damnedfurry
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- Comment on App development 1 week ago:
There was an attempt
- Comment on App development 1 week ago:
women struggling in the office when they did not put on makeup that specific day, how the behavior of random strangers changed etc.
It’s simply the difference that’s being noticed, and no one’s really at fault for that, on either side. Any woman who never wears makeup is also never going to get the same ‘are you sick?’ kind of reactions on any given day she doesn’t wear makeup to work.
- Comment on App development 1 week ago:
Same, I’m really grateful she has no interest/desire to wear makeup. It was also nice to know what her face looked like from day 1, which is what this app is meant to facilitate.
The more I think about it, the stranger the notion of ‘gatekeeping her real face’ behind a full-on relationship sounds to me, lol.
P.S. lol, I just remembered reading an old ‘hack’ for this years and years ago: make a water park your first outing together.
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 1 week ago:
Your opportunities in life are absolutely dependent on your wealth. Those hoarding wealth are stealing opportunity from everyone.
What if the wealth you possess was created by you? Wealth isn’t zero sum, it’s created all the time (and at a rate literally not achievable simply by underpaying employees, to pre-refute the expected response). The implied premise of ‘because they have it, we don’t have it’ just doesn’t hold any water.
Also, it doesn’t really make sense to call it ‘hoarding’ when it’s largely/all invested in businesses that run within the economy. To hoard something is to keep it isolated–investments in publicly-traded companies can never truly fairly be called “hoarding”. You could only fairly call the funds kept in back accounts etc. unspent ‘hoarded’.
- Comment on Powerful 1 week ago:
Uh, women graduate college at a rate much higher than men in the US, this is total bullshit, lol.
- Comment on Anon gives back 1 week ago:
$500 says you’ve never replied to a post where a woman implies her ex-husband was a bad person with “I hate my ex husband, haha, men bad”
- Comment on Powerful 1 week ago:
Is the point meant to be that women don’t build off of their previous work as much as men? lol
Powerful This “science meme” needs more science and less meme, imo, lol
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Me: There is less worldwide poverty than there was 100 years ago.
You: bOoTlIcKeRIt really is sad how emotionally-charged tantrums are the go-to response to the simple questions that interfere with your preconceived narratives.
P.S. Just because I had it handy, I’ll quickly debunk one of your lies: the home ownership rate is literally higher today than it was 40 years ago, lol. So much for “two generations can’t own a home” after those ‘40 years of dismantling’. If every time one of you dopes accused someone of being a “bootlicker”, you spent that time acquiring an actual fact, you’d be much better off.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Is poverty worse or better today than 100 years ago?
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
They stand in the way of hope
Literally a nonsensical statement. Stuff overall worldwide is way better now than it was 100 years ago, and there were way fewer billionaires (even when adjusting for inflation) back then.
Stop making excuses. Nothing’s in your way other than your victim mentality.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Peace can only come when there is no need to be greedy, especially among a handful of billionaires.
The implication that all conflict originates in resource scarcity is incredibly naive.
You subtly dropped your mask, there, but I know enough to recognize your ideology. We’re just a few exchanges from “all struggles are power struggles where one is the oppressor and the other is the oppressed, and will inevitably culminate in violence”.
Save it for someone more gullible. I’m exiting this thread.
Bottom line: billionaires are not the cause of poverty. Ironically, the increase in billionaires is correlated with a decrease in poverty. You would not be any less poor if Amazon never existed.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
We literally have enough food to feed everyone. But there are people who will prevent everyone from being fed because having control over the food gives them power (e.g. warlords in Africa).
The bottom line is, you can’t solve world hunger until you solve world peace, and the fact is that you can’t buy peace.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Killing people because you decided their stuff is valued too highly is not any kind of justice, no matter what kind of spin you put on it.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
It would literally vanish. Wealth is not cash. If Amazon disappeared one day, not a single person’s (poor or not) bank account would get bigger as a result.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is meaningless though.
Net worths are guessed (you literally can’t perfectly accurately audit total net worth in any practical way) price tags. When it comes to individual assets like stocks, that price tag is dictated by the market (basically, everyone other than the owner) that essentially assert “if you sold this, I’d be willing to pay $X to buy it from you”.
A price tag is not cash. An asset becoming more valuable is not equivalent to the mint printing bills. And owning shares in businesses that are actively involved in the economy is literally the opposite of “hoarding”.
The wealth gap between the very top and the destitute was MUCH smaller 100 years ago. But poverty was MUCH more common then, too. So then why do so many act like that gap widening is at fault for the poverty that still exists?
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Most of the world’s major problems literally cannot be solved by an injection of funds alone.
I’m acutely reminded of when that guy said $6 billion would solve world hunger, Musk basically replied “prove how and I’ll give you the money right now”, and the response was a combination of impotent sputtering and backpedaling about how it would now help, but not solve.
- Comment on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds 2 months ago:
Whoa, big shock, the 15 (that’s the number of “billionaires under 30”, according to the article) youngest billionaires are the ones most likely to have reached that point via inheritance.
No shit?
This is not the gotcha you think it is.