Enkrod

I think it’s a very important frame. Everyone should have a good, long think about how much money it costs them that billionaires exist. And it isn’t distributed evenly, basically every european and american has spend tens of thousands of dollars so that some people have more money than they could ever spend and use it to pay politicians to keep that dough rolling in, stabilising a system of redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich.

The same holds true for rich and poor countries. Most poor countries today are poor because they have been plundered in one way or another.

1 trillion dollars divided by 8 billion humans could pay each and everyone if us 125 dollars, which would go a long way in poor regions.

Or, framed differently: Tesla stole 125 dollars from every human alive to give it to Elon Musk.

Giving money (especially in the form of services) to people who need it, immediatly injects money into the economy. Because needy people don’t save big sums. When they have money to spend, they spend it. It remains in circulation, serving the economy until it reaches the hands of someone who can afford to not spend it. The very instant money reaches rich folk it could just as easily not exist anymore for all the good it does then.

The US cannot afford tax breaks for the rich, but injecting money into services and payments for the poor has a really good return on investment for a country.

And with juuuuust a tiny bit more sugar so the bacteria in your mouth can create more acid to bathe your teeth in way longer than the water remains in your mouth, nice.

The level of pH difference we’re talking about here is negligible. You’re constantly bathing your teeth in your (slightly acidic) spit and swallowing your spit all the time, the very few moments your teeth come into contact with slightly more alkaline water have no lasting influence. Plain tap-water (also slightly alkaline with a pH of ~7.5 in most of the US) would have the very same effect.

Brushing your teeth after a meal and abstaining from sugary drinks is where the difference is at, Everything else is talking about if Mount Everest is higher when you place a grain of sand on top… technically yes, but no.

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I don’t doubt for a moment that humanity can be extremely wasteful in any economic system. But capitalism sure embraces and enhances our worst tendencies.

And the Trump regime has a vested interrest in propping up other fascist to “prove” that their economic model (robbing the populace) can work (at least until they are done with their raid)

It’s exactly the opposite in Germany.

Wasps are generaly all-purpose assholes who go out of their way to bother you, while I’ve had a hornets nest on my balcony and had one crawl over my fingers without issue.