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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
(6,652 posts)Nittersing
(8,592 posts)senseandsensibility
(26,029 posts)then?
ananda
(35,823 posts)have more money than god and
want to force them down our throats.
Happy Hoosier
(9,725 posts)but I also want clean water and a habitable planet. Its not either/or.
calimary
(91,449 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
(1,218 posts)We need clean power more than anything.
dweller
(28,935 posts)The 🌎 is just a private resort for 3,000 people .
The rest of us are the servants and slaves that serve them . . .

😐
✌🏻
SheltieLover
(82,691 posts)True Dough
(27,668 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
(22,553 posts)SuzyandPuffpuff
(785 posts)Agreed
2MuchNoise
(963 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
(6,726 posts)Passionate Kisses by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
2MuchNoise
(963 posts)electric_blue68
(27,929 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
(396 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
(27,929 posts)Space Z, Blue Origin whatever!
Please clarify what have these companies taken control of?
Justice matters.
(10,236 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
(27,929 posts)relogic
(396 posts)our 3 Branches count and that is control on steroids. If I further clarified Id find the redundancy almost tragically comical.
electric_blue68
(27,929 posts)Don't have to be kind of snarky about it.
relogic
(396 posts)I thought you were giving the DOGE and corporate tax evaders at our expense a pass. (scratch my snark)
patphil
(9,340 posts)I don't want to say there aren't any, but they're precious few compared to what it used to be.
Bumbles
(587 posts)patphil
(9,340 posts)Maybe Musk will actually make it to Mars some day. A one way trip would be ideal.
GiqueCee
(5,070 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
(13,760 posts)Upthevibe
(10,280 posts)Cirsium
(4,237 posts)Such a purist. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
JoseBalow
(9,918 posts)
relogic
(396 posts)I wholeheartedly agree. More attention to life and less on the strife compounded by those endeavors.
OLDMDDEM
(3,336 posts)TommieMommy
(3,223 posts)Ocelot II
(131,817 posts)Especially fucking AI in every app and every website.
hermetic
(9,321 posts)MiHale
(13,283 posts)rampartd
(5,507 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
(27,862 posts)They clearly don't care about us.
Polybius
(22,292 posts)I want my own C-3PO.