An Honest Question

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Maybe a helpful place to start, if you want to minimize the benefit you get from exploitation: http://www.fairphone.com

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Maybe a helpful place to start, if you want to minimize the benefit you get from exploitation: http://www.fairphone.com

This might well be helpful. I'm tired of my phone.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Maybe a helpful place to start, if you want to minimize the benefit you get from exploitation: http://www.fairphone.com

The fact that this is on the market at all is a very helpful start, I hope it becomes available in the US soon. I also hope they expand to computers, I need a new computer for school and I really have no choice in the matter but ALL of my options are built by what is essentially slave labor.

[Cramulus]

Excellent post, Cain.

It really disturbs me, but I suspect you're right --- that the cost of intervention may be higher than payoff (in terms of deaths prevented).

I am visualizing a world where millions of people are being axemurdered in some far off corner of the globe, and they are begging the international community for help, and they go go, "Yeah, so the thing is, we don't want a global war, so...."

And at the other end of the spectrum you've got America World Police, that "solves" humanitarian problems in select countries. Not desirable either, but I guess that's what we bought with all that cold war money.


What can WE do?

I occasionally fantasize about starting a political platform called "Vote the Motherfuckers Out". All incumbents must go, clearance sale, going out of business, act now while supplies last.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I occasionally fantasize about starting a political platform called "Vote the Motherfuckers Out". All incumbents must go, clearance sale, going out of business, act now while supplies last.

There's a problem with that.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Maybe a one-time Mega Sale where everyone gets to vote in somebody else's district.

[Cain]

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[P3nT4gR4m]

The fuck do we do about all this shit?

Honest answer: There is nothing you can do. What you're seeing is talking monkeys trying to exist in group sizes they were never designed to exist in, using monkey psychology which is, at best, brutal and, at worst, horrific.

The only solution is one which does not require any action on the part of the talking monkeys. Basically the solution lies somewhere between cataclysmic natural or man-made disaster or invasion by a race of benevolent aliens.

So here's what I'm personally going to do - party like there's no tomorrow and fuck humanity. Sooner or later there will be no tomorrow for me. I'd like to get my yuks in before that happens