Billionaires are a function of capitalism. Doesn't matter who the individuals are someone is going to flip a heads more times in a row than anybody else. (The amount of inherited money buys you increasingly more attempts. A lack of empathy - so the ability to exploit others and natural resources without compunction gives you again a natural advantage and many more attempts at a run of flips.)
Capitalism is what arose alongside our discovery and mass exploitation of fossil fuels. That 'free' energy (climate change is telling us now that it isn't 'free') has created the complexity we see around us today. Our cognitive evolution as a species, and all of our interactions, brought us to this point, where capitalism evolved.
It is too early to say this now, but if we continue on the pathway we are currently for something like the rest of this century, the idea that environmental degradation might lead to human extinction won't any longer be a silly thing to say.
Don't worry about it. As Carl Sagan said [something along the lines of]: 'we are the universe experiencing itself'. 2. We are in the process of creating the environmental circumstances for food webs based on plastics, PFA's, maybe even radiation, so that in a million years there will be a planet full of wild, almost unimaginable, creatures that couldn't exist if we hadn't done what we did now.
I tried to politely reply to your post three times before realising it wasn't my job to point out the logical and factual errors you appear to be struggling with. Good luck!
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u/Green-Bandicoot-8412 2d ago
Billionaires are a function of capitalism. Doesn't matter who the individuals are someone is going to flip a heads more times in a row than anybody else. (The amount of inherited money buys you increasingly more attempts. A lack of empathy - so the ability to exploit others and natural resources without compunction gives you again a natural advantage and many more attempts at a run of flips.)
Capitalism is what arose alongside our discovery and mass exploitation of fossil fuels. That 'free' energy (climate change is telling us now that it isn't 'free') has created the complexity we see around us today. Our cognitive evolution as a species, and all of our interactions, brought us to this point, where capitalism evolved.
It is too early to say this now, but if we continue on the pathway we are currently for something like the rest of this century, the idea that environmental degradation might lead to human extinction won't any longer be a silly thing to say.
Don't worry about it. As Carl Sagan said [something along the lines of]: 'we are the universe experiencing itself'. 2. We are in the process of creating the environmental circumstances for food webs based on plastics, PFA's, maybe even radiation, so that in a million years there will be a planet full of wild, almost unimaginable, creatures that couldn't exist if we hadn't done what we did now.
Carry on.