The Fifth Risk

[CousinIT]

I haven't read this, but it was recommended to me by a friend. It sounds very apropos for the times we're living in, where billionaires want to own, control, and personally profit from everything everyone else needs to survive.

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/1324002646

It documents how some businessmen were working to privatize weather information. Our public service weather science provides information for all the weather reports we get. We can complain when they are wrong, but I wouldn’t want to be without them. We pay for this service in our taxes.

Privatizing it would make it only available to those who can pay even more for it. We all need the information, not just those who can afford it. I am concerned about this effort to monetize everything with no shared services. It creates barriers that are cruel and unnecessary.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Cruel, unnecessary, and DEADLY

nt

[yorkster]

2. If more people had read The Fifth Risk, Trump

would never have been re-elected, imho.

And the damage that was done in the first 2 years of the first term were but a mild precursor to the wrack and ruin currently taking place.

[CrispyQ]

3. The right is so fearful of socialism when feudalism is what they should be worried about. -nt

[CousinIT]

4. My MAGA family (that's pretty much all of them) are so worried about non-existent "socialism"

...that they have completely blinded themselves to the FASCISM that's already taken over their government and their lives.

IDIOTS.