On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:55:15 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> well that is insecurity for you. People who have known hunger and
> deprivation eat themselves to obesity..
>
Fair enough in the case of hunger, but many/all? of our current crop of
mega-rich have never known deprivation of any kind.

> Its the same with money. And status, and power. Men with little dicks
> become Napoleons, Hitlers or climate scientists.
>
Oy. Leave the climate scientists out of it. The are one of the few people
struggling to mitigate humanity's well-proven tendancy to carry on
sprogging and using up natural resources until starvation puts an end to
the spree.

> The terminally  useless become Marxists in order to blame their total
> inadequacy on *someone else* rather than take responsibility for it.
>
Nah, 'marxist ruling parties' is a myth. Name one example of a successful
'Marxist Revolution' that didn't turn out to be a common or garden
dictatorship hiding behind a façade of Marxist theory.

> And so it all goes on. Human systems are supposed to be designed to
> limit the damage such people can do to the species. I think we have
> rather forgotten that.
>
Nice idea, but one that's more famous for failures than any success.
About the only one I can think of that's worked as planned is the
Montreal Protocol.


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