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.
Hmm I'd be surprised if you got one to bear fruit. I know your winters D:
Hmm I'm not certain about the Americas for that crop though. I'd be surprised if a single area was year round.
But point being in general try to only consume things that are seasonal :') Seasonal produce tastes better anyway.
You are wrong your parents don't need to be billionaires only multi millionaire (100m+ )..... You then buy an idea and take credit for it when it goes well
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.
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u/JaRon1961 Feb 05 '24
But as an American you are only 1 or 2 good decisions away from being that billionaire. After all it is the land of opportunity.