It’s always been an oligarchy (aside from a short period after ww2 which generated an incredible climb in prosperity for the entire country, then the boomers pulled the ladder up after themselves and set fire to it). It’s just completely mask-off now. If USAmericans want to have a non-serf short term and survive long term, they have to start hunting billionaires.
a “side effect of building the modern world.”
Holy fucking hell, these people are stupid, evil, or a nasty combination of the two.
Death by cirrhosis was also a side effect of my grandfather’s bottle a day drinking.
Quite amazing that at the same time he manages to pretend having empathy for “people in Africa”.
Also, the paragraph below the one you quoted:
“We have indeed raised global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 50 percent in the process of more than doubling human life expectancy, lifting almost all of the world’s citizens out of grinding poverty, launching modern medicine,” he said. “Everything in life involves trade-offs.”
What the fuck!? As if any of these achievements wouldn’t likely be lost through climate change.
Holy hell, how can someone be so fucking stupid??? Yeah, that life expectancy will be great when the planet’s uninhabitable…
