Yeah the US is just butt hurt that they were so humiliated by such a small nation and now they won't let it go.

It is one of the consequences of monopolies, but monopolies are a consequence of economic competition.

The "winner" gets the losers stuff and customers (mergers for example), making the winner bigger and more able to manipulate the market to their benefit.

When there are few enough companies profits can be chased without consideration for anything else (planned obsolescence, shipping jobs outside the country, lay-offs, etc.)

So, like you said except in a for profit market, monopolies are inevitable.

Imagine thinking a few hundred people you disagree with is worse than a mega-corp manipulating information for profits.

Or noise cancelling underwear at least

Internet libs love to tell people how they should fight for their rights. I wonder if anyone has considered holding a bake sale in Gaza? Maybe then both sides can sit down and talk? Maybe Israel just doesn't know committing genocide is bad? Does Hamas know Israel wants to commit genocide? Does Israel know Palestinians feel pain and suffering?

It's impossible to know without DiALoGuE.

I mean, he knows loads about manipulating people and being rich. Does he bring value to society?

No.

No one should have veto power, it makes any organization extremely undemocratic. And given the American arsenal, it's already difficult to be democratic.

Truth. The fundamental principle of the first study being wealth=money already presupposes a market and scarcity. And that the "human" thing to do is barter. Given there is little evidence of barter economies existing at any scale, basically they discovered that competition in a barter system will always leave someone behind.

People work together, we are social creatures. Any economic model that ignores this is a failure.

The current energy consumption of the planet is 113,000Twh (according to Wikipedia). Since every single Joule of renewable energy is some derivative of solar energy (solar, wind, tide, hydro, but not geo I suppose) the maximum energy we can derive from renewables is 765,000Twh.

The problem with that, is if we start to consume 10's of percent of the total solar radiation through "renewables" that would otherwise go into generating weather and other natural events, well I'm sure you can see the potential problems.

So, we have to get away from carbon intensive electricity generation, but we can't physically rely solely on renewables. Therefore we need fission/fusion.

There's obviously the case of our current economic system causing us to overuse energy in the name of profit (oil is so important because it makes energy cheap and thus easier to make profits), and a change in production/consumption/distribution priorities would likely cause huge decreases in energy needs globally. But we can only really consider energy needs based on what we know.

Whoops, I forgot the "achtually".

I just recently successfully led a unionization drive at my office. We are unionized!

I know it's just a meme lol