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@OrevaZSN
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
Easterncedar
(6,648 posts)Nittersing
(8,580 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,991 posts)then?
ananda
(35,792 posts)have more money than god and
want to force them down our throats.
Happy Hoosier
(9,718 posts)but I also want clean water and a habitable planet. Its not either/or.
calimary
(91,427 posts)Besides, considering what we've already done to injure and defile our precious Earth, and the wasteful, thoughtless habits we've already built, a city on Mars may not be such a bad idea for the future. What we've already done to our planet is gonna take quite a cleanup, along with some serious reeducation and wiser long-range habit-forming. The "use once/throw away" mentality has got to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Morbius
(1,213 posts)We need clean power more than anything.
dweller
(28,904 posts)The 🌎 is just a private resort for 3,000 people .
The rest of us are the servants and slaves that serve them . . .

😐
✌🏻
SheltieLover
(82,594 posts)True Dough
(27,637 posts)Anonymous
@YourAnonNews
Imagine waking up tomorrow and every billionaire vanished.
Most people would still go to work.
Food would still be grown.
Roads would still be built.
Hospitals would still operate.
Now imagine every worker vanished.
That's the difference between wealth and value.
bluestarone
(22,538 posts)SuzyandPuffpuff
(775 posts)Agreed
2MuchNoise
(957 posts)I want a comfortable bed
That won't hurt my back
Food to fill me up
And warm clothes and all that stuff.
House of Roberts
(6,722 posts)Passionate Kisses by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
2MuchNoise
(957 posts)electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)And while having some class differences: erase poverty; and maybe limits to only multimillionaires ( raise the Social Security cap, too), and further clean up our air, land & waters.
relogic
(366 posts)the enterprises that would put us on Mars, supply flying, autonomous, congested airspace, give us water and millions of products/services seem to own the rights to these things before we can even bid (in a sense) on them. Recent example (Space X). Theyve managed to steal the rights of control one way or another and use our government against us to accomplish this.
electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)Space Z, Blue Origin whatever!
Please clarify what have these companies taken control of?
Justice matters.
(10,221 posts)Simple:
- Apply for public-sponsored subsidies (BILLIONS).
- Take big chunks of those public-funded subsidies to "donate" to politicians of all sides.
- Issue clear warnings to elected politicians that if they don't keep that scam going they can say goodbye to that public-funded money for their next campaign.
Bingo.
electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)relogic
(366 posts)our 3 Branches count and that is control on steroids. If I further clarified Id find the redundancy almost tragically comical.
electric_blue68
(27,886 posts)Don't have to be kind of snarky about it.
relogic
(366 posts)I thought you were giving the DOGE and corporate tax evaders at our expense a pass. (scratch my snark)
patphil
(9,327 posts)I don't want to say there aren't any, but they're precious few compared to what it used to be.
Bumbles
(579 posts)patphil
(9,327 posts)Maybe Musk will actually make it to Mars some day. A one way trip would be ideal.
GiqueCee
(5,042 posts)... that Bayer, primary producer of neonicitinoid insecticides, that are the biggest killer of honey bees, refuses to terminate production of that deadly product. If it kills honeybees, it's probably not too good for humans, either. But since when has that ever mattered to corporatists?
LoisB
(13,742 posts)Upthevibe
(10,280 posts)Cirsium
(4,218 posts)Such a purist. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
JoseBalow
(9,896 posts)
relogic
(366 posts)I wholeheartedly agree. More attention to life and less on the strife compounded by those endeavors.
OLDMDDEM
(3,332 posts)TommieMommy
(3,218 posts)Ocelot II
(131,779 posts)Especially fucking AI in every app and every website.
hermetic
(9,321 posts)MiHale
(13,277 posts)rampartd
(5,461 posts)but the sucker will be a tattle tale
and the robot malware (yes, coming soon) might just turn your sex bot into a relentless killer.
Fla Dem
(27,858 posts)They clearly don't care about us.
Polybius
(22,286 posts)I want my own C-3PO.