if humans were really an intelligent species...

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So why can't the 99% impose taxes on the 1%?

Money = power.

Obama has tried to raise taxes on the rich and giving people healthcare. He's a socialist. The other side fights him tooth and nail. :rolleyes:
 

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Excuse the bump but I felt this TED talk touches on a lot of the topics discussed in this thread.

from the 12 minute mark he really gets stuck into it but I'd recommend watching the whole clip, quite interesting imo
 
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You can have liberty without capitalism. People just don't realise it.

America putting a man on the Moon was the most socialist thing they've ever done.

The tax rate was astronomically high so they spent the money doing something really cool for the people and by the people for the goodwill of all mankind.

Now instead of coughing up the $50-100 billion it would take the boffins at NASA to put a man on Mars they choose to prop up wall street banks that loan fiat currency around the world making everybody debt slaves to the U.S. Fed reserve.

JFK's socialist vision of putting a man on the Moon was achieved, his other goal of
ending secret societies got him a bullet through the head :(

Really..interesting..which ones?
 
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5000 odd years we've been creating alcohol, it's why we started living in towns, creating farms and communication on how to make alcohol

However nobody's ever created a hangover cure. We should lift our game


There was a great show on awhile ago about the history of beer.

When a disease spread through water in the middle ages and such, beer saved many because it's boiled water removed bacteria.

Half the shit in the world would have never been built if it wasn't for people able to have a belt after a hard days work.

Wars and conquering nations would have been lost if soldiers went too long from a relaxing piss-up.

Nothing would have been discovered by ship because sailors as sure as hell aren't going 12 months without a drink.

Revolutions wouldn't have been half as fun without drinks to celebrate.

The human brain likes the hit that alcohol provides. Makes people forget their shit situation for awhile before they GET BACK TO WORK!
 

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here it is...

Human beings like us have been around for about 100,000 years. For the first 90,000 we achieved absolutely nothing at all. All accomplishments have been made in the last ten thousand years. So what exactly happened that that put an end to primitivism and kick-started the age of creativity and invention? The answer is beer.
Beer happened, and it changed the world forever. It sounds almost too bizarre to be true, but many anthropologists and archaeologists now believe that it was a taste for beer, not bread, that started people farming barley in around 9000BC
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/how-beer-saved-the-world
 
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