2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Show me the large group of working millennials looking to pay much higher taxes for [View all]ladjf
(17,320 posts)the serious meaning of "free stuff is not free" but on a massive global scale.
I'm referring the abusive practices by corporations that disregard dire warnings by scientists about
natural resources, environmental degradation of air, water and other minerals and the real killer
global warming which is going to flood most coastal cities within 100 years, cause desertification
around the World, desperately low water supple, and the beat goes on. Within 159 yrs. the planet will almost be uninhabitable. Why, because in the process of given in to unchecked Capitalism, damage was done to Nature in the process of obtaining there products for market.
For example, when a Japanese whaling ship reports that they have already killed (or as the reported, "captured" as though they might be put in a zoo or something) over 300 whales. All the Japenense paid
for was the ship, the crew and some processing. But, nature paid the lives of 300+ whales that might have averaged 30 yrs of life each, meaning that they been fed hundreds of lbs of food daily for 30 years times 300. That cost would be millions of dollars worth of food that Nature paid for. The Japanese
actually stole the animals for the ocean,claiming it was research which everyone knows that's lie.
When an oil company decides to drill an oil well, the company pays all of the regular expense of exploration, drilling, refining and marketing put some royalties for rights to drill But the real expense
is the millions of years it took Nature to produce petroleum in the first place. The prices paid by
Nature are so huge that they are impossible to calculate. But, when those pools of oil are gone,
it's all over for oil. Plus the horrible amount of lethal pollution that cost billions to clean up
not to mention animal and plant disease and poor health just so oil companies can be among the richest money makers in history. They don't make oil. The steal it from Earth.
This list goes on and on. Yes, nothing is free, not even for the rich corporations who are plundering
the Earth of it's riches and keeping the proceed for their owners and executives. Everyone else gets
screwed.