Off Topic Jeff Bezos

Has successfully taken off with his motley crew in his giant phallus.
Hopefully they all make it back safely.

 

Why?

 

And they’re back safely.
That was exciting.

 

Pretty grotesque the disparity that this is all very emblematic of.

 

personally dont give a sh1te..billionaires being w@nkers ' i wanna be first!!!' spending billions on this crap while the world falls apart, wars are all over and people are starving...i can think of better uses for all that wealth like.

 

Branson sums it up. Furlough and redundancy for his staff during lockdown. Asking for government bail outs to save jobs (did he get one I cant remember hearing one way or another?). Fast forward 12 months max and the dick is paying to fire himself into space. Just a shame it involves him coming back.

 

Let's be honest though - the planet is ****ed unless we can find a way to get people already here off it in large numbers.

 

I don't think that's strictly true of we were open to change... which we're not.

With lifestyle changes it's likely we'd be able to live sustainably. There's a hell of a lot of room on the planet, there's a lot of resources. There's wealth and there's man power.

There's just no vision, drive nor recognition of what is necessary and what is a luxury we can't afford.

At the levels we are at we can't keep farming the way we do. We can't keep manufacturing the way we do. We probably shouldn't be travelling as freely as we do.

There's far too much excess and waste in the way we live.

As it is, we're sleepwalking towards our own extinction.

What a downer.

 

well said, but that one line sums up many problems...why do people need to update mobiles every few months, why do people need to upgrade to a bigger screen tv, in fact, why do people feel the need to HAVE to have the latest when the one they have works perfectly well and does all they need... and anyone thinking that buying an electric vehicle will save the planet, think again.

we keep getting told we are not reproducing fast enough to 'keep up'...keep up with what exactly?... the need to produce far more than needed and waste almost as much?

 

Pity he could not his money to a better use... cure cancer

 

True. Bit rich of us to tell China and Africa they can't industrialize though. It needs a different solution.

 

Its the constant need to 'keep up with the Joneses'. No one appears to be satisfied with anything. We make a virtue of ambition, which it can be, but for many people ambition becomes a constant grasping for the latest technology or particular brand names. There seems no longer to be any ambition to actually improve their lives, to achieve something meaningful, or to improve the world around them.

And that's all because we're constantly told that successful people drive this car, or wear those jeans, or have that watch. So, many people think that its having that stuff, in itself, that makes them successful.

 

who going to be the one to tell China and India that though

 

Industrialisation that doesn't have negative impacts? Carbon-capture plants, hydro-electricity, solar power?

 

This. We don't value anything actually valuable. We value tat that can and will need to be replaced down the road.

 

The modern era social media celebrity has made this worse.

Taken photos and making videos with the latest x,y,z often given to them for free or not even theirs. To think people are becoming millionaires from social media content? What a joke the world has become with stuff like that.

Don't get me wrong I'll admit I'm jealous as ****, love to be rich as them for so little.

 

First of all I think smart phones have become most a necessity...

However as mentioned above do we have to continually update frequently?

I have to confess i have updated my phone every couple of years but this time I have not... why cos there is very little 'upgrading'. Possibly 5g but not in my area.

So yes this need to upgrade to more complicated etc etc, is it needed?

Chatting to a green keeper today, their most sophisticated grass cutting machine, lots of microchips, is always breaking down and they revert to an old fashioned piece of kit pulled behind a tractor. This can be easily fixed if something goes wrong.

Still AI...thats going to be fun

 

Homo sapiens has been around 200.000 years . I think we could wait another 100 before thinking about space , and sort our problems here first

 

No one tells me what to do with my money, works for all.

 

It's not going to work for very long.