Comment on The Insurance Apocalypse Is Upon Us
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoMaybe some conservatives are secretly cheering for climate change to ravage 3rd world countries, maybe, but most billionaires (capitalists) don’t actually want people to die. They aren’t cartoon villians, they’re just selfish assholes who don’t care enough about anyone else to see past their quarterly profits. A malignant cancer isn’t trying to kill the host, it is just growing and hording resources as aggressively as it can. Capitalism works the same way.
qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
no, not cartoon villains, just morbidly self interested and narcissistic.
any host (out world included) has a finite carrying capacity. we are currently well beyond ours. the profit motive is strong in these people but, for a small but meaningful few, survival is (surprisingly) stronger - go figure!
<ravings> however, in typical billionaire/trillionaire grandiosity, I don’t think the idea is just survival, but correction. and the correction is reducing the load on the planet to appropriate levels for profit and service - I kinda, sorta think the dime store tony stark himself, one elon musk, is there on this… </ravings>
I have no proof other than my fevered imagination and observation of people and especially those who think themselves masters of the universe.
am I right/wrong? I am not sure it matters. we are in 100% uncharted territory here and the likleyhood is high that we all go down together on this one.