withabeard

joined 1 year ago
[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

Unless it's circumcision for religious reasons ... then chopping off body parts is A'OK.

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't see the flow as a problem. But if you do see the flow as a problem I can see reasons a right leaning government would be the way you'd vote.

I also see why "cheap brown Labour" is a reason to allow immigration. So that one swings both ways enough I didn't include it.

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 159 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Young people were especially worried about:

  • inflation (65%),
  • expensive housing (54%),
  • poverty in old age (48%),
  • the division of society (49%)

Aaah yes, that classical list of things that a fiscally right party would solve ...

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I live in the valleys of south Wales. Walk through old coal mining areas and you'll occasionally find lumps of it on the ground.

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people are talking about this in terms of money... And we do live in a strongly capitalist society.

UBI or similar could be useful.

But... Money was created to find a way to compare one workers "value" to real world goods. When the worker doesn't need goods (no AI needs 4 chickens and a bushel of grain a week) the workers value doesn't need to be compared. There is less foundational value in money.

We could move away from net worth measured in hoarding money, and start taking about attending currencies such as social worth. Someones worth could be earned in being useful/helpful to society and we as a society could choose to give more resource to that person. Just an example, but a line of thought to go down

A totally separate area for discussion. I believe (most) people have a general need for purpose. Without "work" as we know it, lots of people could find themselves devoid of purpose. I have a feeling some of the ills of today's world are because people are not finding social purpose in the work we do. Who really deeply cares about being the middle manager of a packaging company? I believe some of today's mental health plagues are linked to this.

Remove even more "work" and do people find purpose in other things? Does that help or hinder?

Lots of people think with UBI we'll all turn to art and culture. But frankly there's only so much art each one of us can look at in a lifetime. What happens when too many people are sitting making boobs in clay? Do sculptures loose their artistic and cultural value? Is art and culture alone, enough to provide the whole of society with purpose?

Which is the greater of two evils? People being required to slog through monotonous work, or people having nothing to do at all?

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 97 points 8 months ago

Too late... It's already ingrained in my mind as "of course they do"

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

So much chocolate weighed through the scales as "fresh veg potatoes"

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chances are (and I'm up for being corrected on this). The bears are being culled to maintain population levels.

In all areas of the world, human interaction with nature means we've upset the usual ecosystem balance. We've moved predator/prey ecosystems, we've changed their sizes and we've decided there are big areas we just don't want the predators. Culling/management is necessary to minimise our further impact.

These bears are going to be shot with or without the furs being used. They're not being killed so someone can have the fancy hats.

[–] withabeard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are hookers... just expensive ones