I wonder how much life is already dead since a hundred years ago. Or has it been mostly apex predators/megafauna so far and who cares about those right 
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Wow, so much for avoiding industrial disease by going out and catching your own fish for dinner. 
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Iâm sure the vast bulk of life on the planet is happily going about its single-celled business⌠
Of course, if we leave things as our ancestors did on âEarth-like planetsâ Venus and Mars, we might see a complaintâŚ
Great Lakes fish have been, for quite a while, something you donât eat too much of.
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Yeah, how bout none. None sounds good, since weâre talking âforeverâ chemicals.
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Time to cut out the OJ as wellâŚ
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Yeah, I would say âStick to home grown,â but with what is being found in the soil now, I am not sure that works either. We have succeeded in making a world quite unfriendly to human (or other complex) life.
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Yeah, that product was never âSimplyâ anything, so Iâm not shocked:
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Just as GOD intended! At least if you believe the prosperity gospel assholesâŚ
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No, itâs exactly the reason we think, and I question the need for the word âsome.â
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Hmmm⌠Interesting⌠One way that the elite class has attempted to deal with this is with the distraction of the leisure industry⌠but thatâs often backfired, as radical politics has often infiltrated popular culture, given the poors ideasâŚ
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Guess I dodged that one at least, since I only eat whole fruit. Way too much sugar in juice.
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Perhaps thatâs why the Roman âbread and circusâ variant of entertainment involved feeding Christians to lions. Given what has been recently published about what may have been broadly understood as the enslaved status of Mary, and the appeal of Christianity to those in that large Roman sub-group, you have to think the message might have been pretty clearâŚ
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Too true. Itâs getting more than a bit insulting that weâre considered too stupid to understand the game theyâre playing. Some of their moves are more obvious than others, but they also brag about most as accomplishments. Controlling people through underemployment and low wages while increasing their cost of living isnât new. Remember all of the media reports about the average worker being two paychecks away from homelessness? Next came the rise of payday lenders and repealed/relaxed usury laws. That was before the push for increasing the minimum wage to $15.
Of course, corporations portrayed themselves as victims unable to pay workers more instead of just admitting their greed. Now that corporations are buying up houses, apartments, mobile home parks, and RV campgrounds, they figure there will be nowhere left for the impoverished to run. For some, the endgame is to also profit by increasing the number of incarcerated people, who wonât be compensated much (if at all) for their labor. Keeping the formerly incarcerated disenfranchised is part of the overall strategy, too.
Now we have popular entertainment involving true crime, copaganda, and reality shows featuring cops pursuing/interrogating people who donât seem to be able to afford an attorney* or choose to remain silent.
*I donât know the name of the show, but happened to see part of an episode at a family gathering, was horrified and mystified why anyone looking at it thought it was entertaining.
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Iâm convinced this is why MMT is constantly under attack, usually framed as a route to almost inevitable hyper-inflation. IMHO its most liberating insight is that taxation is simply one of a spectrum of policies by which society says who gets to do, or not do, what. âTaxationâ at its most brute involves the removal of a person from the economy entirely, slightly milder forms are called âfinesâ, and both applied to behaviours that society finds particularly obnoxious. At the other end we have particularly well-educated, well-governed nations (cough 
cough) ensure that the behaviour of hoarding large quantities of idle wealth is discouraged by a direct wealth tax, which encourages investment and innovation.
I think MMT unifies the theory behind these governing actions and lays bare the âgamesâ we play to increase economic output, or how those games hurt overall economic prosperity.
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If Isuzu decides to run the lying guy ad campaign again Santos would be a shoe in.
Heâd lie about it too.
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Heh. Great punchline too.
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