GENIUS FORUMS

Nat,

My advice to VHEMT advocates is to have the courage of their convictions and start with themselves.

You obviously did not click on the link. All they're saying is that they themselves will not have any more children. How is that not starting with themselves?

Victor,

those who sell their labor on the free and efficient market.

Just to make sure we all understand you, where else do the other folks sell their labor or products?

Less humans is better than billions or trillions of humans. Between no humans at all and just a few, I'll take just a few. But no humans is not going to happen voluntarily. It will happen as a consequence of war, famine or disease.

I am a VHEMT supporter. The less humans there are, the better.

broken,

No one is forcing you to read Alex's posts, and some of us quite enjoy them.

Who could possibly like Alex and his lengthy blogs? I want names.

broken,

How unkinglike to elevate the court jester to the status of mortal enemy.

Yeah, I was surprised too. He's taking Alex way too seriously.

Appalling story, Tomas. I wonder why the US officials are so set on not giving her asylum. Maybe they're racists.

Suddenly, there’s too much (overproduction) bread. What happens then? The capitalist invests in technology, bread loses its value, the labourers lose their jobs (again) and the investor profits to, among other things, invest another day. Something I didn't quite get, Leyla. After there's too much b...

Good point, Dhodges. There are also the drug cartels, which do a lot of damage and make lots of money. But aren't all these things illegal?

Can you think of a better way to measure the GNP of an economy? I bet any method you find is going to have big flaws also.

Alex, The answer to David's question was easy, you dimwit. I only see two reasons why you didn't answer it: (1) you are too stupid; (2) you are too dishonest, and did not want to accept defeat. You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, to be sure, You seem to be saying you think you're smarter th...

Such a long blog, and he didn't even come close to answering David's question.

Victor said to jupta,

Haven't you gotten it yet, kiddo? your attempts to lie your way out of your predicament will be turned upon you. You cannot bullshit me.

Have you ever heard of masochism?

Nick, My god, you're disgusting. And you really think you aren't? Ever look at yourself in a mirror, loser? Sue, Skip dreams of his Eve: a woman made just for him. When he "games" women, he is also looking for women made for him. At bottom, he is doing what any man does who is caught in wo...

skipair, Especially in reference to women, I dispise even the hint of competition as it undermines the particular lingering dream I have and how it pads my ego: I definitely would like to be #1 for one happy, innocent, simple-minded woman that I could call my own. My heaven is when it seems I've fou...

Nat,

Are you Rush Limbaugh?

Worse. He's a Rush Limbaugh wannabe.

Nat, if there are people who are making great contributions to society and they are being paid too little, why don't they go on "strike" and refuse to provide their service until society decides to pay them more? Could it be that society doesn't value or want their product? Why not do some...

Nick, First off "they" don't magically produce money, it's earned through market manipulation in the form of profit. Nobody ever said there’s any magic here. They produce wealth by making goods, marketing and selling them, etc. Calling that manipulation seems short-sighted. Second, it does...

Nick, What the figures show is that a certain minority makes the majority of the money, not that they actually PRODUCE the most goods and services. In fact it didn't even touch on who's producing any amount of goods and services, or "creating the wealth" as you say, if there even is such a...

Victor said to jupta, Stop fucking lying, you little bitch. I love it. The bully was having fun hitting kids, then along came a bully twice his size who has the strength to shred him to pieces. I wouldn't be surprised if the first bully leaves the playground crying and never comes back. At least he'...

I'll come back tomorrow and try to explain it using a different angle.

Ok Nick, so what do you think GNP measures, if not goods and services?

What the figures mean is that most wealth is created by a "minority", as you say.

OK, I found something here, page 2: http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:b6LYHz54vBEJ:earthtrends.wri.org/country_profiles/fetch_profile.php%3Ftheme%3D5%26filename%3Deco_cou_591.PDF+panama+income+distribution+quintile&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a . . . . . Percent of total inco...

A kinda mind, but if that's what it's gonna take to convince you, I'll do it. Give me a few minutes, or hours.

In my country? It's true. And I'm not awfully concerned about how accurate the figures are, because even if it's just 10% of the pop. making 80% of GNP, my argument would still hold.

Are you gonna make me look up the stats? Damn you.

Nick, fyi, I edited my post before I read yours. We must have been posting at the same time.