'Eco-friendly' paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals, study finds
'Eco-friendly' paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals, study finds
Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various "eco-friendly" straws, raising doubts about whether they're an appropriate alternative.
Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various "eco-friendly" straws, raising doubts about whether they're an appropriate alternative.
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Greed is not inherent to humans, that's just a lie sold to you by the greedy. I'm happy with what I've got and I'm not looking to collect mansions, yachts, trips to space, etc. Most people are fine with a modest lot in life and don't relentlessly pursue unhealthy amounts of wealth. It's a sickness.
You can keep putting in less and less until the system breaks. This is what we're seeing now. Cracks manifest in the form of gross wealth inequality (i.e. massive power imbalance) and all the consequences that entails. These greedy sickos will push the system to the limit and give back as little as they can to maintain power.
That learned behavior. We have learned not to be overly greedy but it’s inherent in us.
It’s why communism always fails.
Now I don’t mind wealth but I do mind the crazy tech inequality because I think what they do with the wealth is harmful. I never had an issue with Elon till he went nuts on twitter. Zucker is doing weird things with his money and elections.
The wealthy use to build hospitals and libraries. Now they are mucking with core tenants of our republic and that I don’t agree with.
Pretending that your assertion is correct that communism always fails and that it's because of greed, that still doesn't mean greed is inherent in humans. All it takes is a few bad actors to ruin any system, if given enough power. Capitalism is failing right before our eyes due to this tiny minority of billionaires and capitalism had already failed due to a tiny minority of super wealthy in the past before it was rescued in response to mass protests that threatened revolution.
Speaking of salvaging terrible things, the wealthy used to build hospitals and libraries only as part of reputation laundering. They will do nothing unless they feel threatened. You're focusing on tech in particular, but it's a feature inherent in the ultra-wealthy. They will do only enough to save themselves and continue holding their position of power, otherwise they continue pushing limits.
It’s well known in psychology. Freud even spoke about it.
Capitalism isn’t failing at all. It’s working quite well. Not sure why you’d think it’s failing. We just have a blip with inflation due to the pandemic.
I focus on tech because the insane wealth difference. Few people have the wealth of tech.
Virtually everything Freud thought up has been debunked. He's influential in the field because he was early.
Capitalism is working quite well at its intended purpose of transferring wealth to the capitalists, but it's not working for everyone else. It's been an issue before the naked money-grabbing "inflation" of the pandemic, it's just become even more apparent now. The insane wealth difference was already insane prior, it's just gotten even more insane.
I would disagree. Most of what Freud has said can’t be debunked. It’s the way Freud created his theories. Who isnt it working for? The quality of life in America is second to none.
America shows capitalism works.
What country do you think is doing better that isn’t capitalism ?
If it can't be debunked then it's pseudoscience. Science requires a hypothesis be falsifiable. The quality of life in America is beaten by several countries. Take a look at any quality of life ranking. Here are a few: https://www.worlddata.info/quality-of-life.php https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp
The US doesn't crack top ten in any of these. Look at life expectancy: https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?most_recent_value_desc=true
Asking for a country that "isn't capitalism" is a trick question because a lot of these quality of life improvements come from socialist policies.
And which of those countries are not capitalist?
There is no such thing as socialist policies. Socialism is an economic system. Otherwise, America would be the largest socialist nation since we spend trillions on social programs.
The quality of life in America is second to none.
This was your claim and I debunked it very easily. Do you think government-provided healthcare is capitalism? The US does spend a lot of money, but that doesn't prove anything other than the US having a lot of money.
You didn’t debunk it. You gave a counter point.
Based on some arbitrary score, they feel we are lower.
Yet, we have millions of people trying to move here every year. I think that shows their score isn’t as accurate as they think c
We can always improve but it’s why people come here. The opportunity to do better.
Yes I think government provided health care can be part of capitalism. It seems like you don’t understand capitalism.
Did you know our founding fathers supported government healthcare?