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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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