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by Hermit » Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:00 am
Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:48 am
Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:53 am
Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:29 am
...a Black Death scenario would disproportionally effect people in countries with poor and inefficient health services.
That too has an upside. We members of affluent societies could no longer rely on products like our clothing and digital gadgets being manufactured by people who are paid 60 cents an hour. Foxconn, just one of many major contractors to Apple Corp. and other brands currently employs over 800,000 such workers. If a sudden 30 to 60% reduction in the global population affects countries with poor and inefficient health services disproportionally, it would destroy the business model of all companies who benefit from such exploitation, and we will be forced to pay a fairer rate to the workers who survive. What's not to like?
Yeah, I can see how being dead definitely stops you being exploited.
I had not thought of that, nor would have that been - as you pretend not to have noticed - my point if I had, but now that you mention it, that's another upside of a sudden, massive reduction of the global population: fewer people are exploited.
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by pErvinalia » Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:11 am
That's settled. There's no downside.
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by Hermit » Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:22 am
pErvinalia wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:11 am
That's settled. There's no downside.
Oh, how I wish there were none. Unfortunately you may be one of the survivors.
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by pErvinalia » Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:36 am
You'll be the first into the wood chipper!
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by JimC » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:01 pm
Hermit soup!
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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by Hermit » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:44 pm
Soylent Hermit? Pwah. You can't even stomach me in my current state.
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by Animavore » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:56 pm
Extiction Rebellion were making a nuisance of themselves in Dublin today. Lots of people not happy, but I support them.
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by Sean Hayden » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:05 pm
They look like an interesting way to raise awareness. Were they blocking traffic or something?
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by laklak » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:31 pm
Get yer ass shot here.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by JimC » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:36 pm
Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:44 pm
Soylent Hermit? Pwah. You can't even stomach me in my current state.
It would require heroic amounts of garlic and chilli, to be sure...
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by Brian Peacock » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:57 pm
Sean Hayden wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:05 pm
They look like an interesting way to raise awareness. Were they blocking traffic or something?
Pretty much. They sit down in the road, sometimes glue themselves down, or chain themselves to stuff. Here's some terrorists hell bent on destroying our way of life...
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by JimC » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:32 am
Mad bastards, the lot of 'em!
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by pErvinalia » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:34 am
National security threat right there.
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by JimC » Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:39 am
Has Lak seen the picture?
I know Lak...
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by Cunt » Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:28 am
They say sitting on the floor is one of the subtle things a human can do, which preserves health and longevity.
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It is actually quite easy. A woman has at least one X chromosome.
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