United Healthcare: … we make money first … we just do health care on the side

So … if we live in Tasha’s world … where are the rape gangs?

More like … “Boomers decide to watch and accelerate the burning of the world because they’re going to die soon anyway”

What governments and corporations never understand and will never want to understand is that …

… it isn’t about the quantity of life … or even the quantity of people who are alive or are born

… it’s about the quality of life

If everyone lives a comfortable, safe and fulfilling life without risk of poverty or losing everything they have, then they are more likely to have children and raise them to become productive people who will contribute to society.

Otherwise if you don’t take care of people, they will either have no children or a bunch of children that will all grow up to become a burden to society.

That image is so 2024

Here is the new 2025 version

Charred remains of an apartment, body parts and bone fragments all over the place, broken glass, shattered furniture, lots of smoke and some fire, water works spraying water everywhere … and in the midst of the carnage is a perfectly cooked pizza sitting on the floor.

Communications personnel receive order … they quickly process it to the gun crew

Gun crew load first round: … 15TH FLOOR!!! APARTMENT 1567!!! KITCHEN WINDOW SECOND TO RIGHT!!! … FIRE!!!

Gun recoils … crew prepare second round: … SAUCE!!! … PEPPERONI!!! HAM!!! PEPPERS!!! ANCHOVIES!!! … CHEESE!!! EXTRA CHEESE!!! … (prepared round is loaded into gun) … FIRE!!!

Gun recoils … crew load HESH round: … COMPLETE THE ORDER!!! … FIRE!!!

Gun crew grows silent for a moment … there is a distant explosion of an apartment completely blow out on the 15th floor.

High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes … then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.

Lol … the worker is a traitor, maybe … I’m never going to assign blame to a desperate person trying to find a way out of poverty. You and I would probably do the same in similar circumstances.

But McD’s is not a traitor because they were never loyal to anyone but their shareholders to begin with.

They better keep those vests because aren’t many young people in the US just opting to join the army and military as an option to pay for their extremely indebted lifestyle?

Did the Canadian Weston family start selling bread in Syria?

I’m not a young person and I’m in the same boat

As an Indigenous Canadian … when someone asks me where something, someone, some town, some location, the sun or a celestial object is located … I turn my head and point with my lips.

And my distance measurements are usually answered first by asking ‘why?’ … and if they give an acceptable response, I’ll tell them the distance is either … ‘not far’ … ‘far’ … or ‘very far’

It’s to the point right now that a young person 20 years of age could spend a decade just watching all the old classics from the past 80 years to enjoy great films. If they stopped making movies tomorrow, there’s more than enough content now for people to watch.

My wife wants to keep watching the latest stuff but if it were up to me, I’d just take the time to watch at least all of the AFI top 100 films… last I checked I think I’ve only seen about 30 of them and I thought I watched a lot of films. My last rough count of watched films that I could list was over 1,500 films. And I still have a waiting list of hundreds more I want to see.

I’m a Trek fan and I thought I watched lots but I’ve only seen about half of all the TV series and most of the films.

That’s also not counting all the other TV series I’d like to see from the past … MASH, All In The Family, Adam’s Family, The original Batman series, The Munsters, X Files, Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Office … and on and on

If my spouse wasn’t so stuck in watching the latest stuff I’d probably be happy just spending my time catching up on everything I wasn’t able to see for the past 30-40 years.

In international political language it’s called plausible deniability … they want to give advice direction support or even supplies to guide and show you how to do something and even point you the way, but if you get caught or get in trouble … they throw up their hands “I don’t know this guy, never heard of him and what he did was terrible, what’s wrong with people that they’re driven to do these things?”

As if … billionaire and millionaire CEOs will just lock themselves away. We’ll probably start seeing security locked down city areas or exclusive zones where only security cleared people will be allowed in certain areas. Everyone else will not be allowed in.

They’re going to start building the Emerald City and we aren’t invited.

Education and well balanced people.

Education is well known to cause a population to tend to have fewer children. As people become more educated, more capable and more well cared for … they tend to not want to have as many children. Conversely, when people are poorer and less educated, they tend to survive by having more children … it’s our survival instinct because not all the children may survive but enough offspring survive long enough to have lots more children again.

So if you have a planet full of well educated and well off people everywhere, they will have less children and everyone that is alive will all work towards making things better for everyone else. It’s probably a fantasy or a magical utopia that we can never achieve … but we can hope that we can move in that direction.

We have people like the Joker who give us philosophical questions about our civilization but we’ve yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

limited resources on Earth

That is also what we are all led to believe. If wealth were equally distributed to everyone, everywhere … there would be more than enough food, water and shelter for every living being on the planet. It’s not that the resources are running out, it has more to do with how our economy, wealth and control is distributed. The resources and wealth are held by a few people while everyone else goes without.

Which is the basis of the quote … “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”