So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
SO if Thanos halfed all life across the universe including domestic farm animals and plantlife hasn’t he just ended up with the same problem he started with?
What a fucking idiot.
almost as if it was a shit justification he only used to try to make ppl believe he’s being reasonable
He didn’t just end up with the same problem he started with – he made it worse. Half of all life would include single-celled eukaryotes and all prokaryotes. That means that, unless he counted “destroying the gut biome of the animals he snapped” as the half, he removed 50% of the bacteria inside animals that said animals need to live.
In other words, unless he went “50% of humans will be removed and so will the bacteria inside them” which I doubt, what presumably (based on this nonsense logic premise that I hate) happened was that 50% of every bacterial ecosystem disappeared, which would kill all the humans. Nothing can digest or be decomposed efficiently now you chucklefuck.
He also probably caused global ecosystem collapse, since removing half of a species globally, even if it’s done neatly for “half in every area” interrupts delicate balances and could result in immediate destruction. With all the animals that made it through dying, there’d be waterway pollution, which leads to eutrophication, which causes algal blooms and makes water toxic, so any freshwater life that survived is probably dying now even aside from the microorganisms thing.
What if he happened to remove the female half of a species? Was it a two by two thing? Nobody ever specified. What about hive species? The bees would be completely wrecked by this – No more pollination!
Soil would be being depleted since if plants die en masse there’s nothing to hold it still, reducing the agricultural capacity of the earth for a very long time to come. Not to mention the salinity issues that come from removing deep rooted perennial vegetation. For the record, salinity in the soil results in plants being unable to take up nutrients, resulting in, you guessed it, once again way more than 50% dying.
And all this is assuming the snap was totally fair and destroyed 50% of each type of life in each area/ecosystem which I doubt. So the chaos wouldn’t even be predictable.
Essentially, Thanos completely destroyed every ecosystem on the planet, especially fragile ones, and probably catalysed near-complete planetary extinction, based on factors off the top of my head! Grape man, though art a mouldy spleen.
For all the retconning that had to happen for TAZ to be a cohesive story, the fact that John (and the Hunger) didn’t appear as actual villains until The Stolen Century continually astounds me, because his influence and the fight against him is felt in every breath of TAZ.
I see his despairing influence in Isaak’s labored confession of Jack’s murder. I see it in Lucas’s desperation to save his mother, no matter the cost. I see it in Hurley begging Sloane to remember she’s not a killer. I see it in the glassy, mirrored surface of the remains of Phandolin.
On the other hand, I see the bulwark against the nihilism John represents as well. I see it in every “horseshit!” one of the boys yells when they’re confronted with what seems like a hopeless situation. I see it in the words of comfort they hand out – telling Roswell they made Refuge safe, letting Lucretia know she has faith in herself, promising Sloane they won’t let this happen again. It’s shown in the smaller moments, too; every time they lift each other up or laugh at a joke or work together. Their support of Noelle, Magnus making a ring for Carey to give to Killian, Taako teaching Angus magic, Merle deciding to go back to his family.
The power of how TAZ works as a story lies in the fact that the premise is about life and hope, and every word spoken that adds to that, every act that denies despair and suggests that all is not lost, every smile, every spell cast with the intention to help, every bond created, works against the villain before we even know his name.
We don’t see John and the Hunger themselves until almost the end of the story, but it doesn’t matter. We know our heroes have been fighting him every step of the way, whether we (and they) knew it or not.
We already know how the story ends, because how could it end any other way than with hope, after everything we’ve seen?
How could it end with anything other than the complete dismantling of destructive despair, the affirmation of joy, the promise of future days of happiness?
the subplot of megamind involved a creepy fuckboy thinking that by becoming a superhero, he’d automatically get the girl he was obsessing over.
the subplot of megamind involved sexism and male entitlement to an obscene degree. the moment roxanne rejected hal he snapped and decided to obliterate the city and take whatever he wanted.
the subplot of megamind involved an outright commentary on the BS that women put up with in their daily lives. roxanne brushing off the creepy comments of her coworker because that’s the best she can do.
oh yeah and i can’t believe it’s taken me this long to bring this up but i’m absolutely not here for people shading the “american girl today”/”my american girl” line because
the line literally enables girls to create a doll that looks like them
including a wide array of non-white skin tones and non-european features
like black dolls with curly and textured hair
or asian dolls that appear to have epicanthic folds
and they’ve also released accessories like doll-sized wheelchairs, hearing aids, and crutches so that girls who aren’t able-bodied or are hard of hearing can have a little friend who shares their experiences
and they’ve even begun to offer dolls without hair for little girls who have alopecia or have lost hair while battling cancer
and basically if you don’t think that’s the tightest shit then get out of my face
Also: SERVICE DOGS.
IT’S SO CUTE IT EVEN HAS TRAINING TREATS. You go American Girl.
They also consulted the Nez Pierce when making their Kaya doll and that’s why her smile doesn’t show teeth, among other things, and they’ve released some beautiful, and accurate, modern Powwow regalia for her.
Also they’ve been offering all this stuff since I was still getting the catalog. I just turned 29, so if I’m going to guess, that means they’ve been offering these options since at least 1996ish.
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