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It would be the same in the beginning, only now instead of some guy taking majority of the value you generate for himself, you get that value, you can choose to reinvest it or keep it democratically with your coworkers.
In the long run we would be able to greatly reduce the amount of hours worked as we slowly progress further into socialism, a universal basic wage, healthcare, etc, will all be provided, allowing you to live without a job if you wish, this means between useless jobs, and jobs that can be automated, the total amount of hours the population has to work will be greatly reduced, giving you time to do whatever it is you actually want, be it art, study, crafting, etc
All of this will be paid for by the same value we are already producing everyday, only now instead of it going to some rich guy, and eventually even yourself, it goes to the community, where public projects will slowly build your quality of life overtime, instead of slowly decreasing it like under capitalism.
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Drug addiction and mental illness are actually in part caused by capitalism.
Drugs
People feel the need to do drugs when their lives suck, working hard everyday and still not being able to support your family sucks, never seeing your family and always being at work sucks, not being able to follow any of your true passions because they are not profitable under capitalism sucks, having lots of debt that you had to take just to get by sucks, many things under capitalism make drug use more likely.
Also you have corruption, under capitalism people feel the pressure to make money so they can provide a good life for themselves and family, this leads to increase chances for bribed police, politicians, boarder patrol etc that allow drugs to easily be trafficked into America, not to mention the fact that these people are also likely to be unhappy in their situation, making them more likely to take the bribe in an attempt to find happiness under this stressful economic system.
Metal illness
For starters metal illness is more common due to the same above mentioned reasons combined with the increased drug abuses.
Also under capitalism the only incentive is to profit, and there is no profit to be made helping the impoverished mentally ill, I worked law enforcement in downtown Kansas City, and was shocked at how many people needed medical aid, and support systems to help get them off the street, but I had no options available to offer them, I simply had to turn them away I to the night.
Universal healthcare would help solve this problem all while saving Americans tons of money, and providing better healthcare. But then corporations wouldn’t be able to profit off of our misfortune as much so we don’t have it.
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@joesphrobinette8878 I don’t complain about unemployment, I complain about employment, and the exploitation that results from it.
Capitalism may be the best economic system in use, because it’s the only economic system in use, but personally I’m not a fan of participation trophies.
Capitalisms many flaws can be summed up with this one example, and it’s that capitalism only incentivizes profiting, if you enslave a village instead of paying employees their fair share, then that looks great from a capitalist perspective as you have lowered cost and increased profits, there is no accountability for the human toll of achieving those profits. This leads to the most ruthless and corrupt people getting into power until eventually the system is so bad that it either get forcefully removed, or collapses, killing everything we have built, if not our entire species.
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@D4rk_n1mbu5 I appreciate the respectful and organized response, not exactly what I expected from the man who just called a quarter of a generation losers but that’s a good thing.
I understand when you talk about hard work and personal dedication, these are very good qualities and they do indeed give you an Advantage even from a disadvantaged position. Im interested to see your thought on this example. I’ll be keeping this as simplistic as possible so forgive me for not including to many variables.
Take a factory, you have the owner who Statistically inherited it or acquired it with inherited wealth. He merely owns the factory he does not improve it, or work it, to him it is simply numbers on his spreadsheet (probably his accountants spreadsheet), he doesn’t work very hard and doesn’t provide much if anything.
Then you have the workers who work nearly everyday with their own hands building the factories products, improving its efficiency, and even moving and distributing the product after production , they provide everything. And yet the owner who did next to nothing gets the profits and decides how much he wants to keep and then gives a small amount to the workers so they can feed themselves and continue making him money.
In this case the money did not follow those who worked the hardest, it went to the man who’s name just happens to be on the building.
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@D4rk_n1mbu5 at last the true roots of a capitalist mindset reveal themselves. In one sentence you’ve both validated my argument and destroyed your own. You would condemn billions of people to lives of poverty and servitude just so you can live more comfortably than the rest. This mindset is selfish, incompetent, and pathetic. Capitalist are either unwilling or incapable of seeing the bigger picture, the fact that we are ONE people floating on a dirt ball in the middle of the infinite universe. Without each other we have nothing. I must admit that not very long ago I too thought as you do now. And it’s not entirely your fault, you merely chose the more desirable side in the system you were presented with which is understandable. It was only through a few recent experiences that I myself let down the defenses of my mindset and opened up to the possibility that there is another way. A way that leaves no one behind and could take humanity further than the have ever gone before. You don’t have to change, if you truly believe that you are vastly superior than everyone else and deserve to live above them then that’s your prerogative, but I don’t believe anyone could truly think this way without suppressing who they really are inside which is just delusional. The best advice I can give is try empathy thought experiences, sit down, go into your head, and try putting yourself into a different life and see how it makes you feel and act, it can be hard but it should be easy for such a superior being. Just remember that people who chose to exploit the majority for their own gain tend to be on the more decapitated side of history ;)
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The reason cars got so popular is because car manufacturers lobbied and used propaganda to make people think they were necessary, and for cites to be destroyed to accommodate them, they were just as forced onto people as the examples you used, a good example is when they lobbied to make “jaywalking” illegal because their cars were killing too many pedestrians, which of course was enforced with fines.
Cars also don’t represent freedom, in America I am forced to use my car if I want to go anywhere, the closet decent grocery store is a 20 min drive, I have no freedom of choice to choose walking, biking, train, or car, that choice was made for me long ago and now I am a prisoner of car manufacturers, and oil companies.
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@master-debater that just goes to show yours and others fundamental misunderstanding of what socialism is.
It’s an economic system where the means of production is controlled communally, instead of by a single owner. Instead of the man who owns a battery factory making cheaper products, with cheaper labor, and selling as many of them for as high a price as possible, which is a very inefficient way to manage resources, including the time of the employees.
Instead, and there are many ways to implant communal control, but this is the one I find most relatable to our current situation. The workers of the battery plant would now have democratic control over the plant, including how to distribute the profits generated by their labor, leading to better wealth distribution, more sustainable production practices, and power for the people.
It has nothing to do with people taking your money from you, unless you are a greedy capitalist who has been exploiting the labor of your employees for decades, in which case that money doesn’t really belong to you anyway.
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@master-debater primarily the capitalist run battery factory doing everything in their power to keep the battery market to themselves through various means, there is a lot that an established company can do to put a competitor out of business, a good example being dollar general putting local shops out of business by leveraging their resources to achieve lower prices and then raising prices once the competition is gone.
Another would be the people who have certain skills taking advantage of their position to take unfair amounts of profits instead of helping those with other skills thrive as well, for instance the upper management, who do have business skills, but instead of using those skills to create equilibrium with those who possess other skills, they use their positions to funnel unfair amounts of wealth their way from the other workers.
Why is being a capable business operator the only profession that gets treated so well? Just because you have that particular crucial skill, doesn’t mean you work harder than anyone else doing other things that benefit the business.
It’s the responsibility of the strong to aid the weak, everyone has strengths and weaknesses, but under our current system, people who have strength in certain areas can easily take advantage of those in others.
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@master-debater your looking at things from a personal perspective when addressing systemic issues, this seems to be the norm for some reason despite it making no sense.
Your progressive tax theory only accounts for income tax, which most capitalist barley pay, you seem to not know what side you are on because if you don’t own a business, putting you in the capitalist class, then you are a worker, putting you in the worker class.
There are so many ways the rich avoid paying taxes that it’s too much for a comment, but bottom line is capitalist pay minimum taxes, often accounting to $0 through various tactics. That’s not even accounting for the drain they put on our tax revenue through bailouts, and greedy government contracts.
Also people are not free to just start business whenever they want, if I started selling food on my front lawn I would be shut down due to decades of laws that prevent the worker class form easily becoming owner class.
And as he states in this very video if you actually watched it, we need people to work ALL jobs, not just the flashy ones, there is absolutely no reason that they should not be equally compensated, you can’t just say go get a better job, there are millions of people here.
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@ah6519 socialism is simply the means of production being run communally, instead of by a single man or small group, it’s not so much about handing control over to workers, as handing control over to the majority, right now the majority just happen to be workers.
Under socialism, as demand for labor falls, and production capabilities increase thanks to automation, there will not be as high of a need for raw labor, instead the average person could expect to work a few hours a couple times a week, if at all.
Instead you are free to follow your passions, spend time with loved ones, develop personal skills, etc
Automation under capitalism is seen as a bad thing, because the machines get rid of jobs, which people are reliant on to survive under capitalism, while the benefits of the increased production all go to the owner, instead of to the community like under socialism.
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@ah6519 everyone takes on the risk, making it less risky then a single person taking on the risk, so rich azzholes can stop complaining about how hard their life is and that they have to exploit us because they risk soooo much.
It’s simple really, if people need something, then make it. Say everyone’s phones are out of date, well it’s time to manufacture a new batch of phones, some people have Likely made lots of new breakthroughs in phone design, now that they are not restricted by patent law, and the chains of providing for a family. So you get a team together, design the best phone possible with our available tech, maybe a few different models to cover some more niche cases , manufacture them, and exchange them for people’s old phones, making sure to recycle the old ones appropriately, this is obviously a very simplified version of how this would work.
Rather then now, where we produce tons of phones all the time, sold at high markups because they can, and producing tons of waste as people upgrade every single year when their phone was perfectly fine. Part of the problem here is phone companies improving phones just enough to “warrant” an upgrade, so that they don’t hit a wall in development as quickly, when they could do it every 5 years instead, but that’s not as profitable, even though it’s the logical way to do it.
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You definitely overcomplicated it, there are a lot of design changes you can make to a house to make it more efficient without buying expensive tech
Example, at point water heating, you can have a tiny tankless water heater in the shower, and under the kitchen sink, you will save about 50% the energy cost of a tanked water heater, plus you don’t have to run hot water pipes through the house.
Also consider putting the panels away from the house, not in the roof, that way you can use plants to shade the hole from the sun, Greatly reducing heat absorption.
A lot of my other ones depend on your climate, if you are somewhere warm then there a lot more you can do, but if you have to prepare for hot and cold in your house, then it gets a little harder.
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@nunyabidness3075 banning cars within cities is not a ban on private transport, you have legs, bikes, even motorized bikes, ideally a metro which while not technically private is still there for your convenience, and on top of that you can still operate a car in the designated areas, all we are doing is trying to reduce our dependency on them, as things are now you can not live without a car which is how it was designed on purpose.
Also you seem to not understand who the enemy is, Americas “government” is completely owned and operated by corporations thanks to our lack of anti corruption laws, both democrats and republicans are sponsored by the same corporations and therefore have the same agendas, they just pretend to be for different causes so that you have the illusion of choice.
In that light, corporations and in turn our “government” actually love car dependency, it makes lots of money for car manufacturers and oil companies who have a lot of lobbying money, and it actually imprisons you more than not, you are 100% reliant on this singular mode of transportation. car shortage? Too bad. High gas prices? Out of luck. Can’t afford a car or gas even at the best of times? I guess you will have to be homeless because you can’t drive to a decent job. It keeps you poor and individualist making you the easiest to control, people only have power when standing together.
For someone so concerned with being controlled, I’m surprised you can’t see the cage you are already in.
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@NWA786 not a problem at all, it's actually nice to hear someone who can make a valid argument in the side of religion, you make your points very well.
why does it have to be a creator though? i'm not fully ruling that out as being a possibility, i just feel like even if it was the case, its unlikely that we would have such detailed information about it. the religious texts i have read seem very human inspired, i would think passages from a supreme being would be on the more creative and difficult to understand die to our earthly perspective.
i think it would be much better if we worshipped the ideas themselves, such as shrines to wisdom, knowledge, kindness, empathy. and religious text that is ever evolving based on our more advanced understandings of how to best implement these characteristics in people, and why it's important.
basically a morals roadmap to follow lol
i feel a couple of the biggest problems i have with religion are there ability to rob people of their critical thinking, for instance when does something become they feel god is asking them to, despite it making to logical sense given their current material conditions.
and then the ability for it to be used as a weapon, for instance the crusades, and even Israel V Palestine right now, even though it's obviously much more about control over the middle east and americas endless quest for control, both sides are able to gain support for the war on grounds of religious superiority. it seeks unsustainable to me
i enjoy hearing your opinions though
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For all the people who trying to quit smoking I have some advice, I have never smoked as it offers me lots of cons with no benefit, but I have conquered other addictions using this method.
I’m sure by now you have noticed that your consciousness is not the only thing in control of your body, we all have different sub systems influencing our decisions everyday, sometimes in open defiance of what our conscious mind knows to be right.
The only way to take control, and overpower them? You have to know it, you have to truly believe that your consciousness is the strongest force in existence, scream out in rage every single time you feel another impulse challenging your conscious decisions, there is only you, and the enemies within, slap yourself in the face if you have too, let them know that the only options are to submit to your will, or die.
Not everyone has the strength to do This immediately, addiction is a powerful foe, so to help increase your control, and power of will, you can force your body into uncomfortable situations, a good example is taking a cold shower, your body will certainly hate this, but if you can overcome it and will your body to do it anyway, then you will be one step closer to total control, exercise is also a good catalyst to increase power of will, but do your research on proper training techniques so you don’t get hurt, I recommend greasing the grove calisthenics, combined with mobility training and stretching.
I wish you the best of luck, kick your bodies a$$
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@suicune2001 It is pretty cool, we need more edgy speeches.
As someone who has worked in law enforcement I feel the need to give some insight into there lives, not saying these particular guys are innocent, they could just be bad cops, but it’s easy to understand if police are a little trigger happy.
A lot of them have families and still they go out every night to try and protect those who can’t protect themselves. They are under near constant threat of death, walking into hostile situations at a sever disadvantage not knowing who the enemy is, how many there are, or what they are capable of. even when a lot of the people they protect hate them (that’s actually the reason I stopped being law enforcement, no support from the people).
When a single second of hesitation means potential death for you are your brother and a widowed bride and fatherless kids. It’s easier to see the pressure they are under.
I think we should focus more on reducing the amount of crime by both cracking down on drug and alcohol abuse, the catalyst of a significant number of crimes, and to shrink the gap between the wealthy with socialist economics, helping those at the bottom who have almost no choice but to turn to illegal activities to make a living.
But yah, there are a lot of cops who should not be cops.
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$715,000,000,000, that’s how much every America living in a major city spend to own their car every year, not even counting taxes spent in road repair, that’s just paying for the car itself .
The international average for building a metro is only $350 million per mile, meaning with just one year of what we spend in our cars, we could have state of the art metro systems in every major city, and it would all be paid off in the first year, after that it would be major savings, ideally spent on building high speed rail between cities for faster more comfortable travel.
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@DamianOchramowicz I had 25% down, enough savings to make payments for a long time on top of that, a job, 780 credit score, and a property that made more in rent then the mortgage cost. I still got denied for unclear reasons, everyone being in their own buying giant houses is sucking the working class dry, killing off the very little power that we had left.
I’m not saying rent things, god no, visiting other counties taught me that its actually normal for apartments to be sold instead of rented in most places. And apartments don’t have to be so small either, they are made that way to maximize profits, but if we build apartments with people in mind instead, then they can be even better then houses.
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@sandrahiltz the window units you use much be higher quality then the ones I have seen, because hood R value, and an air tight seal do not come with window units in my experience.
As for the fitting into the window, just redesign the unit to be taller, then it can set into the window the same way out current ones do. The new window types would have to be standardized so that there are not many different models, but your shouldn’t be picky about custom window sizes when using window AC units. Then you just have the same side extensions that worry about left to right fit.
Alternatively, you could install the window units into a detonates hole in the wall, opening it for summer, and closing it for winter, this would allow for a better seal anyway, and with your new airtight windows, it will be more efficient.
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@brutalhonesty07 unfortunately personal home Solar systems also greatly contribute to resource usage and in turn pollution, they are made with lots of things we have to mine, refine, transport, and manufacture, adding pollution every step of the way, not to mention hours of people’s lives lost doing those tasks.
And this is largely dependent on who installed your solar, but typically the loans are organized in a way that is cheaper then your electric bill, but you end up paying way more then the panels were worth due too the long loan with interest.
Nuclear power, inner-city metros , and inter-city high speed rail would greatly alleviate pollution. Reduced car usage, domestic flights would be obsolete, freight could be transported on the rails instead of highways, both reducing pollution , and greatly extending the life of road infrastructure (semi trucks absolutely destroy roads, they are heavy and fast).
The nuclear power plants would also put an end to coal power so all that pollution is gone as well.
Also ship traffic would be reduced as it would make more sense to drop freight off on the west coast, and let the HSR take it to its final destination, instead of using the Panama Canal to take it directly to the east coast.
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@colonel__klink7548 so what I have in mind is treating the workplace just like a democratic government, as you pointed out you are still going to need people plotting the future course of the company, only now instead of some random guy claiming the entire operation, it is owned communally by everyone working there, and they will all have a say in who the CEO and other leadership positions will be, if a CEO gets greedy and takes to big a share of the profits, then he will be voted out and replaced, ideally this would result in much fairer profit sharing as the leadership would be at the mercy of the masses.
It wouldn’t be a planned economy, just a more fair version of what we are currently doing, not the finale destination, but the best first step I have come up with so far.
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@petarpejic1468 that’s not entirely true, people mostly buy what they need, and what’s available to them, not what they value.
A quick example could be eggs, I’d like pasture fed farm fresh eggs due their their higher nutritional content and lack of harmful extras, but due to lack of availability, and my lack of funds, I am forced to buy the cheapest eggs available, not the ones I value.
This is often the case under capitalism, people are forced to consume what they have too in order to survive, the problem gets worse the poorer you are, which leaves the majority of Americans with very little freedom of choice in reality.
What I would propose is handing over the means of production to the workers who operate them, meaning if you work at a battery factory, you are now in partial control, including on how profits are distributed, while not completely eliminating the potential for corruption, splitting up the power should greatly reduce the chances, this would also Likely lead to more sustainable business practices, as 1000 everyday people are more likely to think about their children’s future than a few rich guys.
Not a perfect fix, and it would take time to iron out the problems as they arise, but in the long run I believe it would be far better than our current system of exploit people as efficiently as possible so you can be at the top.
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@joec5544g your also right, it will leave you better off joining them than fighting them, but I don’t think about only me, I think about my children, their children, and everyone else who will come after me.
Your mindset is what got us here in the first place, while we may only live 80 years, it’s our personal responsibility to think beyond that and leave a better world for those who come next.
Sacrifice everything, your time, money, personal comfort, everything but your loved ones, lay down your life if you must, all for the future
If you don’t you will die wishing you had
Fight for the future, don’t submit too it.
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@joec5544g the statistic you are looking at only looks at income tax, so yes higher income people pay more income tax, but that statistic does not include corporate profits which are what is left over after everyone’s is paid, most rich peoples assets are protected under corporations not them personally, often these profits that makeup most of America’s total generated wealth are made to not be taxed at all, or be taxed very little.
So while it may look like they pay their share when looking solely at income tax, it is far from the truth when viewing the entire picture.
That’s not even counting all the extra taxes we pay that the rich can often avoid through corporate entities such as, sales, and property tax.
Also I’m not sure where you are pulling your extra $5,000 a year statistic from, given the cost of collage now, the number of people who pay taxes, and the lifetime they would be paying the $5,000, it seems like way too high of an estimate.
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@brucefrykman8295 not exactly sure what you are getting at, but value is generated by labor, for instance if I mine an ore, my labor created the value of that ore.
Wealth is created by exploiting that labor, say the ore is worth $50, I tell you to dig it up and then only give you $25 while keeping the ore, exploiting your labor to generate excess value to increase my wealth.
This is a simplified example, I could make it as complex and realistic as you want, but this is the base principle.
In my ideal world there would be no capitalist laying claim to the mine, and instead you get to keep $40 from your ore, $10 going to expenses to mine it.
This could be applied to almost everything
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So in this video you attribute liberal thoughts to a lack of survival instincts, a consequence of living a progressively easier life.
But anyone who knows survival knows the basics of strength in numbers, and 90% of these idealistic police’s can be boiled down to sharing communal resources to benefit the entire population.
Example universal healthcare, we already combine our resources for this, only right now we do it through greedy business men who significantly drive up the cost of such a system. (Health insurance companies profited $31 billion, in 2021, that is after all expenses, including employee wages. And not accounting for medical services over charging by hiding behind the insurance middle man.
So by implementing universal healthcare, we would cut out these leeches on society, creating our own system for the people, as the country intended, saving Americans trillions of dollars every year, and making our population healthier then ever.
Another promising factor is the fact that the government will now have a reason to care about the health of the population, as if it gets worse then the tax budget will be stressed, this will incentive, better nutrition, and adequate physical fitness in schools, further reducing healthcare cost by making our population even stronger.
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Poor people don’t move to cites, they are born there.
There may be a small group that fits your description, but the majority of poor people have jobs, and pay taxes, so that “free” stuff has already been paid for in most cases.
Universal health care would work the same way, it’s not free, it’s tax paid, which is a good thing because it cuts out all the greedy businesses men who exploit people’s need to survive for missive profits, meaning we would save trillions of dollars each year as citizens.
Taxes go up, but your personal expenses go down, it equals out to a net wealth gain for everyone.
Plus now the government has a reason to care about the health of the population, encouraging better food, and proper fitness training in schools to ensure a healthier population, further reducing healthcare cost, and making our nation stronger.
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Thank you for highlighting our suffering, it really is bad here in North America, where capitalism has been aloud to run rampant, and worse yet most people are actually ok with it and claim that its just the way things are, like we should never strive to be better.
Your prescription of firearms is definitely wrong though, America doesn’t have a gun problem, it’s has a violence problem due to mass depression caused by the numerous points in your video, and there are MANY more points to go over.
It’s unfair to put the blame on a particular weapon when it’s the wielders who are pushed into positions where they feel they need to misuse them, and if gunswere ever not available, there would just be an increase in vehicular man slaughter, stabbings, explosives, etc.
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You are correct, sort of, public transport in North America is terrible, primarily due to lack of funding, and poor city design that results in spread out cities to better accommodate cars, but cites are not for cars, they are for people.
The addition of good public transport would allow us to reduce the space used my roads and parking lots, which would increase room for homes and small business, this would increase tax revenue, allowing for better public transport, and even more healing of the wounds highways, roads, and parking lots cut through our cities.
Cars will still be around for those who need them, but it should not be the only reasonable option for the majority of travelers.
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@ernest9868 don’t even look at getting all your micro nutrients in while staying at a reasonable calorie count 🤣
But it’s not that hard, the best thing you can do is eat everything, the larger the variety the more nutrients you will get.
As for protein, I’m up to 126 grams everyday with the diet I have made, it consists of food pills which is just nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, blended up and turned into balls with honey, as well as a pizza, on flat bread, with 2 cups of cheese, 1 cup of 90% lean beef, and 1/2 cup of bell pepper (for vitamin C).
I’m actually really close to getting all my nutrients responsibly well balanced from this, I’ll add in a salad of some kind and pretty much be golden.
I know it’s a lot different from my advice of eat everything, but I’m too lazy to keep track of all the different meals and logistics of making them, so I went in a different direction.
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@lizzarddoggo8775 there is no way to definitively say the temperature from back in time, we can only give our best approximations which could be entirely wrong.
We can observe the here and now though, and what we see is that when humans started producing heat and emissions on a mass scale, the temperature began to rise, if it wasn’t for the cold vacuum of space acting as our heat sink all this time, then we would have burned out a long time ago, but the emissions are acting like a blanket, trapping all that heat on earth and building up.
I do agree that Solar panels and electric cars are a bad idea though, the shear amount of metals we would need to build all those panels and batteries complete invalidated any carbon savings.
Plus as of now most our power is produced by burning coal, which is 3 time more polluting then gas, so by switching to electric you are hurting not helping.
The real solution at least short term is nuclear power, combined with high speed electric rail, and inner city metros. This would replace a lot of car and planes, and it would all be powered by emissions free energy.
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I live in a home that was built in the early 1900, it is definitely not airtight, has 0 insulation in the walls, and has multiple asbestos contaminations.
These are all fairly easy fixes, we just need money, imagine how much sleep could reduce our energy cost as a nation if there was some kind of grant, or tax write-off for remodeling old homes up to modern efficiency standards.
New doors, windows, insulations, a house wrap. Already a huge improvement with just these.
Maybe the government could even commission a bulk order to the supplies, and then distribute them to those who qualify at cost, it would greatly reduce remodel cost by cutting out the greedy middle man, and then residence could either remodel themselves, or hire someone to do it for them.
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@cts2nv I understand it is difficult to see the wrong when looked at from a personal perspective, not much harm is done when owning one or two units. but when looked at as a society is it really fair to have a few own and profit from most the housing when everyone needs housing equally?
If you do it, a few hundred thousand others as well, plus bigger “investment firms” buying up houses one by one, before you know it you get about where we are now, the housing market is so in demand and inflated that most families can not afford their basic necessity due to others trying to profit off of others basic needs.
It contributes to the overall problem of housing being looked at as a commodity, and not what it is, a human need, if we shifted our views form profit to provide then there would be much more, more affordable, and higher quality housing for all.
I was setting up to do what you have done as well, but in the end couldn’t go through with it after adapting my new perspective.
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I can try
Those loans should never have been made in the first place, especially student loans, they are predatory, they do there best to seem appealing to students, without explaining the full consequences later down the road.
My parents have $120,000 of student debt, they only bought $15,000 of schooling, the rest is form interest over the years, and neither one has a bachelors degree. Why should banks be allowed to exploit our young students for profit? The same goes for housing in my opinion.
It would be easy for the richest country in the world to set up interest free loans for things like schooling and housing, and the only people it would hurt is the greedy loan providers.
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Wind/Solar are actually not much better than our current power generation. nuclear power is our only option to truley reach a sustainable future. here's why.
1. Land Use
• Wind and Solar: Wind farms need 30-141 acres/MW, and solar requires 5-10 acres/MW. To replace all U.S. coal and gas plants (~1,600 GW), wind would need 48-225 million acres, and solar 8-16 million acres.
• Nuclear: A 1 GW nuclear plant uses only 1-4 square miles (640-2,560 acres). Replacing 1,600 GW would need 640,000-2.56 million acres—a fraction of wind and solar’s land use.
2. Raw Material Requirements
• Wind: A single onshore turbine needs 230-480 tons of steel, 1,200-2,500 tons of concrete, and 2-3 tons of rare earths.
• Solar: 1 GW of solar requires 3,000-5,000 tons of aluminum, 500 tons of silicon, and 20-30 tons of silver.
• Nuclear: While a nuclear plant requires 40,000-60,000 tons of steel and 190,000 tons of concrete, it uses far fewer rare earths and less material overall per GW.
3. Energy Storage and Grid Impact
• Wind/Solar: Both are intermittent and need massive battery storage (e.g., 800-1,600 tons of lithium per GWh), adding significant environmental and material costs.
• Nuclear: Provides constant power with no need for large-scale energy storage, reducing grid complications.
4. Waste and Environmental Impact
• Wind/Solar: Solar panels last 20-30 years and contain toxic materials, while turbine blades are non-recyclable and landfilled. Both require extensive mining.
• Nuclear: Generates 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste per year, which is concentrated but manageable with proper storage.
5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG)
• Wind: 3-10 gCO₂eq/kWh over its lifecycle.
• Solar: 20-40 gCO₂eq/kWh.
• Nuclear: Similar to wind, 3-10 gCO₂eq/kWh, mostly from plant construction and uranium mining.
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@nikoc8968 not true at all, socialism is only the means of production being owned and operated communally, nothing more or less.
There are many ways to implement it, but the most relatable one Iv come up with would be if you work there, you control it, if your at a battery factory with 500 people, now you own 1/500th of that battery factory, you now get a say in how things are run, including profit distribution, so while you may still be a cog, at least you get to help decide how things are done, instead of just being a lackey. Plus you will likely decide to distribute the profits much more for the workers.
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