Its sad it takes us being fully independant and able to pull away in an enforceable way for them to get the message that they’re not god and they are not omnipotent as far as we are involved.

Its like: why the fuck did you have us if you weren’t ready to take that on and even so, why couldn’t you fucking leave us alone in lieu of all the active abuse and enforced profiting off our labor and suffering.

I would choose neglect 10/10 if i tmean they left me the fuck alone and didn’t interfere in my being as ok as I could make myself given the circumstances

I appreciate this, particularly for the IFS-informed aspect. I feel like IFS is gonna be an increasingly mentioned modality

Touché, yes, I see that in many but not all cases

Seems like they really want to sell an identity much more than any particular membership or single-time donation amount…

Is it plausible for a Lemmy feature where it can automatically ReaderView post the content of the article i the content so we don’t have to deal with WildWest text rendering with every article?

It is God’s will

How would this similar dynamic apply to say, like potato chips and a grocery store, both who are overcharging and/or shrinkflating?

Why don’t we differntiate accoordingly? Like why do we allow people ro speculate on NFTS like that re:Securities laws? I know thats just one particular anecdote but why is crypto a serious and viable option in this context?

So if everyone received the same amount of money or networth, would it return to the previous state?

Not saying I’m agreeing with it but rich people buy assets comes to mind. Would formerly poor people not invest in assets that grant them passive and continual income?

I know if I had no debt thats the first thing I’m getting on

So what do you think in terms of what the actual issue(s) is and solution-wise?

Like obviously the external geopolitical roots need to be addressed but even if they were, where do they go from there?

Every kid you have you can’t support exacerbates the issue and I fail to see how increasing the population in areas or economies that can’t support it somehow defies gravity?

If there’s no jobs and everybody is multiplying and being trained in principles that are antithetical to economic gain and progress in general, how can they ever escape that reality?

The implied notion that the West should (at all) and continually subsidize the seeds of agents pursing it its destruction is beyond my abillity to accomodate. Like, if they want what we want and agree we can all jointly pursue that, thats cool.

If its a matter of we will end Western decadence using our iPhones I have zero desire or belief they will or should be given the rough materials to even begin to realize that end

I know nazing

I mean…even for someone in a wealthy context, that would seem oversized.

Thr birth control topic seems like something nobody wants to touch with a 43 1/2 foot pole…

Sounds like condoms would be manna from heaven in terms of keeping things reasonable. Nobodies going to subsidize people who can’t afford 1 kid having 10

How might this apply to countries/places with sovereign wealth funds?

So…its like audio equalization if you increase or decrease to the exact same proportions.

Ironically, I have a heavy preference for reducing treble so am I doing in my audio what society should do economically? Lol

What a miserable fuck DeSanctimonius is

This is why its so important evidence can be independantly analyzed and that the State, consequently, should not have any monopoly on the base material to be analyzed and license to authoritatively analyze such content

Is inflation always discretionary? Who is behind “unnecessary” inflation (insofar as all inflation isn’t unnecessary) and why aren’t they punished and deterred?

When businesses inflate why don’t we just inflate their taxes so they are always already have been and are actively being tracked and mitigated to the point its useless to pull such bullshit?

Like in Sunny in Philadelphia where Dee reveals she’s been double-dropping and Dennis drops that they’ve been deducting the difference from her purse the whole time 😅

She looks and sounds like shit

Defunctland right? Dont read into that too much lol

The first comment cites SimCity 😬

To what extent or how different was EPCOT from the other Disney town Celebration, Florida?

Off-topic:

There was one guy who said I make up 1 in 75 in his family…

Are their families seriously 75 strong? Birth control sounds like an enormous issue in this part of the world.