This is an excellent distillation of the problem with money/affordability/the system today. Most people can identify the symptoms, both left and right. Few can identify root cause. 🧡 @TheGuySwann
@o_sneedy I loved Halo 1 and 2, didn't like Halo 3 when it came out. Didn't whine, was just disappointed. Halo 3 had some really good elements and brought a ton of new players in, which is really cool. It had it's own direction. But now it feels like they are shitting on OG Bungie Legacy.
Bill Gates “saved” Africa… by DESTROYING their food supply 🚨
Forrest Galante: “I’m going to go on a f-ing rant here.
They gave millions of mosquito nets out to all these people to avoid malaria. Guess what the people who are starving to death did with their mosquito nets. They fished with them.
Mosquito net has a hole that is so small that a mosquito can’t get through. So guess what? These mosquito nets now indiscriminately catch tiny baby fish in areas like Cahora Bassa where the fish go to breed and reproduce and populate. So now all of a sudden you have thousands and thousands of people that have been handed nets that have been living one way for hundreds of thousands of years. They don’t give a shit about malaria.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation come in, hand out millions of mosquito nets, absolutely collapse the entire population of fish that feed millions of people because these people just take the nets and fish all the baby fish out so that those fish don’t grow up to make substantial protein sources. So now these wonderful philanthropists that have given out millions of nets have destroyed an ecosystem, crashed a fish population, and created widespread hunger for people that otherwise had plenty of resources. All because they were trying to help with their mosquito nets.
They’ve taken such a rich and important part of Africa, one of the most abundant freshwater fisheries in the world, and destroyed it because they’re ‘helping’ by handing out mosquito nets.
And they’re still giving out mosquito nets, by the way. And you literally watch these guys line up, take a mosquito net, and it never goes in their house. It goes straight to catching fish for them to eat.”
@chrisluxonmp Talk about tone deaf. Are you trying to out left wing labour? All parents want more time with their kids, but perhaps you should be figuring out how to cull govt and lower taxes instead. You know, the stuff that got you elected to begin with.
@TheNzRocketeer@JamesBallzb3 Absolutely. They won't be interested in anything that highlights their complicity in the whole fiasco, it's a time honored tradition of politics blaming the symptoms of their own incompetence on others.
@JamesBallzb3@TheNzRocketeer Therefore they're really just sweeping in to make an example out of a situation they created and in so doing likely won't address the regulatory cause of the issue. Look for a massive failure on the cards, after they waste a ton of our money on consultants of course.
@JamesBallzb3@TheNzRocketeer No it wouldn't. But it's only a duopoly because of local and central govt regs. Monopolies/duopolies are almost without exception (many would say absolutely) lobbied for by incumbents (regulation that locks out or sets barriers of entry unreasonably high) & granted by the state.
@EricCrampton Yeah, I mean people don't seem to realise it's cumulative. Instinctually in would have thought most would. How many times do people point to what things used to cost when they were teenagers for example? I feel like understanding both is important. Fundamental education.
Mamdani announces city-run groceries will set prices *30%* below retail.
Typical grocery margins are 2%.
Meaning:
First, the city will lose ungodly amounts of money -- at least 28 cents on the dollar.
Second, below-cost stores will steal enough market share that real groceries abandon the city.
Third, taxpayers will get tired of the money hole and slash subsidies.
At which point city groceries become money holes full of rotting food, so New Yorkers will have to take 2 trains and a bus to find a real grocery store.
Socialism will work this time 🙌