As long as they don't have the metabolism of a shrew. We don't need cow-sized, carnivorous squirrels any time soon!
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Without memes? 😭
I have an extremist view of the legal system: I think all lawyers should be government employees and they should be assigned cases based on their area of expertise in law.
So no matter how many people sue you and no matter how much legal harassment any given entity attempts, it's the government's problem to manage all of that.
It shouldn't be possible to bankrupt someone with legal fees alone. It shouldn't be possible for a billionaire (or corporation) to always have the best legal team. It shouldn't cost millions of dollars to defend yourself from or litigate a patent.
The only way I can think of to solve these problems is to get rid of private firms.
You take their patents away and make them public domain.
I'm just telling it like it is. The old ways were terrible! However, being local and requiring proper collateral instead of just giving n people money en mass—knowing that the percentage that default will be outweighed by the percentage that pay the loan back (and ripping people off by making them pay the interest up front)—was probably better for the economy.
Not everyone should be allowed to amass debt the way we currently allow it. Furthermore, if people couldn't get loans for school so easily (in fact, guaranteed!) then college tuition would be but a fraction of what it is today.
Collateral and, historically, age, race, sex, and ethnicity. They'd also look at how well you were dressed because 100% of the time you went to the bank in-person to get a loan. Also, your bank wouldn't be far from where you lived and the local population wasn't so large that they couldn't just "ask around" the local social network to see if this man before them was upstanding enough to warrant giving them money.
Also note that people didn't need to borrow money as much as they do today. You wanted a new home appliance like an oven or refrigerator? You saved for quite some time to buy it.
There weren't as many things to spend your money on either!
We've been waiting for that since 1824!
You'll often find it on rulers, yard sticks, and measuring tape 👍
I didn't think people laughed at that. More like, "humans can be so evil."
The other reaction—if you're a conservative—is this, "Yeah we should do stuff like that here!"
Do it! Let's set a precedent where it's normal to charge former presidents with crimes!
Let's see which charges stick when put before a jury...
Apples themselves originated in Kazakhstan 👍
Lemons, northwestern India.
The American flag in the background should also be marked as, "Made in China" 😁
"See this squirrel? It's an absolute unit."