ininewcrow

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I had to call you using my elbows because I don't have fingers or thumbs any more

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

That is another better perspective ..... and also why again do we have a civilization that allows someone to own so much wealth that it is not feasible or even possible for them to enjoy all the money in one lifetime?

Holy shit this perspective is enlightening ... and also very depressing ... thanks

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 days ago

I think we have one of those in the Office of President of the United States of America

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think we can safely agree that the American government and American system is whatever the wealthy owners and corporate overseers want to do with it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I'm convinced that the phrase 'counting the dead' doesn't mean anything to Americans anymore ... it won't mean anything to them until they start seeing piles of body bags or mounds of human bodies in the streets before they think that things are going bad.

If this is the analogy of a frog boiling in water .... America's frog eyes are starting to grow grey as their skin starts to harder in the extremely hot water

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Now that's putting it into perspective ... holy shit

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All throughout most modern history ... if you set up an economic system where you allow humans to gain unbelievable amounts of wealth and ask them or wait for them to share it, they never do and instead use that wealth to gain even more sums of wealth in a never ending cycle. I know plenty of wealthy people and they do share their wealth, just not in the sums you want to imagine - they share a few hundreds or thousands here and there but never enough to create meaningful change and never in the amounts to affect the growth of their wealth.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I know plenty of millionaires ... people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million ... and they are still just getting by. They aren't that terribly wealthy - they don't live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.

Billionaires on the other hand are something else ... it's like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.

Here's a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is

Using Rice to Show How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 73 points 4 days ago (28 children)

Millionaires with a few million dollars aren't the problem

The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.

If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they'd remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.

Millionaires aren't the problem .... Billionaires are

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No need for a tracker, predictions or allusions .... we're going to have proof soon when the country gets hit with a major hurricane, tornado or extreme weather storm.

I'll take a guess that it will take about three or four major events before everyone will say or do anything about it ... but even then, their corporate media will play it all down while the country continues to break down.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Always have to remind people about stuff like this .... decent regulated work hours? weekends? over time pay? child labour laws? health care? worker benefits? worker protections? minimum wage?

All those things came about because workers unions fought to get them in place. I have family and friends who picketed in strikes in the 1940s and 1950s and had to fight and even get killed for standing in the way to get these basic rights. I have one old friend from my wife's family ... a crusty old Irishman who looked like Popeye, short, stout with big massive arms and hands. He was Merchant seaman and worked on both coasts of the country during the war ... he said he wanted to go overseas but he was too young at the start of the war and by the time he came of age, the war was over. So instead, he ran away from home and worked on ships who didn't care how old you were, as long as you looked the part and could lift 100lbs. Their mother was a communist, when communism wasn't a hellfire, demonic idea in Canada. They grew up knowing and understanding that they had to look after themselves and that companies and corporations would always exploit them. After the war, he and his brother joined workers unions and dock workers unions on the west coast of Canada. They took part in lots of ugly strike actions and work stoppages in the 1950s ... and in one of those standoffs, late one night, his brother was killed ... murdered because he was high ranking union leader.

My old Irish friend Freddie always reminded us of why we live in the world we have now. It was because people fought and died for it ... it wasn't given freely by government or corporations ... people fought for it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Frustrated that the 20 year you are considering to hire doesn't have ten years experience.

 

I happened on a bit of TV trivia a while ago. I enjoy watching a Canadian TV Show on CBC called ‘Son of a Critch’ … great show with great writing and acting … it’s simple, holky, funny, endearing … reminds me of the 80s show ‘Wonder Years’ … and it’s all based on a family living in the 80s in Newfoundland … all things I really love and enjoy.

One of the show regulars is Malcolm McDowell … who played Soran in the Star Trek film ‘Generations’ ... I also found it amazing that someone like McDowell was co-starring in this little Canadian TV show.

In the episode ‘Old Friends, New Friends’ - Season 2 Episode 10 … one of the guest actresses was Alice Krige … who played the original Borg Queen from the Star Trek film ‘First Contact’

It was really neat to see McDowell and Krige together in the same scenes in this episode … Soran, a mad man in search of eternity and the Borg Queen in search of eternal slavery.

The addition of text to the image (and inspiration for this post) was thanks to @ummthatguy@lemmy.world

 

My wife likes watching America's Got Talent with all their highlight reels and it got me to thinking, there's a business out there making a ton of money from parents allowing their children to perform for free.

 

EDIT: ... changed title from 'monkeys' to 'apes' ... thanks to @Diddlydee@feddit.uk for pointing it out

 
 

Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we're faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.

Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.

 
 

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 Episode 23 - Regeneration

The episode starts in the 22nd Century in the Arctic .... and the first thought I had was .... WE BEAT GLOBAL WARMING!!! Because there's still ice and snow in the Arctic.

 

Scott Thompson, a Canadian comedian famous as a member of the TV Comedy series 'Kids In The Hall'

Patrick Stewart, as Captain Picard with hair

 

Every call I've ever had that was a wrong number, misdailed number, pocket dial or whatever that wasn't supposed to be for me turned out to be a spam call or marketing call for something. Most of the time, it was a way for me to confirm my number to some dumb marketer.

For the past year or two, I answer all mysterious calls I don't recognize and put it immediately on 'mute'. If the person calling doesn't identify themselves ... I let them hang up first and then I just block the number. If they identify themselves with some weird marketing message ... I let them hang up and then block the number.

 
 

I just lost two close relatives who were also friends today. We grew up as kids and they were about a year or two older than me. I've always been aware of death and accept it but when stuff like this happens, it's a really strong reminder of how we're all moving along in the line towards the end.

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