I shave DE and this is an amazing idea. I currently use a sharps container, but this is so much more fun.

You:

you have poor reading comprehension

Also you:

if someone say something on the internet… you do not have to get offened.

I don’t like trucker hate. Owning the most popular vehicle in the US doesn’t make people compensators. It makes them practical.

I have a pickup. My wife says she likes my penis size. I question your hypothesis. Today, I used it to haul fire wood and tow a broken down ATV. Yesterday, I brought kayaks up to my family cabin. It gets used. Pre-COVID, it was part of the first leg of my commute. I’m not going to have a separate vehicle just to drive to the train station. That’s absurd.

If he needs to pay the real estate business to get started and if he needs to recruit other people, it is likely MLM (pyramid scheme). There is a database of those here.

Interesting. Just not sure then why they need the extra polymers added. They should have at least done some rounds with just water.

I find it super fascinating that the most effective color happens to be that of chlorophyll.

Yeah. It is odd that they did the experiment with hydrogel when the subject of focus is water itself. Then again, the water container could potentially absorb light and emit heat, which would also confound the result.

What do you mean. I live on my land. Also, if I wanted to buy other land, I can because the system works.

What if I refuse to work?

Many contracts have long terms and took time and effort to negotiate. A law like that would have large revenue implications. It would upend the entire business. I wouldn’t be surprised if the entertainment companies take this to court or pull out of those markets entirely. The EU should not dictate product offerings. If people don’t like a service’s offerings, they can use another one. It is an abuse of their power.

No. I live in it, but I could because it is a free country. Unlike the “people-owned” regime that you are proposing.

Licensing laws are an issue though. Just because they pass a bill saying you can’t restrict access to content doesn’t mean that they can open it up to a market that their contract doesn’t allow for. This could end up backfiring and having them remove lots of content from all regions in order to comply with this demand.

I own an acre AMA.

I learned ro code from handmedown computers at a young age and worked my way up the corporate ladder. I own a nice big home and am a millennial. I completed a part time MBA while working and am able to take vacation every three months or so. Nothing is stopping you all from being successful, but yourselves. I agree that the system has massive flaws, but destroying capitalism isn’t the answer. The risk-reward system works.

I will. I make it a point to read everything that people suggest to me. I’ll likely come back here to shit on it though.

You want too drastic a change. I believe a political evolution is still possible without throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I own private property and am not a billionaire, so not sure what you are on about with that statement. I got educated and have a decent living situation with a nice corporate remote job. I’ll have my student loan paid off around 40. These things were all easy to do. The people with issues do this to themselves. Sorry you are lazy and want to leach off my success.

That’s kind of how a business works though. People show up at the entity that you’ve orchestrated, work via your guidelines, and get paid.

The workers get money for their labor…

Because the workers didn’t find the money to buy a whole factory…

The factory has owners. It would be unfair to not compensate them for their capital investment. You are describing a situation where you disallow private enterprise, but all systems describing this type of agreement to date have resulted in terrible outcomes. It will destroy competition. I am reminded of hearing about my brother’s visit to the Soviet Union when he was younger. He went with his group to an ice cream shop and asked what flavors they have and they said vanilla. As in, this limits options and provides a shitty quality of life. It also leads to issues where people who are able to provide a high value to society are not rewarded at a higher rate than a lazy or dumb person. The incentive is gone. These are issues that no text has reconciled. Even Plato’s dreamed Utopia, he knew that such a thing only would work if you brainwashed people generationally to value the idea of communal ownership. He basically left it at the leaders not being able to own things, but having all that they need while other classes under them could still own things. In essence, his utopian society was totally unrealistic in any meaningful timeline and still formed different classes of people.

It destroys society to take away people’s possessions because we built a system where property ownership is a central component. Having possessions is such a basic human construct that your are living in a pipe dream if you feel that you can remove that. The idea that people would share with one another and not get what they are worth to society is salient in describing why socialism as a whole crumbles. You can have socialized policies, but destroying the whole economic system doesn’t work. See my reply later in this thread for examples of real incremental changes.