• Twongo [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Today about 1/4th of the world’s population has no proper access to drinking water.

    You may ask: is there not enough water?

    No, silly. It’s just that it costs money to clean water or bring it to the people. And nobody is ready to pay for it.

    By 2050 it is estimated, that water scarcity will also affect first world countries.

    We like to suffer and kill ourselves because of silly numbers.

    • novibe@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Correction, the parasitic Epstein class likes to make us suffer and kill us. Sometimes because of silly numbers.

      They want to see themselves as separate from humanity so much, let’s let them.

      We humans would never do that.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      By 2050 it is estimated, that water scarcity will also affect first world countries.

      it already does if the priveleged classes in those countries had any willingness to open their eyes and take a look around. Flint, Michigan was without clean drinking water for 11 years. Lenoir County, Georgia has reached 7 years. communities in North Carolina and West Virginia are coming on two years. water access in Baltimore, MD, DC, and Fairfax County, VA has been disrupted by human waste for a month to months now.

      do you know what all these places have in common? the communities impacted have a median family income of ~$30k/yr. and instead of addressing these problems, the focus of our government’s work is to construct AI data centers that further restrict our access to clean water, destroy our homes, and make the climate unlivable at not just this place, but this latitude.

      and the thing to me that i see is that these people can’t justify their actions through economics alone. if it really was economics, they would find more comfort by raising the floor and making everyone more comfortable. instead, it is about the petty joy of enacting cruelty. they like we don’t have water. it makes them think themselves special that they have clean water.

      always remember: poverty is enforced

    • pipi1234@lemmy.world
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      There is no culture war, there is only class war and they are winning.

      Let fucking slay theses treasure hoarding dragons!

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Counterpoint: it’s only silly numbers that you get paid with. Why not just go to work without them?

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        I do all kinds of work I don’t get paid for. I only seek pay because of the stupid system that says I have to if I want to feed my cats.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        we were productive before we were subjugated. native americans were the most advanced ecologists/agriculturists in the world, and their knowledge was so foreign to europeans that the europeans saw no knowledge at all. the ghana empire was advanced in metalurgy in ways that we have yet to catch up to in modern time. wootz steel was reinforced with carbon nanotubes and its production in Pakistan ended some time around the british raj in india. we work for the silly numbers because our opressors gate access to food via the silly numbers. without the silly numbers, we would probably help and assist eachother and live in a post economic world.