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[brushwolf]

I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact.

My degree tells me that I know a little about chemistry, physics, and Amerindian cultures. My degree tells me that I have some idea of how freshwater and maritime systems work and the things that might impact them. Maybe my income doesn't tell me much about the need to treat workers like shit and to deny anything that looks like science in the interests of making more money, and how that's a great thing. So what does your education tell you? Because I'd really like to know.

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[wynkat]

*snort* that person is an idiot. My fancy education tells me way too much about alternative religions (and was supposed to tell me way more about comparative religion and philosophy but ah well). the less fancy education tells me how to write and how to think - thats a quote from the president of my college and she was right. Frankly no one taught me how to flip burgers or answers phones, I had to learn that on my own. hmmmmm.

[brushwolf]

But they're rich. I'd assume their education probably is financial related - assuming they're smart enough to tackle something that technical - and even if it did tell me they were intelligent, that wouldn't excuse their deficient sense of fair play.

And of course, it's not like the rich people on the Democrat side of the fence are that much different or better. I'm really tired of life in the scrotums of ethically bankrupt war crimes sympathiser bigot environmental rapist rich asswipes like this.

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

My education tells me ...

1) Politicians like to speak in logical fallacies.

2) The stock market runs on a sine wave function similar to a predator/prey cycle in biology. It will ALWAYS go up and down unless dismantled and replaced with some other economic system. Yet economists seem to believe that when something is up, it's never coming down, and we keep getting these bubbles.

3) The climate of the Earth is changing in specific observable ways that do not benefit humanity or other species.

4) Healthy citizens are more functional than unhealthy ones, giving an advantage to societies that have healthy ones.

5) Fossil fuels are finite. They will run out. Renewable resources are not finite, for the purposes of humanity's habitation here on Earth.

6) This is not rocket science. But to add that, this planet has been hit by large space debris multiple times in the past with extreme damage to the ecosystem. Given that we have the technology to do so, it would be prudent to identify NEO threats and take steps to protect the Earth.

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[brushwolf]

I figure that any economy has booms and crashes. The old Soviet Union had a centralized economy and of course business was always booming, even when the citizens had to stand in line and jeans were luxury items that travellers smuggled into the country. The USA has capitalism and therefore redundancy - but then we keep saying things are always great, always booming. Very Soviet like of us. I figure that it's the role of the government to protect its citizenry when the inevitable crash occurs, and in that sense I feel betrayed.

I worry that healthy versus unhealthy citizens is an academic thing. I see my country basically being run by these people so alien to me and my background, and I see people from unhealthy backgrounds like my own just playing along. What good are a few blue states or the prospect of sane resource allocation like Scandinavia, if our destiny as a country is forever dominated by the same tired bullshit which I grew up with, which made me such a happy go lucky guy?