There is no safety. No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed. No matter how much you diversify your portfolio, the economy could crash and send you back to square one. No matter what private army you pay, forces beyond your control can crush you like a bug.
Humans do not rule the world, and under capitalism, we don't even rule ourselves. We're ruled by profit motives more than any rich individual. No matter how much Musk or Trump try to play king, they're merely mortals riding the wave of economics and politics. We have no real gods, only chaos; no real masters, only thugs and bullies
No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed.
AND...
(from USA Today)
California had a home insurance crisis before the LA fires. It's only going to get worse.
The impact of the catastrophic wildfires could drive up already sky-high premiums and prompt a new wave of private insurers dropping policies or declining to write new ones – and not just in the LA area.
But we need to get those egg prices down!
/s
Fun fact:
Egg prices are so high because they're used to make flu and covid vaccines.
Most covid vaccines aren't recombinant vaccines, which aren't made using eggs.
Where did you learn that?
At the moment, I’m beginning to think that the best we can do is both, it might be to late for an either/or situation
Though I'm not sure how slow the apocalypse will be.
You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did
there is a 3rd way: a short, quick apocalypse. like nuclear war
There is, but the profits aren't as high as a slow apocalypse.
Should have paved over those mountains.
Can't have a fire if the landscape is one continuous piece of asphalt.
Doesn't asphalt burn?
I might be wrong in this. My understanding is that it is flammable, but not when it's "solid" if that makes sense. That a fire would have to be on it and burning hot enough for long enough to start melting the tar then that could burn. But the asphalt itself isn't likely to just catch fire from a lighting strike or something and just continue to burn.
First it melts, but it's made up of very long hydrocarbons, so... probably?
Slow apocalypse it is then!
The thing about cancer is that it will eventually kill itself. It destroys the environment it lives in until it becomes uninhabitable, killing both the host environment and the cancer itself.
So, the cancer is already going to die, it's only a matter of if it takes us with it or not. The ONLY option for survival is to kill it before it kills us. There is no siding with cancer and hoping you won't be affected.
(Capitalism is the cancer, in case mods get nervous)
