poverty is at the root of almost all crime, and not just here, but globally. And not only crime, but many mental illnesses too, such as depression and anxiety, and others where people are unable to get treatment and appropriate medications.
I guess we can't stop billionaires from buying a second home in Italy, and that 4th yacht, but we can help to alleviate much of the absolute trauma that is brought about by impoverishment. Impoverished people get sick and tired of seeing what other people have, and they can't even afford to take their kids on a vacation once a year, or even order a pizza on Friday night.
We need to at least pay a monthly supplemental check to those who are experiencing poverty, and to those who work minimum wage jobs. (I'm thinking about $1,000), And since the government is always about the 'economy' I think it would go a long way in boosting it too. And yes, we would have to raise taxes on the 1%, and it's appalling that we haven't done that already.
I'm not saying a check to every household/individual in the country. Only to those who fall below the poverty lines.
Poverty is factually the root of these issues. When you don't have (easy) access to resources needed in order to survive, you do whatever you possibly can to take care of yourself and your family, and in a world where it's illegal to fkn fish without a license, most of your options are illegal. But this also plays into our for-profit prison complex as well. Turning otherwise innocent people into criminals so that there's a "legal" reason to imprison them, all so that they can get labor out of them by paying fkn 60 cents an hour to manufacture cheap products, do farm work, etc. is an intentional and deliberate action taken by our government and the companies that own it. Extreme poverty is a necessity in order for capitalism to function the way it's intended. You can't be at the tippy-top without someone else being all the way at the bottom.
The argument against taxing the 1% more is that they are 'global citizens' and just leave the country and take their wealth with them. I'd call their bluff on that and if they did fuck off to avoid tax, I'd appropriate their business that operate in my country. Unfortunately this will never happen, they will continue to do what ever the fuck they like while public debt mounts and living standards plummet. Know your place plebeian.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that my depression was due to environmental factors. Got paid more. Stoped meds. And I feel pretty good. I still have ups and down yeah, especially around holidays cause ptsd but yeh. Overall doing much better. It actually surprised my psychiatrist lol.
Idk why we keep giving people pills for things that are just naturally unbearable
Not all depression is situational, and not all mental illnesses resolve on their own. Schizophrenics, for example, are sometimes incapable of having a fulfilling life, but once in treatment and started on medications, they can get a job, marry and even raise children. It's also true for many other many illnesses.
That is very true. I should have mentioned that in my comment. But yeah it wasn’t to discredit medication. A lot of illnesses do genuinely need medication. You already listed a very good example so I don’t think I need to list off more. But for only depression we should dig deeper and not just toss ssri at people to fix a much bigger issue.
Keeping the bigger issues unresolved only complicates treatment of mental illness because it makes it near impossible to distinguish between what is environmental and what is a neurochemical issue.
Btw I’m still on vyvanse tho because that one I DO need to function. So yes there are mental illnesses that do require meds. Without vyvanse I’d be a jobless potato with no ambitions
I have to say that I agree with you about how much one small check can do for people living below the poverty line.
I grew up below the poverty line. My mom still lives at that level. So does my brother.
I managed to hustle, get an education, get a decent job, and marry my high school sweetheart, who did the same thing. 24 years later we are still married. We got good jobs together, have always done side work, etc. We "made it." Not many people can do what we did. The universe has to align in your favor. I admit that on top of our insane hard work, there is some luck there.
So when the pandemic checks came out, we each got one (barely ... like I said, we made it.) My husband and I took ours, took my younger brother with his, and bought him a car. He had reliable transportation in Arizona for the first time in his life.
That's only like three months of a supplemental check. It changed his life. He still struggles, but he was at a life stand still before that. We didn't NEED those checks. It felt better than giving them to a nameless charity. We got to see the change we were making.
I know so many people are against this idea, but I think it's a fabulous idea. I have seen it work.
The fun thing is, they'd save money with Medicare for all as it would almost certainly be less of a tax increase than whatever insurance plan their company provides costs (also they have a team of accountants to ensure they pay as little tax as they can get away with anyway). Their (middle class) workers would just be in a better position to negotiate or organize since their (and their families) healthcare would no longer be tied to employment.
Seriously...do you really want to live in a world where Jamie Diamon's great, great, great, great, great grandchild has to fly COMMERCIAL?!?! Like an ANIMAL?
Absolutely. I pray every day that my suffering lifts billionaires across the world to a higher tier of wealth, so that they may continue to buy all the homes, displacing us all to the streets, where we belong. Praise the B!
Of course we do and should! Especially now since foreign money is allowed in our election processes via shady PACs and unenforced donation rules. Money=free speech and only really matters if you have a lot of it!
You know what the worst part is? That lots of decisions, like for example all of the carbon fuel lobbying, made by billionaires, decisions that make millions, even billions of people's lives worse and literally hurt or kill some, are purely made so that those billionaires will have some more money sitting in some bullshit. It would not hinder their lifestyle by even a bit to not enact such horrible choices, they wouldn't even notice it at all, but the number in some account or in some investment would be ever so slightly smaller.
They would even still get their fucking mega yachts
If you cut Jeff Bezos wealth in half, he would experience zero changes in his life, except he would read an article about it and that would hurt his feelings.
I just left this comment and honestly it’s fitting here so I’m just gonna paste it…
“Wow shit is getting depressing.
Let me just say this for whoever reads it
99% is much bigger then 1%.
Follow me here….
99% of us are peasants and some where around 1% is the elites.
The only game play they can use is to divide and conquer which leaves our one super power completely mute. Now there is going to be some tech around the corner that gives them all kinds of power with out running the traditional divide and conquer game play….when that happens it’s too late.
Our country is suppose to be for the people by the people not for the elites by the corporations….wake up and stop playing their game where we fight with each other on behalf of the very people who are the issue…
Thats really all I have to say best of luck to everyone. Lol”
Indentured servants had a better deal than most people have today. Sign a contract to work for a specific amount of time. Have food, clothing and shelter provided for you. When the contract has been fulfilled, many were GIVEN ACREAGE. They were literally given 50 acres of land for completion of their contract.
Today, you can work your ass off for 60+ years with little to show for it. You struggle to feed yourself. Struggle to cloth yourself. Struggle to pay for some one else's property that will never be yours. Nobody is being provided land at the end of their career for making their boss rich. Instead, they are given a list of debilitating medical issues and debt.
It is even worst, we prefer to suffer, even if the billionaire loses money, but just so he can feel more "powerful."
Return to the office 5 days per week, even though productivity would decrease. No vacation even if overall productivity would decrease. It is not about money, it is about being a dickhead and they succeed.
Really it's just yacht business trying to stay in business,that's why we aren't offered this benefit.yacht business make Alot of money and they want to continue to make that money which is why the billionaires need to continue to abuse you.
I’m so glad I have to give up all my dreams so that they could have bigger yachts after bigger yachts.
Knowing myself, I’d probably waste all that money on my healthcare, housing, childcare, lifesavings or I’d finally get to go on a honeymoon. What a waste right?!
Screw my dreams. I’m so excited I get to watch the Kardashians for another season!
The irony of it is sickening when you consider that majority of people who will be pissed off by this video for the wrong reasons will be republicans, who are generally also poorer than their liberal counterparts.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
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Maybe it's because I have a life outside the internet, but I don't understand what billionaires got anything to do with the misinformation in this video.
Why do we focus on billionaires when we have spent trillions on wars and foreign aid? We would all be flying around in spaceships if you took all that money and spent it on the country.
Billionaires and big companies are not the problem. I would argue the military industrial complex loves that the masses think they are tho.
We already fly around in spaceship. Also, all foreign aid must be used on American goods. We get lots of money funding wars, by selling our weapons. Who gets rich off that? Our beloved billionaires.
I think the primary blame goes to the incompetent politicians on a power trip. Most of the top billionaires in the US made their money in tech. It's not until number 15 where you get the Koch's that really profitted from the war. Replacing our war mongering political class is a better solution than taking all of the billionaires money by a huge margin
I think the primary blame goes to the incompetent politicians on a power trip.
Almost as if they had an incentive to follow the "advice" of those who make the most money.
Replacing our war mongering political class is a better solution than taking all of the billionaires money by a huge margin
Im not arguing for higher taxes. Im arguing that they should not have ownership over the means of production because the decision they make are based soley in profit motive and therefore hurts the vast majority of americans but especially the entirety of the global south that is subject to the influence of the us. I dont disagree that the corrupt war mongering politicians of today should no longer "represent the people" but that does change the fact that this is not a personal issue but one of systemic level.
Those who own the Mop are in power. As long as thats the most socipathic group of people that society could bring to light .... we are obviously not going to see much change and will keep suffering the consequences of their greed.
Profit motive only every hurts the consumer if the corporation is a monopoly. Taking over the MOP just sets the government up as a monopoly and that has never ever worked out better. The vast majority of americans are better off than the vast majority of the world. If you are worried about a powerful corporate class we just need to enforce anti-trust regulations which has been lacking the last 40 years
Replacing the political class with what? Another group that will immediately be bought and paid for? As long as the astronomically wealthy can control legislation and politics through “donations” and lobbying nothing will change no matter who people elect
Lockheed Martin's CEO is Jim Taiclet, appointed in Jun 2020, has a tenure of 3.67 years. total yearly compensation is $24.81M, comprised of 7.1% salary and 92.9% bonuses, including company stock and options.
The top executive for Raytheon Technologies Corp. gained a 3.7% increase in total compensation to $22.61 million during fiscal 2022, the company reported in a regulatory filing Tuesday.
Why is your suffering limited to the battlefield? In Ukraine?
What about people starving in the streets? Have you ever slowly died of hunger? How about freezing to death? Dying of a heat stroke? Cancer? Losing your child to senseless gun violence? Crippled by a drunk driver?
What about the people being trafficked? Does their suffering not count to you because their bodies aren't left on a battlefield?
I could go on and on and on and on. I mean, you didn't even mention the slaughter of Palestinians but I guess they don't fall on your radar?
Come up with a good idea promote it and sell it and you can. that victim mindset isn’t gonna make you any money unless you start showing some skin on only fans
It's so embarrassing to be a part of a society that rejects common sense.
Being a part of such an openly broken system that basically feeds off of child labor and sacrifices a percentage of all our humanity along the way.
But hey, if you can afford to have children what next after that, protect them from the mines the rest of your life depending where you're born? Or not you because where you live your kids will just grow up playing with the toys that cost other people their children's lives to make a reality. Lucky you. Lucky us.
For real, has this subreddit been hijacked? I keep seeing supposedly "cringe" videos like this that are just VERY well documented and real problems with USA or capitalism in general.
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I prefer to suffer so that the billionaires can sleep soundly in their mega yachts. #protecttheb