If you compared this to humans … the hording human would be guarding a pile of bananas the size of Mount Everest
Mt Everest is anywhere near large enough to describe their greed.
Here’s just an American example, it’s worse when you think globally. The mean US net worth is 192k, the richest person’s net worth is 449 billion. That’s 2,338,000X the mean US net worth. Everest is 29000 feet tall, that’s 80 Everest’s tall. Aka, mean net worth is a foot, and this fuck owns 80 Everest’s.
My Everest is anywhere near large enough to describe their greed.
Our Everest
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Don’t think you can stack 2.4 million bananas on top of each other. By volume you’d need like 10^16 bananas to form everest
A pile of bananas to the moon
No, I want to believe Donkey Kong is an ape of the people and not an hoarding bananaist
Well, he throws barrels at people, so…
Is that how luigi hurt himself?
I thought canonically it was the whole island’s vault of bananas in Donkey Kong country.
People often quote RATM’s “some of those who work work forces are the same who burn crosses.” It’s informative.
They have other, inspirational quotes, too:
“Can’t waste a day when the night brings a hearse, so make a move and plead the fifth cuz ya can’t plead the first.”
and
“Return the power to the have-nots, and take a shot.”
A mass of hands press on the market window
Ghosts of progress, dressed in slow death
Feeding on hunger and glaring through the promise
Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
A mass of nameless at the oasis
That hides the graves beneath the master’s hill
Are buried for drinking the rivers water while
Shackled to the the line at the empty well
The fucking Family Guy pose lmao
Lol I knew that looked familar but couldn’t place it
FGDP
I bet Luigi did it.
Luigi is a patsy. It was probably Waluigi
Toadette.
It was obviously Diddy
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They really are just like us.
No they’re not … when one of them hordes all food, everyone else rebels and either beats up the horder or kills them so that everyone can get food.
When we humans have a horder in our group, we give them a gold crown, call them smart and protect them at all cost, even if most of us are starving.
It really makes you wonder which one is the more intelligent ape species.
we humans
Don’t blame it on the species, it’s bourgeois nation states you’re talking about. Despite of what Thatcher, Reagan and others want us to believe, there actually are alternatives. A stateless society wouldn’t allow this behavior but would much rather act as in the cartoon. The Dawn Of Everything is a good book about this.
You gotta name some examples there. I like what Bernie Sanders is putting down, a socialist democracy. Pure socialism doesn’t work though, you have to depend on everyone being good people.
You might have heard of the tragedy of the commons. It’s long since debunked, even the wikipedia article includes Solutions. The TLDR is that people are willing to follow rules and “police” each other once they are included in the process of creating the rules. It isn’t necessary that everyone is a good person, you just need a critical mass and a culture that sanctions selfish behavior instead of promoting is as ours does. SRSLY WRONG has a good podcast episode about commons
You got some countries that it has worked long term?
Ostrom helped disprove the idea held by economists that natural resources would be over-used and destroyed in the long run. Elinor Ostrom disproved this idea by conducting field studies on how people in small, local communities manage shared natural resources, such as pastures, fishing waters in Maine and Indonesia, and forests in Nepal. She showed that when natural resources are jointly managed by their users, in time, rules are established for how these are to be cared for and used in a way that is both economically and ecologically sustainable.
For a deeper dive watch this video or the afore mentioned podcast episode.
She showed that when natural resources are jointly managed by their users, in time, rules are established for how these are to be cared for and used in a way that is both economically and ecologically sustainable.
Until one tech bro or finance guy comes along. So no countries then. Don’t you think in the last hundreds of years of recorded history that you could have come up with one?
The Dawn Of Everything
Fascinating! I’m looking up details of the book now and I’ll probably read it … thanks for the recommendation.
So simple. We are actually the dumbest primates.
