Pretty much any engineering problem will, if solved, create some amount of transferrable advancement that will help humanity in other areas. It's why technological progress is so connected to war. It's not like they're taking money from their feeding children fund and spending it on dick measuring contests in space; the problem is that they had no intention of feeding starving children in the first place.
NoneOfUrBusiness
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Power of all forms corrupts, but that doesn't mean tyrants have a point when they disappear dissenters. Fuck the rich's perspective, not because I'm above being a rich asshole (maybe I am, maybe I'm not, who knows) but because even if I was it wouldn't justify hoarding my wealth at the expense of 99.9% of the population.
Well I have six thousand years' worth of history for you and you are not going to like it.
Because fucking Bush was? Give me a fucking break. Their guys are, if elected, going to be Republicans in all but name and the establishment is going to prop them up anyway.
maybe they find some kind of way to have Congress build them a path to bring someone in as a full citizen and work.
I agree with this in principle (the whole concept of citizenship is frankly fucked up in the first place), but you don't even need to go that far. There are much less oppressive work visa programs out there.
but if you got a H1B, you're upper class.
No? You just need an engineering degree from a half decent university or a similarly valuable skill and you're set, and in a weaker economy there's no guarantee you can even find work with that degree or skill. I mean, in plenty of places computer science/engineering degrees have only recently come to be seen as valuable.
The H1B program is broken because it ties employees to their employers; it needs to be replaced with at least a work visa model with more freedom for immigrant workers.
Shut the fuck up Michelle, go to the dustbin of history with your husband and never show your face in public ever again please. You fucking know why Hillary and Harris lost and it was not because they were women.
She wasn't my favorite candidate by a long shot, but I still can't believe our country is in a better place now than it would have been if she had won.
I do, because you have to remember: Trump wasn't a one-off anomaly; he was the manifestation of deep structural issues and multiple converging crises within American society. It was a balloon that was going to inflate and inflate until it eventually popped, and if it didn't pop in 2016 it would have even harder in 2020. Hell, I could think of an even worse scenario: Trump is sidelined in the American fascist movement and a fascist that actually knows what he's doing takes his place.
My point is that the people who try to justify not voting for Harris due to her support of genocide achieved nothing.
Well... K? You can keep getting mad about an overwhelming and likely irrelevant minority, but can you keep it for when it's actually relevant?
Yeah... no. First other, no less greedy people will inherit their wealth, second capitalism guarantees the concentration of wealth to absurd degrees. "Kill all billionaires" is surprisingly not a good solution to the problem of billionaires.