The greatest fear that government and our wealthy overlords have about UBI is the fact that it would create an entire population of thinking, creative people who would have time to think about how unequal the world is … and then move on to act on those thoughts because they would have the time and the energy to do something about it all.

It’s far better to control the population if you perpetually keep them on the edge of losing everything.

Same here … I’d rather be funding the study of an extinct human species … than in funding how to accelerate the extinction of our species

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Will Durant

… by our nature we are dumb, frightened, superstitious animals but given enough time, effort, energy and dedication we can overcome our natural instincts of fear and ignorance.

Unfortunately, it is so easy for us to fall back into our old animalistic ways.

It’s also funny that one of the ongoing gags of the entire films series is just how terribly they shoot at everything … especially at the main cast.

A tech bro CEO cranking as hard and as fast as he can on that AI wedge apparatus … while telling everyone ‘THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT!’

Nice … did you build the other half of the sword in the nether?

People like this are described by Charles Dickens … rich, wealthy, entitled aholes that talk about “The surplus population”

Could it be that we are just inherently a dumb species regardless of our environment, food, intoxicants or situation?

Money has more rights than people

It’s a Plutocracy … a government run by the wealthy or those with money

rather than

A Democracy … a government run by the people

… and now corporate partners have raised food prices on everyone.

The removal of tariffs should allow these corporations to lower their prices but they won’t … because those prices have now been normalized and will never go down. The corporations will take the savings and keep prices high.

That was the reason for the original tariffs … that was the reason for removing them.

They gave corporations tax breaks to save them money … then gave them an excuse to raise prices and funnel even more money into their pockets.

They’re Making American Great Again … for a very small group of really wealthy Americans

I agree but I’ve been surrounded by way too many examples in my life where these arguments and counter points don’t exactly work all the time. If you are a level headed person with a good background, education, self control and generally a good upbringing … then yes, someone on as much painkillers, stimulants and anti-psychotics as you say would be capable of managing all those medications in a responsible way.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the world is filled with mentally unstable or people whose lives are on the edge of being unstable. There are a lot of dysfunctional and unbalanced people out there.

So when you give these arguments about drugs, they make sense to a very small segment of well balanced and moderately wealthy members of society … but when you apply this logic to the majority of society, these arguments just don’t make any sense.

I’ve known several people that started out with pain killers and opioid medications for real medical issues … only to become helplessly addicted and it was their medications and addictions (that originated from taking those medications) that killed them rather than their initial condition.

As opposed to the perpetually ignored Male Hysteria … which often leads to side effects including world war, genocide, mass poverty and government authoritarianism

… and loop the cycle through two … or more … people

Why not just wait for the spaghetti to come out the other end?

You won’t … because the mosquito drone that stung you with neurotoxin will have killed you in your sleep.

Addiction is usually measured not by how much you can or can’t take … but how, when and if you can stop.

Lol

Strong man authoritarian leader can’t offer definitive evidence that he isn’t a pedophile

Two hours later, both of you are still trying to guess which movie you’re talking about

The results are quite different from the perspective of body weight and mental health.

You either become overweight with good mental health

Or

You maintain low or under weight gain and have a severe drug addiction that destroys your mental health.

I always argue that the cheese cake has psychological benefits